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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.
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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
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Next to a womar's promise to obey
her husband, a political promise is the
easiest broken.
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A large number of rnuers are
made in private that the devil would
be delighted to see rnswered in pu'dic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It appears that it will be some time
yet before the Russians will dine in
Berlin.
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Some fellows are always en
thusiastic when they talk about them
selves.
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Why are little nations so often vie
lori'jus in war? Because there is no
room to run, of course.
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That Frank lynching will not. divert
the attention of the Georgia senators
from the cotton situation.
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The Germans are doing some mis
sionary work. They are making their
Russian prisoners shave.
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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?
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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.
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No mutter what the different bel
ligerants want, everybody wants Tur
key. They're a covetous lot in Europe.
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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.
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Billy Sunday is slated to appear in
Dallas. Texas, the giand old state, in
which too much rough talk sometimes
leads to trouble.
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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.
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It would not cause any extended
mourning in this country if some sad
happening should accidentally befall
so-called President Carranza , of
Mexico.
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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.
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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.
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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. The
most of them will come, if the oppor
tunity is afforded. Talk it up, and
let's have it.
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There a h-t of sati.--faction in pay
ing the price and proceeding on your
way.
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Good sportsmanship :-.houH not be
restricLod entirely to joasling the
visitiinr team.
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Af ter a man murried he learn
rr..:;e aheut cen.-ro ra.!dp than a war
correspondent, could toil him.
Afte;- a man begins to et short of
wind and hair, and long or. experience,
he lo-eo much of his enthusiasm for
birthday c e ! ? b r a t i o n s .
As it has bei'n su.h a peor ea-:on
".t the. fu:ii:.Kr rc.orts a gocnl many
of the hotels may proL;.b'v burn down
accidentally in the lata fail.
Reduced Trices on Eggs for Hatching.
After May lit I will se-11 S. C.
Rhode Island lied e-gs for touching
at ."0c per setting of 15.
Duroc-Jcrsey swine, any age or sex,
for s.de at all times. Col. Gano, Crim
son Wonder and Gold .Model strains.
Call Platts. 'I'hcr.e 2221.
W. B. Tortcr.
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Ks&raska iiiifary Academy
(INCORPORATED)
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the NEBRASKA MILITARY ACADEMY is a school close at home
where yoa can send him and be sure he tit ts what yuu want him
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Address COL. 13. D. HAY WARD, President
LINCOLN. NEBRASKA
Will Yon Visit the Expo
sition this Autumn or Winter ?
Thousands are going to California to seethe maivclcus exposition
b2fore the gates ere closed December 31st. Many will make an autumn
tour at these cheap rales, returning before winter, while many will leave
before cold weather for the vinttr in Southern California, going via San
Francisco. 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.
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Sirnat-:re of
Years
Now for a "Home Coming" reunion.
Whet do you say?
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a ca!:e of yeast if he needs the douph?
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AGENT
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L. W. VVAKCLLR, General Passen?sr Agent,
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