The Plattsmouth Journal
Published Semi-Weekly
Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter
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J. THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
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Next in importance lo J
I freedom and justice is pop
J ular education, without !
which ncillicr freedom nor
justice ran he permanently J
J maintained James A. (Jar- j
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M-W"HHI"H-WI"I-H
Little cool Sunday night, but
no frost.
:o:
Teddy i.s vindicated by a fi-cent
verdict. It was not I he money be
was after.
:o :
Attending to one's own busi
ness has just paid a big dividend
in Plattsmouth.
:o:
The world is growing better
because only a few small boys
carry nigger shooters.
:o:
After the tarilT bill has passed
I he senate President Wilson can
give more lime to applicants for
office.
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Tb" initiative and referendum
is to have a real Iryout at the
election in l'.Mi. The voters are
willing.
:o:
The beautiful dandelion is still
blooming on many lawns in this
city. Some people like 'em and
some don't.
Colorado has to do most of her
bragging on the cliinale in sum
mer and can never hope lo catch
.up with California.
i :o:
Our notion of a successful
teacher is one who can make his
tory and geography as interest
ing as Nick Carter.
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The Hies are becoming quite
numerous, and if they bother you
lo a great extent il will be lie
cause you have not used your
swatter properly.
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A clerk in Chicago who issued
one million marriage licenses is
dead. Now it's a ipieslinn with
I he iM'ssniist where a man who
bus caused so much trouble
wi
go?
The Slale Anli-Saloon League
is preparing lo inaugurate a hot
campaign. This is only an at
tempt to do somel hing w hich
they can neer accomplish. There
is one thing ci'lain the slate
management can manage to
spend all the money thai comes
iulo their hands whether they do
any good for "the cause" or not.
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
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at Plattsmouth, Neb.:
Well, "i il I t enough for
n ?" is now in order.
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Tlif next day we celebrate
(he Fourth of July. (let busy,
boys.
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The si raw hat need not be a
bit bashful in coming to the front
now.
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Old Sol can, do the business
when lie gets bis hand in. And
we guess he has.
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The republican bosses are lay
ing a great many plans but none
of them will ever hatch.
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Canada doesn't care, apparently,
if it drives the prize ring game
clean out of the country.
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All those million-dollar rains
means that Nebraska is a richer
slale than usual this year.
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This sort of weather brings the
swimming season and the treach
erous old Missouri to the fore.
:o:
Jack Johnson's principal diver
sion in Chicago seems lo be get
ting in and gelling out of jail.
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Now is I he lime to begin keep
ing the weeds down before they
gel, as lull as some trees. Then
you'll lone lo use the axe.
Colonel Iloosevelt does not
deny that he keeps a moderate
supply of liquor in his cellar. But
is is for callers, of course.
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Of course I here are pessimists,
but il must be conceded that Ne
braska never looked more pros
perous on the, first day of June.
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The prosperity of a town tie
pends chielly upon the confidence
the people have in it. No town
can prosper whose citizens art
untrue to it.
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Vice President Marshall has
shocked social Washington by
declaring thai he intends to live
wilhin his income. lie shows
gooil common sense in this de
cision. :o:
We'll bet the fellow, who filled
pulpits in Omaha Sunday will not
be called on lo do so again, at
least in the -ame church. The
idea ol an editor Irving to "fill a,
pulpit!" It is awful to conteni-j "pouiiding away" for more hilch
plale. Doing that away from j rack. in that rit. The scarcity
home w h ich his own peopb- would of h itch-rack.- don't do a city any
not think of calling 011 him I" do
at home. Hut some newspaper
men are in Ihe habil of doing a
number of things away from
home that they would not be
caugit doing in their own town.
i Well, if the Hies eat you up,'
d 'u'l blame u-. For we give you
! plenty of imti'V in time '"to swat
' them!"
A safe and sane Fourth in
; locomot ion and combustion will
I help make it satisfactory in other
! re.-pects.
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Congressman I.obeck of Oma
ha has been selected as the mem-
ter of the democratic congres
sional committee from Nebraska.
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The man who makes a practice
of knocking don't amount to very
much in any community. In
fad, good people have no respect
for a knocker.
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In the treaty just signed in
southeastern F.urope sea power
spoke the decisive word, and it
will settle the eventual fate of
Constantinople.
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It will soon be Governor Rich
ard L. Mitchell if all signs don't
fail, at a salary of $11,000 per
year and perquisites, in the
Panama canal zone. Accept con
gratulations, Met.
Look out for locusts. They are
coming 111 large quantities in
some sections. One man who
owns an orchard near Nebraska
City says the apple trees are fill
ed with the pests.
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President Wilson has signified
his intention of giving the
patronage tree a good shaking
soon. No doubt many are in
waiting to get their share of the
fruit.
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President Wilson has indicated
thai one caunol throw a brick in
Was bin '-'Ion without hit ling a
lobbvist. No wonder confetti
would lie more popular. But a
change of diet wouldn't hurl.
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In ten years the value of Il -
linois farm lands has increased!
71 per cent. Nebraska has kept
up with the procession for the
excellent reason that its merits
for agriculture are unsurpassed.
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Americans in Paris placed a
wreath on the tomb of Lafayette
on Memorial day. It is enough
of encomium to say that he was
among those who stood highest
in ihe esteem of George Wash
ington. Japan has announced its ac
ceptance in principle of Secretary
Hryan's proposed plan of uni
versal peace. If Mr. Bryan has
his way about it there will never
be a war between Japan and the
t'lliled States,
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l lie rremmii. 1 riiuine Keeps
The Fremont Tribunt
good. It is virtually a notice lo
tin farmeis who do in it possess
an automobile that you don't
care for Iheir trade. Huibl more
hitch-racks there can't possibly
be too many.
Who will give us some in
formation on the peach crop-:
Don't all speak at once, please.
Pre.-ident Wilson is not rush
ing the postmaster appointments.
Like everything else he does, he
wants to be sure that the right
kind of people are appointed to
Ihese responsible positions.
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The direct election of United
Slates senators is now, by procla
mation, the law of the land. To
accomplish il required eighty
seven years of trying. Hut this
mode of electing senators is here
to slay. "Let the people rule!"
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There is a proposition on foot
to hold a mass meeting at Lincoln
of all who are opposed to the
raise of telephone rates in Ne
braska. The people will then
show the railway commission that
they have some rights which this
body is bound to respect.
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All the world is agreed that
President Wilson is a man of
power and one of the best inten
tions. He has already shown
himself capable of handling in
tricate problems of stale without
asking Wall street or the protec
tion leeches for their consent.
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The term "grass widow" has
no standing in court at least not
in Judge Norton's court at St.
Louis, the judge having ruled
that a divorced woman is not a
widow of any kind. Thou what
are we going to call her? Let the
High school graduates please
solve the problem.
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fine pastures were never more
luxuriant than those with which
Nebraska is blessed at this lime.
This is a land How ing wilh milk
and bulter, and by that token the
price of the best creamer) -made
ought to conic down to where the
average man can afford to eat il
al least twice a week.
Postmaster General Burleson
finds out after a I borough in
j vestigation, Ihaf the postal serv
ice of the country was not self
supporting by a long shot, not
withstanding ex-Post master Gcn
eral Hitchcock had always given
out the impression that il was
more than self-supporting.
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Congressman Maguire will re
tain his place on the committee
on agriculture. There being such
a large majority of democrats in
Ihe house I hat democrats obtain
ing a place tm a majority com
mittee, can have no other assign
ment. This, therefore, will be
Mr. Maguire's only committee.
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Plat I smniil b and ieinity
should possess some lie wires
on road improvements, like they
hae in and around Nehawka.
They are not afraid lo expend a
few dollars down 'in that noigh-
j borhood lo keep the roads in good
condition. There is no use talk
ing, "money makes the mare go"
in road making, as well as every
thing else.
The hunt for lobbyists around
the capital at Washington has
been commenced, and it is
earnestly hoped that every one
will be taken by the seat of their
pants ami boosted out of the
windows of the senate. President
Wilson has started the ball to
rolling and he will never let up
until every one of these hireling
get what's coming to them.
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What is the use of crying hard
times when there is nothing of
the kind in sight? Some say
there is a scarcity of money, but
that is not the case anywhere in
the west. People don't generally
buy automobiles when there is a
scarcity of the wherewith to buy
such articles. There has been
more cars sold so far this season
than there were up to Ibis time
last season, and farmers mostly
have done the buying. That does
not look like hard times, does it?
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A panic would be just the thing
for those eastern fellows who fail
to have matters come their way
of thinking. But they are afraid
to start anything of that kind
'f he wrong man is at the bead of
the government for them to start
anything funny. They haven't
got J. Pierpont Morgan to aid
them and they don't care to run
any risk of gelling themselves in
the penitentiary. That's right
where they will laud if they go
to cutting up any monkey-shines
around President Wilson.
The National Association of
Manufacturers, at Detroit, passed
a resolution condemning or
ganized labor for having failed
"lo clear itself of Ihe stains of
violence and lawlessness." ft
made m reference to Lawrence
burg, however. Any repetition of
Ihe latter case will pretty nearly
make il six of one and half a
dozen of Ihe other. In Ihe mean
time tlii- federal government will
have to bt relied upon to gH hot
upon thr trail of dynamic ex
ploders nmd planters, regardless
of whether I hey are enlisted! with
the one or Ihe other side.
'lo the child the home is the
birthright ami everything that
can be done through love, educa
tion, care, discipline and trust to
make ami keep that birthright
pure ami intact for the child
should be cheerfully performed.
Home also is the place where the
wile and mother should h su
preme. It is there, above all
other places, her gifts, ambitious
and strength should find loving
expression. The home is her
kingdom and' throne. For the
husband and father home is the
haven of rest and contentment to
which he turns when the labors
of the day are done. When be
enters the door he should leave
outside uncertainties, perplexities
and business cares thai in the
home atmosphere he may recruit
his strength, get comfort and so
II ml his courage revived that he
may take up tomorrow's duties
with new heart and resolve.
J.tnie-, Cannon, in tin Saturday
Fveniiig Post, says that the cost
of high living i.- owing io the lad
that the fanners are more en
gaged in buying laud for specu
lative purpo-es than in raising
crops, lie says: "New England
has i. 0011,00(1 acres less of im
proved farm laud today than she
had in 18G0; the middle Atlantic
states i. 000, 000-acres land less
of improved farm land than in
1880, and the south Atlantic
stales 3,000,000 acres less of all
farm lands than in 1800. This
means that the farmers of the
country are in the west and that
there has been an increase of
500,000,000 of acres of farms in
I hat new empire. It means that
two-thirds of all the crop values
are in the west; that 80 per cent
of all the cereals is raised in the
west; that 77 per cent of all the
cattle, 80 per cent of the horses,
7 7 per cent of the hogs, 8G per
cent of the sheep, 06 per cent of
the dairy products, and 72 per
cent of the eggs are produced in
the west. This may explain to
some people in the east why food
products are higher now to them
than a few years ago. They have
to buy from the west, and the
west is not only feeding them but
an increased industrial popula
tion at home, as well as selling
abroad when prices are sulllcient
to invite export. In addition to
these factors the west has 50 per
cent of all the mineral products
of the country. It has practically
all of the gold and silver, 80 per
cent of the petroleum and natural
gas, and id per cent of all the
manufactured products. The
west has the raw material and is
fast deveolping its manufacturing
industries, so as lo turn out its
own products ready for the con
sumer." :o:
We can see no reason why an
applicant for oflice under the
present administration should
"fly off the handle" because he
has failed in getting what he
wanted. Democrats can't all be
favored in the passing around of
soft jobs. Of course there are
some applicants more worthy
than others, but this does not
mailer sometimes where the other
fellow has "the pull" on his side.
But the democrat who is a demo
crat from principle, no matter
how badly he may be disappoint
ed, is not going to "cut off his
nose to spite his face" by cursing
bis party and threatening to leave
it. There are a good many men
who deserve to be recognized by
the friends whom be supported
for positions, but there, are so
many such friends to choose from
I hat it will be a bard matter for
the powers higher up who have
Ihe say.so to .judge who should
be favored, ff I here were enough
o'lices to supply every applicant
mailers could be easily adjudicat
ed all round. Bui there are al
ways three to one more applicants
I ban there are posit ions to fill.
Lost.
Between Plait sniouth and Jake
llild's, on Louisville road, -one
32x3 a -inch auto lire. Finder
please return to G. P. Eastwood.
By Gross