The Plattsmoiith Journal
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Entered at the I'ostoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter
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Heading is indeed Id Hit'
mind as food is to the bdy
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fiber is made. II is surpi is-
inn to mil'' II"' diurcnce in
the quality of mental
thought which even one-
half hour's good reading
day will make. Lillian
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The International Harvester
I rust has decided to move its
twine factory from Auburn, N. Y.,
In Germany The World-Herald
printed a very appropriate oar
loon concerning the removal,
labeling il, "Patriotism of Pro
tected Interests."
Vice President. Marshall has a
proposition that is worrying us
some. It is thai. those having
over a hundred thousand dollars
will have In forfeit all above that
sum to the slate. Mill, what is lie
going to do with us editors when
we turn in "thirty?" Will the
difference he paid to us? This is
one feature of his plan we would
like explained before lie receives
our endorsement.
The Plallsmoulh Commercial
club lias done the proper caper in
deciding to have a Fourth of July
celebration this year. This is a
guarantee thai Hie people of Cass
county and .surrounding counties
will be furnished plenty of amuse
ment, on the great natal day, and
that it will be of the proper char
acter. So everybody should re
member that Plallsmoulh will
celebrate this year.
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W. J. Hryan and Champ Clark
me I wo of the biggest and brani
est men in the United Slates, and
Oie democrats nil over the country
"will rejoice that they have settled
Iheir troubles engendered at the
ltallimorc convention, and are
now good friends. Tin) situation
as it existed since the national
convention has been very embar
rassing to both Secretary lSryau
ami Speaker Clark.
The Lincoln business men have
become indignant at the maimer
in which an itinerant evangelist
is deriding Hie capital city. A
preacher has no mure right than
anyone else lo heap abuse upon a
town or city or prefer charges
that bo is unable to substantiate.
And now the business men of that
city have called upon the llev.
Scoville to prove what he has
said or be branded as a base
falsifier.
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
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at Plattsmoiith, Neb.:
Winning out in Hit- field of in
telligence and economy will create
more "big business" than the or
ganization of trusts and shutting
out competition. The latter is
.j 1 1 1 what the liinh protective
tariff does.
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All Hie honest people in the
worM are not dead by any means.
Mi s. George Robinson of Brooklyn
lost a necklace worth IO,Ooo.
They hired an automobile to go
from Krooklyn to Manhattan to
attend a theater. After the per
formance the lady missed the
necklace. Her husband called up
the automobile company and ask
ed to have the automobile search
ed, but il was not in the oar.
They offered a reward of $250 for
its return. That evening a rough
ly dressed man came to the house
and banded the necklace over to a
daughter and walked away without
even asking for the reward. Who
he was and how he came by the
necklace is a mystery.
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When b' people of a city "all
pull together" for the betterment
(if business conditions and the
building up of new homes, im
pelling the streets and erecting
new store rooms, etc., they wear
a smile on their faces until some
disorganize!' throws a bomb of
discontent among them and gets
them all worked up over some
radical procedure of his own. No
man has Die right to institute
such a slate of affairs, even
I hough he be an old established
citizen and property owner, much
less a man who is here only tem
porarily and does not own a foot
of real estate in Hie town. Such
disturbers of the serenity of a
community should not be coun
tenanced by our business man or
citizen who has the true welfare
of Plaltsinoutli at heart.
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The young Horace Greeley of
the Weeping Water Republican is
still whining, bul what about we
cannot tell, and doubt very inuch,,)f (ht. illvjalioii may have no
if he is able lo do so. Cray hair
is honorable. It generally comes
with old age, as il has with us.
Leakage of the brain sometimes
causes youth to become gray
headed. Hut we trust the young
man of the Republican will not
become Hills alfected. We Would
advise his friends o keep a care
ful watch over him until he be
comes more pacified over his
great disappointment, and maybe
he will fully recover. It would
he awful for one possessed of
such anility to die young, nrace
tip, young man. and cease looking
al the .lark side. II is naughty lo
become personal, and whenever
you Ihiuk of doing so remember.
" "l'is dogs' delight to bark and
bite, for 'tis their nature to."
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If -mall business must go into
open competition with the world
and staii. 1 or fall upon i( own
merits, why not the big interests?
Who will say that President Wil
son is not riahl upon the tarifT?
At a time when more is being
conceded to women and young
people than ever before, divorce
among the married and suicide
among the young increases.
Therein lies a problem for
psychologists and sociologists.
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lown with the special classes
that are pampered and fed at the
expense of I he-working masses. A
democratic tariff will put these
classes on an equal footing with
other people if allowed to operate
for awhile.
Mrs.- Charles Smith of lanby,
N. Y., has just given birth to five
children, all of whom are alive
and doing well. Mrs. Smith is
too late. Mr. Roosevelt is not
president now.
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It is said that President Wil
son's ambition is to get next to
the people. He has suceeded ad-
Imirably already in getting next to
members of congress the peo
ple's representative.
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The supreme court of Hi:; Unit
ed Slates has decided that the
Nebraska law which limits the
time of shipment of live slock in
carload lots is valid, and conlirms
the decision of the state .supreme
court. The shippers of Hie stale
have won a decided victory in
this decision.
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"Winter wheal best ever" is the
report from the Agricultural De
partment al Washington. That's
what comes from having a
democrat al the head of that de
partment, lie simply ordered a
good crop and il is on hand. Of
course there isn't much sense in!
such -.an argument, but we saw so
many similar arguments hereto
fore under prosperity heads that
we have contracted the habir.
President Wilson extended an
invitation to Senator La Folletle
to visit him at the While house,
and he accepted the invitation.
This was Senator La Follelte's
first visit lo Hie White house af
ter years of aloofness from the
executive home. The acceptation
special significance, yet lo all who
look forward to parly re-alignments
by genuinely democratic
tests it is very comforting.
More than 150,000,000 parcel
post packages were mailed during
the first three months the system
was in operation, according lo
computations announced last Sat
urday by postal experts ami based
upon reports from the fifty larg
est poslolllees. Approximately 55
er cent more business was handl
ed in March than in January.
Chicago leads all other cities, ,
805, 714 parcels being bandied in
I wo months. New Y'ork handled
5,i73,075 . and Hoslon 1,057, 030
packages.
With 350,000 men on a strike
Itelgium appears to be ripe for
the initiative and referendum.
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Now Ilia I the Chinese have their
liberty, it is presumed that they
can give more time to relaxation
and amusement, and that the na
tional queue, which has been in
disfavor for several years, will be
entirely superseded by the billiard
ball.
President Wilson is willing that
California enact laws such as the
majority of its legislature believes
necessary to relieve its citizens,
bul he is unalterably opposed to
any attempt to in inflict a race is
sure in this matter. We'll bank
on the president's judgment.
Who will argue that it makes
any difference as to the day when
an American citizen expresses bis
preference at the ballot box, so
long as he is not denied that
privilege? Hampton (Mass.? al- j Wet-nurse, and drive many of
though a little late, has bad herj,h,.K,. skulking piratical, price-
election, and democrats are very
well satisfied with the returns.
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Plattsmoiith is right in the
swim for amusements this sea
son. Now, listen: Yankee Rob
inson's big three-ring circus Mon
day, May 5; Decoration day May
.'!0; big Fourth of July celebra
tion: big tournament of the T. J.
Sokol turners, and then the great
fall festival and slock show, be-
sides base ball tournament and ,
several id her minor gal herings.
This is plenty, however, for one
season.
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Make garden, clean up, trim up,
look up and smile. For we are en-
joying A No. t brand of April
weather thai .-nils us all. Farm-
ers are sow ing or.ls. and they are
plugging them so fad probably !
half of Ihein are upside down, bur1
they h:ie planted Ihem pretty '
thick in a hill, and of course they ! -,.,, ,.w ili,-ial Catholic di
expecl enough of them to come shows that only Italy,
up lo make (o to HO bushels tojAlstli., ai)( ;,.,.mariy exceed the
the acre, as must of the time they , p states in the number of
do in Cass cou u I v. The i round j ...iherenls to the Roman church.
is ready and much of il Im been
plowed for corn, and if farmers
and I he hired men gel any rest for
awhile they will have to ge! il oiijj,, ,(alv jt!(t,f m.,.(. .. ony 30,.
Sundays, and some of them may j .-,00.0011. Spain has I '.1,503,000 and
have to put i'i a Sunday or two in
order to gel their corn in as early
as possible.
F.v en the newspaper reporters
need regulating in Illinois. Lieu-
tenant Governor G llara of that
.
stale suggests that they be
licensed, and that no reporters be
permitted to be employed unless
lev have first served an ap-
prenticeship of several years, and
then shall have passed an exam-
inalion as to their ability, veracity
and qualifications by a state
board. The age is really becom-
ing so that one might as well
count that day lost whose low, j ana sixth, w ith - 58 4,000, and
descending sun, finds not some Michigan seventh, with 508,505.
freak "reform' by other freaks! When the official Catholic direct
ouldone. What we need next is a ory appears it will be the first to
stale board for the regulating, name Pius X, the present pope,
licensing ami taxing of clerks, as the two hundred and fifty-ninth
stenographers, domestics and 'in line of succession from St.
washerwomen. Peter. Formerly it has been
J. C. Klliott, editor of the West
Point (Neb.J Republican, and
-landpat republican candidal" for
congress in the Third district last
fall, has evidently changed his
mind on the tariff question since
that lime, if one is to judge from
the following from a recent issue
of his paper, and lias become
greatly in love with President
Wilson's policy ju dealing with
thai question, imw befote con
gress: "The Republican does not
yield one bit of its admiration for
a protective tariff in saying that
President Wilson is about right
in this tariff matter. This tariff
wall was built up to favor and en
courage American manufacturers.
The trouble is they have gone into
cahoots and are playing hob be
hind the wall, controlling almost
everything and everybody, and,
worse than that, they have abso
lutely destroyed competition. It's
about time to remove this tariff
breecbclout and run, discharge the
fixing, bloated monopolists out in
the open and make Ihem face free
and unrestricted competition. The
president adds: 'It would be un
wise to move toward this end
headlong, or wilh strokes that cut
al the very roofs.' True enough,
but the people have been com
placent for many, many years,
content to have these big institu-
lions built up. hoping that in time
Kiev in return would be shown
due consideration. Did anybody
ever gel il? Well, hardly! The
, pi,, voted in the last election
iio apply the knife; now let it go
deepl If it he necessary lo kick
over the entire larill" wall to get a
square deal, lei it be done, and
may the tail go wilh the hide,
That would hurt and be awkward
for a while, hut it would smoke
Hiem out and a readjustment
would then follow."
i'lhe number of Roman Catholics
under the protection of the Stars
and Stripes is 23,329,000, while
: H,.jtjs, empire 12,908,000.
! -l h(l immn(T of Roman Catholics
;j Austria and that in Germany
j slightly exceed that in the United
1 Stales. A steady Increase in the
number of Roman Catholics in the
. . .
1 Philippines and Porto Rico is held
to be largely responsible for the
gains made in the United States,
j although the increase in the con-
t mental stales and territories is
inormal. New York leads the f tates,
j with 2,700,629. Pennsylvania is
second wilh 1,033,353; Illinois
j liird, with 1,400,987; Mas-
sachuselts fourth, with 1,383, 435
I Ohio fifth, with 7 43,005; Louisi
reckoned that Pius X is the two
hundred and sixty-fourth, but
within the last year it ha. been
decided that some of the earlier
occupants of Hie vatieaa were
counted twice, and five members
were eliminated. Th growth of
the Cat Indie church is m distinct,
contrast lo Hie gains in other re
ligious denominations and stands
out still more strongly against the
losses ju many Protestant
churches. II was this marvelous
j-in. undoubtedly, which prompt
id the present pontiff to create
Jim) additional cardinals in the
I nited States.
When the devil finished shear
ing the hog, he is said to have re
marked that there had been a lot
of squeak for so little wool.
There is a lot of noise in the world
that does not men much. The
publicans of old were wont
to stand upon the street corner
and utter loud prayers and thank
the Lord that they were not as
other men. They prayed so men
could hear. They wanted their
neighbors to think well of them.
Hut wo are told that they were
hypocrites and sinners, and were
praying only to fool the people.
Their prayers came from the lips
aid from a wicked heart. They
sounded pood, but they were with
out wings or faith and lighteous
ness that carry prayers to heaven.
They may have fooled the simple
minded people from whom they
collected tribute, but not a single
breath did they ever fool the
Lord. They were judged and
measured by their works, and not
by the words they uttered. Men
still try to work Ibis same con-,
fidenee game upon the people.
These ancient publicans have
their counterparts today. We
have men who pray long and loud
and who make professions of
faith and holiness, only for the
purpose of concealing their hoofs
and horns. They are of the same
brand of hypocrites and sinners
that prayed upon the street corn
ers and that desecrated the
temples of Jerusalem in olden
times. These modern publicans
are up to the same I ricks and
games that brought their old
time predecessors into disgrace
and disrepute, and the long reach
of time between these two gen
erations has made no change in
the methods nor in the men. The'
publicans of today think also that
they can fool the Lord. But they
can't.
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Senator Norris is still after the
coffee trust. He started in for
this trust's . scalp in the lower
house of congress, and proposes
to run if to earth. Let him keep
it up.
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Judge Eslelle received a judg
ment against the Omaha Daily
; j News, and some preacher who
- , libeled him during the campaign
last fall, for 125,000. This is
quite a sum to have to pay for de
famation, and should be a warn
ing to the News to go slow on
such busines in the future.
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The legislature
journed for sure.-
has now ad-
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