a o o o o o i m v
-The Plattsmouth Journal -
i (T Published Semi-Weeklv at Plattsmouth. Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the FostolRce at Plattsmouth, Nebraaka, as second-claa
matter.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
I THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
A .J.
I Mood luck is Hit; willing J
J mandmaid of upright, en- J
crgotie fli;iiact or, and con- -
seionlious observance of J
duly James Russell Lowell. J
.J.
-:o:
It is now nnnortMl, and pretty
loudly, loo, I hat the M. 1'. shops
are to be removed from Falls City
lo Omaha.
:o:
IMnllsmoulh citizens are very
well satisfied with the manner in
which affairs are conducted that
is a hip majority of Ihem are.
II. F. TimmoiiH will retuin his
position as assistant serjeant-at-arms
in the house at Lincoln. Wo
thought he would. Ho has as
much right to this position as the
chief clerk has to his place.
:o:
Governor More head was in
Omaha Tuesday for the first time
miico his inauguration. But
(here is nothing strange in this
visit. Ho simply wanted to get
nway from the clamor of the
office-seekers.
:o:
To the members of the Ne
braska legislature: l'lease don't
buy any more normal schools,
but spend the money you would
thus invest in a liinding-twino
plant for the penitentiary. It
will he money to the slate.
:o:
The hill introduced by Rep
resentative lleiliger, of Jefferson
county, making it a misdemeaanor
"to walk or drive along a railroad
right-of-way," is one hill that
fcho'uld he passed, and the sooner
it is passed ami takes effect the
holler it will he.
Sunday is groundhog day. Bet
ter stay in your hole and take no
chances.
:o:
The Nebraska house of rep
resentatives passed without de
bate Potts' resolution for a joint
legislative committee to investi
gate the conduct of state depart
ments and institutions during he
past ten years. The intent is to
discover the reason for biennial
deficits and to determine whether
or not the state nas received full
value for the money it has spent.
This is a move in the right direc
tion, and no honest man can
possibly oppose such a move.
:o:
The Oklahoma boy of 13 who
raised 102 bushels of corn on one
aero at a cost of $14.50, including
$o rent, sold his crop for $300.
It is in demand for seed at a spe
cial ju ice, and it is to bo remarked
that he paid $4 a bushel for the
seed he used himself. Let some
of the Cass county boys rent
ground and make an effort of this
kind. We have just as good corn
land as there is on earth and wo
believe we have boys wlio can do
as well as the Oklahoma kid. It
is worthy of an effort, anyway.
":o:
wuiioui opposition or any
sort the Polls resolution calling
for a legislative joint committee
to invesligalao the business man
agement and expenditures of state
institutions and departments for
a period of ten years back passed
I the house Monday afternoon. This
inquiry is likely to bring import
ant reforms in the fiscal system
of the slate and will doubtless un
cover numerous items of ex
travagance, mismanagement and
graft. The resolution was drawn
in accordance with Governor
Mnrehcad's ideas.
We wish all people loved them
selves as they do their neighbors.
:o:
The man who n'ver makes any
mistakes i the man who never
does anything.
-:o:-
A bill In make. log-rolling in
the lepislalure a misdemeanor
passed the house Monday by a
largo majority. There should be
Homo way to stop vole-trading in
the legislature. It's gelling to be
ft regular occupation wilh some
members.
-:o:-
-:o:-
The question as to "Who elect
ed Governor Morchead," seems to
bo ngitaling the public mind. Any
10-year-old school boy ought to
lie able to answer that question.
The farmers, laborers and com
mon people of Nebraska elected
hrm. All the claims of any one
man doing it. is bosh of the
worst kind.
:o :
inc. journal canuiuiy neiieves
that if the present legislature will
appropriate a reasonable amount
for Ilio installation of a bindini
Instead of investing the slate's
money in buying tho Fremont nor
mal school it would bo tho best
thing any legislature ever done to
appropriate money for tho estab
lishment of a binding-twino fac
tory at tho penitentiary. The
state would derive some revenue
from such an enterprise, where
as it would be money out to keep
up another normal school. Wo
have enough normal schools.
Strange as it may seem, there
are congressmen who want to di
vert the $2,000,000 appropriated
for the Lincoln Memorial at
Washington to building a road in
Maryland and , Pennsylvania
These slates are plenty able to
build their own roads, and have
no more right to this fund than
has Nebraska.
:o:-
Geneial Sickles is not the only
twine plant in the penitentiary it, "'an wilh a great war record who
will prove an investment (hat will) has sull'ered some by a long life
return big interest on the monov'of peace afterword. We can see
Be cheerful! You are not com
pelled to go around looking for
temptations to embrace.
:o:
Woodrow Wilson is now ac
cused of nipping the New Jersey
mosquito crop in the bud.
:o:
It has got so that the sound of
0
lite hammer, like the sound of the
robin, is heard all winter in
IMatlsinouth.
:o:
President Wilson is still mum
on the cabinet question, and be
intends to remain that way for a
f w weeks yet.
The arson trust and murder
trust are as successful as other
trusts in hiring big lawyers and
putting up a defense.
:o:
Tho voters of Plattsmouth will
probably have their say through
the ballot-box as to whether we
shall have Sunday ball games or
not. The Barlling bill lias passed
the senate.
:o:
Kansas women are accused of
dodging jury duty. Well, what of
it? Isn't that as creditable as the
acts of some men who sit around
watching for an opportunity to
get on a jury?
:o:
Congressman Stephens still
slicks to his platform "to let' the
people select the postmasters in
his district," notwithstanding the
protest of National Committee
man Dr. P. L. Hall.
:o:
Governor Morehcad's appoint
ments do not seem to be satisfac
tory to some of our republican
brethren. Wail till ho gets
through with his "firing" and they
will be kicking harder than ever.
:o:
Many states are manufacturing
binder-twine in their peniten
tiaries, and deriving a good reve
nue therefrom, and vhy not Ne
braska try the proposition? II
will prove much better for the
taxpayers of Nebraska than the
purchase of another normal
school.
:o :
If the parcel post should raise
the cost of living to the rural
population by educating them to
"buy in dribs," it would show us
what is at least one of the causes
of the high cost in cities, for the
city housekeeper buys in dribs
so small they might better be
called driblets.
:o:
Omaha Trade Exhibit: Tho
average merchant thinks of tho
state legislature with a short of
amused contempt, but a wide
awake interest in what they are
doing at Lincoln will be a more
profitable attitude to take just
now, for there aro some bills be
ing considered thero that will af-
cl the mercantile business.
:o:
Senators O'Gorman and New
Iu his inaugural address last
Monday, Governor Ben W. Hooper
never uttered more truth in as few
words as he did in the following:
"Every progressive movement
ever undertaken in behalf of the
masses has suffered from the in
terference of self-seeking dema
gogues, when its strength became
greater, its success apparent.
Such has been the case with the
present progressive movement in
this country. It has generated
radicalism. Men who were not
heard of when Robert La Follette
was making Wisconsin the model
of American statehood, seized up
on his ideas of restoring the gov
ernment to the people and went
forth in their advocacy, while the
trusts footed the bills of the cam
paign." :o:
Every express company in
the United ISales has its eye on
tho parcel post. The parcel post
has and will continue to cat into
the business of the express com
panies to a certain extent and to
just what extent and in just what
class the express companies are
now bending their elTorts to learn.
Agents in every town where one
express company has an office
have been instructed to obtain all
data on the parcel post and its
workings that is possible. This
information from all over the
country will bo turned into the
main office of the express com
pany and experts will set to work
to pull it to pieces and find out
just what effect the parcel post
has had. When this is learned
the express company will probably
make a campaign that will extend
from coast to coast and from the
gulf to tho lakes to show tho poo
plo that their methods of carrying
parcels is better than tho inven
tion that has recently been set up
by Uncle Sam.
-:o:-
PUBLIC SCHOOL GOVERNMENT.
With mid-winter or spring ex
animations looming large before
I lie school children of the land
the time of the year has come
when it is common in nil parts of
the country to attack the public
school system as inellieient and
not productive of I be desired re
sults. Tin alh'irk conies largely
from the parents of the land and
the criticisms are probably made
in all good faith. Yet il seems to
us. possible that some of these
criticisms might be misplaced.
o -
Or. John Lovelt Morse, a well
known Harvard professor, recent
ly expressed himself on the sub
ject of public school improvement
to Ibe efl'ecl that "Every child definitely crystalized into penaliz
hpcnl. ( Not outs this, but it will
give 'employment to the convicts,
and then again it will prove a
great benefit to tho wheat grow
ers of Nebraska and the taxpayers
in general.
:o:
After all, 13 isn't a bad num
ber. Down in Ozark county, Mis
souri, 13 miles from tho county
beat, lives Ebcnzer Schrccken
gaust, who has 13 children.
Among Ihcni is a pair of twins 13
years old, and another pair 13
months old. On tho 13th they
held a reception at their home and
invited 13 guests, who ale a 13
pound turkey, and all went homo
at 13 minutes after 11 o'clock p.
m. Now, there'll be 13 readers
who won't believe this story, and
we don't care 13 cents whether
they do or not.
no necessity for (bis old warrior
being in such financial circum
stances as i h claimed he is.
And should his friends in New
York fail to come to his rescue,
tho wife of Confederate General
Longslreet says she will raiso tho
money to bring tho old veteran
out of his trouble. Mrs. Long
street, a southern woman, born
and bred, coming to the rescue of
General Sickles ! Isn't that noblo 1
And fifty years ago Generals Sick
les and Longstrect wero in battle
arrayed against ono another. Docs
not this act of this noblo south
ern woman demonstrate that all
tho bitter hatred engendered by
tho civil war had been forgotten,
and that tho north and tho south
is a union of hears and a
union of bands ono and un
separable?" So be it forever.
IT MUST BE PROHIBITED.
Most any self-respected citi
zen is opposed io the marriage of
tho white and the black women
and men, yet in some states there
is no law to prohibit such trans
actions. Iowa, through its legis
lature, will soon have a law
against the marriage of the black
and while. Illinois, since the
marriage of Jack Johnson, is
waking up to the fact that some
severe measures should bo taken
in that state to prevent a repeti
tion of such insults. And what
about Nebraska? We should have
a law, not only prohibiting such
marriages, but one prohibiting
parties living in the state going
to other states, getting married
and coming back here to live.
- A few days ago, at Niles, Michi
gan, a negro 42 years old married
a w hite girl barely 15. The couple
hailed from Chicago and an aged
Baptist clergyman performed the
ceremony after two justices of the
peace had refused to officiate.
When the people of Niles learned
of the wedding they were furious
and the minister feared for his life
to such an extent that he bar
ricaded himself in his home and
called for the protection of the
police. The couple themselves
had left the city for Chicago be
fore the fact of the marriage be
came generally known, so that the
negro escaped possible violence.
On learning of the commotion
he had caused at Niles, the negro
is reported to have said: "Well,
why haven't I a right to marry a
white woman if Jack Johnson had
a right lo marry one? Anyway, I
am married lo the girl now, and
what arc they going to do about
il?" Just so. it is shocking to
many people, both in the north
and south, when a negro marries
a white girl. It makes but little
difference whether tho bride is a
mere child or a mature woman.
I ublic disgust is almost as great
in the one case as the other. And
jet, such marriages are no new
thing. They have taken place for
years, followed in the past, as
now, by demonstrations more or
less violent on the part of an out
raged populace. Is public senti
ment really opposed to such mar
riages? Is the repugnance to
I hem rooted in human nature and
reason, or is it merely a vulgar
prejudice among a rabble easily
excited to riot and violence?
In (he south and even iu por
tions of the north, the stales havo
answered these questions between
whiles and blacks. In those juris
dictions public sentiment has
lands do not quite agree with Sen
ator Root as lo our obligation to
arbitrate wilh Great Britain our
canal policy. They bold that the
law of self-defense is supreme
that we built the canal in self-
defense against transportation
monopoly and that we aro com
pelled to manago it so as to se
cure tho object of its creation.
:o:
Taking into consideration the
quality of men who chanco to slip
into tho legislature, ten dollars a
day is entirely too much pay.
Many of them when at home
couldn't earn three dollars a day,
and work hard at that, if they
work at all. Ten dollars a day is
as much as congressmen received
previous to tho salary grab of
icveral years ago. But tho peo
plo pay tho freight.
Sell your property through a
little ad In the Journal.
needs a licking once in while, and
when ho is to get it, ho needs a
good one. Children must be
taught to obey."
The professor's idea evidently
is that the parents need to take
some interest in connection with
tho work of tho schools. The
teacher who has a horde of young
Arabs whose intention is anything
but toward law and order, and
who have been taught to obey at
home turned loose on her has a
problem on hand without any
thought of instruction. It is pos
sibly not as common today as for
merly to lock the teacher out of
the school room or throw him out
in a rough and tumble light, as j
tho 's of a few generation back'
do,; in doing, for the rea-
i i i
son most scnooi teaeners oi
today are of the gentler sex. Yet
the pupils in many of the schools
of the country find other ways of
"keeping things moving" which
prove just as ruinous to school
discipline
If the parents of school children
will not make these children obey
at homo they cannot justly be too
hard on the teacher who has less
tpportunity and loss authority and
does not succeed in securing per
fect obedience either. If these
parents will just take the matter
seriously and lend a helping hand
in the matter of cultivating the
habit of obedience in tho school
children of tho land the results in
the common schools will bo ap
parent at once, in our opinion.
ing laws, and there is consequent
ly no occasion for popular in
dignation and riot on this score.
There, such marriages are not
tolerated and havo no standing
even though they bo performed in
another jurisdiction. Why not
put an end to this Jack Johnson
business and the periodical out
breaks of frenzy following upon it
by prohibiting inter-racial mar
riages everywhere? The negro
who married the white girl at
Niles had a measure of justifica
tion to his plea. Tf the pugilist
had a right to marry a white
woman, so has every other negro
that's all there is about it.
In Illinois, Michigan and other
jurisdictions every negro who
marries a while woman has a
right lo be protected in his marital
relations, either because tho laws
of these stales are a quarter of
a century behind public sentiment
or else because thero is no real
public sentiment against such
marriages. How is it wilh Ne
braska? If some member of our
legislature who possesses the
right spirit introduces a bill that
means the most serious punish
ment to tho parties who will per
petrate such a heinous crime
within tho bounds of our state,
every member of tho legislature
who has a daughter or sister will
not fall or in voting for such a
law.
Are you going lo the Fiddlers'
contest Tuesday niht? Of course
you are if you enjoy fun.
:o:
"Struck Oil!" It you want to
know how it was .done attend tke
play at the Parmele Monday
night.
-:o:
Washington newspapers con
tinue to be loud in their demands
for a three-ring inauguration
ceremony.
Judging from the net results in
slain wolves the social features of
the big hunts so numerous now
days must be worth while.
:o:
The existence of foreign ship
ping trusts is admitted. They
have been visible to the naked eye
so long that denial would be use
less. :o:
A Kansas City man has read the
bible through in fifty hours. There
are lots of people here in Platts
mouth that we will wager have
not done that in fifty years.
:o;
Three girls in Columbus, Ohio
jumped from an upper story of a
burning factory into the river and
swam ashore. The new woman
is acquiring some accomplish
ments.
:o :
And now government officials
are to answer the question of
"What is pure water?" It might
be more difficult than the one al
ready answered of "What is pure
whisky?"
:o:
Throughout tho country ,the
parcel post is adding $1,000,000
a day to tho postal revenue. Tke
new facilities will not lack cash
to keep Ihem in lively motion. How
do you suppose the express com
panies like such reports?
:o:
"Economy in state affairs" was
the bat lie-cry of the democratic
party in Nebraska last fall. This
is what every member of the
legislature promised, and they
must keep that promise faithfully.
Will they do it? The people are
watching them, and also the ap
propriations that are lo be made.
:o:
It doesn't appear the least bit
w ise to hear a merchant who never
advertises criticise another mer
chant because he advertises cer
tain lines of goods at prices that
bring trade to him. If the non
advertising merchant is satisfied
with his slow way of doing busi
ness ho should not criticise the
advertising merchant for doing
business his way.
Real Estate
EE
Bought and Sold
ON COMMISSION!
Insurance Placed in Best
Companies!
Farm Loans and Rental Agency
If you have a house for rent try
a Journal Want Ad.
- Virgil :,ltillis
ROBERT WILKINSON
DUNBAR
L.J. HALL
UNION
Wilkinson & Hall
-AUCTIONEERS-
The holding of successful sales is
our line. Our interests are with the
seller when it comes to getting every
dollar your property is worth. For
open dates address or caH either of
us at our expense by phone. Dates
can be made at the Journal office.
-WILKINSON & HALL