The Plattsmouth Journal
PuMislcdScmi-Weekly
If. yV. IIA'I'HS, I'tilillwlior
Entered at the I'ostoffice at I'latUmouth, Nebraska as second-cIas3 matter
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March lias iniirclicd away.
Gnod-hyc!
April is lii-ri', inid in potatoes
planted yet.
Thanks In the Lord! Two
Weeks more will finish the work
df the present, legislature the
worst t ha! ever sal in Lincoln,
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II is heller In serve a small
(immunity well as an honest
nierehanl than In attain the pink
if "Captain of Industry' by unfair
and dishonest means.
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No one can blame the legis
lature for appropriating; $100,000
to aid the distressed in Omaha.
II would have been belter still had
the sum been made $200,000.
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Prospective tariff mluclion has
not, yet reduced t he cost of living",
as all can soo without oven look
ing. The ijeal thing can only
make graded reductions, so long
as the supply is limited.
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The Daily Drover's Journal and
Stockman of South Omaha says
that, up to last Wednesday the
stock yards interests had con
tributed II. 500 for the relief of
the Omaha tornado sufferers.
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President Wilson is taking
some pains to prove thai, in the
matter of trusts, at. least, lie and
Theodore Hoosevelt are not of
the same brand of progressives.
Wood row acts, while Teddy took
his out in w ind.
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When you see a weekly paper
kicking at W. .1. Bryan, without
any cause whatever, it reminds
one of I he knat knawing at the
heels of an elephant. In com
parison it is just about as notice
able, also.
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Joe Cannon said something:
when he got back to his home in
Danville that must have made
Victor Murdoek feel sorry he had
put rollers under the wise old
statesman: " am not a pessi
mist," said I'nolfl Joe, "and the
country isn't going to h 1 simply
because T am out of oftlce."
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Pick out twenty oung men as
you meet them and not five out of
the twenty are making an effort
to save money. Tho Indications
aro tho poor house of the future
will have to bo ton stories high
with folding bed in each room.
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The diffcrence'belwcen an agri
culturist and a farmer is that tho
farmer gels tip at the break of
day, feeds his stock and lias
breakfast at sun-up. After bis
frugal meal he hitches his team
to the plow, takes the hard
. bandies in bis horny bands, calls
"gee haw" to his team and plows
all the long, weary day. Tho agri
culturist gets up at 8 o'clock in
the morning' and after an easy
breakfast, pulls on his gloves,
orders his horse and buggy and
drives to town.
at Plattsmouth, Neb.:
IN ADVANCE
j In la( li of a tornado every
'Hunt; that isn't raised is razed.
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iimially gel ;i m-w.-iiaj.-iT
into
I rouble.
Kails
cry mil
subject.
spring predict inns seem
h disposed In change tho
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Those who have been watching
his stand feel that Mr. Wilson will
do more work than Roosevelt, and
do less talking about it.
Kimlish people are getting tired
of the actions 'of the stiffs, and
may decide to send them to Can
ada to grow tip with the country.
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This almost reads like a
prophesy: 'One woe doth tread
upon another's heel, so fast they
follow."
The use of "scattering" in
figuring up the llood hisses in the
i :H might be used more aptly in
estimating the tornado losses in
I he west.
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The Louisville Courier's argu
ments against the jail are not go
ing lo cut much ice with intel
ligent taxpayers. It is simply
tommyrot and nothing else.
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The democratic members of the
present legislature have certainly
made several great mistakes, and
it is hoped they will adjourn and
go homo before they make any
more.
The equinox is past and Kaster
a matter of history, and yet there
are those who have neglected to
plant their potatoes. Perhaps it
is best o plant potatoes in the
ground than in the moon, anyway.
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If men are the salt of the earth,
women are undoubtedly the
sugar. Salt is necessary sugar
is a luxury. Vicious men are salt
peter; stern men are rock salt;
nice men are (aide salt. Old
maids are brown sugar; good
Matured matrons are loaf sugar,
and pretty girls are pulverized
sugar. Please pass the pulverized
sugar.
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W hile President Wilson is re
fusing gilts of all sorts, we would
gladly receive the tO-pound tur
key which invaiiably is sent lo
the White house just before
I haiiksgiving, if the president
still refuses lo accept. But v
will not wait in anticipation, for
we four (he president will make
an exception to his rule about the
lime Thanksgiving rolls around
W. II. Thompson, chairman of
the democratic state committee,
is much put out by the way the
democratic members voted upon
the workingmen's compensation
bill. Mr. Thompson has a right
to be it was one of tho principal
platform pledges. Hut the repub
licans are- about as deep in the
mud as the democrats are in the
mire. It was also one of their
platform plodges.
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One of the New York daily
papors very truthfully says: "It
ought not to take the merchant of
a small town long lo find out that
in the parcel post he has a friend
and not a foe. Let him start an
energetic advertising campaign in
his local papers and ho will soon
learn that he can reach a class of
patrons who wero never within
gunshot before tho parcel post
came to town. This means that
rural journalism will assume- an
importance that was novo" known
before."
Oh, you gentle springtime! it
Kinks like you are to be delayed
considerable Ibis year.
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We've bad a president with a
big: stick, one with a smile, and
now we've got one with the back
bone. -:o:
In the spring' a young man's
fancy figures that the coal will
hold out, but the backbone of win
ter returns to fool him.
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In a week or two the box
scores will begin to blossom mi
the sporting pages. This is the
only infallible harbinger of
spring.
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A black-eyed man is always
jeabms of his wife, a gray-eyed
one is the most faithful, a brown
eyed one the best provider, and
blue-eyed one always henpecked.
Girls, take your choice.
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In spite of a democratic admiu
instratioa the price of bogs and
cattle keeps up, notwithstanding
the direful predictions that were
mode before the election. Things
r re going along so smoothly that.
':iy people don't know there has
been a change in administration.
Illinois- will now have one
democrat and one republican in
the Toiled States senaU James
II. Lewis, democrat, for" the long
term, and Lawronre T. Sherman,
rcpumiean, lor tne siiori term.
This is better than half a loaf for
the democrats by about four
years.
The democrat who does not
heed the platform pledges as a
member of the legislature is not
worthy of the honor bestowed up
on him in sending him there. Such
actions work hardship upon the
party in the hereafter. This paper
considers platform pledges as
sacred commandments, and be
who refuses to perform his duties
according to those command
ments is not a reliable democrat
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It has been stated in the west
part of the county that the court
house is in a poor condition. Now
a bigger falsehood never gained
circulation, and all a persons has
to do is to come to Plaltsinoulh
and see for himself. Except for
the usual wear and tear, the Cass
county court house is as sub
stantial as the day it was turned
over to the county. There you
nail iinnt her lie.
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The Illinois supreme court has
ruled that fortune telling is not
illegal because the seer is paid for
his lime and not for the informa
tion or misinformation he gives.
The fundamental idea of obtain
ing money under false pretenses
seems to have been entirely over
looked by the court. The supremo
court of Illinois would do well to
lake a few lessons in some cor
respondence school.
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Some taxpayers are afraid that
the levy of 812,000 will not be
sullicient to build u jail. Perhaps
it would not if it was built oil' lo
itself. Dot it is to bo attached to
the court house on the north,
which will greatly lessen the ex
pense in building, and also in
keeping tho same healed and
cleanly. Another fact is, the com
missioners are limited to Ibis
amount, and contractors and
architects say the sum of $12,000
will build a splendid structure
complete in every way.
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Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has
some sensible ideas on marriage
He says: "I'd rathor see a young
fellow marry on $15 a week than
hold aloof from marriage unli
too late in life. It's a groat dea
better for a young couple to
struggle along together and have
their litllo home, their little fam
ily, than it is to livo singly till the
man has gathered a pile. Wheth
er the man should attempt to
start a homo on $15 a week do
ponds very much on the girl the
man marries."
"On the Hanks of the Wabash.
I ar Away" And at this season
tin- farther away the better.
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I .est we forget what about the
university removal? The legis
lature only has about ten more
days in which to act. It is be
lieved the bouse will never con
sent to its removal, and thereby
hangs the whole story it will re
main right where it is.
I he bill to abolish free lunches
in saloons i a piece of illy ad-
isid fooljshne
As the matter
now stands a patron buys a Ij-ccnl
,.!.iss of beer and gets a free
lii'ieh. I'lider the law the patron
wi'l nowMniy a fi-ccnl lunch and
get a glass of beer free. Where's
th-' difference? It is simply
iweeilieden and tweedledum. In
!h" first place you got the beer
and lunch. Tv'ow you get the lunch
ami beer.
The 'other week a facetious
newspaper writer published the
statement that if the nionev in
tin- United States were equally
distributed each one would have
;;!i.7:'. The result has been thai,
many lell'Ts have been received
at the treasury department in
which the writer ask for their
shares. The money is distributed
punctually as before.
The advocacy of the principle
of having all things jo common
has a tendency lo destroy in
dividuality. Without tho in
dividual being made prominent in
r.il'airs of stale the incentive In
supreme effort is taken away.
Itepresenlal ive intelligence is a
belter democracy than colloctivo
ignorance, however popular the
latter might be for the time be
ing. Gradually as the taxpayers
fully understand the jail proposi
tion, they are coming out for it.
They are seeing through tho
enemies of the jail proposition,
that it is purely selfishness on
their part, and Ihat if they can
defeat it they will gloat over their
triumph, because it will give
them an opportunity lo create
more trouble for the taxpayers ol
the county, livery taxpayer who
oes for the building of a new
ail will save big money by so du
ng and it js (he real taxpayers
wno should vole lor it.
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The big taxpayers are not go
ing to lie governed tiv a lew
prejudiced people in the matter of
the county jail. They know the
jail is needed, and as a farmer of
Ml. Pleasant, precinct, who was
in town Saturday, said, "why not
settle the question right now, and
ie doiie with il?" That's the way
hundreds of farmers think who
are running around blowing their
heads olT either one way or tho
I her. They know Ihat wo should
have a new jail, and Ihat it will
save them money in the long run
o have it built right now.
Kansas is the latest slate to
pass a law providing lor the em
ployment of convicts in tho build
ing of public highways. Objec
tions are heard hero and there
against such use of prison labor,
the most frequent ones being the
expense of tho elaborate system
necessary lo prevent the escape
of desperate prisoners and tho
demoralizing effect which tho pub
lic employment of convicts would
havo on the communities whore
they are thus employed. As for
the first objection, it would per
haps bo unwise to employ tho
more dosperato prisoners on pub
lic highways: tho second is
frivolous and insane. Trison re
form advocates urge with reason
that public road making: offers an
opportunity for the employment
of hundreds of able-bodied con
victs who are languishing in
morbid idleness in the prisons.
At the same time the labor of
these prisoners properly utilized
in the building of highways would
lessen the burden of a public im
provement for whose entire cost
the people are compelled to tax
themselves." Thus would convicts
be given wholesome employment,
the public would receive some re
compense in needed and better
highway s, and prison compel it ion
with skilled free labor would be
avoided.
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The Weeping Water Republican
acknoweblges it made a mistake
in its bond statement, instead of
it straight levy for one year, after
publishing- the proposition in its
own columns for the past three
weeks, as ordered by the county
commissioners. Bui the brighl
and hmidsomc young gent who
presides over the destinies of that
paper, says the Journal made an
error when il stated the county
seal removal meant an outlay of
SL'Oii.onn s;jf)(Unm. 'e were
honest in Ibis statement ami slick
rig lit to I he text, and the taxpay
ers of Cass county will llml out
to their stirror, if it were possible
lo remove the county seat, ami a
new court house erected, when we
already have one of the best in
the si ale.
Xo county in the slate has a
poorer jail than Cass county, and
the way to gel. one that will lu
credit to the county is to vole for
the levy of $12,000 for the build-'
ing of one in which it will be safe
to keep prisoners, and not be
compelled to pay double price for
their keeping in Lincoln and
Omaha, besides transportation to
and from those places before they
are tried and convicted. Mr. Tax
payer, you are the one In be in
terested in this matter, and when
you look at it in the right lijrhl
you can readily see wherein you
should vote for a new jail now
and be done with it.
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We have taken the opportunity
n several occasions lo criticise
the action of our legislature for
several very unwise measures
adopted, and several measures
that were in accordance with the
democratic state platform, which
have been defeated by democratic
voles. Some few democrats blame
us for the criticism and have
taken us to task by pleading that
il is a democratic legislature, and
it democratic paper should refrain
from criticising il. That is a
poor defense, when we see mem
bers trample upon plan!; after
(dank of the state platform, meas
ures that they promised lo stand
by. Our interest in the demo
cratic parly is such Ihat we want
lo perpetuate its existence,
but how do you expect us lo do
it, when democrats in that bodv
stand up and vide against prin
ciples that wore adopted by the
democrats of the state in conven
tion assembled, with the promise
that they should become laws, if
the democrats controlled the
legislature. How can we expect
to succeed in the future when the
democrats go before I ho voters of
the state with broken promises
staring them in the face, The
success of today will not endure
for tomorrow unless it be shown
that it is deserving 'and gives
promise for even better thing in
the future. In this connection it
must bo borne in mind that the
Journal is not the only democratic
paper that views tho situation
with eyes of today fixed on the
possible results of tomorrow. He
is indeed a poor politician who
believes that a triumphant victory
today presages a similar triumph
tomorrow. Tho stern philosophy
of politics teaches us that mem
bers who aro elected to the legis
lature by democrats must have
respect enough for their party lo
at least carry out ' its platform
pledges, which of course tho pros
ent legislature has failed on sev
eral occasions to do, when it had
no just cause for so doing.
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The Wallace menagerie de
stroyed by the flood at Peru, In
diana, is one of tho subjects ready
for destriptivo writers. Possibly
some of the elephants escaped and
will have more than Jumob's
reputation.
When Miss Sylvia Parkhursl is
in prison the officers can't get her
lo open her mouth; and when shu
is (nit of prison the ollieers can't
gel her to close it.
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Kvery home in Nebraska should
be provided with a cyclone cave,
jusl as every home in Ohio, In
diana and southern Illinois should
be pro ided with a raft.
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An overwhelming majority for
Sunday baseball. The proposition
carried by about 500 majority.
That should be sufficient to show
where the people stand on the
quest ion.
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Notwithstanding their long run
of big crops and high prices, it is
claimed that the farmers do not
know how to market their prod
ucts. The condition of the
farmer is truly deplorable.
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. Yes, .Mr. Taxpayer, Hit jail
proposition is a one-year levy,
with no bonds hanging over your
head, bearing interest. And (he
beauty of il is the whole tax is
paid willi one levy only, and it's
all over. Another thing, you will
hardly miss the -small amount it
will cost you.
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We mel another substantial
fanner from the west side of the
county .Monday, who voluntarily
told us he was going to vote for
the jail, simply because in carry
ing the proposition il will save
the taxpayers further troubll and
expense. No is looking at tho
mailer in the proper light. And
there are hundreds of olhersub
slanlial farmers who look al the
jail question the same way.
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In speaking of tho coming and
going of the school ma'am the
Sioux City Tribune says: "If a
school teacher is required to talte
a four-year professional course
preliminary to earning a salary of
$t0 per month, what is the
reasonable commercial quotation
on an operation for appendicitis?"
We intend to arrange with Miss
Foster, county superintendent, to
receive answers and award prizes.
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The next legislature should be
composed of men of good, sound
judgment and intelligence men
who aro able to sland the assaults
of the lobbyists and able lo de
fend the right of their con
stituents without fear or favor.
Kvery county in Nebraska posses
ses men of this character, and
they are the kind of people that
should bo sent to the legislature.
Men creep into the senate and
house who are nothing more than
wall flowers, and you hardly know
they are there only when they
cast hair voles for or against
some measure.
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Now watch the Weeping Water
Republican come out and declare
tho article in last week's Union
Ledger was written in Ihe Jour
nal office. But it wasn't. Mr.
Graves brought the article here
himself, as ho has many other
arlioles in the past two years,
whirh wero sot on the machine
for hint. We do a great deal of
this work for other papers, for
which we aro paid. Mr. Graves
is not in Hie habit of having
others do the editing of his paper
he is plenty ablo to do that
himself.
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A town that never has anything
to do in a public way is on the
road to the cemetery. Anyone who
will do nothing for his town is
helping to dig the grave. A man
that curses tho town furnishes
tne casket. The man so selfish
as to havo no time from his busi
ness to give to the city affairs is
making the shroud. The man who
floes not advertise is driving Ihe
Iiearsr. Tho man who is pulling
had; from any public enterprise
throws bouquets on the grave.
The man who is howling hard
ti.i os all the time preaches the
funeral and sings tho doxnlngy,
anl thus the town lies buried
from nil sorrow and cares.
