The Plattsmouth Journal Published Semi-Weekly W. . I lA'I'ICS, Entered at the Postoflice at I'lattstnuuth, Nebraska as second-class matter r- $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE After the resolul ion is al n) ) it doesn't usuallv do a great deal of hard work. The trouble willi Ihi' man who thinks lit' knows il all is hi un willingness lo learn more. The Mexicans have discovered that il costs them just, as much to carry on a war as it, does to conduct a presidential campaign. :o: (ierniany recalls diplomat who marry American girls. One theory is a fear of talkativeness, but keenness in men ami meas ures might be an objection. :o: Los Angeles has voted out its municipal newspaper as Ion ex pensive. A long-fell want some times disappears when the purse is not long enough. :o : Six pre a I powers in a concert is the latest phase of the ancient eastern question. Al this rale the federation of III" world is making some headway. :o : What, about a Knurl li of .Inly celebration? Ilae jnu thought about it yet? Pretty near lime you were donning your thinking thinking rap. Kcniemhi'!- what the early bird gels. :o: 'I'hi! blue sky law, prescribing conditions under which proiiud ers of mining properties and such uncerlnininveslmciils may oper ate in the stale, lias passed the legislature. ;o: Nature has provided I he Mis sissippi river with leu mouths. As the big river drains more than half the stales il would be a pood idea to make sure that none of the mouths are merely ormu rnental. Vine of ho hip iighis in Ihe present session of the legislature came to a close when (be house approved the senate hill providing Hint Omaha may si ill continue to operate its municipal waler plan!, to the exclusion of rival privately owned corporations. The qucs I ion of municipal ownership of public utilities was involved. .... :o; The bill providing for a pub licity department for the stale, ami making an appropriation therefore, has been defeated by Ihe legislature. The bill had many friends until a represent ative of the Omaha Commercial cluh became so active as to arouse Ihe suspicions of Ihe members that there were sinsler motives back of his interest. II is freely staled thai this one man is responsible for Ihe defeat of the measure. MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS r F 1" J Jtt ISSHfifife If f JlfTO f awdvoo fvvw t ' nnniflmn ' io- T 3hP LL I fr I I 1 GjOt J- 1 u v . at Plattsmouth, Neb.: Tin- California assemblv has passed the anli-alien land-lnld-ing bill. .Now hear the Japs how 1. :o : The democratic newspapers of the slale will not reap one-half as much income from Ihe publica tion of constitutional amend ments net year as the republican papers did last year. There will probably be but four amendments, ami I hey w ill be short ones. ;o : The corporations made a ter rific fight against (he passage of Ihe timber anti-discrimination bill. It provides that Ihe elevat ors, line lumber yards, cream eries, etc., may not charge differ enl prices at different places in order In ruin independent rival concerns. There is no lingering doubt that Win id row Wilson is the presi dent of the Cniled Stales, and while he has been in ollice but Ut ile over a monlh, the public has seen enough of him to know Ihat he is his own man, and will nnl allow himself to be buncoed by friend, foe or faction. :o: The I'niied Stales is not to interfere with California in pre scribing American citizenship as necessary laud-holding in that slale. Illinois did the same thing long ago and without protest from Washington or from Ureal lirilaiii, where the aliens then lived. The fael is Ihe Japs are over-seusil iv e. -:o: Oovernor Morchead is planning to investigate the slate inslilu lions. Sonic serious charges have I n preferred, and money spent for gonds I hat have never boon used and Ihe articles carried away. This paper has always contended thai Ion much of the stale's money is squandered in Ihese slale institutions. :o: In New York the papers have alreadv commenced to discuss the going of rich people to llieir summer homes. They run away from warm weather as if it were poisonous, when as a matter of fact people in real warm climates live longer. Some live so Ions' in Arizona there is a suspicion that I hey jusl dry up and blow away. :o: Secretary Marlling of Otoe and Cass counties has been the, recipi ent of several season parses from hague teams over Ihe country, and among Iheni is Ihe White So oT Chicago. This is done simply in recognition of his serv ices in I he interest, of Sunday base ball in .Nebraska, and Ihe bill that hears his name, which was adopt ed by Ihe present legislature. Mrs. I'ankhuist should come to America mi a lecturing tour-and realize something' on her advertising. " Congratulations poured in upon Oovernor Mon head on account of his veto of the lleasty sterilization hill. Protests against the enatt 1 1 : i n I came to the desk of the governor from every quarter of Ihe ! nited Stales. W hat ti glorious world Ibis Would be if some people could only be learned lo keep their noses out of other people's busi ness. 5ul they learn, when it. is loo late, to their sorrow and lo I he injury of their friends. The cit of IMatlsniouth is very unfortunate in one respect. It is possessed of two or three people who are eternally trying to attend to some other people's business. Such meddlesome fellows don't last Ions' in this town. :o: Postmaster General Uurleson has issued a statement in which he says that he dues not "recog nize any obligation" to observe Ihe result of postoflice primaries, but that be will receive Ihe re sulls of such elect inns as recom mendations to be taken into con si deration with Ihe usual rec.un memlalions of such indivbluaV, :o : Xexl Tuesday is Arbor day, and! vvllh 'ieir allitudc. towards the yui don't want to forget it. Xolh-, ' n""""i,; '"Iccsts t country iiitf could be belter than to have','a" "rN,'r s''m'' ' ,,,al "''"king this beautiful interesl in tree cul-! lure become a fad. A tree-plant. ing craze that would line every Ireel and avenue with shade Ireesi and slock every barren hillside anil unprofitable field with the making of good limber trees. would al once beaulifv the land-! scape and lay the foundation oflillv'' future weallh. Plant trees! :o: If every person would adopt and! strictly practice the rule of not saying anything derogatory to others, only when truth and justice positively required facts to be loh, there would soon be an era of good feeling and a joyous atmosphere of peace over every community, church, school and family. The (ale bearer and gos sip monger are more of a curse to a community than the small pox and scarlet fever. The latter can be quarantined, but who can corral the former? The good book tells us where they gel Iheir start of fire from. :o: The Journal is in receipt nf a copy of Ihe Merrill (Oregon' llcc ord, and in glancing over ifs columns we notice the name of C S. Sherman Hying at its masthead as editor. Mr. Sherman served many years as editor of the Jour nal, ami since his removal to Oregon he has been connected with several papers in Ihat state in the capacity of editor. Mr. Sherman is a very able writer, and like many of Ihe obi hands at the business, it will be pretty hard for him lo shed the harness en tirely until the final summons to depart from this vale of tears. AS WILSON SAW IT IN 1909. A -triking forecast of Ihe course of political .events was given bv 'resident Wilson, then jof the Princeton nniversilv, in the , W, ......j,..,,, llt.vi,.w f(,r ,., her. IHU'.i, in an article on The Tariff Make-H.dieves." In that same art icle President Wilson in dicated the lines on which he be lieved a real tariff revision should be conducted. The article is of particular interest jusl al Ibis lime in connect inn with the new tariff bill introduced with Presi dent Wilson's approval. The Journal prints the essential parts of said article to show Ihat he entertained such ideas long be fore he became president of Ihe i'niied Slates: The wrong' settlement of a great public question is no set tlement at all. The Payne-Ald-rich tariff bill, therefore, which its authors would fain regard as a settlement of the tariff question, is no settlement al all. It is mis cellaneously wrong in detail and radically wrong: in principle. It disturbs more than il settles, and by its very failure lo settle forces 'he tariff question forward into a new ami nmre acule stage. II is so obviously impossible to settle the question satisfactorily in the way these gentlemen have allempled lo settle it; it is so evi dent Ihat men of Iheir mind and "f ''''' ki,,, a last lhal new men and new principles I !"f il'',i,m lllusl ,"' fo,,ml- T,!,'s, - ""1 1 ''" knmv lln' NVll i'.:id cannot fud j. Thev "revised" I he I ariff, indeed, bill by a niel hod which was a grand make-believe r to end. Thev mav I'd I hemselves oft lie inieiiigMicc ami integrity ot t lie I rs;,blish jilf an, js ll01. process-, ihev have convi mI;,,,;,! development under cover of 1 . : . . i i i . ... . i " ' IM ' 1 '"' ' oumry musi. liow go to Ihe bolloni of the mat-I ler and obtain vha! it wanls. The tuelhod bv which , arill ' bill- are cons 1 1 mi ed have now b.Mpiiie all too familiar and throw a siunilicanl light on Hie char acter of the legislation involved. Oebate in Ihe house has 'it tie or nothing to do with it. The process bv which such a. bill is : iade is private, not public; be cause Hie iv.isons which underlie many of Ihe rales imposed are private. What takes place in Ihe committees and in the conference is confident ial. It is considered impertinent for reporters to in quire. It is admitted to be the business of the manufacturers concerned, but not the business of the public, who are to pay the rates. The debates which the country is invited to hear in the open sessions of the house are merely formal. They determine nothing and disclose very little.- Favors are obtained in two ways by "inlluence," and by sup plication of a kind for which there is no classical or strictly parlia mentary designation. In the vulgar it is called "the baby act." What "inlluence" consists of is a very occult matter, into which the public is not often privileged to inquire. It is compounded of various things, in varving propor tions: of argument based upon the fads of industry and commercial interest, of promise of political support, of campaign contribu tions, not explicitly given upon condition, but oflen spoken of by way of reminder, of personal "pressure" through the channels of ol, friendships and new alli ances of things too intimate to mention though nol. I believe, even in Ihe minds of the most cynical and suspicious, of direct bribes. There is seldom any ques tion of personal rorruplion. It is wholly a question of parly cor ruption, so far as it is a question of corrupt ion at all. The ''baby act" consists in re sorting the ways and means com mittee of the house and the linance committee of the senate wilh piliful tales, hard-luck slories, petitions for another chance, as the hosiery makers did it the special sessions. It is an act unpalatable to American pride, and yet very frequently in dulged in with no appearance of shame. "Foreigners make heller goods" is the burden of its cry, "pay smaller wages and can add the ocean freights to their price and still beat us in our own mar kets." oflen seems to mean lhal the foreigner has superior skill, uses better machinery, ndapls his pallerns more quickly to changing lasles, is more prac- He -n mics of all sorts ai"l content wilh smaller pmlits. And so a handful of American gentlemen go to con gress ami beg to be helped to make it living and support their operal ives. If any particular industry has i in en given Hs opportunity to h, ni.-toms, and is still unable to meet the foreign f lnefilimi I which is the standard of its ef- lieiencv. it is unjust to lax the I pie ni i ne country any inriner lo uppnrt it. Wherever the ad vantage accorded by a tariff have resulted in giving those who con trol the greater part of the out put of a particular industry the chance, after their individual suc cess has been achieved, to com bine and "corner" Hie advantage, those advantages ought to be withdrawn; and the presumption is Ihat every industry thus con trolled has had the support of the government as long as it should have it. Only those undertakings should be given the protection of high duties on imports which are manifestly suited to the country and as yet undeveloped or only imperfectly developed. From all Ihe rest protection should be withdrawn, the object of the gov ernment being, nol to support its citizens in business, hut to pro mote the full energy and develop ment of the country. Kxisling protection should not be "suddenly withdrawn, hut steadily, and upon a llxed pro gram upon which every man of business ran base his definite forecasts and systematic plans. For the rest, the object of custom taxation should be revenue for the government. The federal gov ernment should depend for its revenue chietly on taxes of this kind, because the greater part of. the Held of direct taxation must be left lo the states. It must, raise abundant, revenue, therefore, from custom duties. l!Ut it should chouse for taxation Ike Ihinus which are nnl of primary necessity to the people in their lives or Iheir industry, things, for :the niosl part, which I hey can do ! without suffering or aclual priva ' t ion. ! If taxes levied upon these do not sullice, the things added should be those which it would i cause them the least incon venience or suffering to dispense with. Customs thus laid and with such objects will be found lo yield more, and the people will be freer. There is no real difficulty about finding how and where to lay such laves when once a just principle has been agreed upon, if slates men have Ihe desire lo find it. The only I rouble is to ascertain the facts in a very complex economic system. Honest inquiry will soon find them out, and honest men will readily enough act upon them, if they be not only honest, but also cour ageous, (me lovers of justice and of their counlrv. -:o:- Tliere are -Mi per cent more immigrants arriving at New York I ban a vear ago. At the end of lasl week. Kllis island had handl ed since January 1 about 15.000 mote immigrants than in the same period of ltM2. Many of the newcomers are Italians re leased from military duly who have been here before. It is said that these men are beginning to use second-class accommodations instead of steerage and their previous experience in America enables them to study the labor market with discrimination. "Though the Pennsylvania and southern labor fields are clamor ing for workmen and offering !-:igh wage inducements, it is dif ficult al any price to divert these returning immigrants from their settled destinations." The rising immigration figures this spring certainly do not forecast any busi ness depression in this country during the present year. Peace and harmony has pre vailed to such a great extent among the business men of Plattsmouth in the past few years, and prosperity has loomed up so wonderfully in consequence, that it would be an outrage upon the community to have anything oc cur that, would mar Ihe pleasure of such a state of affafrs. Men who have interests at stake in the future of the city should not countenance any movement that is destined to create turmoil and discord in the genuine good feel ing that now exists among the peoi.de of Plattsmouth. By Gross