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The- Piattsmouth - Journal
r ) Published Semi-Weekly al Piattsmouth, Nebraska CUD
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoflice at Piattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Chicago is always doing some-
thing astonishing. U sent a per
jurer to jail the other day.
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One week from today is
Thanksgiving. Oh, you turkey,
where art thou?
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A Y. M. C. A. will keep many
young men off the streets at night.
Then w hy not have- one in Piatts
mouth? :o :
Most people would do their
iliristinas shopping early if it
wasn't for one thing, and I hey all
know what that is.
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Platlsmouth should have a Y.
M. C. A., and the way to get it is
for the people to render all the
financial aid they possibly can,
and we will have it.
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A sull'rugetle raid in London
Hie oilier day resulted in the ar
rest of '220 women and Ihree al
leged men.
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Koine men compliment them
selves for local patirotism if they
merely buy a yeast cake at I be
home store.
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Colonel Hoosevelt remarks that
the Tobacco trust lias only chang
ed its clothes. 1 tut if its trousers
don't inalch its coat ami vest we
are perfectly satislled.
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It is proving as difficult to get
anyone to lake a place in the
Chinese cabinet as to gel anyone
to stand for Sunday school super
intendent. "There are a whole lul of worsi
people in this world than I am,'
says Henry Clay Heal lie, the Vir
ginia wife murderer. There may
be, but I hey do not have such bard
vork wTlh their juries.
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From West Virginia comes tin
surprising news that Henry (ias
saway Davis celebrated his H8lh
birthday this week. Most people
supposed Mr. Davis was at least
188.
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It must stagger Teddy Hoose
velt to realize that Wall street is
beginning to regard him as a
conservative. Probably they are
fixing up lo run him for presi
dent.
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The Taft standpatters and Ih
Ln Folletle insurgents are or
ganizing clubs all over the stale
The insurgents have the best of
it so far, and arc liable to keep
that way. Hut where is Hoosevelt
to come in?
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No matter what the outcome of
the prosecution of the beef trust
cases may be, it is going lo be
diflleult to buy very much beef
steak for a nickel.
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"Taft Is Roasted by Governor
Hawley," is a head-line In the me
tropolitan journals. That's noth
ing. Everybody's doing that since
his speech-making tour.
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W inter isn't due for a few davs!
yet, but, October and November
have succeeded two or three days
In each week in putting up a
rather realistic substitute.
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A man down in Missouri hitch
ed his wife up with a mule and
compelled her to help harrow a
field. The inhuman wretch was
arrested and imprisoned in the
county jail for thirty days and
now, his wife has began suit for
a divorce. Ho ought lo have been
sent to the pen for 1(1) years.
Every day may not be Sunday
for a great many years, yet one of
our exchanges contends that
when woman's suffrage sweeps
the country every year will be
leap-year.
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Now that the Wall street brok
ers are actually seen reading T.
R.'s pieces in the Outlook, we ex
pect soon to hear that a stand has
been opened for the sale of the
Sunday School Times in hell.
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The New York World suggests
that President. Taft could recover
a lot of lost ground by sending
some guilty trust magnates to
jail. Hut the nalional conven
tion is only nine months away.
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If Wall street bail been brought
up in Hie district school with
Colburn's arithmetic, they would
not make such a fuss river ligur
ing the dividend on 7345
l)8.'t:iH;irds of a share of Standard
Oil slock.
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Willi Thanksgiving lay just
live days ahead, local consumers
are paying close attention to the
market prices prevailing for the
several necessary dishes sur-
ounding the anticipated feast on
bis honor. King Turk.
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Allhough we are theoretically
ouvineed that football is a rude
game, yet at heart we shall not
feel sure thai the world is grow
ing belter until we learn that the
Yale-Harvard football game has
out right.
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Mrs. Winifred Cooley told the
Woman's clubs thai women could
improve the quality of food if they
bail the ballot. The things
mother used to make, however,
were done without the aid of vot
ing. ,
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Wellesley college girls are
shining shoes at the college fair.
Now if this could be made a part
of the regular course, we believe
we could withdraw our objections
lo our daughters attending col
lege. :
Hoosevelt has revived the
square deal and wants it applied
to the trusts. It was thought that
the trusts got all the square deal
that was coining lo them in the
supreme court's reading the rule
if reason into the Sherman anti
trust law.
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A dispatch from Lincoln Cen
ter, Kansas, says the perpetrat
ors of the dislardly outrage upon
Miss Chamberlain and members
of the "tar party" have decided to
take their "medicine." The
trouble is that medicine is not
what they need.
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No paper will be issued from
this office on Thanksgiving day
And also remember that we will
issue the last edition of the Semi
Weekly on Wednesday night.
i Those who have notices and ad
verlising'of any kind will please
govern themselves aeocrdingly.
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Let everyone boost for the Y
M. C. A. Remember, a strong
pull, and a pull altogether is what
brings success lo all undertak
ings. And the Journal does not
believe that there is a cili.en who
desires to "See Platlsmouth Suc
ceed," will oppose the Y. M. 0. A
enterprise.
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lliey have at last secured a
jury in the Hyde case at Kansas
City, uiul now comes the news that
seven jurors are in sight for thelhrown in. Vic Rosewater has al
Me.N'amara trial at Los Angeles.
I'.ul il 1 1 . mme In be in this trial
that one juror in the box is worth
whole venire mi the summons
t.
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Norman L Mack, chairman of
the nalional democratic coin-
mil tee, asserts that Taft and
Hoosevelt are running neck and
neck for the presidency, and ex
pects both are going lo get it
where they are running.
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The democrats of Nebraska
should all favor some candidate
for president whom they think can
carry the state, and we should all
be favorable to such a candidate.
The Journal can name the can
didate who can carry the state, but
will not do so at present.
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There has been disclosed at
Chicago the existence of a fund of
10,000, maintained by gamblers
for the purpose of "easing up"
the olllcials of that city. It was
such sums as these that "eased"
Stephenson of Wisconsin and
Lorimer of Illinois into the Unit
ed Slates senate.
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Chairman Stanley of tb.e house
steel trust, investigating com
mittee, declares that Roosevelt, is
not all wise. That seems to be
pretty generally admitted nowa
days. Kven a government, suit
alleges that Steel Magnates Frick
and (lary hoodwinked him in the
matter of I lie Tennessee Coal and
Iron company.
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II is just as well to lake some
precaution in regard to tire, and
have all the trash in the back of
business bouses removed. And by
all means don't burn your waste
paper on a windy day. Remem
ber how near we came to having
a big fire Thursday morning.
little precaution now ami then
may prove a great benelit to busi
ness men.
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Though Aviator Calbrailh
Ilodgers failed lo complete bis
coust-lo-eoiisl (light, be has
nevertheless been able to make
announcement of a wondefrul dis
covery. He says that in the up
per nir pockets is something that,
acting like ether, renders aviators
unconscious while they are in
midflighl. This something he
names "aerial soinnipalhy." Not
a bad stunt thai, even for an
aviator to pull off.
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A sensation was created the
olher day in Judge Cornish's court
in Lincoln when ex-Congressman
esse B. Strode and Attorney R.
J. Green clashed. Green seems to
lave been the aggressor and was
lined .r0 by the judge for con
tempt. Then, again, after court
adjourned they came very nearly
laving a set-to, but outsiders
prevented them getting together.
Jesse H. stood his ground and
didn't scare worth a cent.
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Hoosevelt insists that Taft's
attempts at enforcing the Slier
man anti-trust law have made a
mess of things. The ex-presi
dent declares that trusts instead
of being busted should be retain
ed nnd controlled and regulated
Representative Henry of Texas
says that the rule of reason
should be taken out of the anli
trust law as announced by Ih
supreme court, and trust mag
nates should be put in felon's
stripes all of which is an indica
tion that the trust question is to
receive a more acute considera
tion in this country than it has
ever received before.
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The Taft standpatters in Ne
braska are trying their hand at
bluffing, but they will find out that
tree. Such well known standpat
they are barking up the wrong
lers as K. M. Pollard and Vic
Rosewater counting themselves as
"progressives. Why, it was Pol
lard's incessant standpat ism that
defeated him, with ship-subisdy
been strictly standpat, and I
Hie j.ic;t ..f endeavoring to pull the
wool over the eyes of the real pro-
ressivos in Nebraska is perfectly
ridiculous. But they are doomed
to disappointment.
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While assisting in the taking of
the regular collection at, St.
(ieorge's Protestant Episcopal
church in New Y'ork last Sunday,
the dispatches relate that J.
Pierpont Morgan stumbled, fell
and scattered the money over the
church floor. Of Mr. Morgan.
however, it may be said that the
incident of Sunday was the first
lime he ever stubbed his toe in a
financial transaction, fell down in
collecting money, or allowed the
coin lo get away from him so
easily. World-Herald.
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II is said that the tariff board
will find that much of the high
cost of living is due rather to the
middleman than to the tariff. Still,
it. is impossible to refrain from
recalling the testimony of so
eminent an authority on tariff
matters as Andrew Carnegie, who
told the ways and means com
mittee of the bouse in 1908:
"The details of the thing you
are not interested in. It is the
broad general question, Is it, al
lowable lo tax the consumer and
make him pay a higher price than
he would otherwise pay? Because
that is the only result of protec
tion. ' The only justi
fication for a government raising
the price lo I be consumer of any
article, because that what a tariff
does if a tariff did not raise the
price it would be of no use that
is only justifiable when you can
induce a body of capitalists to
risk capital in the experiment of
introducing a new industry,"
As a result of a long and some
what profitable experience, Mr.
Carnegie seems of the opinion
that the tariff does have a certain
slight effect on prices and
profits.
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MONEY TRUST SAYS NO.
Speaking before Hie Trans-
Mississippi Commercial congress
in Kansas City, Governor Harmon
I well, on the fact that if this
ounlry is to get the benefit of the
mormons cost of constructing the
Panama canal il must be through
the development of the American
merchant marine.
And now conies Mr. Bernard N.
Baker with the specific and de
tailed charge that Big Business
has blocked his efforts to form an
Atlantic and Pacific, Transports
lion company to run steamships
through the Panama canal, and
thereby give the people the benefit
of larger transportation facilities
and of reduced railroad rates
brought about by water compeli
lion.
Mr. Baker, a Baltimore capital
ist, has laid his complaint before
President Taft. He was formerly
president of the Atlantic Trans
port company and has had years
of experience in the shipping
business. His complaint, in brief,
is that the "money Irust"-
specifying the larger New York
banking houses, has refused to!
finance subscriptions on the
ground that it would be "un
friendly to our associates;" that
shipbuilding companies have de
clined to build ships because they
ought not build ships to compete
with the Southern Pacific rail
road;" and that independent
capitalists intending to subscribe
to his stock have been dissuaded
by the grim warning that it would
be regarded as an "unfriendly
act" on Hie part of the big bank
ing bouses.
It is this same "money trust."
that controls the great Irana-con-
linental ra'- ' which so long
and so successfully opposed the
canal project. Now that the canal
is to become a reality the trust
continues its fight in a new wnv.!11"' Pvornineni itself has marked
The canal must not be used by an
American merchant marine, and
whoever has the termerily to at
tempt the establishment of such a
shipping industry has- the money
trust to tight.
Another charge against Big
Business comes from Jacob H.
SchilT. himself a leading New
York banker and one of the most
prominent Jews in the country.
He declares that Big Business is
responsible for the failure of Hie
United States government to -de
mand that Russia honor its pass
ports, without exception, which
has resulted disastrously to many
Russian-born Jews who have been
denied the ported ion of their
adopted country when traveling in
the land of their birth. Speci
fically, John Hayes Hammond, who
is very close to the Taft admin
istration, and who represents in
terests having large holdings 'in
Russia, is named as the responsi
ble party.
These are merely items out of
the current news. They tell only
very small part of the story.
But they serve to illustrate how
powerful Big Business has be
come, how conscienceless and de
spotic are its methods, and how
desperate is the fight that must
be made against its omnipotence
if this is to continue a free na
tion. The money trust is the trust of
trusts. From its headquarters in
Wall street run out the wires that
control banking, finance, industry,
commerce, transportation and
enterprise. It would usurp, and
lo a large extent has usurped, the
province of government, itself.
The fight, against this great
power is the fight for freedom in
the United Stales and it is a
tight that is only in its infancv.
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WILL THEY KICK THE LADDER?
re the insurgent leaders going
to kick the ladder by which they
rose? If they do they will fall,
and richly deserve lo fall, alon
with Hie ladder.
The ladder is I he demand for
honest larill revision downward
II was on that, that the insurgents
with the bold and brilliant Dol
liver at their bead, rose, all of a
sudden, to commanding emiuenci
in national polities.
I he indications an. strong thai
they are now preparing to aban
don il and, for policy's .sake, at-
I I i I ei . i . ! . ,
tempi. io sum mi' issue ami ineir
position.
In the platform promulgated by
their Chicago conference the tariff
was wholly ignored. Tuesday tin
La Folletle bureau at Washing
ton issued a statement saying, "It
becomes more and more apparent
thai the trust question is lo oc
cupy first place in the minds of
the voters between now and elec
lion day.'.'
The Indianapolis News recalls
that it was Mr. Garfield, who came
to Chicago direct from Roosevelt
who dumped lariff reform over
board at the Chicago conference
And this, it declares, represents
both the Roosevelt and Wal
street program. Tariff reform
must be abandoned and "con
struct ivo legislation" concerning
the trusts must become the new
"progressive" battle cry, in which
Wall street is ready to join.
The democratic party, we be
lieve, can be trusted to meet that
issue squarely. It is the only
party that stands consistently
and from conviction, opposed to
the high tariff policy. It would be
recreant, and deserving of defeat
if it failed, in congress and in the
coming campaign, to hold to tariff
reform as the "paramont issue
The tariff issue includes the
u usi issue, ii snouiu ne I lie pur
pose of democrats to make that
fact as plain as tip1 blazing noon
day sun.
I nder the present policy Hit'
government makes a high tariff to
shut out competition. At the same
time it. makes laws lo smash cor
porations and punish individuals
"guilty" of pursuing the course
i ul for I hem 1
The logical, consistent, and fair
way to light monopoly is to re
store competition. The way to
restore competition is to restore
il. l'ull down tin1 high tariff walls
nnd let compel il ion in.
The evil of monoply lies, finally,
in monopoly prices. The way to
reduce monopoly prices to a com
petitive basis is to put business
on a competitive basis by reduc
ing or removing the tariff.
How absurd, how silly, for this
great government and its people
lo set out on an "anti-trust"
ampaign, to smash and destroy
and burn monopolized industry,
ind lift never a band against the
tariff walls that have created the
lonopolies, that shelter and de
fend them, that encourage them
to continue 1
The democratic position on this
issue is the logical position. The
plan the democratic party offers
iolds out the promise of stability
to American industry, of fairness
to the entire people. It is simple
and plain. Reduce the tariff so
as to place business on a com
petitive instead of a monopoly
jasis. Then, having made com
petition logical and natural, in
stead of making monopoly logical
und natural, as al present, punish
those who do not abide by com
petition. Punish them by enforc
ing the criminal penalties of tho
anti-trust law. .
A "trust" campaign, even if di
ed ed by La Folletle, and in
spired by progressive motives,
would be a farce and a humbug
so long as it did not contemplate
and include principally and first
of all. the tearing down of the
trust-breedincr and trust-shelter-
ng high tariff walls. World-
Herald.
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Because her husband refused
a reconciliation after a quarrel, a
young Texas bride killed both her
husband and herself. The old-
fashioned method of procedure
following a quarrel that of kiss
ing and making up is best after
all.
The series of concerts to be
given by the B. & M. band should
be well patronized. The boys want
to buy new uniforms for next
season. A good band is the pride
of any town, and certainly we
should feel proud of one of the
best bands in the stale.
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Kven if the McNainars are ac
quitted, they seem to be sure of
free board for several years to
come.
Herman Grocdor,
Graduate Vetsniary Surgeon
(Formerly with U. S. Department
Agriculture)
Licensed by Nebraska Stals
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