The Plattsmouth Journal -
CUD Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postolfice at Plattsmouth, Nebraaka, aa second-clas
matter.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
J. THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
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Let u- devote ourselves lo
those great objects (hat hit
lit for diii' consideration ami
our conceptions lo Uki
magnitude and (ho import
ance of IIm1 duties that de-
J velop upon us; let our eoni
j prehension, he as broad as
Hie con ii try for which we
J act, our aspirations as high
I as its cerlaiii destiny; let us
J not be pygmies in a cose
J Ihat calls for men. l)aniel
Webster.
HMMW-MHM-H"M
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Missouri man also has a hill
before tin: legislature for pure ad
vertisements. How the world do
nci'd reforming!
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. There is considerable enjoy
ment in the world, but think what
a lime any of us fellow? could
have on llockefeller's income.
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Meleu Killer, deaf and blind
trom infancy, is lecturing on
sociological questions. No one
will have the audacity to deny the
progressivcness in this individual
case.
A really pood man is one who is
willing- to admit (hat there are
others.
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War legislates and so does an
empty treasury. Turkey has both
I roubles on Ms hands.
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Least we forget have you join
ed the Commercial club yet? If
not, why not? Can you tell? You
know very well you ought to join.
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The Lincoln memorial is to
lake the form of a Greek, temple,
lo be built beside the Potomac,
Now, let, the sticklers for a
memorial road build one to il.
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If the brains of animals are to
be (ransplanled, the high cost of
living' would induce some people
lo prefer (lie brains of a goat or
an osl rich lo I hat of a dog.
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We move Ihat I he legislature
keep right on passing bills with
out any adjournments only for
Sunday, and then adjourn "sine
die" and go home. Do we hieet
willi a second?
Owing to Hie growing popular
ity of the parcel post system some
of the Hale legislature! may de
cide to make parrel post stamps
a legal lender in (heir respective
jiirisdiel ions.
No matter how much sonic
democrats may differ with Mr.
Flryan on certain questions
political, none of I hem can
even attempt to deny that he is
really the greatest man in the na-
lion today and is truly entitled to
go down in history as "The Great.
Commoner." A man who is fil
led for any position within the
gift of the nation is certainly a
man that any country could be
proud of. lie would be at home
in the presidential chair, as sec
retary of stale or any other
cabinet or diplomatic, position
This is certainly a character to
be proud of and the American
people, irrespective of parly or
ried, are proud of hint. We
know we are.
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Lincoln has nearly twenty-live
hundred members in its Com
mercial club, and they are all
loyal, energetic workers, too. Ac
cording" to this. Plattsmouth
should not have less than llvo
hundred members. Don't delay
performing your duty. Join the
boomers and help them boom for
a more progressive Plaltsnioulh.
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Senator Smith of Seward coun
ty has introduced a measure in
the senate, which, if adopted in
stead of Ihe Hollen bill in the
house, the constitutional amend
ments will be published in the
country papers one month in each
itsue during Ihat lime. There is
voine sense to this measure, but
Hi- Mullen bill I- ju-l simply a
.-lap in the lace to lh; newspaper
fn'i jde of he slnle.
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Oinaha gets the convention of
the Slate Teachers' association
next spring-. The mailer of loca
tion was decided by a vote of the
teachers of the stale and Omaha
beat Lincoln, with over 500 votes
to spare.
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All of the lighting factions in
Mexico, regardless of generals or
presidents, seem to acquire a
special hostility to the town of
Juarez, probably for the reason
that the Juarez location affords
Ihem an opportunity to aim an
occasional shot at the United
Stales.
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The only man who can win by
kicking is tin- fellow who makes
a profession of ford ball.
"(in to Mexico!'' will soon be
the battle-cry oT Ihe United Slates
troops, if they don't quit killintr
Americans over there. The blood
thirsty demons do not seem lo bo
able to even lake care of them
selves. 1 ney siiouiu ne driven
about i(H miles south of Ihe Rio
Grande and be permitted to fight
il out to Ihe bitter end.
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Whelher there is really a
"money I rust" in this country,
or whether the extraordinary
conditions which occasionally
arise are merely the result of a
defective currency system will
probably be made clear to the
average citizen when the Pujo
committee submits its report in
half a dozen bound volumes.
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j About all the legislation one
can hear discussed in the hotel
corridors at Lincoln is Ihe im
mense sum lixru up lor ap
proilations, which reaches over
i000,()00. We say to the demo.
cratie members of the house: "Re
careful, boys, how you tread upon
the toes of the taxpayers of Nebraska."
The Commercial club should
lake up Hut good roads matter at
their very next meeting. Tourists
from Hie east lo the west are gro
ing to take the shortest and best
roule from Omaha to Kansas City
and il behooves our citizens to
get in line as early as possible on
the road question.
When Aldrich gave out the con
stitutional amendments last year
-"See Plattsmouth Succeed!"-
and Place Your Laundry Orders with
The New Plattsmouth Steam Laundry
WM, BARCLAY, Manager
A man with years of experience in the laundry business will have
charge, and all work will be gotten out on time, and everything left in our
care will be guaranteed in every particular. All that we ask is a trial to
prove that we know our business, ami if we please you we would like for
you to tell your friends if not tell us.
The new management takes possession Monday, February 10th, and
we will not be responsible for any business relations that patrons have had
with the old management.
The Plattsmouth Steam Laundry
PUBLISHING AMENDMENTS.
lloss Hammond, editor of the
Fremont Tribune, speaks our
sentiments exactly in reference
to publishing the constitutional
amendments in the newspapers
of Nebraska, which hits Ihe nail
right equarely on the head, as
follows :
"The stale house of represent
atives has before it a bill provid
ing Ihat proposed constitutional
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amendments shall be printed as
pamphlets and distributed
among the voters in that form.
This is lo take the place of news
paper publication, as now pro
vided. "One member in discussing the
measure declared his favor for
the very good reason that country
editors are inighly small potatoes,
anyway. Of course, lo a puissant,
dignified, brainy member of the
Ten years ago Ihe edilor of the
Journal first met lr. Hall, and
ever since Ihat time we have been
his personal friend made so by
n'V. genial personality, ability and
genuine fidelity to Ihe best in
terests of Ihe parly he has so ably
assisted in building up in Ne
braska, lie is a great honor to
'i,r slate, and a gentleman whom
il is a pleasure lo know, and one
who has reflected great credit up
on (lie democratic parly of the
slaie as their representative in
tin- great councils of national
't 'inocracy. Long live !)r. Hall.
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HOME END OF EDUCATION.
Kansas has something' else to
oiler Ihat seems to be new. The
Ja hawker slate superintendent
of public instruction is proposing
to put a new course of study into
Hie Kansas schools, a study in
habits ami industry.
lie proposes to provide a list of
credits to be accorded pupils for
helpful work which they may do
at home. Among Hie home duties
for which pupils are to get credit
in their school record are enumer
ate Ihe cleaning of their teeth,
washing dishes, building tires,
milking cows, feeding- horses and
chickens, cleaning barns, carrying
in fuel, blacking' stoves, making
beds, sweeping floors, baking
bread and biscuits, preparing
family meals, doing fancy work,
dusting furniture, practicing
music and bathing-. Each duty has
its prescribed credit, according-to
tin- degree of its importance and
the amount of work required. For
instance, sweeping is accorded
credits according to Ihe number
of rooms. Twice as much credit is
accorded for making" two beds as
for one. In some of the pursuits
authorized credit is given for each
hour employed.
Superinlendenl lloss proposes
to allow credits for all home
duties performed by pupils, each
child being1 limited to 100 home
credits for each school, day, the
credits running- from 5 to 50
points for each recognized duty
performed. The credit for clean
ing the teeth is a, but if it is done
after each meal the pupil is en
titled to '20 a day. The highest
credit is for preparing a family
meal, which is HO.
The idea of Superinlendenl
boss is to encourage good habits
and home industry. Most parents
will realize that there is need of
such a system. Lincoln Star.
a smell." Now, Ihat the Journal
i the only democratic paper in
C.a.-s county, with a circulation of
'J,'. "oo, reaching every nook and
corner nt the county, we are ue
i idedly opposed to any division of
Ihe "pie," because it properly be
longs to the democratic papers in
each county, and no others.
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While in Lincoln Tuesday we
visited Ihe legislature for a few
hours. In the senate we had a
few moments conversation with
Senator Hurtling. He is always
present when any important bills
are up for passage, and he has
several measures of his own
which he is industriously looking
after, including the Sunday base
bull bill. Senator Harding is one
of the influential members of the
senate and is kept on the inovo
continually, being a member of
not less I ban a dozen coinmillees
He is holding- up the interests of
his constituent s about as well as
any of them anil is considered a
little more than an average in
ability.
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There are a few silly fools that
have found their way into the
legislative halls. They possess a
lot of pa ul, but no legislative
ability. Ono of these fellows
wants lo deprive the newspapers
of the slate of the publication of
the constitutional amendments
and have them printed in pamph
let form and sent out to Ihe
voters. He wants the state to go
into the hand bill business to let
its sovereign voters know what it
proposes to do with important
sections of the constitution.
was a mere accident that he got
into the legislature, but it is
very safe Im that he never wi
bleak the fence down and get into
I in- public crib again.
be did not favor Ihe Journal with lower house of the Nebraska
gislature an ordinary country
ditor naturally does look small,
weak and unworthy. When one
ooks down from a sevenleeu-
tory building upon human be
ings (ui tne street neiow uiey
have the appearance of insects.
A great deal depends upon the
point of view. Rut that is neither
here nor there.
"The question before the house
is in which form can the best pub-
icity be had through pamphlets
or through .the newspapers in
those, slates, like Oregon and
South Dakota, where pamphlets
ire employed as a make-shift, the
result has been unsatisfactory. It
is a cumbersome and ineffective
method. There is no means of
publicity as good as newspapers.
Itusiness men of the country, who
know by long experience and at
great cost, have proved that be
yond a doubt. It may not bo
necessary to publish constitu
tional amendments for three
months, as now. The period of
publication might be shortened,
but any substitution of pam
phlets for newspaper publicity
will bo going backward. The,
pamphlets will not bo circulated.
They will clutter up some
capacious warehouse or stock
room till there is a Conflagration
from spontaneous combustion
Dr. l L. Hall of Lincoln is the
Nebraska representative on the
national democratic committee.
He is a gentleman who wields
great, influenco in the councils of
his parly, in both state and nation.
Nebraska democrats owe a great
deal to Dr. Hall, for he has been
a loyal defender of the principles
of Hie party all his life, through
victory or defeat. If the parly
goes down in defeat one year, he
is one of those kind of democrats
who "picks his flint and is up and
at. 'ein again in the next election!"
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Our Big Annual Stationery Sale is
now on and as Usual are Closing
Out the Line at Less than Cost
We have placed on sale about 500 Boxes that have
sold for 25 and 35c at
15c
with a few that will be sold for 10c, a mere fraction of cost.
We have about 60 Boxes of the High-Grade 60c
Quality that we are closing out at 30c.
135 Boxes of Initial Paper!
A few in Gold Letter and the balance in Colored letter. This
paper cost twice as much as we are selling it at, but we are go
ing to quit handling this line and we want to clean up every box
during this sale. While they last they will be sold at
20c per Box
Just think of it. At this price you should buy enough to last
the entire year. This opportunity is only offered you once a
year, and that at the Journal office. Call early, for at these
prices the 500 boxes will be sold this week.
The
- Journal Stationery Department -
In the Initial Paper we have every lettler except H. L. and M.