PLATTSMOUTIt SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1915.
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- THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
A man's own good breeding -I
-I- is the best security against
V other people's ill manners. $
J- Chesterfield.
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About all some people get in this
world is an easy start.
:o:
What doth it profit to be a speed
maniac and get in jail?
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Men who start with cold feet seldom
succeed in getting there.
:o:
A great many family trees bear a
wonderful variety of "nuts."
:o:
Try and be contented with your lot,
especially if it be a good corner lot.
:o:
The beautiful fall weather holds on
wonderfully and to the satisfaction of
cvervone.
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Adam blamed a woman in the case,
i'.'.ai there are a heap of men who
faithfully follow Adam's example.
:o:
There ought to be but one town for
every man, and that should "be th-2
town he lives and does business in.
:o:
Since there is going to be no bridge
whist parties in heaven, what are th&
society church ladies going to do when
they get there ?
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The young lady who takes great
hatisfaction in displaying a diamond
ling should also remember that :i
great battle is called an engagement.
:o:
The meetings at the Methodist
church are growing in interest daily.
Ilev. Druliner is an incessant worker,
and we trust great success will crown
his efforts.
:o:
The peopre are for President Wilson
for another term, and the people gen
erally have their way, when they know
that Woodrow Wilson has filled the
bill so admirably.
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Some of our building contractors
have closed contracts already for new
homes to be erected early in the
spring. A great deal of the frame
work will be gotten out this winter
inside shop work.
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Several eastern Nebraska editors
have been afflicted with the "sour
grapes" malady so long that every
thing that the administration does that
adds to the popularity of President
Wilson they get a fresh attack.
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If the allies loan is oversubscribed
it might be well to remember that
2,500 are destitute around New-
Orleans because of the late gulf
storms. If the United States has
money for war it should have money
for peace.
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It can-very easily be seen from the
returns that the voters of the east do
not want equal suffrage, and that
many of the women do not want it,
either. New York, Massachusetts an 1
Pennsylvania dealt woman suffrage an
decidedly hard blow.
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A bill to create a permanent tariff
commission will be introduced into
congress next winter. The Chamber
of Commerce of the United States is
making A Yduntry-rde- appeal for
Snore ' scientific tariff schedules.
Eventually, this country probably will
have a commission' of experts to ad
vise congress in its tariff legislation,
but it will take hard work ana prob
ably many years before the result can
be accomplished.
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1'Kll VKAlt XX AUVA.ME
TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS.
Local rather than national issues
influenced the voting in the ten states
in which elections were held this year,
and not a great deal of consequence
attaches to the results.
The one generalization that might
be made is that the voters are be
coming addicted to the "No" habit
They voted no on the woman suffrage
proposition in New York, Massachu
setts and Pennsylvania, and did it re
soundingly. They voted no with re
markable fervor on the new constitu
tion prepared for New York state by
Elihu Root and his constitutional
convention. They voted no on prohi
bition in Ohio, for the second time in
two years by a reduced majority, it is
true, but also it appears in a materi
ally smaller total vote cast.. Ohio
voters also defeated three other pro
posed constitutional amendments. In
Boston they voted no to a proposal
to recall Mayor Curley. In Colorado
they defeated a single tax amendment
to the constitution.
Along partisan lines the results
were as might have been expected.
Maryland and Kentucky elect demo
cratic governors, the latter state,
however, showing republican gains
and democratic losses. Massachu
setts elected a republican standpatter,
former Congressman McCall, to suc
ceed Governor Walsh, a democrat run
ning for a third term. McCall de
voted his campaign largely to an at
tack on the Wilson adiminstration.
and succeeded in carrying this ordi
narily heavy republican state by a
plurality of less than 7,000. The is
sue was largely complicated, however,
by the injection of the church issue
into the fight, so that no accurate
conclusions can be drawn. In New
York City the democrats win, and in
Philadelphia the democratic machine
pooled its fate with the republican
organization to defeat the independ
ents now in control of the city gov
ernment.
The greatest degree of general in
terest attached to the woman suffrage
voting in three large eastern states,
and to the outcome of the prohibition
fight led by William J. Bryan in
Ohio. The defeat of both was de
cisive. .New lork, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania show, as New Jer
sey showed, that in spite of the ad
vice of Wilson, Bryan, Roosevelt and
other notable leaders there remains
much work to be done before the east
can be won over to the suffrage
cause. Ohio voters, who had de
feated prohibition by more than 80,000
in the general election last year, weie
obliged to vote on it again in this
year's by-election. Though Mr. Bryan
made a whirlwind campaign for the
cause, speaking everywhere to im
mense and enthusiastic crowds, defeat
was again administered. The ma
jority, while reduced, is nevertheless
a very substantial one, and the reduc
tion is largely attributed to the small
er total vote due to the fact that there
were none but local candidates to be
elected.
Whatever partisan significance at
taches to the election is to be found
in the practical disappearance of the
progressive party vote and the signs
that the republican party is "getting
together" for the fight next year
These signs have their plain lesson
for democrats. If Woodrow Wilson i:
to be re-elected again, with a demo
cratic congress if the fruits of the
victory of 1912 are not to be lost to
the party and to the country demo
oats must be preparing to present a
united front to a formidable foe. Thos
who would plant needlessly the seeds
of schism and dissension should think,
and think twice, before laying them
selves open to the charge of malicious
ly endangering the stability of the ad
ministration at Washington. World
Herald.
Less than three weeks till Thanks
giving.
:o;
Villa seems determined to die a-
trying.
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And Christmas .only one month
later, by Heck.
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Knock and you knock alone. Boost
and everybody will help you.
:o:
It is life, liberty and the pursuit of
office that is guaranteed in this coun
try.
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If you feel that the world is against
you, cheer up. The world may be
right.
:o:
Who would be so cruel as to send
Huerta, properly crated, to Car
ranza ?
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No man who really wants to fight is
ever grateful to anyone who keeps him
outo f it, and elections sometimes tell
the tale.
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Sympathy of people who have tried
to keep a sidewalk clear in a forty-
eight-hour snowstorm goes out to Gen
eral Goethals.
Oil made one set of American mil
lionaires, automobiles another; and the
making of the munition millionaires is
now going on.
: :o:
Our November poem is to be
dedicated to December. December
knows its place and doesn't try to be
June or September.
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The chairman of the national demo
cratic committee says that soon after
the meeting of the committee in Wash
ington December 7, the campaign will
open and headquarters be established.
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The democrats have cause to be
greatly encouraged over the result of
the elections last Tuesday. The re
publicans undoubtedly looked for a
tidal wave in their direction, but were
sadly disappointed. They held their
own and that is all. And they had hard
work to even do that. The democrats
in the east are remarkably well satis
fied and say that it presages the re
election of President Wilson without a
doubt.
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What do you think of this? The
report comes from Washington that
Nebraska lags behind every other
state in the union, save one, in the im
provement if public roads. This i3
certainly pretty tough on Nebraska,
when we thought all along that our
grand state was "right up to snuff"
on road improvements as well as
everything else. But one state shows
a smaller per cent in surfaced road,
and that is North Dakota.
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Proud parents of twins or triplets
need not apply to the White house for
a subsidy based on promises to name
the babies after the president, his
family or his bride-to-be. The story
from Mattoon, 111., that the president
has sent checks for $25 to each of
triplets born there and named after
him is denied at the Vhite house. Let
ters announcing the birth of twins and
triplets are continually being received
at the executive office. They usually
receive a congratulatory reply, but up
to date the president has not enclosed
checks.
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Accordmg to statements issued by
the German government it will be use
less for the English and their allies to
try to starve the Germans out, as a
strong effort has been made in Ger
many to utilize every foot of ground
this year in raising vegetables and
grain and that the harvest has bee?i
abundant. The plan of making prison
ers do the work has enabled the Ger
mans to have the crops fully looked
after while the men were in the ranks.
tt there is any shortage it will be in
those supplies which Germany drew
from other countries and it's more
than probable that they are short of
copper and many other articles of
which they had provided large stores,
but which the long continuance of the
war has used immense quantities and
which the Germans are experiencing
difficulty in supplying.
IS HOSTILE TO WILSON.
It would be unpatriotic to permit
the injection into the. next state elec
tion of any issues, however important,
that can be settled outside of the
partisan contest that must then ensue
There is to be a great political issue
submitted for determination in that
election.
That issue will relate to the ques
tion whether or not the voters of Ne
braska approve the administration of
President Wilson. It may be a pre
possession in favor of the president
that suggests the belief that an
overwhelming majority of the people
of this state, somewhat in disregard
of partisan allegiances, endorse with
fervor the splendid services of the
president and believe in the good he
has accomplished for the republic.
No sinster purpose to blind the
people to that issue and turn aside
the popular favor for the administra
tion must be permitted to prevail.
It has just been proposed that the
political action of the people of this
state shall be taken with reference to
whether or not those who may repre
sent the rival political parties as their
candidates believe one way or another
on a question that is purely a state
issue and which may be determined
best by the voters of the state with
out taking candidates and partisan su
premacy into consideration.
It is more important that President
Wilson's administration shall be en
dorsed in the election now approach
ing than it was in the election of last
year, because it is nearing the time
when the president may again be a
candidate and that the policy of the
government shall be determined by his
re-election or his rejection.
There is almost universal recogni
tion of the excellence of service Wood
row Wilson has rendered his country.
His admiration has given us more
important constructive legislation than
any other administartion, at least in
recent years. His latest effort is one
to prevent a triumph of the ruthless
war spirit that is finding alarming ex
pression and rallying a large and in
fluential following. By his proposed
plan to materially strengthen the navy
and slightly increase the army, Presi
dent Wilson has created a foil for de
stroying the force of the republican
doctrine favoring the making of the
American navy and army the greatest
and strongest in the world. It is im
portant that popular aid should bc-
extended the president in his effort
to head off the carefully planned drive
toward acute militarism.
There are thousands of Nebraska
voters who believe that the liquor
traffic should be destroyed who also
believe that the president should b?
sustained and who want an opportun
ity to vote to sustain him. It may
take time for them to realize that
the suggestion that the liquor question
shall be injected into party politics
in this state will,, if adopted, prevent
the possibility of their voting for the
destruction of the liquor traffic with
out at the same time voting their
disapproval of the administration of
Woodrow Wilson.
This is so manifest that it is im
possible to believe that the persons
making such suggestion did not have
in mind when making it the purpose
to turn away from the administration
a part of the vote that would other
wise be cast to sustain and endrose it.
Lincoln Star.
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Those western farmers who are
threshing as high as forty-five bushels
Of wheat to the acre are not scared at
the cry of "hard times," and probably
"a hard winter."
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One thing according to science wo
should all be thankful for is the fact
that the excessive rains of the past
summer have reduced our typhoid
fever liability to a minimum.
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Governor Morehead has honored the
editor of the Journal by appointing
him a delegate from the state of Ne
braska to the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress at Washington, D.
C, December 8, 9 and 10. Now, all in
the world that will keep us from at
tending this meeting is the where
withal to pay railroad fare and other
expenses.
Ross Hammond for United States
senator? Get out!
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Is Bryan trying to play into the
hands of the republicans?
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Suspicion is usually aroused a great
deal easier than almost anything else.
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Europeans are kept so bitterly fight
ing that they haven't time to think.
When that time comes they'll be more
dangerous than ever.
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Prof. Usher says the nations of
Europe will never be the same after
the war, and what concerns us is that
we fear America won't either.
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Some of the "tightest wads" in
Christendom are known to be members
of the church. But they are not in
any sense serving God they are
simply hanging on to the coat tail of
St. Peter in the hope that he may by a
mighty pull "yank" them out of the
fiery furnace.
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If there were a law requiring motor
car drivers to extend an arm from the
side of the car when they are about
to turn we suppose lots of them would
be arrested for not doing it, whicn
might prove that what is a voluntary
practice is sometimes better observed
than what is a complsory rule.
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The latest in the progress of the
world of science is the sending of
telephone messages by wireless across
the Atlantic. When the pessimistic
individual approaches you and says
certain things cannot be done, just
tell him nothing is impossible in this
day and age.
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Under the modern agricultural
school methods girls are taught to be
judges of good stock and boys judges
of good butter. Wonder if they will
have the girls milk the cows and the
boys churn the cream. Anyway, this
is r.n age for women to vote and do
many other things that were formerly
classed as the prerogatives of men.
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From expressions of various repub-
t
lican newspapers through the state it
would seem that Hon. E. M. Pollard
will not experience any great deal of
trouble in securing the nomination for
governor on the republican ticket. Or..?
thing about Mr. Pollard is there is no
Question as to his executive ability.
He served several terms in the legis
lature and in congress and he display
ed great ability in both positions.
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It is a hard proposition with the re
publicans in their efforts to try to
make the people of thio country be
lieve they made any gains in the
recent elections. Reports from the
east are to the effect that the repub
lican leaders are rather greatly dis
appointed at the result. They expect
ed a regular "land-slide." But Presi
dent Wilson's administration is too
popular to down with anything like
that.
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Carranza can make many many
promises of what he will do to bring
about peace in Mexico, but the ques-
ion is. why don't he make ready and
do it? He has a hard contract before
im and one that he can never carry
out as long as Villa and his follower"
remain in the saddle to guide tne.
andits who do not want peace and are
not going to have peace as long as the
cut-throats can rob, murder the people
and pillage the country.
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The hyphenates of Massachusetts
ave chosen what seems to be a
singularly unfortunate moment for
aunching a political campaign. The
resolve of the Eay State Gcrman-
mericans to begin an active crusade
against the re-election of President
Wilson has been made at a moment
hen feeling for Germany is strongly
influenced by the execution of Mies
Cavell. It is the part of fatuous blind
ness to think that the kaiser's cause
i this country can be helped by such
policy. All that President Wilson
needs to make his return to office a
certainty is an organized pro-German
effort to accomplish his defeat. Thou
sands who are indifferent or opposed
to him will be driven to his support
by a propanganda of this kind.
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Autumn Travel Features!
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TO THE SOUTH Winter Tourist rates to and through the
South, Gulf-resorts, Florida, Cuba, etc., are now in effect. They include
attractive circuit route tours of the South, which are steadily becoming
more popular for winter visitors.
NEBRASKA-IOWA annual football struggle, Lincoln, Nov.
20th. You do not have to go east these days for high-class football.
Nebraska Varsity will show it to you.
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