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PAGE . PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, NOVEMI1ER IS. I'JK Cbc plattsmoutb journal I IB LI SUED SEMI-WEEKLY AT I'LATTSMOtTII, NEBRASKA. Entered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Neb., aa second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SIBSCKIPTIO .V I'KICK: flJT J. THOUGHT FOR TODAY. It seems as if heroes hud done almost all for the world that they can do; and not much more can come until common J men awake and take their com raon tasks. I believe the com mon man's task is the hardest. Philip Brooks. McKelvey has announced, whether anybody wants him or not. :o: Politics are assuming proporitions that will eventually mean business. :o: Governor Morehead can be re nominated and re-elected, if he wants to be. :o: The revival at the Methodist church continues, and great interest mani fested. :o: There is no discount on the frosts thse mornings, and the overcoat comes in good play. : :o: More than 10,000 automobile trucks, valued at $22,000,000, have been ship ped to England and France from the United States since the war began. :o: The Simplified Spelling Board is to isue a dictionary. Small need of a dictionary if one is going to spell by tar. :o: During the engagement period a young man is only serving his ap prenticeship. He will not carry th? leal burden until after the minister has been paid. :o: Our merchants should be getting ready for the holidays by decorating their places of business, and especial ly their show windows. None too soon to begin the work. :o : Cooker T. Washington died Sunday. No negro in the United States ever 1 ecame as noted or possessed as grea'. ability. We will all have to acknowl edge Booker T. was a very able man. :o: In the Christian Evangelist an earnest preacher is described as over sowing with soizzei ingtum; and that's one that isn't in Billy Sunday's vocabulary. We'll wager it wiil be. If we have to have a new state bouse, that's the time to remove the capital to a more central part of the state. Don't you think so? Or. let the property holders and millionaires of Lincoln get together and build a state house themselves, if they want the capital to remain where it is. :o: Our additions in preparedness will greatly strengthen the nation's tie fense; prepare it, no doubt, for th f'rst shock of real war, but they wouldn't be adequate for such an oc casion. Only a nation in arms can light a modern war, and you might as well make up your mind to do your bit if it should come to that, if you chance to be around the military age-. ;o: Congressman Murdock, of Kansas, and chairman of the progressive or bull moose party, just before sailing, made public a formal statement h ; had prepared, just before starting for Kurope. In part it is as follows: "With a congressional program which will have the democratc party churn- 'ing on the rocks w ithin sixty days an with the republican party divided an- Vonfused in its councils to a degree it navor been before" the progres 1 1 O ' - sive party has every reason to plunge 'into the 1916 ' campaign with vim vigor and a determination to win." PEIl YKAK IX ADVANCE JOHN HA R LEYCOR X, CH A U FF E U R There is a growing demand that John Barleycorn be permanently dis charged in the state of Nebraska as a chauffeur. He has a contract to run many automobiles. He is the worst knock the business has. There are thousands of cases every month in Ne braska of men committing the very worst kind of careless acts under the influence of liquor and driving auto mobies. Every man who takes tho steering wheel of an automobile after a few drinks of whisky is a potential murderer, even if he does not actually become one. He is more tlangerous than the maniac who would discharge a machine gun down a crowded stree;. The maniac can be caught the drunken auto driver often manages to escape after doing his damage. There will be a demand for regulations on automobile drivers. The provision should be made for revocation of th.2 license of any person who, it could ba proved, attempted to operate an auto mobile on public highways after tak ing a few drinks of intoxicating liquor. He is unsafe and should be barred from owning or operating a car. He brings the standing of the whole list of automobile owners down, as the public, injured by an intoxicat ed driver, does not make distinctions in giving its judgment, at a moment when wrath rules. Therefore, John Barleycorn should be put on the list of those ineligible to drive an auto mobile on a public highway. He is not only a danger to the car in which he is a driver, but he is like the huge cannon in the story of the ship in a torm at sea, when the cannon got loose from its moorings and dashed bcut the decks, smashing, crashing, killing, as the ship would pitch from side to side. The world should boy cott John Barleycorn and his school of pupils as licensed persons to own or operate automobiles. Railroads long ago recognized the danger of having drinking engineers. An automobile driver is using a public highway as compared with a private right-of-way of a railroad train. He is more dangerous when intoxicated than the drunken engineer. :o : If it were not for polities in this country the whole people would in dorse President Wilson's war policies, and especially hi.-s ideas en prepared ness. But when some fellows see n chance to get into office by opposing the president, they will do it. There are others, also, who support the president because they think it is pop ular to do so. Let them be either re publican or democrat, they all should demonstrate their patriotism for the old flag by declaring for "Americu First," and make it first by being pre pared to defend our country. :o : Railroads of the United States have demonstrated their faith in newspaper advertising my spending $10,000,000 for newspaper space dur ing the last fiscal year, according to an address delivered by a prominent railroad man in Chicago last week. And he was satisfied they had got value received. "I think the whole nation is con vinced that we ought to be prepared, not for war, but for defense, and very adequately prepared. The spirit of America is the spirit of a nation that is self-conscious, that knows and loves its mission in the world, and knows that it mut command the respect of the world." President Wilson. :o: In men it is always a struggle be tween the backbone and the wish bone, but what is it that women are struggling for? We ain't a going to tell. We have no hair on the top o? our head now. A COUNTRY WORTH LOVING. Things are going right along under the new trend given to legislation ! since Woodrow Wilson was elected j president. The government railroad in j Alaska is being rapidly constructed, j The army engineers in charge report that it will be finished inside of three years. Survey of the railway from Seward to Fairbanks is complete and eight miles of rail have been laid and an additional thirty miles will be laid within the next month. A Washington dispatch says that a bill will be introduced in congress at the coming session which will provide an inheritance tax. The bill as drawn will exempt the first $50,000, then im pose a tax of 1 per cent on the first $50,000 above the exemption; 2 per cents on the next $100,000; 3 per cent on next $100,000, and 4 per cent on next $100,000; above $500,000, 7 per cent; the next $1,000,000, 10 per cent; next $2,000,000, 15 per cent; next $5, 000,000, 20 per cent; next $10,000,000, 30 per cent, and on the next $16,000, 000, 45 per cent (making $50,000,000), and 75 per cent on all estates exceed ing $50,000,000. That is a sort of legislation that has been advocated by a great many eminent sociologists and economists for years. It means a more equitable distribution of wealth and the lowering of taxation upon the poor. That trend of legislation will be kept up as long as the people support ! the administration. The moment they fail to do that it will stop. The first j thing to be done is to make this nation , secure from aggression, so that tho life of the American citizen may be that of safety, comfort and plenty. When that is done there will be no necessity to make appeals to patriot ism. Every man will love his country and be willing to fight for it. It will be a country worth loving and dying for. When the working people have good wages, sick benefits, accident in surance, old age pensions and other things of that sort, there will be n t division among them about the duty of defending such a country and no lack of men or means to perpetuate such blessings. World-Herald. :o: Any boy feels like an athlete when he gets a new sweater on. :o: Mr. Taft seems to have decided to appoint himself fool killer of the nation. :o: Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high, and Plattsmouth is in the same boat. :o: Marry in haste and spend three years buying the furniture on the in stallment plan. :o: A man can have only one pair of pantaloons and one motor car to his name and be happy. :o: If one has had no surgical opera tion, he is apt to discuss the time the doctors gave him up to die. :o: Probably the old-fashioned winters weren't as bad as the o. f. heating plant that went with them. :o: In the Messiah oratorio there is a part which begins, "why do the na tions so furiously rage?" And Handel wisely doesn't attempt to clean up the mystery. :o : They do say now that the turkey crop is small, fat birds scarce, prices are going to be away up, and people will have turkey on Thanksgiving day just the same, especially those who are able to buy. :o: Peace is the greatest promoter of staple land values. An acre in Hoi land, for instance, is worth more than a farm in Belgium, as a result of tha European war. A town row hurts proportionately. :ot Says a wayside philosopher: "When he is 20 a man is busy showing his knowledge; when he i3 80 he is busy concealing his ignorance. Why, wg don't know about that; when he is 80, his conviction is that nobody knows as much as everybody did when he was 20. Pnly seven more days till Thanks-; giving. :o: Governor. Morehead's Thanksgiving proclamation has the right ring to it. ; :o: .. , t . . . Holland's Orange Book may move Belgium to issue a Lemon Book. fo: Nobody can regulate the weather. yet everybody is entitled to give it a few swift kicks. : ) : The war talk is beginning to sound like a mouthful of mush. It is stated the Bulgarians cut Uskub to Nish. -:t: Have the German submarines gone into hiding? For some reason their late whereabouts have been unknown. -:o: Sending $500,000,000 to Europe shows us that it wouldn't be burden some to dig the Nicaragua canal, if we had to. :o: The more money a man possesses the more severely he is abused and the more he has the more he is abused the less he cares. : :- Prepare to do your Christmas shop ping early, and don't forget patronize those who advertise, for they have the goods. :o: The last note to Great Britain from this country on the question of shin- Pir' between neutrals is to the point. Lansing plays a trump card when he recalls the acts of England during the civ war President Wilson refused to coun tenance the dismissal of an assistanc postmaster in Illinois whe critized him for getting married. That's the kind of a president. :o: Missouri Pacific puts new passenger rates into effect this week. You pay jour money and take your choice 33 cents over the Burlington to Omaha, or 51 cents over the Missouri Pacific. :o:- MeKelvie is too light in the head for governor of Nebraska. The people elemand a good, solid business man like Governor Morehead, and that's ihe kind of a man they are going to have, too. :o: It is possible, by using considerable strategy, the democrats of Nebraska can be drawn closer together than they have been for some time. The most of them are not going to submit to be ing forced to support the prohibition proposition, as Charley Bryan would wish, but his elictations if carried out will simply split the party wider open than it has been for years. If the Bryans want prohibition let them do so, and not endeavor to pull the party along with them, for they just can't near do it. There are no doubt demo crats who are prohibitionists, and will perhaps support a prohibition amend ment, but they will draw the line when it comes to making the question a party measure. to: The editors of the World's Work recently took a poll of the press of the country on preparedness, the results of which appear in the November is- sue of that magazine. No paper of the entire 2G1 expressed downright opposition to the idea of preparedness. Six newspapers were either more in terested in other aspects of our relation to the possibility of war or were so lukewarm toward preparedness as to FUggest an opposition they diti not ex press. The degree to which the others would prepare, the methods by which they would prepare, differ. Some want the biggest navy in the world and some think more submarines and coast defense guns will suffice. Some favor a big standing army; some, universal compulsory training. The majority opinion favors a navy second in power to Great Britain's and a reorganiza tion of our land forces to give us an increased standing army and ultimate ly a reserve of a million 'men.' 'Tho papers treat the question of prepared ness as the most important subject be fore the new congress which convenes in December, and warn that body that the country demands prompt and J adequate measures to meet the situa- j tkn . y LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE. S. II. McKelvie of Lincoln, candi date for the republican nomination for governor, has the courage to express his convictions on the prohibition is sue, anil for that he is to be con gratulated. Mr. McKelvie avows himself a pro jiumiomsi. ic is nis conscientious belief that the prohibition amendment fhould be adopted by the people. If elected governor it will be his purpose to enforce the law, regardless of whether prohibition carries or fail to carry. but and here let Mr. McKelvie speak for himself: "While no doubt should be left in the minds of the voters regarding the honest attitude of the candidates on the prohibition amendment, I think that one's candidacy should not be so restricted by a support of that ques tion as to loe sight of equally import ant issues over which the chief ex ecutive will have much greater in fluence and responsibility in the en actment. "I was one of about a dozen repub lican members of the house in the year 1K11 who aided a majority of the mem bers of the party then in control to pass the initiative and referendum. Without our aid the bill could not have been passed. We did this so that the liquor question with all its perniciou? connections, mi.uht be removed from politics. Through that law the quos tion i3 now in the hands of the people to decide an 1 candidates should be re lieved of the odious effects of a rough and tumble fight on the excise ques tion. "1 shall deem it my duty to vile for the prohibition amendment and to aiJ in the passage of laws which will makt it operative if through the vo-es o; the people it should prevail, but to an nounce my candidacy upon that issue alone I should consider an evidence of my incapacity for the office." Excellently 2nd bravely stated. In this respect at least Mr. McKelvie measures ui to the require-mei.ts o' a Nebraska candidate for governor. Nebraska is not a one-idea state and it needs no one-idea governor. Mr. McKelvie. while a pehibitionist. is blessed with enough common sense to realize that prohibition is only one of the many issues in Nebraska, and that it is not, properly speaking, a partisan i-sue. The line of division between the parties is entirely differ ent from the line that divides th'i voters on the issue between statewide prohibition on the enc hand and local self-government em the other. The latter line runs not between the parties but through them. To attempt to make a party issue of it wculd be to divide the parties into factions, to dump their principles and policies into the ditch, and to intrust Nebraska's vast and varied interests in both na tional and state questions to the rough and tumble of a factional and partisan hurly-burly over an issue that can Im properly and fairly settled, outside the field of party politics, by the initia tive process. There are fanatics honest fanatics, lots of them who believe that prohibi tion is a universal panacea for so cial and political ills. Mr. McKelvie, we conclude, is not one of them. Kan sas is a prohibition state; Nebraska leaves each community free to deal with the problem of license or no li cense as it deems wisest and best. What, really, leaving all buncombe and special pleading aside, is the real difference in general conditions in the two states? One may spring sta tistics, may split hairs and figure in decimal fractions, but the great out standing fact is that Nebraska and Kansas, in the condition of their peo ple', in the spirit of their laws and government, in their progress and prosperity, are like as two peas in a poil. Nebraska, on the figures, has somewhat the best of it. But the stranger traveling through both states, with a man to guide him, would be hard put to it to decided whether he was in one state or the other. Turkey, to cite just one other il lustration, is a prohibition nation, and j has been for more than a thousand years. In everything that goes, to make for civilization its society an.l government are immensely inferior to those of Nebraska, "a wet" state. It ( is not because of prohibition, of course, . but because of entirely different fac- 1 tors in the lives of two peoples. But j it is very evident that prohibition, it. Ulijtt 'i 1 ii, 11 T" i " i 11 11 1 m. jin.i Jfet Contents 15 ridd Praclffij :1 1 y v JVLCOUOL- 3 VZii CENT ANe-icti.bleFrcpantioalbrAs-.sunil'aii::'4thcrD()(laiiJCcuU tinrf the Sbvj.kteaudboWElsol Promotes iJiacbtiQitthcerfil riCssUidKtstCuatauisECjJJ Opiuni.Morpiiia2 iicr hUE .Not Xaucotic. Jteimfm Jn JxXrva Jji.xSetJ J'.mrvMit - . 1 r.iriu.Dii,7r Iri ; j -r Vrerf Ifruicdv lor t oiislipi ton SourStonmch.Duin. lOSSOFM1 I laeSiiuarsijhatareof. j Exsct Copy of Wrapper. itself, has not proved a magic solvent of sin and sufTeriug to convert Turkey into a heaven on earth. Mr. MjKc'vie h on the lir.ht track. Let Nebraska -el'.ie the liquor prob er! in the r.i-a-partisan r.r.d eminently :air, sensible r '..! satisfactory meiTiod -rovided by the initiative aiul referen dum. While it is doing so let its great political parties be left at liberty to ondu -t their campaign along the line:; jf issues thai are political in their latuie, that vLuIiy concern our coun- ry well as our slate, anil that j should be deci.icd rationally on their nc-rits. Vorld-Ii'jrald. It i.-n't the per diem expenses, but the per nigiitem cvpense that counts up. :o: It is reported that Stale Auritor Smith will not be si candidate for re election. It perhaps would be ju.-t as well if some of the other state oflicials would come to that conclusion, o. :o: Candidates in Nebraska seem to be -.cry strong in ;cc:aring their inten sions. 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Judge Hughes is not at all 1 ! pleased with their insistency that he run whether he wants to or not. What lias become of the Burket boom? The Stecher-IIussane wrestling match in Lincoln on Thanksgiving day is an event to draw an immense crowd of sports. Stecher and Hussane wrestled in Lincoln some time sine? to a diaw, and there is great interest manifested throughout the state in the outcome of the match Thanksgiv ing day. -:o:- There are men in all communities who delight in disturbances. They purely do, or they would not endeavor to institute measures that are cal culated to bring them about. Platts mouth has been free from any trouble ior so long that it would be a shame to engender a discord that would, in s.ny way dampen the present prosper ous condition of Plattsmouth. Let everyone attend strictly to his own business. By so doing wa all get along better. But five, six or seven persons can't rule the people, and there is no use for them to try. 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