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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1913)
The Plattsmouth Journal : Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Neb.: K. A. HATHH. Pnhllahcr Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter - $1 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE President Wilson will read hi currency measure to congress next Monday. Now listen' for the "holler" of tho.se who will say that this does not show the dig nity a president should possess. Hut W oodrow is not bashful, and loves to appear before congress and say what ho has to say in person. :o : There being no flection in Ne braka this fall, the olnce-scekers and politicians in. general will be out of a job and the voters will have, a breathing spell. The peo ple have become .so familiar with annual elections thai an election only every other year will be hard for the voters to get used to, and may prove belter to the people all around. :o : President Wilson says that congress must get Ihorugh with currency legislation, also, before il, adjourns. As soon as his pledges are fulfilled be will be content to lei the members de part in peace. The big majority of Hie members of I he senate and house have great confidence in the president's movements and Hoy will stay with him until the end. :o : The streets and store of Platls inoulh were lined with people Saturday afternoon, and the clerks w ere on I be jump away in to thy nighl wailing on custom ers. I'eople will come to Platls motith lo buy their supplies when Hie opportunity is afforded, and many of our larger merchants are reaching nut for trade by of fering the proper inducements, ii ;o: The Journal doesn't waul to be underaled as being opposed to anyone gelling all the pleasure thev possible can out of their gasoline buggies, but il fears if speeding on the business streets and avenues continues somebody will get killed or crippled some nf these Hue summer evenings. Of course, our undertakers must make a living, but let us not give them mnlilialed bodies lo handle in order to do so. A man from New Jersey has just been appointed to the posi tion of public printer. Will M. .Maupin of Lincoln was an ap plicant for Ibis position, and not withstanding Ihe position is a very responsible one, we believe Mr. Maupin is sufficiently com petent lo do Hie business. The business of publie printer is lo have charge of Ihe government printing plant at Washington, the largest printing establishment in the world, .with a force of LftOil employes. If l)r. Friedman's turtle soup could be used lo prevent motor ears from turning turtle it would save a lot of lives not threatened by tuberculosis. :o: And now Louisville has con cluded to celebrate on the Fourth of July. Louisville always has a good lime when she starts out to. And at this distance we can see she has started on the right foot to make the eagle scream lustily. :o: Senator (5allinger of New Hampshire also accuses President Wilson of lobbying for tariff re form. Well, nothing less could be expecled from a New Hamp shire senator of such rampant protection proclivities. Anyhow, President Wilson, in his efforts to keep faith with the voters of the United States, knows better than to appeal to such fellows as (allinger for support. ;o: II is often maintained that conditions are awful people are gelling (lodless, immortal, negli gent industrially, and all thai soil of thing! Hut it is not so. There is always room for im provement; and humanity must ever flghl for the supremacy for the best that is iu it. Hut the world is getting better instead of worse. It is a process of evolu tion, not sky-rocket reform. Hush (. Fellows, one of the editors of Ihe Helle Fourche (S. I).) Northwest Post, has been appointed and confirmed as post master at that place. Hush is a lucky fellow on a postolllce job, having served a term of four years as postmaster of Auburn, Neb., under Harrison's admin-' islration, being then a republican. Mr. Fellows Was formerly con nected with the press of Ibis city, where he has many friends who join the Journal in extending con gratulations lo Mr. Fellows. :o; Senator Hitchcock has opposed an amendment to i lie income tax provision of the Underwood tariff bill for the purpose of stilling in dustrial monopoly by taxation. The fundamental principle of the amendment is identical with that embodied in bis proposal lo force competition in the tobacco busi ness by limiting the production of the giant companies. It, differs, however, in that Ihe amendment affects all corporations or as sociations having capital in ex cess of Slllil, 000, 000. Those which control L'ti per cent of the production of an article shall pay 1 per cent on their income, and those controlling one. half or more must pay an income tax of 'J 5 per cent. It is ..pretty difficult for a Ne braskau, so far inland, to ap prove of a ship subsidy, said to be needed to restore our merchant marine. Hut the Nebraska un dertakers la -d week resolved, against the practice of burial at .-ea, which violates the rules of a costly funeral. :o: : The senate committee has re ported the nat ion-wide equal suf frage amendment favorably. And il may be adopted. A number of reactionary members who oppose woman suffrage will vide for it in Hie belief that the necessary thirty-six states will never ratify it, which, of course, will be true. : :o: Senator Nathan P. Hryan of Florida is a man of conviction and of nerve. A demand which was practically a threat, was made upon him by the Florida Citrus Exchange that he join the wool and sugar senators in their efforts to defeat t lie Underwood tariff bill. The senator refused to comply with the demand. In his reply to the exchange he states a palpable truth that "one of the vices of the system of pro tective, tariff has been that one industry will support another in return for protection for itself," and he declares that when a tariff is made up of trades there can be no justice or fair treatment to the whole country, under it. Senator Works has a bill be fore the senate which provides a new plan for national election.s and the assembling of congress. This bill, if passed, would change election day from November to August and provides for annual sessions ot congress ironi uie lirst Monday in October lo the first Monday in June. Members of congress would assemble in October immediately after elec tion, and the president and vice president would take their offices in November. This would cer- Kansas want.-. L'O.tmO harvest hijiid-. reports come up from there. Kansas never wants any more or any less for that matter harvest hands in Juno. :o: Now some people are engaged in making all manners of ex- It is right for every boy to learn to u firearm-, but be should learn under the direction of some one competent to give him direc t ions. :o:- Tbe invitation extended by the war depart nient for student of ruses for Jasper L. MeBrien, of I colleges lo attend summer mili- I.ecture Uureau fame. Jasper came very near being elected superintendent of the Platts mouth city schools, and it proved just as well that he wasn't. He has been honored repeatedly by his party in Nebraska, and we cannot understand what, caused him to treat his friends in the maimer that he did. We always took Ti i it i for a Smart Alee, and we guess he has proved too smart tary school of the regular army lias been accepted by quite a number of them, some of the-in from the largest universities. This shows that the military spirit i not dead among our young men, and that it would be possible U get plenty of them to educate for officers if we had' a practicable system. :o: The world do move, and if The McHrien ryceuru bureau p:..ved a failure to the stockhold ers, but the business manager appropriately had the foresight to put him-elf on the safe side. IL was ever thus. -:or r m i . J i I. ... I ior some oi n.s menus on - Vhu want evidence of this- fact Lecture Bureau proposition, at i t . ,.m(mh(ir. Ihn, ffU. ,,ie fW least. -:o :- The new road law providing for a system of road dragging goe-s-info effect next month. Authority is vested in the county board to- time in the history of this- great American nation, the plain, com mon people now have the power to- efet their own United States senators. And Secretary of Slate W. J. Bryan, Who has for lo these many years advocated the in- use (heir judgment in the matter The law provides that the board I nnvatfon, had the satisfaction of may, at once after the taw takes effect, divide the graded public roads of each township into dragging districts and appoint a superintendent of dragging who shall be a resident of the town ship or of any city or village within Ihe same. His compensa tion shall not exceed the sum of $ 2. 50 a (lay and expenses for each day while actually engaged in the duties of his otlice. And it also provides that the board shall fur nish a suitable drag for each dis trict and pay for the same out of Ihe comity road fund, and that Ihe board may designate what roads are to be dragged. The law will lake effect in July and the good roads enthusiasts expect to take ndvaiilas-'e of il. The efforts of the trust mag nates and their aJLorneys to frustrate Wnodrow Wilson iu his plans to carry. niit tine, pro.v isions able comment is made in that di reel ion. :o: tainly be an improvement oi,,tlie present dates, and much .favor- ( ;,f n,.,,,,,,.,, ir L,atform as near lo the line as possible, are not worrying the president in the least. They are rapidly Uniting this out. Fnr years there has been but very little attention paid to platform pledges by republican presidents, yet they went over the country during the- campaign and called particular attention to their platform and what could be expected when they got in. When they got in the pledges wero thrown to the four-winds, and the same old routine of; the- past ad ministrations re-enacted. Not so with President Wilson. He holds platform pledges as sacred and binding to himself as well as to the people who supported him in the election, and he proposes to adhere lo these demands. He was elected president of the United Slates, and be proposes to lot all understand that lo is boss of the whole works in running the gov eminent iu the interests of the whole people and not for the benefit of the few. On it, Wood row. May you continue in Ihe goml work. Joseph Cooke, while minister at a fashionable Long Reach church, left his charge and his family and ran away with Floret la Whaley. lie took up a ranch and after six years she has 'pre sented him with two sons. Now Mrs. Cooke has been granted a di vorce al Hartford, Conn., and Cooke announces that he will straightway marry Miss Whaley and henceforth lead a godly and righteous life. He says: 'T do not, attempt to defend what I did. F.I locally it was wrong. II was not right according to the stand ards I had preached from the pulpil. I do not defend it." Hut he hopes now that the world will forget Ihe past and allow him to make what reparation he can lo Miss Whaley. lie uoesn t say iinvlhing about repairing the wrong he commit led on his own wife and family, from which we should conclude that the Rev erend Cooke is a sneak. signing the proclamation an nouncing the new step into' the world. :o: GOOD FOR NEBBRASKA II is a very good time right now for Nebraska to stick a feather in its hat and do a little strutting. II always has a plenty of which to boast, but just now a little more than usual. The present is an exceptional time because Nebraska's crop showing is of such a remarkable nature as compared with that of other states. The government agricultural department has just done us a mighty good turn and we hasten lo acknowledge it and to respect it. Il has given out Ihe league slnmfing of all Ihe states and Ne braska's batting average stands way at the top. with no nlose sec ond- : On June i the general cr.op conditions of the United States were one-half of one per cent be low those of a year ago, and one and two-tenths per cent lower than the average ' for the- dates during a period of recent years. And right here is where Ne braska stands out like Mars at perihelion this year. It holds the record with twelve and seven lenlhs per cent above Ihe aver age. That is something t;o look at and gloat over. Iowa scores the next highest, with five per cent under Ne braska. t With the high rating main tained throughout the year Ne braska will be a very bright spot on the map. We have had such abundant rains this spring that it. seems hardly probable that there will be any falling off in comlit ions. The editors of Nebraska, who have decided to issue simulram ous boom editions have chosen a mighty good year, in which to do il. Fremont Tribune. Mis. Anne Hurke of Chicago was in murt when her 13-year-old son was found guilty of steal ing a pockelbook from a. woman on the street. The judge asked her to pass sentence on the lad, which she did. "You must earn the money to pay for what you .-tide," .said the mother.. "You must promise to- be in bed every night! at f o'clock,, or I'll! ask the judge to send you away until your head grows gray,"' was her ruling. The court considered the decision good and1 approved the sentence. , :o: MELANCHOLY DAYSi Although summer i.s just be ginning, the "melancholy days" for the republican party have come.. In spite of their doleful predictions, on the fulfillment of which their hopes were based,, business of all sorts and kinds continues to prosper. The declaration that the prospect of a lower tariff would result in a curtailment, of- orders has proved not only u be incorrect,, but orders are constantly increasing, A trade review shows- that in cot ton goods in New England last week the trade- was surprisingly large and "exceeded 200,000 pieces, the largest total in a num ber of weeks, r and that "on brown sheeting and other coarse makes price- have become firmer and advances have been made up on some styles!' The review goes, on to state that on goods of fine yarn con struction the orders- have been good and many mills have orders on their books-that will keep them busy for many weeks to come. AH these goods are directly affected by the tariff.. To the economist all this is na- lural. Il seemed to them that in a country in which there are near ly 100,000,000 inhabitants who are geuera'Jy able to. buy goods-, and have the money to pay for them, that it would be impossible to slop the demand and. that, the lemand would keep the mills- go ing, no matter what kind; of a. tariff vva in force,, and, if. a, tariff.' was imyosed that would, destroy monopoly, introduce competition aad lower prices somewhat,, the result would be that more goods vvoiiJ.il be sold and the mills, would receive increased orders.. The present conditions seem to. nrove that the economists were correct. There has been no lowering of price. as yet in the wholesale markets, but there can be no doubt Unit, in some of the retail markets the coming tariff has had thai effect., and it is especially noticeable in the woolen clothing market. The diys continually grow more melancholy for the republicans. The great crops and growing weal her only bring increased sad- Miess to them. World-Herald. I 1 MR. 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