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The Plattsmouth Journal : Published Semi-Weekly IV. A. HATKH, I Entered at the Tostoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-clas3 matter I $1 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 4. THOUGHT FOR TODAY. r It is always good In know, if c.rily in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like llowers and woods and clear brooks. (ieorge Elliot. I V :o: Plattf-tnoiitli first, last and all the lime. :o: Pass the order all along the line: "Glean up!" -:o:- Thc clean dooryard is a thing of beauty, no matter how unpre tentious or humble the home. :o: Only a few days now till the gent who subsists on box scores will be placed 011 full feed. :o: The man who does a good deal of bragging on ti is home town helps some, even if he lias real estate for sale. :o: There may be no monopoly, but there are numerous fellows who seem to think Hie olllee belongs to them by inheritance. Over a month gone by since the inauguration of President Wilson and no signs of a panic. Predic tions do not always pan ouL :o: There should be no quitting in t he good roads business. Keeping constantly at the work is what f'xes the roads in good shape. The sardine catch in Europe is a failure this year, but as long as the. American minnows bold Mil there will always be plenty of r.anned sardines. :o: A lecturer in Chicago declared that "the men lived to be 1,000 y-ars old before the flood!" But that was before breakfast foods and pajamas were invented. :o: French people are trying to find a substitute for the meaning less "How do you do?" They might choose from any one of a hundred American substitutes, like "Oh, you chicken I" :o : Winter wheat is beginning to show the rows clear across the fields and is looking line. The dead patches that showed up so prominently last spring are not to be seen this year and indica tions now are for a good crop. :o: The blue sky law passed by the , legislature is nothing more than a perfect farce. Had there been such a law in force several ygars ago it would have been money in the pockets of many Nebraskans who have been "roped in" to buy ing land that has proved no good for anything. :o: The Lincoln Herald has now inated ex-Mayor Frank W. Brown of Lincoln for governor of Porto Ilico. Frank Brown is one of flod's noblemen and there is nothing too good for him in the gift of tlio present administra tion. He is a man ninong men, and well fitted for almost any posi tion. :o: Now that it isn't such a picnic for ome of the suffragettes to be in British prisons, what a wail goes up. The actions of the suf fragetlcs in England is doing much to retard the growth of woman's suffrage in America. A groat many of the former leaders in this country are breaking ranks. at Plattsmouth, Neb.: l'ul.ltlier Spring fever winter grip. is preferable to :o:- Business prophets report the outlook in general as very bright and promising. :o: Senator Hitchcock's currency bill was the first introduced in the senate. Plattsmouth is to have a big show. Yankee Robinson's big three-ring circus and menagerie will be here Monday, May 5. :o: More spelling books and less sheet music may be listed among the long-felt wants, according to a cranky writer. :o: The long distance weather fore cast is frequently fulfilled. And there are other games in which you may win a bet occasionally. :o: Everybody has a good word for President Wilson. And why? lie cause he is doing his duty as ho sees it, to the entire country, ir respective of clan, ring or fac tion. ;o : The ballot, alone would not satisfy (he Knglih militant suf fragettes. Neither would it satisfy the suffragettes in America. They would next de mand the unconditional surrend er of the ballot box itself. :o: N'earing the time for farmers to decide among themselves which is best, early Or late planting. fcome seasons they have no choice in the matter. They all have to put up with late planting. But we hope this season will be an exception. President Wilson is prepared to fight for the tariff program to the last ditch, and will veto any measure not in accordance with his views. Woodrow Wilson is a gentleman after our own heart, when it come to redeeming plat form pledges. :o: You can't expect the people of your town to buy the goods you carry unless you carry the goods they want to buy. It is up to you to meet their requirements, not for them to buy the goods you choose for them. Omaha Trade Exhibit. :o: The man who tells you that the court house in this city is not in good condition, and therefore tries to prejudice you against its present location lies, and all you have to do to refute the lie is to go through the slructuro it self and see how easily some peo ple can utter an untruth. :o: Americans, even those who are favorably inclined toward wom an's suffrage, find it difficult to become all wrought up over the imprisonment of Miss Emerson, an American woman, in jail in London for window smashing and assaulting polceinen. If she is an American woman sho had no business mixing in English af fairs, anyway. :o: There is a law designating the newspaper with the largest circulation in the county as tho paper in which notices for liquor licenses must be published. An attempt was made to change this law so that any paper in the coun ty could legally publish such notices, but the bill was defeated by the present legislature. If such notices arc not now publish ed in the paper with the largest circulation they are illegally published. Hurrah for Plattsmouth! We Crow for the New Jail. Oh, How Sick We Feel! L. J. Mayfield, Louisville Courier Don't poke fun at your neigh bor who owns a cyclone cellar. You may want to borrow a corner in it almost any day. :o: Some men, who conceive of big projects, but have not the means to carry them out, are sometimes styled "hot air bags." But such men are necessary to the pros perity of a community. Men that have money do not take lime to be "dreamers. -:o : One more slate will suffice to ratify the constitutional amend ment for Hie election of United SJates senators by popular vote. Illinois had the last of the sen atorial deadlocks and furnished another striking argument for the change. :o: The .National Drainage Con gress that will meet in St. Louis this week will be the most im portant convention of the kind that has yet assembled. Its pro ceedings will be followed with in terest by congress and every one of the forty-eight states. President Wilson appeared in thp halls of congress and deliver ed his message. He is the first president of the United States who has done this since John Adams in the first few years of the last century. The people will find that there will be many things which President Wilson will do that will prove his faithfulness to the masses of the people. :u: The fellows who attempt to make a factional fight in the ap pointments under President Wilson's administration will hardly succeed. The president believes in making concessions to both factions and believes oiie is made up with as good democrats as the other, and one will be favored as quick as Hie other when tin; political plum tree is shaken. All will have a chance. :o: Local papers are warning the public against, n grafter who is going around under the pretense that lie is wauling: to buy a farm. He ingratiates himself into the confidence of real estate men and farmers and picks out a farm that suits him. He will take it just as soon as an expected draft ar rives. Meanwhile he needs a lit tie money and his unsuspecting victims give it to him. Next thing he is gone. So is tho money of the victims, Watch this fellow. :o: The truth of the matter is that Cass county has one of the most magnificent court houses in the state, and alranpors remark when they visit it what a magnificent structure it is. The sensible farm ers of Cass counly know this. Then would it not be a piece of foolishness for tho taxpayers to vote upon themselves an indebt edness that would take them twenty years to pay for something they already have? Why, it is simply preposterous to think of such a thing. "Benefits to the Omaha tornado sufferers" are still in order, if the real sufferers only gel the bene fit. :o: In Cedar Falls, Iowa, last fall, many of the dealers stored large stocks of potatoes because they could buy them for 50 cents a bushel. But I lie crop was large and the price has fallen so that the dealers are now selling their stocks in ten-bushel lots at 25 cents a bushel, and are pocketing their loss wilh what grace is pos sible. :o: The legislature is about to re act upon the compensation bill, and if they do, by passing it, they will receive the commendation of two-thirds of the people of Ne braska. The measure is just and by its adoption will prove a re deeming feature, and the people will have good cause to overlook the few great errors the legis lature, has made. :o: Many working men gave up their day of rest on Sunday in Omaha to help the unfortunate people whose homes were de stroyed in the tornado. It is esti mated that at least 1,500 to 2,000 put in their entire lime on this day. It is said that bankers. brokers and skilled -mechanics rubbed shoulders in restoration work. Now thai the period for which I hey draw pay has passed the legislators are evidently waking up to the necessity of doing a full day's work rvery day if they are to get done in time for spring plowing. Most of I hem would be mighty glad if they could get back some of the time they frittered away in adjournments over miles earlier in lite session. Lincoln Star. :o: tearing another s character to pieces win not neip yours, no matter how dirty IhV other man's may be. Pointing out the weeds in your neighbor's yard will not make those in your own yard more beautiful. The while cottage and brown mansion each hide trouble from the world. People talk and know not whereof they speak. They retail slander to show how foul is the dish most palatable to them. Let us walk straight along. Let us each mind our own busi nes's and we will never be out of employment. .:o: - President Wilson says: "I do not want to live under a philan thropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government, either directly, or by any instruments through which the government is acting. I want only to have right and justice prevail, so far as I am concerned. Oive me right and justice and I will undertake to take care of myself." That is the kind of talk to emanate from a president of this great republic. And it is just this kind of senti ment that takes with the masses of the American people. Long live President Wilson! :o: Press dispatches from Wash ington inform us that this coun try is falling behind its own needs in the production of wheat, the leading article of diet of a people who live a Americans are ex pected to. Tho figures are from the government bureau. During eight months of the fiscal year, ending February, 1913, we ex ported 12,656 head of cattle and all. Why is not the owner legally imported 220,000 head. And the turned about a period as late as six years ago. This should bo an appeal to all farmers of tho Unit ed Slates to turn in and lend a hand in producing more meat. I good deal of the welfaro of this country, its future, is in tho hands of the farmers; when they realize this as they should they will appreciate the importance of heeding the appeal mado to them to grow more wheat. It is the way to farm; also it is the way to do something for the country. NEW m nn nnurc The Best Manure Spreader OH THE MARKET TODAY! This machine may be seen at my implement department a new addition to my general black smith and wagon business. I also handle the AVERY Corn Planters and Cultivators!c In fact it is my intention to carry a general line of Farm Implements of all kinds. Call and see me for whatever you may need. !.. SOUTH SIXTH ST The jail is needed, and the peo ple know it. :o: Yes, it's all over, and Cass counly will have a new jail. :o: "Tariff privilege must be re moved." say President Wilson. :o: This time of year the garden spade is mightier than the sword. :o: Nehawka is now entitled to a deed for that celebrated cannon. :o : Lost . Fourth early. we forget. Make your of July arrangements -:o:- Two hundred ami forty-nine majority for the jail is sufficiently decisive. :o: Cass county will soon have a jail in which it will be safe to keep prisoners. :o: It pays to have some news papers to work against a move ment when you want it to carry. :o: Free wool and free lumber is what the common people want. It will serve to help them out won derf You may fool the ' taxpayers once in a while, but you can't pull the wool over their eyes" all the time. :o: An evanglisl, in addressing a congregation in one of tho near by towns, says that nothing but the preaching of hell fire can convert tho men who loaf around livery stables. We would like to know of one being converted even by that. "Lift the Lift the latch on your telephone door and at once you step over the threshold of distance and greet your your friend or business associate wherever he may be. How simple and easy it is! And yet how effective and busi ness like! By telephone you may save pos sibly a long and tiresome trip. You may save the labor and expense of traveling. You may avoid unnecessary waits, delays and possible disappointment. You may save practically all of the valuable time that might have been waisted but for the telephone. Whenever you want to reach anyone, anywhere, any time, why not use the quick est and most economical route? Just lift the latch then telephone. Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company J. K. POLLOCK, Local Manager IDEA iproadore- 1 'J Plstftsnouth, l.'eb. COLONEL BATES AWAKENS. Colonel Bates in his every-wef-come Plattsmouth Journal has this to say about some things that inspire a lot of thinking and u lot of talking: " 'We favor a just . working- man s compensation law, a oft pledge the passage of such ft measure by the democratic legis lature.' That's what the demo cratic platform adopted at flrand Island last summer says. Tho why did the democrats in the present legislature refuse to sup port the compensation bill? r doing so they virtually repudiated one important obligation in that platform." Oh, Colonel Bates, yon old Mis souri democrat a democrat of the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian school have you not lived long enough to know that there's a vast gulf between platform pledges and actual practice? Have you not been through the fires of politics often enough to know that political platforms are written to read and not to stand upon? Ne braska City Daily Press. With all duo respect to Bro. Sweet and his opinion of platform declarations, we must beg leave to diner with him. Platforms are adopted, plank for plank, as the principles of a party, and the candidate who runs for offico is certainly pledged to carry out the wishes of his party, as expressed in that platform, or he has no business to accept a nomination after that platform has been adopted. Platforms are promises, and should be held as such by candidates after they are elected, and during our career in politics we have held them as sacred in structions to be carried out. Latch!"