The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, June 23, 1913, Image 4

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    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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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