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PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1913. Cbe plattemouf b journal riULISIIHIl SEMI-WEKKIY . AT I'LATTS.MOL Til, SEBHASKA.. entered at Postoflice at I'lattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher lUSCIU!TIO. PKICK: fl.30 TKll 1EAII IX ADVASCE THOUGHT FOR TODAY. V "In judging others, weigh 4 carefully the method against the v motive. If the latter be pure, be patient and charitable, how ever different from your own the method may be." -J Turkeys are roosting high, and so are prices. :o: Iii u.ung your neighbor's telephone, talk is reasonably cheap. :o: A woman lias her way in this world, but man has to make his. -:o:- Revenga is the. doubtful pleasure ol a feeble mind: Mind that, now. :o: When cuteness develops into inso lence it is time to look for a club. .o: .Some men have a peck of optimism thai they acquiie out of either a bottle yr a glass. ' ;n: If you want to kill the reform bug in a man, elect him to office. The cure is guaranteed. . :- Civil service seldom saves the of ficial of the fellow who bumps up agains-t a political boss. What a wonderful change a woman tan make in a man, and what a won derful amount of change she requires while doing it. Missouri progressives are determin ed to run Teddy for president again. Who said the progressive party was dead? Just wait till they get warm ed up, will you? :o: It is said that Charley Bryan would like to run for the United States senate. Come on, Charley, and find out what love the democrats of Nebraska have for you. :o: If people will get drunk they must learn to stay off the streets. Or if they prefer, get "pinched" for $2 and costs. Letter save the money for win ter you may need it for something to tat. -:o:- The state pure food commissioner 1 as ruled that all cold storage prod ucts must be so branded that the pur chaser may know when buying the same is storage goods. Some eggs being brought in now are worse than cold storage. :o: The postcrmaster general urges everyone to mail their Christmas packages as early as possible in order to insure delivery by Christmas day. The mails are always crowded just before the holidays, and the sugges tion is indeed very timely. :o: The revival services at the Method ist church was one of the most suc cessful ever held in I'lattsmouth. A great credit is due to Rev. b M. Dru liner for his untiring efforts and masterful energy. No pastor ever dis played more enthusiasm in the cause for which he is laboring. :o : The democrats, when congress meets, should stand firmly in their support of President Wilson. Let them go on record as supporting the president's policies. Woodrow Wilson '. a grand, good man, and nced3 the support of every democrat, as well as conservative republicans; who care more for their country than the do for politics. To defend our homes, we need be prepared. "In time of pcr.ee prepare for war!" A DANGEROUS GAME. Vessels flying the American flag are under espionage by British cruisers lying off the American coast.' One of these vessels has been seized and taken to Canada, for reasons not yet made clear. Another was chased from New York to Norfolk, and it escaped capture only by remaining within the j three-mile limit and dodging about in the darkness. Where does the United States stand in such matters, anyhow? How far will Great Britain go before the American people call a halt? The same policy of espionage, search and unlawful seizure led to war between the two nations when the United States was small and feeble, and Great Britain was forced to quit its inter ference with our foreign commerce. Is the United States afraid to pro tect itself, now that it is strong? Or is it unwilling to assert the spirit of 1776 and 1812? Throughout the present war the conduct of Great Britain has been in creasingly insolent and aggressive to ward American commerce. Americans seem to have no rights on the sea which Great Britain is bound to re spect. Protests against this lawless ness have been made in vain, and re cently America has been unofficially notified that the British government will not modify its policy as a result of American protest. Great Britain seems to be confident that the friendship and sympathy of American will stand any strain that she can destroy American commerce and seize vessels bearing the Ameri can flag without running any risk whatever. But Americans, even if they sym pathize with Great Britain in the war, will not stand for war on American commerce under the guise of war cgainst Germany. Real Americans are for America first, even against Great Britain. They are not hyphenates on either side of the war, but are pro American. The continued friendship of the United States and its citizens is worth more to Great Britain than all the profit she can make out of raids on American commerce. Friendship is durable and potent in many directions. It depends upon fair treatment and respect for national rights. Great Britain seems bent upon forfeiting this friendship as something not worth whtfe. Americans who urge submssion to British encroachments on the ground that we have no right to embarrass Great Britain in her fight are doing poor service to Great Britain, as well as to the United States. They are aiding in stirring up a whirlwind. If they had the slightest sense of neutrality and real patriotism, they would stand up for America first and refuse to be made cat's-paws for British commercial schemes. Great Britain is playing a danger ous game when she tries to repeat the sea outrages of 1812. Washington Post. :o: The only connection between wealth and religion is that wealth helps the preacher. :o: Cyrus Townsend Brady thinks that women can't vote intelligently because they wear such foolish clothes; but given the vote, Cyrus, they may con trol the clothes situation by legisla tion. -:o: Congress will probably chew the rag all winter, and not accomplish much, if the opponents of President Wilson can have their way. It re quires no seventh son of a seventh son to forecast with considerably ac curacy to tell what congress is going to do. KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT. (Will Maupin in York Democrat.) There is not in all Nebraska a demo crat more loyal, more forceful, or more ready to give of his time and talents to the , cause of democracy than Ignatius J. Dunji of Omaha. But may not one still pay tribute to Mr. Dunn while at the same time calling his attention to an error into which he, in his loyalty to Mr. Bryan, seems to have fallen? Mr. Dunn is quoted as saying that those who are now criti cising Mr. Bryan and accusing him of disloyalty to President Wilson, were Harmon supporters when President Wilson was a candidate and needed friends; and that the friends he (President Wilson) found then in this state were democrats of the Bryan faction. If Mr. Dunn has been correctly quoted he is laboring under a mis apprehension. At no time during the presidential primary of 1912 did Mr, Bryan declare that he favored Wood row Wilson for president. On the contrary he steadfastly refused to endorse any candidate, although he made it very plain that he was un alterably opposed to Harmon. But as between Wilson and Clark, Mr. Bryan maintained the strictest neutrality and insisted that the rank and file of the party express a preference at the pri mary election. And Mr. Bryan was the warmest possible advocate of the presidential primary because, as he declared, it was the best possible method of allowing the people to se lect their presidential candidates. The result of the primary was that Wood row Wilson ran a very poor second to Champ Clark, while Judson Har mon secured two instructed delegates from the Third district. In other wards, Champ Clark had fourteen in structed delegates among them Mr. Bryan aud Judson Harmon had two. Woodrow Wilson was possibly the second choice of a majority of Nebras ka democrats, but the vote did not disclose. What happened at Baltimore is history well known to all men. After the nomination of Woodrow Wilson the Harmon supporters fell in to line and gave to Wilson their loyal and unswerving support. The man who had fought it out at the primaries in Champ Clark's behalf forgot, if they did not forgive, the method of their favorite's defeat and fell into line for Wilson as heartily and as en thusiastically as they would have done had their first choice been nominated. Mr. Dunn's insinuation that only those who voted for Wilson in the primaries were his friends after his nomination has no basis in fact, and very little in fancy. The Harmon and Clark sup porters who showed their friendship' for Wilson after the Baltimore con vention, are still showing their friend ship by standing loyally behind him; still proving their loyalty to him and to democratic pricinples by upholding policies he is advocating. That Mr. Bryan has a right to differ from the president on questions of policy is ad mitted, but it comes with poor grace from any supporter of the Bryan course to charge prmary supporters of Harmon and Clark with ever hav ing been unfriendly to President Wil son. Mr. Bryan is still insisting that he is president Wilson's friend and well wisher, and doubtless he is honestly convinced that this i3 so. But his re cent utterances, when taken in con nection with his protestations of friendship and loyalty, forcibly re- tall to mind a more or less famous query: "It was all right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs?' Mr. Dunn's declaration and we take it that he has been correctly quoted that the Harmon and Clark supporters were unfriendly to Wilson, either before or ofter the primary of 1912, is not borne out by the facts. ;o: A dollar bill will last three weeks, says the government engraving bureau that creates them, but a silver dollar will last forever. Some old codgers arc still changing around from the day when Uncle Sam coined them. The best holiday ever is confident ly predicted. :o:- Do your Christmas shopping early and avoid the rush. -:o: "Take time by the forelock" and advertise your Christmas goods now. :o: If the per capita wealth is $34 to day you ought to save $25 of that. :o:- Georgia may now buy her pint-a- week in the open and her gallons by the under-ground route. :o: Many a man will blanket his auto mobile who would never think of pro lecting his horse in like manner. :o: Patriotism is not necessarily 4 frenzy to fight for one's country, but a determination to do it if the country needs it. :o . Please bear in mind that the Even ing Journal will not be issued on Thanksgiving day, and govern your selves accordingly. :o: Farmers have discovered that a silo under certain conditions, will distill whisky. This in dry states may rock prohibition to its very foundation. :: A pacificist leader may continue in his course so long as he realizes that "some of the people some of the time" are with him. :o: Former Lieutenant Governor Mc Kelvie, Nebraska's standing candidate for governor, is acain trying to 'work" the press of the state for space. isoriolk 1'ress. :o: It is now the candid opinion of many democrats that W. J. Bryan has left the democratic party. We do not be lieve such is the case, but it would be just as well, the way he is acting. No man who desires the success of democracy could do likewise. There is talk of making the income tax reach even to the small wage earner. That will put the pork-barrel to flight. When the voter pays cash out of his pocket to run the govern ment he will ask where every cent of it goes. :o : Colonel Roosevelt criticizes Eng land's conduct of the war. In all the colonel's varied experiences he has missed just one the opportunity to conduct a war as he would have a war conducted; and we dare say it would be pretty well conducted to make more trouble. o Matters political are getting pretty well jumbled up in Nebraska. Don't be surprised if one party is as deep in the mud as the other is in the mire. There will be much work to do in Ftraightening them out, and the time is limited between now and the pri maries in April. :o : What has become of ex-Senator Burkett? We haven't heard of him in six months, and then it was to tpeak of him as a presidential candi date. But that little boom seems to have died a-bornin'. But then, Bur kett is about as well qualified for the presidency as some fellows the repub licans talk of. :o: If that wasn't a scortching editorial in the Lincoln Star last Monday we would like to know what you would call it? It took the very hide off of Charley Bryan, the acting mayor of Lincoln, and it didn't give him a lick a miss, either. It was a sorry day when the pepole of Lincoln elected him, and they now perceive this fact. ;o: The report going the rounds of the papers that J. Bernard Walker, editor of the Scientific American, spoke at a banquet in this city, and stated that Germany had a bitter grievance against the United States, and a whole, lot of expressions regarding prepared ness, must have taken place in some other town. We are sure Mr. Walker never made any speech at a banquet in Plattsmouth, ' and we doubt very much as to his ever being in this city. The report ia a grave error so far as Plattsmouth is concerned. A STRANGE COMPLAINT. One of the best things that Ameri cans understand little and like less i the apparently growing English feel ing that the United States has a place in the war and for other sordid reason if not for cowardice is refusing to take it. When the Germans revile us we can understand it. Industries in the Unit fd States furnish the enemies of Ger many with ammunition and guns and bankers in the United States furnish ihem with money. We know why the Germans hate us, but the English emo tion comes out of some species of na tional egotism that we cannot com pletely apprehend. There is an assumption not only that English policy is sacrosanct, but that it conserves, necessarily because it is English, all the liberties and for tunes of humanity. Ihis is a siae whiskered vestryman's conception o the importance of his virtue and of the infallibility of his judgment. Naturally it rolls on American, con fcious that the attitude of the United States toward Great Britain has been one perilously near benevolent rather than strict neutrality, to find himself the target of complaint that is whin ing rather than dignified. Our place is not in this war. It would have been an atrocity of Ameri can statesmanship to have involved us in it. It is a war of European politics We are told that a victorious Germany will turn on us. Sensible Americans will take a reasonable view of that and sensible Americans are supporting preparedness plans which will deter a victorious Germany or any other vie torious nation from undertaking a con quest of the United States. To say that Germany will get us is to put forth an utilitarian argument and we have a right to dismiss it without beinir called itrnoble. It is when the moral mood is adopted that the complaint touches our recreancy to a duty imposed by truth, honor, and humanity that the American is likely to find himself provoked to irascibility The English have a perfectly good reason for being at war with Germany and it is not a moral reason. If noth ing but the moralities had been in volved in the issue. Great Britain would be devoting herself wholeheart edly to the business opportunities opened by other nations' quarrels. The Englishman who thinks otherwise is either a sanctimonious Pharisee or a victim of self-yhpnosis. To enter a war tor material reasons ana men complain against the morality of a na tion so aloof from the causes of the war as the United States and call it ignoble for remaining aloof from the . -l 1 iL action, is to give a strange exhibition of hatefully self-righteous egotism. It may amaze Americans to learn that this whimpering sort of complaint against the United States is current aid gaining strength in England. It is so preposterous that it seems an im possibility, but certain forms of English respectability will yield them selves to such a distortion of fairness and rationality. Surely it cannot represent decent English opinion, but if it gets circula tion enough it will begin to influence it, and if it gets circulations enou. over here it will produce the gcratest irascibility this war has caused in the United States. If Americans are to be called pol troons because they are not up to their necks in a war of European politics such as Europe has suffered from often enough times before, they will know that the rule of unreason is the rule of Great Britain. Chicago Trib une. :o: Just think of it five millions of men killed in the European war. :o: The $300 automobile is coming. And you won't have to wait any longer than next season to get them, eithei -:o:- it is a fatal fact that when a man is smart enough to run a good hotel in a small town, he is almost sure to sell out to a man who isn't, and remove to the city to run a bigger hotel. And in a few months he finds out he can't do business in the big city and returns to the old town almost dead broke. But such is life. 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Greece wants to remain neutral, while the king leans strongly toward the Teutonic allies. Germany forced Belgium into a tate of war. England and Fiance are using threats, occuping Greek territory and embargoing Greek shipping in order to force (ireece, into a Elate of war. It must be very gratifying to Bel gium and Greece both to know that this bloody war is being fought for the protection of the sacred rights and ter ritories of neutral small states. "N'ew York American. :o:- Come to The Journal for fine sta tionery. If you have anything for sale adver tise in the Journal. MALL k aioneyjill Cured fistula and All Rectal Dlaaaaaa curad with ut tba kalf . Ptrmintnl auras aruarantaad. Writa tar Fraa lllustratad book on Ractal Dlsaasaa and testimonials at hundrada at curad patlsnts In Nabraska aad laws. Bee Bids., Omaha. Neb. LlAGHi r 1