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PAGE. 4. PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 131". XZbz plattsrnoutb Journal Published 8aml-Weakly at Pletttmouth, N b r. Entered it the I'ostoffice at Pltttsmouih, Nebraska, is secocd-cltss mall matter. R . A. BATES, Publiiher Subvorlptlon Prlosi S1.50 Per Year In Advano THOUGHT FOi: TODAY. Wait not 'till you are bucked V by numbers. Wait not until you ! V are sure of an echo from a I crowd. The fewer the voices on J- the side of truth, the more dis- -1-I- tinct and strong must be your -l-l' own. Charming1. Soon be time for the school bell to nr. :o: The rains still continue, and thi weather cool. :o: War and lawsuits are alike in that the winner usually loses. :ti : This, it would seem, is a poor year to carry a chip on the shoulder. :o: A man hates to have to diagram his jokes before they bring forth a laufrh. :o: It is really trouble than trouble. easier to keep out of it is to get out of -:o:- Next to a womar's promise to obey her husband, a political promise is the easiest broken. -:o:- A large number of rnuers are made in private that the devil would be delighted to see rnswered in pu'dic. :o : A high-priced automobile m;y net be worth all it costs, but it Uts your friends know you have succeeded in business. :o: Mr. Bryan now propo.-O:, a referen dum cm war. What's the li e? Few Americans want a war if we can honorably avoid it. :o: The more one sees of tho.-e fierce pictures of European generals the more value every one of those 3.000 miles of Atlantic ocean seem to have. :o: It is fine to be brave, plain spoken and all that, but very few marriel men are fools enough to call a spade a spade in their own homes. Down town is a place to protrude the chest ami be brave. :o: The Omaha Bee suggests the ad visability of appointing a republican to the position of United States dis trict judge, made vacant by the death of Judge Hunger. Can the Bee point to the appointment of a democrat to such a position under a republican ad ministration? Not on your life, when a republican was in sight. :o : Governor Robert L. William of Oklahoma, who was one of the prin cipal speakers at the conference of governors in Boston, the other day, in 'a speech urged the enactment of a law making a governor ineligible dur ing his term of office and for six months afterward for United States senator, congress or for state office, so that all temptations for him to use his office for political advancement might be removed. Such a law would be all right. :o: They may want war in the big cities of the cast, but how about fur nishing the fighters? The western people are very well satisfied the way things are going. We are not re sponsible for the acts of those east errors who have caused all the trouble between this country and Germany by in?i:Hing on crossing the ocean on ves sels owned by one of the principal warring nations, which is subject to attack by another warring nation. The vst is peaceful and progressive and wants to remain that way. OUU PITIFUL ARMY. Recent stirring events on the bor der have at least afforded some en lightening figures for those not al ready familiar . with our military weakness. General Funston. has an army of 17,000 men along the Mexi can frontier, but these are not enough to prevent marauding bands from de vastating ranches and murdering Americans in that vicinity. And this need brings forth the startling state ment that there are only 12,000 more nubile troops available in continental I United States; enough perhaps, to guard one frontier in a time of os tensible peace. It is a good army, too, what there is of it, and you may be proud and grateful for that. When the allied troops of Russia, Germany, Japan, France, Great Britain, the United States and perhaps a few others, moved on Pekin in the days of the Boxer uprising, Americans made a showing of which the nation should be proud, showing that Americans make excellent soldiers when trained, perhaps the best. A correspondent who has followed the fighting on all fronts in Europe, credits the Canadi- ans with being the very best troops of any army participating, and the Cana dians are most like Americans of any of the belligerents; indeed, a large per cent of them are Americans, and many of them ex-soldiers of our army, so it is quantity and not qual ity that we lack. But that lack is so deplorable that it seems a fatal error not to correct it. We lack guns, am munition, officers, soldiers; everything which goes to make an army, but men and money. Thanks to the war, our facilities for supplying arms and am munition are being developed. But training and organization are im perative needs, if this country is to be in a position to defend itself. And that even so peaceful a nation as this might have to defend herself is within the range of posibility. In a small way, we are doing that now along the Texas border, and part of the de defensive work has been done by citi zens fighting for the protection of their homes, which they may do against marauders, but couldn't against a real army. Now is the time to prepare. :o : The Lincoln State Journal, in the following commends President Wilson very highly and is not very slow in condemning Teddy Roosevelt's at titude on the war question: "If the United States goes to war it will not be in the hot-blooded spirit of Theo dore Roosevelt, who insists that the severance of diplomatic relations would not be a suffiicent answer to Germany, but will be only a "fresh sacrifice of American honor and in terest." If we must fight, it will be in the calm spirit of President Wilson, who sees the terrible cost of such a step and is willing before a blow is struck to give the offender every op portunity to explain his acts and promise better behavior." :o: A chaplain in the British army re lates that in censoring the letters written by the men in his company he found four letters written to four dif ferent girls by the same man and all were exactly alike. We wonder of the girls started their answers like this, "Answering your circular letter of recent date," etc. :o: An Arkansas mob lately lynched a bootlegger who . was thoughtless enough to shoot the sheriff who went to arrest him. Sometimes a southern sheriff can stop a mob, but a dead sheriff can't do anything of the kind :o: A man who has to shave every day is complaini ng, but he shouldn't worry, for he doesn't have to put on a corset every day. It is never too late to mend; nor is it too early. :o: We're ready for the war to end in October. Aren't you? ;e: A great many fields of corn have passed the danger line. ;o: The sins of railway managements descend like the sins of fathers. -:o: Cool nights, with cloudy sky, may keep Jack Frost away for awhile yet. :o: Why is it that some women fight harder to get into society than Ihey pray to get into heaven? :o: Jamacia will send 5,000 men to the British army, and it remains to be seen if Jamica ginger will do the British army any good. :o: How much has Nebraska lost by not having a state building at the San Francisco fair? Can you figure it out? :o: A reporter's enemies are divided in to two classes: Those who are mad because something has been printed and those who are mad because something has not been printed. The best reporters are those who know what not to print. :o: Georgia is being and will be lam basted extensively because of the lynching of Leo Frank. Nor is this roasting unwarranted. But it should happen in several other states; the mob tendency isn't confined to a single state or section, and it should be dis couraged everywhere else as well as in Georgia. :o : Thomas A. Edison says man is still a piedetory animal and that there will be other wars. Of course there will. So long as men fight one an other in their individual quarrels, it is certain that sections will do the same thing as long as there are men in them. When humanity is composed of women only, we shall have more fashions and less fighting. :m : A train load of gold has arrived in New York from London, via Canada, which shows how we are growing in financial leadership. The consignment was valued at ?t'2,000,000. All o? which shows that if we are wise enough to keep out of the war, and attend strictly to our own busiress wo are going to be handsomely fixed by the time this cruel war is over. -:o :- TEDDY'S LATEST MANIFESTO. Theodore Roosevelt's latest mani festo sends a thrill through every loyal American citizen who can be thrilled in that way. He is for action, not words, although he is long on words. Seldom does he want for some thing to say. Now he would supple ment vocal activity with the detona tions of heavy artillery. He would not hoch der kaiser but hoist him. For tunately for us, the war is in Europe, not in America, and we are in no posi tion lo start anything of a sanguinary nature with any hope of doing good or getting good. In every great war un fortunate things happen where the in tent to injure i3 not apparent. Three years ago Mr. Roosevelt argued that the constitution of the United States needed a more liberal interpretation to make it an instrument of social justice applicable to the needs of this generation. Germany contends that "international law" needs the same elasticity to make it applicable to the conditions of modern warfare which are so unlike the old system of soak ing one's enemies. If Roosevelt was right as to the constitution may not Germany be the same as to the rights of neutrals who sail the wide ocean within the zone of submarine activi ties Mr. Roosevelt complains that the kaiser is "arrogant and insulting.'' Would he be any less so if we were to declare war and sen over a "passcl" of gunboats as targets for U-4G and U-behavc to sink at their con venience? Suppose we sink as many of his boats and kill as many of his folks as he does of ours, are we any better off for the sacrifice? "Bix" fn the State Journal. TWO COLONELS AND EDITORS. Says the New York Evening Post: "Why is it that this country, at a critical time, must hear from men whom it would wish to remain silent, while the man whose authoritative word it waits for says nothing? The president is keeping his own counsel. When the time comes he will no doubc speak, rnd that in no uncertain way. But ihc two colonels, whom nothing would :o much become just now as quiet stillness and humility, rush to give their views to their fellow coun trymen. That the latter, at this juncture, had any desire to hear from Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan, may doubted. For one thing, everybody knew in advance exactly what they would say. They have simply said it r.m. Perhans they can t hclJ it. their impulse to volubility being what it is, but their -utburt.f5 are both u:i--ohcited and ill-timed. The general comment provoked by the Oyster Bay Colonel is: 'Thank heaven he is not president; while the Nebraska Colon j! simply increases the public sense of relief at his being out of the cabinet. ' When was there given a rarer ex hibition of the intolerance and ar rogance and provincialism of a New York editor? What would Mr. Villard of tho Evening Post have? Would lie have an order in council empowering editors alone, perhaps New York editors alone, to express public opinion or what they deem to be public opinion? Or would he be so generous, per haps, as to amend the order to th; extent that mere citizens who are not editors might also express themselves, provided their opinions were in exact accord with those of the New York editors ? The Evening Post is not in o.T.cial position. It has no official responsi bility. It can speak no "authoritative word." Yet its editorial columns, si:; days in the week, are overflowing with expressions of opinion on identically the same subjects that "the two Colo nels" have Leon talking about. So have the editorial columns of all the other New York papers, not to men lion papers published elsewhere. No whimper has come from the Evening Post on that account. Why have not Roosevelt and Bryan precisely tho same right to say what they think that Mr. Villard or Mr. Pulitzer or Mr. James Gorden Bennett have, an I why may they not do it with the same propriety? This is a democratic republic, thi country cf ours. Public opinion is supposed to be the ultimate govern ing power. Not newspaper opinion, but the composite opinion of all the people, learned and unlearned, wise and foolish, powerful and humble. Why, then, attempt to suppress it? Why try to establish a newspaper censorship? Why, even, lay down the rule that only "authoritative" opinion, or wise and patriotc opinion, be al lowed to make itself heard? The real "authority" is that of the people. Who is there delegated to say -what ex pression is wise, what is patriotic, and what is not? Thomas Jefferson said, in behalf of free speech and a free press, that "Truth has nothing to fear from Er ror so long as Reason is left free to combat it." The Evening Tost might mull that idea over in its mind for a while. So far as one of "the two Colonels" is concerned, we agree with the Evening Post, and think that very few citizens stand with Mr. Roosevelt in his insistence that the United States should plunge into war on al most any pretext or on no pretext at all. As to Mr. Bryan, with his ultra pacific policy, he is merely repeating the maxims and homilies that appear ed in the Evening Post for years and years; that kept on appearing, indeed, right up to the time when the stanch organ of anti-militarism allowed its love for England to get the better of its pacificism. Why has not Mr. Bryan a perfect right to talk today as the Evening Post talked yesterday? If Mr. Rosevelt's voice is for war, on the other hand, he is entitled to raise it, and to wave His bloody gonfalon to his heart's content. It is because Rea son is free to combat him that nobody rallies about hi3 gory standard and he is left to scold in melancholy solitude. The people of the United States are with Woodrow WTilson in his earnest desire to keep this country out of the war. They are with him in his firm but cool and rational stand for it rights and dignity from whatsoever quarter assailed. The most virulently his critics scold the more clearly is it apparent that the president of the United States does not need the pro tection of a newspaper censorship or of a lese majeste constitutional amendment. And so far as embarras sing him is concerned, we very much doubt if "the two Colonels" combined have it in their power to embarrass him so much as he has been embar lassed, since the very beginning of the war, by New York editorial brother hood of which Mr. Villard is so dis tinguished a member. World-IIerald. :o: It appears that it will be some time yet before the Russians will dine in Berlin. :o:- Some fellows are always en thusiastic when they talk about them selves. :o : Why are little nations so often vie lori'jus in war? Because there is no room to run, of course. :o: That Frank lynching will not. divert the attention of the Georgia senators from the cotton situation. :c:- The Germans are doing some mis sionary work. They are making their Russian prisoners shave. : : Carranza is playing for time to think. Don't lot him play too long, lie may get a fresh start. An eminent professor says kissing is a mild form of insanity. That's been admitted, but what of it? :o says he alone Roosevelt says he alone was r?- spensiide for his speech. No one is fool enough to think otherwise. J;;pan."se interests in South Ameri can trr.de reminds us that the Y'ankees of the east never overlook any bets. : : No mutter what the different bel ligerants want, everybody wants Tur key. They're a covetous lot in Europe. :o : One of the kings before the flood lived to bo -l.j.OOi) years old. Frans Jo.-ef iray bo hopeful of the past diluvian record. :o :- Billy Sunday is slated to appear in Dallas. Texas, the giand old state, in which too much rough talk sometimes leads to trouble. -:o:- Mexico's situation reve!ves around the fact that Mexicans have now no faith in each other, if they ever had. The wages of faithlessness is also death. :o : It would not cause any extended mourning in this country if some sad happening should accidentally befall so-called President Carranza , of Mexico. :o: Those who contend that elections should be held on Sunday, as they are in Europe, probably hold that if the voice of the people is the voice of God, there is no Sabbath breaking in it. -:o:- Mr. Bryan has them all catalogued, lie says we worship the gods of wealth, fashion, fame, physical com fort, travel, passion, chance and drink. Well, with all those eliminated, man would be almost as gay and active as an oyster. :o: Why not have a "Home-Coming" celebration this fall? And have the old pioneers, who are scattered over the west with us to enjoy a gneuine reunion for a couple of days. 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The final return limit of ti e Exposition tickets is December 31 1915; those spending the winter in California should travel either on oie way tickets, or there is available sion ticket. The BuiHngton operates cisco and Los Angeles via the popular route trough Denver. Scenic Col orado and Salt Lake City. Consult me if you expect to go through reservations early. Whether you go first to Los Angeles or to San Francisco, you have Burlington through sleeper service. 8 mi. r.T i V! UotJlit, v. in; a has liocn Juts bomo the sl'mainre of has h vn i:i;u!e unde r I is jk r- 1 s::i:e-rvi:.i,u sinc e if s i::f";;i!-y. Iio o-;; t.-xh reive a:nl ".Iw-f-; lire ;r.t Sirnat-:re of Years Now for a "Home Coming" reunion. Whet do you say? :o : Can a man raise his own salary with a ca!:e of yeast if he needs the douph? A Fo?;:r Cro'sn Separator AT A HAND CiUHf? 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