THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1913.
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PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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siiisciin-iio.v l'liici:: i--.o
& THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
The traveler has to knock at
V every alien door to come into c-r hand, but not so much, that no pre-l-
his own and one has to vandor .:-!paredness is needed. Government back-
-l' thioujrh all the outer worlds to "'
reach
the innermost shrine at
! the end
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Only 3 more days till Santa Claus
comes.
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There is no machinery so miserably
used as human machinery.
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Th.:t municipal Christmas tree
would have proved the thing.
Who thoutrht last Fouith of July
that Christmas would be here so soon?
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Have S'me pity on the clerks, and
lift wait till dark Christmas eve to
d'j our ;-hoppin.ir.
There are times in a man's life when
h- feeks that if reinforcements do r.ot
con:.; all will be lost.
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Did you ever notice that no man is
ever anxious to many a woman who
hn't afraid of a mouse?
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Some additional revenue cou'.d be
raised by taxirtr members of cor.Lrre.s
on their printed speeches.
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A'.d ;".ov.- the dear constituents will
revel ve sundry copies of pe-rodicals and
o:itorL-al speeches which were never
delivered in congress -
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What a jrlorious thlnjr it would be
if cou'd fin.! this tjw:i without a
kr.K.ker, and with everyone a booter.
And it cujI J. if you would.
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Tfxiay is the 1 wriest day of the
year. T'rey will soon ie:i:i to letthen
out until we all will be able to get in
a d :vs wotk and then some.
As J ci-te maker ic can be said that
Henry Ford is goA.-d to 1:1 .s people and
his hired help. That i -; More than can
be said of manv manufacturers.
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To .-.ecu re happiness yourself try to
rrake others happy is old advice. Can
jou recall anyone premeditated:' ap-ji-'acling
ou on such an errand
ar. 1 what were the symptoms?
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Champ Clark says if he had his way
theie never would b: any more nation
al conventions, ''but wu would have
I : evidential primaries instead." Champ
i.; nearly always right.
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Eve: y thing seems to be very )uiet
i: round the state capital. There is r.o
fa sing, and the mo'-t of those in of-l'.-
e have abjut given up the idea of
ic-elcetion. And it i-: just as well.
If we prepare for old age we wili
p-jt it. If v.e prepare for death we
"v - i i I get it. If we prepare for war we
. ill get it. And the chances are we
wi!l get them all whither we prepare
for them or not.
I he uestion is novv being discussed
in some s.ccti'jr.c as to whether or not
"Hone, ty is the best policy!" Of
course there are people who will sit
i.p and take the honest side of the
tfuestion that would cheat his grand
father out of his last dollar.
. :o:
Politics will ojwi up in good thape
after the holidays are over. The can
didates will begin their tramps over
the country shaking hands with the
dear people. There will be plenty of
iadidatea for state and county of
fices, and the ISth of April will settle
who will and who will not b candidates.
n:ii i:au in adva.mk
AN AMERICAN MESSAGE.
There will be soiiio complaint that
the president's preparedness plans are
inadequate, ami coir plaint, on the oth-
for a merchant marine will find
opp - "" li ""i"'-1'"1"1-"
e .1 clu'n
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subsidy. Hut from out of tlie.se dif
ferences of opinion and others too
r.urr.erous to mentioii, as the sale bills
say, will come rather unanimous ap
proval of his sentiments of Pan-Americanism;
America for Americans and
America before all other countries.
There was a time when no such utter
ances were needed, and even now the
minority he aimd at was small, but, as
he pointed out. ar.d as there has been
recent abundant evidence, it is malig
nant, and should be summarily dealth
with. And by far the greater num
ber of Americans will welcome his re
commendations for preparedness,
which is really the main issue of the
address. Only those so blind they
won't see can longer believe in the
strength of this nation in a military
way. Men and money we have, but
men ar.d money are r.ot enough. Our
:rmy and navy are excellent, no doubt,
what there is of them, particularly of
the army. And if America for Amer
ican is worth while, Americans must
prepare to keep it that way, or they
.should. Otherwise we are trusting to
luck, which can't be r-.Iied upon always
to be j'ood.
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i A man should not Le judged by his
Sunday exertions, but by his every
day acts.
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Teacc in America ami good will to
ourselves. 1 fie rest ot tne world is
raising too much h 1 to be included.
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The Old Year is rapidly drawing to
a close, ar.d don't forget that new
resolution that is to take effect on and
after January 1, 191U
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The report comes fiom Lincoln that
John Maguire's frien Is are endeavor
ing to bring him to the front for con
gress again. L'ut we can hardly be
lieve it.
W'e can never bel'cvc that maple
sirup is as good as it was when it
was spelled "syrup," and brought on
in barrel?. The hotted "sirup" never
seen a maple tree.
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Isn't it jiieer? The most recent sug
gestion that the lawyers, through their
state association, should select our
judges conies from one who has a
spasm ar.d froths sit the gills every
time anyone hints that the primary
iaw is a failure. However this sug
gestion is not likely to be taken very
-eriouly by the people, nor by very
n.any lawyers. They have been up
against it before. Lincoln Star.
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A local merchant a few days ago in-fornn-d
the writer that not less than
half a dozen of Ids customers people
whom he had trusted when they needed
credit '.sere sending away for their
groceries when they possessed the
e-a..h to pay for them. Of course, peo
ple have a legal light to spend their
rnor-oy where they please, but it is a
darned poor way to buiid up a town
and when these same people have been
accommodated with cvedit by the local
merchant, it looks very much like in
gratitude to send away for goods kept
here at home. Every dollar sent out
of Plattsmouth keeps bringing down
the value of property, and the Journal
fears people who follow the practice
arc injuring themselves, as well as
those with whom thev should trade. Of
course, dear reader, this does not mean
you, for you wouldn't do such a thing,
even if your neighbor does. Da your
Christmas shopping before the last
hour Christmas eve.
'CONTEMPTIBLE.
An honest confession is good for the
soul. The New York Tribune, the
leading republican newspaper of the
country, cleanses its soul in a burning
editorial beginning with this sentence:
"It is impossible to read the reports
of the republican gathering in Wash
ington without a feeling that approxi
mates contempt."
When the leading republican organ
confesses its contempt for the lead
ers the national committee of its
own party, it must ie admitted that
the situation is an unusual one. But
the facts as the Tribune outlines them
aie such as to explain that news
paper's feelings.
In charge of the assembly, it de
clares, were men whose very names
have become odious to millions of
American voters. They are showing
the same spirit as led to the revolt in
1112. "Every outward evidence in
dicates that the republican leaders are
now planning to return to power, as
did the Hoiirbcns, having learned noth
ing, having forgotten nothing."
Cowardice and petty politics, the
Tribune linds, characterize the course
of these leaders in dealing with the
president's foreign policies. The presi
dent must be attacked for weakness,
but in doing so care must be taken
not to offend the German-American
voters. Therefore attack the Mexican
policy. "Happily, there are no Mexican-American
voters." Continuing,
the Tribune says:
"The main line of attack is still
safer; let us stick to the economic
argument, to prosperity, which in
sound republican gospel. If there is
some prosperity now, this is due only
to the war; what the country needs is
he good old-fashioned republican or
ganised prosperity, the return to the
days of McKinley ar.d Hanna. Here
is safe ground, which will not risk
the loss of any German-American
o'.es.
"As for the progressives. since they
ire numerous, they must be treated
with respect, but since they are no
longer orgj nixed they are no longer
i peril; tlv y represent nothing; they
have no issue; at most they mierht
have a candidate, but this is doubtful;
f only everything is conducted with
lecorum. with becoming silence, with
that skill which is natural to republi
can leadership, all will be well.
The main, the sole thing is to win, ami
the winning is to bring back into party
power Barnes and Penrose and all the
nteresting figures whose names are a
part of recent republican history."
Concluding this excoriation, the in
dignation of the Tribune is such that
it requires an unusually long sentence
to put the situation tip, in the form
of an interrogation, to the republican
voters and to the country:
"In this situation co-iid there be
anything more contemptible, more
I rovocative of indignation and wrath,
than a little group of selfish politic
ians, already discredited by past de
feat and public' castigation, .sitting
!own together solemnly in the national
capital and planning to get back to
power by avoiding every semblance of
courage or principle, by pandering to
the passions of half a dozen mutually
antipathetic factions and seeking to
harness to their own cart every p'e
?.ent popular emotion without , taking
firm ground or honest stand on any
issue whatsoever?"
It is "some question." But that it
embodies the present tendencies of the
republican party, the plans and pur
poses of the republican leaders, there
can be no question.
There is a very considerable ques
tion, however, whether a campaign for
office that has its inception in the
slimy gutters and noisome basements
of politics will appeal to the honest,
patriotic rank and file of the great,
party that held tip the hand of Abra
ham Lincoln when he, too, was piloting
the country to sefety through days of
itrcss and peril.
As for the democratic party, eer
tinly it will welcome such an issue and
such a campaign. It can be proud that
it is standing for an administration
that has done things, that has r.ot
been afraid, that has acted sincerely
and unselfishly for the common wel
fare, and that dares go before the
country as the champion of great
principles. World-Herald.
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Two more days only till Christmas.
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The usual flow to Omaha twice each
day.
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Most joy riders think the ride is
worth $25, anyway.
The golden rule never works satis
factory unless it Is practiced with
reciprocity.
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From Foids diary: December 8,
passed an iceberg, but it seems a two
cylinder affair.
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Can a cocked hat hold two eminent
personages at the same time? We
shall see next year.
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Hard times make a mini's fortune
shrink, but nothing like the publica
tion of an inventory of his estate.
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"King Peter Escapes on Horse
back." That's a headline and sugges
tion to King George to practice up.
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Pastor Russell says every man
makes his own hell; the idea is not
new; and that's not the kind of hell
Billy Sunday does business with.
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Every hotel of importance through
out the land should have a night
watchman. The Unitc-if States su
preme court says theie is a law to that
effect.
Our immediate ancestors who were
"a sturdier race than we are," so they
tell us. used to wear those heavy wool
en scarfs around their necks. Molly
coddles! :o:
Candidates for governor on the
democratic side of the house seem to
be very quiet in the matter. It is
pretty near time for them to show
their colors.
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The average kid is the happiest lit.
tle mortal on earth just now in an
ticipation cf what Santa Claus has in
store for them. May they not be sael
ly disappointed.
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Our diplomatic representatives to
some of the smaller European states
now have to keep their trunks packed,
as they don't know what hour they
may be called home.
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We have done our be?t to ease the
work of the clerks in the closing
hours before the dawn of Christmas,
and it may be we have succeeded to
some little extent. At least we
hope so.
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There is but one candidate for gov
ernor, so far, from the west part of
the state, while there are six or seven
from the east. This is an unequal di
vision, and a bright, lively republican
candidate from the west could easily
sweep the platter.
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Somehow it makes us more suspic
ious of Japan when some J;'.p diplomat
arises to remark how friendly his na
tion feels toward ours. If you don't
know much about Japan, you may
I now something about diplomacy, and
its celebrated language.
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The house at Washington on Thurs
day of last week adopted the joint res
olution extending the emergency reve
nue tax one year from Deceinber JJ1,
when the existing act expires. The
vote was 2'). to !'.). The tax is ex
pected to produce $K2,OU(),000 during
the year l'JliJ.
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It would appear to a man up a tree
as though the contract for the library
would be let as soon as possible in
order to expedite matters. In case a
local contractor gets the contract a
great deal of the carpenter work could
be done inside the shop during the cold
weather which would help matters
along. We cannot see any special rea
son for delay in the matter.
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To us no season oC the year awak
ens so much of tenJerness and fel
low feeling towards all humanity as
Christmas. It is not only a time of
well wishing, but kindly doing, with a
vein of sympathy that would turn no
one away , empty, without no tender
Erecting, no act of kindness, not a word
of love that might contribute to an
other's happiness. No sacrifice seems
too great that we might not bless one
another no yielding up of self too
trying that we might smooth some
life, r.o trial of patience too great that
we might not bear and forbear with a
spirit vexed with many things.
REJECTED PIFFLE.
The always interesting Norfolk
Press calls attention to one republic
an newspaper man in Nebraska with
brains and a conscience Editor
?dills of the Wakefield Republican.
His fame should be heralded not be
cause he is a rare bird; we believe
there are moret han a few republican
editors in Nebraska like him and that
they will be heard from as the repub
lican program of deception develops
but to encourage those who are stand
ir.g back to come forward and stand
up for truth and a square ileal.
To Editor Mills was sent one of the
ready made editorials provided by the
Nebraska Republican Publicity Asso
ciation, which is nominally presided
over bv Frank Currie of Custer countv
a good man who should be in better
business; actually managed by the
versatile Jimmy Haynes of Omaha,
ar.d financed and inspired from the
lower end of Manhatten Island. This
was the editorial :
"The democratic tariff law has
been in effect twenty-one months.
Under it the value of cattle importa
tions is .:!:J,7;..i7.'i. Under the last
twenty-one months of the old law, the
cattle importations were valued at
Sll.iJL'.oIO. That is to s;y, the demo
crats increased the competition feh by
the American slock raisers three fold,
and at the seme time deprived the na
tion of n;illior.s of dollars of much
needed revenue. Now the democrats
cut out this revenue for the reason,
they said, that it would force a reduc
tion in the price of be-ef to the con
sumers to admit cattie of foreign
states free of duty. Has it dor!- so?
Ask any housewife in any city in Ne
braska. She will tell you that she is
paying more for beef than two years
ago."
Taking as a text this "editorial"
provided for him by the splendidly
unanimous lenders of whom Mr.
Rose'.vater boasts, the editor of the
Wakefield Republican wrote as fol
lows :
"Some much needed e-Npk'.mition.-are
omitted from the foregoing. Would
not the pri.-e of beef h v.e bom still
higher had it not been for tli-j h.c revis
ed importations? If so. is rot that
equivalent to reducing the price? If
the price would have not been higher,
how has the "three-fold competition
felt by the American stock raisers" in
juriously affected them? Does lower
ing the U.riff on a commodity inciease
the price of it to the consumer, injure
the producer of it, ar.d cut down the
government's tevenue? Tho.-e seem to
be the inferences we are er.pected to
draw from the article quoted. Some
body please straighten this out for us.
We are a marked copy to F.
M. Currie of Brewster, president of
the above mentioned organization, in
the hope that he may enlighten us.
"We try to be a fairly good repub
lican, but we do not intend, if we can
k.'lp it, to be a pary to any scheme
for simply discrediting the democratic
administration without real cause.
Such campaign stuff as the foregoing
would drive us into th democratic
ranks if they were not up to the same
capers."
The concluding proviso of this splen
did editorial may be forgiven as a
concession Editor Mills makes to par
tisan etiquette. The truth is that the
democratic administration is willing to
stolid on the record it has made, and
on the results of that record. It is
not trying to deceive the country, and
could not if it would. The facts are
there. They speak for themselves
People who believe the administration
and congress have not done honestly
the best they were capable of doing
tor the country, and who are not sat
isfied with the results, may be ex
pected to vote for a different kind of
government in the coming election
the kind, presumably, that was pro
vided under Taft, with the able assist
ance of Messrs. Smoot, Penrose,
Cannon and other active assistants.
Those who think President Wilson
and a democratic congress have done
well, and who desire to continue that
kind of government, may reasonably
be expected to give it their support.
World-Herald.
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Jin wberc's the reason an' wberc's the proof
'Bout reindeer runnin' acrost the roof?"
Hn' so it came, on the Christmas eve,
T)c built the biggest fire
Che chimney ever had known, an' said
Hs the red flames climbed up higher:
'Til find where your Santy Claus is at;
I'll b'lieve in him if he comes through tbatl"
Hn' Santy Claus, he came along
Klitb a merry laugh an' shout,
Hn' he called to the JSorth SHind, brave an'
strong:
"Come ! Blow that fire out I"
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