The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, May 07, 1914, Page PAGE 4, Image 4

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PLATT3K10UTH SEtt!-WEEKLY JOURTJAL.
Cbc plattsmoutb journal
Published 8emhW0ekly et Plettmouth. Nebr.
Entered at the I'ostofUce tt PUttsmouth. Nebraska, as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publither
Subscription Prloe; S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe
HYPOCRISY.
Hypocrisy, the feigning- what
one is not, especially in religion,
is the most despicable thin? in
the world. The hypemte is the
most hated man in society,
whether in religion or govern
in'iit. When religious and gov
ernmental hypocrisy are com
bined in one man, as in the case
of Rockefeller, the indignation of
mankind becomes almost uni
ersal. Professing to be a fol
lower of Christ and forming a
combination that is in direct op
position to everything that Christ
taught, he also professes adher
ence to principles in government
which all his life he has defied.
He say. that he believes in the
freedom of contract, and that
every man .-hou'd be free to work
for such wages and for such per
sons or corporations as he
pl-as-s. He knows that he has
formed a combination that makes
that impossible. The man must
work for him at the wages that
he, Rockefeller, fixes and the man
has nothing- to say in regard to
the amount that lie ?diall receive.
If a farmer hires a man, they talk
over the matter and come to an
agreement. Rockefeller never
holds a conversation with a
man about wages. The amount
is lixeil by him and the man has
nothing to say about the matter.
Rockefeller forms an or
ganization which controls an im
mense field of natural resources.
He fixes the rate of wages and the
price of the product. No one else
has anything to say about the
mntter. Kvery one knows that
forty per cent of stock, voted en
block, will control any great
corporation. Miuiy of them are
controlled with a far less amount.
When he asserts that he is only
a minority stockholder and tries
to escape responsibility in that
manner, it is pure hypocrisy.
These Colorado mines are only
a part of the great organipation
known as Standard Oil, beside
a part of the great organization
of the United Slates, if combined
in one, would be but a pigmy to
a giant. To talk about lighting
for a "principle" under such con
ditions is a height to which
hypocrisy seldom before reached.
World-Herald.
:o:
The republican of Lincoln
and Lancaster county must be
hard pressed for an organ when
they accept a six-column, four
page paper as such. Those who
edit this gem of a newspaper
must be ashamed of this bantl
ing, as no names appear as edit
ors. ' Such sheets are always for
the purpose of driving it into
some fellows in whom they do
not cherish the fondest love, and
they assume this plan of venting
their spite. Hut intelligent read
ers do not take to reading such
haberdash as therein printed with
any idea that they are perusing
the truth.
:o:-
Among; the lawyers at the Lan
easier county bar, Price's can
didacy for congress does not
hardly rise to the dignity of a
full Hedged joke. "Hill" is a good
scout in his way, but he should
noL over estimate himself nor
take himself too seriously. This
district has already been afflicted
with loo many lightweight in
dogress. Lincoln Herald.
J :o:
Why not call them the X. Y. V.
mediators, instead oT A. li. C.I
The only difference one begin at
the head and the other at the tail
end of the alphabet.
The new jail is looming; up
in great shape.
:o :
fireens and corn bread why
there's nothing belter.
:o:
The carnival next Monday, May
11, for the entire week.
:o:
Leave the dandelions alone
and they will kill themselves.
:o:
There are times when popular
government isn't so dad-blamed
popular.
:o:
The paper hangers and decor
ators are working- early and late
these days.
:o:
As the pastures come up we
may expect the price of milk to
come down.
:o:
It is the man who fails, who
contend that an honest man
stands no sJiow.
:o:-
Xext Sunday is Mothers' Day.
Don't forget your dear old moth
er, dead or alive.
:o:
And now comes Senator Heasfy
of I-'airbury and wants the repub
lican nomination for governor.
:o:
Ross Hammond seems to be a
"b-etle"' to much of a stand-palter
to get the bull moose support
for governor.
:o:
The weather for the past week
has been enough to provoke an
other series of backbone of win
ter pargraphs.
:o:
While the federal game law is
very broad in its scope, it does
not prohibit candidates hunting
voles before the primary.
:o :
Plallsmouth has no mechanics
out of work. They are all busy.
I'hat shows what the town is do
ing' in the building line.
:o :
Since Secretary Daniels issued
his celebrated order to the navy,
our monster battleships should
feel right at home when they go
into dry docks for repairs.
:o;
When the South American re
publics get through with their
job in Mexican troubles their
might proffer their pood offices to
settle the butcher business out-in
Colorado.
:o:
The person who fails to per
ceive mat there is a great in
crease in the business of Platls-
mouth over two and three years
ago, is certainly not a very close
observer. Hut it is so, neverthe
less, and besides Plattsmoulh
has greatly increased in popula
tion. A united action on the part
of the business interests is what
"talks so loud."
:o:
The Allman Brothers' carnival
company, which begins an en
gagement in Plattsmoulh next
Monday, is one of the largest ag
gregations of its character in the
United States. It far surpasses
anything; in the carnival line that
has ever appeared in this city.
The train which carries this great
company consists of L'O sixty
foot cars. Ther will be three
free entertainments, ami a whole
raft of ilher side-shows. The
big band of 20 pieces is alone
worth coming many miles to
hear. Don't fail to come and see
this big; show, and be sure and
bring the children. Remember
the date Monday, May 11, and
every day and night of the entire
week.
WHAT ARE YOU WORTH?
What would you be worth if
vou should lose all of your
worldly possessions? Did you
ever take an invoice of the avail
able assets that you possess,
apart from what the world calls
property? In other words, what
of value have you in the way of
character, of conscience, of
brain, of s'oul, that enemies could
not rob you of, and that misfor
tune could not take awav from
you in a proceeding m iiinK-
ruptcy? If you have no assets
such as these, then you ought to
have a receiver appointed for
your ruined life and for your
wasted opportunities. Not so very
long; ago a man of wealth met
with unexpected business re
verses and financial loss. une
bright morning he awoke to find
himself without a shilling that he
could call his own. The ac
cumulated savings of a lifetime
had disappeared over night, and
had not so much as said goodby
is they Hew away. The sun came
up in the morning shining as
jrightly as it had ever shone, but
o this unfortunate man the
leavens looked mighty glo'omy
and uninviting-. His one thought
and his sole ambition in life had
een to acquire riches and pile
up wealth so that he might be
nvied by all of his neighbors.
To a large extent his ambition
lad been abundantly gratified,
md from time to time he had
tin down his barn and built
greater, like the rich man in the
well-known parable. The sor-
ovv a!I disappointment of this
man was keener man one can
imagine, put me mmg mat nun
inn most was the financial dis
grace that would follow the loss
of his fortune, lie felt that he
could never again lift up his head
and look the world squarely in
fhe face. The fact came home to
him that he had accumulated
only such assets as financial
misfortune might rob - him of.
When he lost his property he had
lost all that might commend him
fo the world, anl all that com
manded the respect of his neigh
bors and his friend-. This man
had never given thought for a
moment to the questionable
methods that he had often em
ployed in acquiring1 wealth. He
had never lost a wink of sleep
over the hardships that he bad
inflicted upon others. The grind
ing of the poor had never grated
upon his ears, and the deception
and fraud that he had practiced,
and the hard bargains that he
had driven, were forgotten as
soon as over. He had given his
soul, if he ever had a soul, in ex
change for wealth. While he held
fhe price in his hands and could
hold it up to excite the envy of
his neighbors, he was satisfied
and apparently happy. The
blood and tears that stained
much of his money detracted
nothing fiVrn its value, but the
loss of this money appeared to
him as a disgrace that he could
never overcome. When he lost
his wealth he lost alb that he had.
He had long ago sold his soul, his
sense of right and justice, his
conscience and his character. He
realized that he was now so poor
and so worl bless that he was
mere waste and that the whole
world would join in throwing- him
into the scrap-heap. A man is
mighty poor who possesses noth
ing; but money.
:o:
We have been calling on the
farmers to drag; Ihe roads, and
several farmers have informed
the Journal that the roads south
from Mynard and west from that
place are in fine condition
through the efforts of the farm
ers along the line, right to the
city, and then they begin to. get
bad, and now they demand that
we "jack up" the city authorities
on the matter and have them do
their part of the work. It looks
very queer that after the farmers
have done their part the city re
mains negligent on their part.
Either the Mexican war should
be,, finished before Nebraska's
wheat harvest begins, or it
should be deferred until afler the
gathering; of the bumper crop is
out of the way.
:o:
The farmers want the people of
Plattsmoulh to do what they are
doing every day drag the
streets. And it's no more than
right mat the street commission
er pets busy on the outer edges
:o:
This is the prettiest time of
the year, when the hills and val
leys are covered with wild bowers.
Flower hunting; parties are
numerous and many beautiful
bouquets adorn the mantles of
many homes.
:o:
Everything- that the women are
wearing this spring- pertains lo
yellow, and this may be the
means of affording great protect
ion to the dandelions on the
lawn, as they will probably de
mand that the lawn harmonize
with their hose.
:o:
One of the stand-pat organs of
tin slate si ill contends that the
republican national committee
did not take the presidential
nomination from Roosevelt. W
have thought all along- that was a
fact. Hut the moosers are still
fighting it out on that line.
' :o:
The race for senator in Oloe
county promises to be a very
lively one. John Mattes, the
democratic candidate, is a run
ner front away back, and his ex
perience as a campaigner is very
great. There is no reason why
ie should not beat Hartling, as
he is no shrewder politician than
his father was twenty-five years
ago, when John defeated him.
John' Mattes will make an able
member of the senate.
:o:
Daniel E. Sickles, the grim old
warrior, ends a stormy life at the
ape of HU yearg. We can remem
ber very dislincllv when a boy of
17 years when he killed Philip
Dai Ion Key, district attorney for
the District of Columbia, for the
betrayal of his wife. This in
cident created a great slir
throughout tin; country. He was
one of the greatest generals in
the army, and bst a leg at (!et
Ijsburg and became a national
hero.
:o:
The little cotrie of Nebraska
newspaper men who met as the
"Democratic Newspaper Men of
Nebraska." a few days ago, have
ot themselves into a rumpus
over the resolutions passed in
secret session. It turns out now
that there really was only twenty-five
newspaper men present,
including those in Lincoln. So
this meetinp should be consider
ed as not in the least a true rep
resentation of the democratic
newspapers of Nebraska, so it
does not make any particular dif
ference who they endorsed or who
I hey didn't indorse. They are not
Ihe "whole cheese" by a long
shot.
:o:
The democrats of Nebraska, as
they stand now, are about on an
equal footing- with the repub
licans so far as organization is
concerned. Hut by the "simple
twist of the wrist" of those fel
lows at Washington, in giving
the democracy of Nebraska what
is coming- to it, a different phase
could be put on the situation.
The democrats of other stales are
not placed in the same situation
as they are in Nebraska. A -very
few fellows control the dishing
out of the federal patronage that
belongs to Nebraska the masses
of the party are not taken into
consideration at all, but they are
expected to furnish the votes at
the next election. "Logger
heads" are poor politicians, and
never won anything- at politics or
anything else, but they can do a
whole lot of injury when once let
loose.
THE MEAT SUPPLY.
Does anybody know anythin
about the meat question? Many
of our eastern farmers are con
sidering; some lines of meat pro
duction and they are making in
uuiries into the prospects. Per
haps the question most frequent,
ly asked is whether the rest o
the world will ship enough meat
to this country lo reduce the
price materially. Probably not
very soon, because the world as a
whole is short of meat. Ulti
mately the world will produce
more meats, as it always pro
duces more of anything- after a
time of high prices. Our mar
ket will get. large quantities of
foreign beef in the future when
ever it is higher than the Hritish
market and only then. Nobody
should go into meat production
with the expectation that prices
will be high all the time. lie
should take up Ihe business with
the intention of mastering- it and
sticking to it, confident that h
will witness no disastrous low-
levels as in the pa-it, but pre
pared for an occasional year of
disappointment. Another ques
tion frequently asked is whether
meat production will be material
ly increased in Ibis country during-
the next few years. Certain
ly it will. The rcecjpls of veals
shows that calves are being kept
to raise. The demand for pure
bred cattle was never broader or
belter. The cattle country is be
ing enlarged by cleaning tip tiek
territory in the south, by restor
ing cattle lo eastern farms ami
by restocking- the western lauds
that were formerly free range.
The persistent fight against hog
cholera is hound to have its ef
fect. Sheep men find thai they
are not completely bunted afler
all and the decline of our flocks
has been checked. Everv thing
points to greater no-at produe-
tion as is natural alter a permu
of pood prices. Whether the
oilier and equally important fac
tor, the consumption, will keep
pace with it we do not know-.
Probably not equal pace at any
rate.
:o:
Ross Hammond, a radical re
publican, is slill drawing the
salary of .l,0in a year as col
lector of internal revenue, and
Sizer, the same kind oi a repuu-
lican, is drawing an -equal salary
as postmaster uu .wi.
onlv are these fellows drawing
alaries that democrats should
be enjoying, but there are numer-
ous ouicr positions in wiutu
democrats of Nebraska should be
placed, where republicans are
drawing the pay. And all on ac
count -of the "loggerheads at
Washington. It's a shame thai
such a state of affairs exists, but
it is a fact just the same.
:o:
There is always criticism of
the men in aulhorily when, there
is war or the prospect of war.
This may always be expected. But
in all fairness, there is no ground
for complaint of the way Presi
dent Wilson lias handled mis
mailer. He has always wanted
peace and still maintains that
this country ought to be friendly
to the Mexican people as a whole.
It is the dictator he is after, and
naturally wants to maintain the
respect and dignity of litis na
tion while he is after the scalp of
the usurper, lie has undoubted
ly the moral support of a large
majority of the people of this
country.
:o:
Sackett of (lage county seems
to be a favorite for the republican
nomination for governor, but he
is considerably handicapped in
playing' "good Lord and good
devil" to both factions of the
party. The bull moosers will ac
cept him as a candidate, but not
if he has anything to do with the
standpatters. And there it goes.
:o: '
The correspondent who used lo
keep us advised as lo the slate of
Abdul Hamid's health appears to
have left for Mexico.
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If you want a Caiiton (P fe O) or Emerson
plow, ' See Will Richardson
If you want a Disc Harrow or Pulverizer,
See Will Richardson
If you want an Acme or Emerson Standard
mower, See Will Richardson
If you want an Acme or Emerson sulky rake
See Will Richardson
If you want a farm Gusliman Engine,
Sec Will Richardson
If you want aii Associated or a Field Engine,
Sec Will Richardson
g If you want Corrugated
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If you want a Gade Steel Hog Hack,
See Will Richardson
If you want a Gade Steel Gate,
See Will Richardson
If you want a Metal Wheel Truck or Wagon
Box See Will Richardson
If you want an Iowa Cream Separator
See Will Richardson
If you want a Meadows Power Washer
See Will Richardson
If you want a Buggy or Carriage
See Will Richardson
If you want anything See Will Richardson
MYNARD,
Vou have such an excellent
memory you may recall me name
of the republican candidate for
vice president in
:o:
The preponderance of children
ill.t'iidiug the motion picture
hows alfords the chief argument
in favor of ofiicial censorship.
:o:
When we remember that Colo
rado is a civilized state it is hard
to believe the stories published
about the mining- war in progress
there.
:o:
SlilI hunting" in this day ami
age never got a candidate very
much for slate or county office.
The democratic voters of Cass
county are already onto the
scheme and don't intend lo be
fooled.
:o:
A 10-year obi girl down in Mis
souri lias confessed to having set
lire to four buildings within four
weeks. While Ihe girl ought lo
be punished for it, she should be
sent lo England lo re-enforce
Sylva Parkhurst and the cham
pionship team of destroyers.
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The voters of Nebraska arc not
going- to be deceived in voting for
candidates for state offices on the
part of the democrats at the Aug
ust primaries. They do not pro
pose lo be hoodwinked into vding
for some candidates they know
have formed a combine and will
endeavor to carry out their ne
farious scheme to nominate a
ring ticket from the office of gov
ernor down. The democratic vot
ers are catching' on to the
maneuvers of the little ring up at
Lincoln, and they will be in readi
ness to sit down on it at the polls
in August. Mark that!
:o:
Senator Kenyon of Iowa thinks
the Rockefeller foundation fund
is intended to build up an invisi
ble government. We would like
to know what you would call it
now? He is the whole thing- in
every move he makes to control.
:o:
When a serious crisis comes
in national affairs there are
usually as many different posi
tions taken in congress as there
are congressmen.
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simple device. Winding of the beater is prevented
by large diameter, and beater teeth are strong, square
and chisel-pointed. -
International manure spreaders are built in several
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