The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, February 10, 1916, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
PAGE 4. PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 191G. tbc plattsmoistb journal PUBLISHKO jiEMI-WUEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTII, NKUIIAS IvA. Knteredat rostofnceat riattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SlUSCUIPTIOX PItltK: 91X0 i'ii'b'ii'i THOUGHT FOR TODAY. You will find i s you look v back upon your life that the -l-V moments that stand out, the V- moments when you have really V lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. Henry Drummond. TV Democratic banquet Thursday night. :o: Short skirts are r.ot intended for bow-legged girls. :o: This would be a fine year in which to bring the war to a close. :o: We know it is a little early but how about a Fourth cf July celebra tion ? :o: The reason the fe'low who knows it all is happy, is because ignorance is bliss. :o:- The first shall be last and the last shall be first in getting out of an elevator. :o. "Nothing is so bad that it could not Le woise," says one paper, forgetting bad eggs. :o: Indications point to an early spring. We hope Mr. Indication js correct. Don't you? :o: How wonderful is the woman who ca-i make herself lenk like the pic tures in the fashion journals. :o: Women criticise the women's fashions as much as the men do; and that's all it amounts to in either case :o; It is nice to be surprised, and re membered with presents, if the guests candidly meant what they do, and not all for a show. :o:- The price of corn keeps going on up with that of wheat. If a great deal of it had not been soft it would have been a great year for the farmers of Ne braska. :o: Don't make fun of the boys' first moustaches. Encouragement should be given to a return of masculine- looking faces. Great oaks from little acorns grow. :o: We know not how true the story is that Bryan went to Speaker Clark and asked him for peace, but we do know that Champ is standing loyally behind President Wilson. :o: Among other prophets, those who announced that the submarines would speedily revolutionize naval warfare will have to guess sgain. Still, no regular prophet is barred from guess ing two or three times. :o: Judge McCarty may succeed in keeping out of the congressional race a man who would stand a good show of defeating Reavb, but McCarty dort stand a ghost of a chance. This is plain talk, but it would be better if all democrats were just as out spoken. :o: If President Wilson could please everybody he would be a wonder. Some want him to do things, while some would like to see him do nothing. The latter are not expected to be satisfied with the president. He is doing things, and doing them right. And wc candidly believe that if we are to be kept out of the war it will be solely through the efforts of our noble president, who has demonstrat ed to the Americans that he is for American, first, last and all the time.! IMill VKAIl I A' AIIVASCI3 TREACHERY THAT MUST FAIL. There is no mistaking the persist ence with which C. W. Bryan ap proaches his personally conducted can didacy for governor. A more unfit man for the proud position to which he aspires as titular leader of the democ racy in this state could not be found if the commonwealth were scraped with a fine-tooth comb. Avowedly an antagonist of the president with regard to the issue and the policy upon which ihe latter is now- most determinedly and patriotically bent. Mr. Bryan is not representative of the democracy of Nebraska or the public. There can be but one purpose to the candidacy he has so strenuously intruded. It is manifestly to turn the state against the president. It is an effort which cannot prove successful, despite its cunning and its perfidy. There has been no demand for the candidacy of C. W. Bryan, except such as may have emanated from Miami, Florida, and the Commoner office. It was not an easy matter to secure signers to his petition. Most of the former recognized Bryan lieutenants ; i ,,.;,', i . in Lar.com are with tiio president, and 1 do not approve of this insidious effoit to injure him in Nebraska. The town has been diligently combed for dayi past, including the saloons and the postoffice, for signers to this petition, and the hostility of seme of the pro- Germans to the president has been appealed to. But aside from his hostility to the I administration at Washintiron. C. W. Hrv.in .luring ntVior plpmpnt nf un- " fitness for this exalted executive posi- tion. The very men who got out and J elected him mayor an loudest in pro- claiming that his service in that posi- tion, for which he and they promised i so much, has been a distinct failure, However, as was predicted before the recent municipal election, he has sought to use the mavoraltv as a stepping stone into the executive I chair. There is no republican in this state who is so desperately bent as is C. W. Bryan on discrediting President Wil- son. He is obsessed with that ambi- tion. He cannot converse for five minutes on political topics without giving expression to it, and in order to compass that end he has in his appeals for subscriptions to his paper persistently, and it must seem delib- erately, misrepresented the prepared- ness policy of the administration. It would be folly to imagine that the democrats of Nebraska will ever express such disapproval of the splen did administration of Wood row Wilson as the nomination of C. W. Bryan would indicate at this time. It would be an act of treachery on the part of Nebraska democrats of which they are assuredly incapable. Lincoln Star. The dictionary is full of words, but ideas are not so plentiful. :o : Removing the cauce could never remedy hereditary bow-legs. :o: Commerical agencies and their con cerns whose business it is to reason from cause and effect on prosperty, are every one agree that things look splendid for 191G. :o: Isn't Roosevelt, the Firate of Pana ha, a fine chap to be forever prating of international morals, politics and diplomacy and cirtizing a man like President Wilson? :o: It is easy to say something nice about ninety-nine out of every hun dred babies. But really no one ever seen a pretty young baby. But the females generally improve until they are about 1G or 17, and then are per fectly beautiful, in their estimation, at least. slump in the price of :o:- The coasting has been fine this winter. :o: Are you ready for the democratic banquet? :o : This would be a fine little year in which to bring the war to a close. :o: Still there are some tooth pastes that cannot be made any worse by a war tax. , :o: The problem of the powers is to dis cover what each one has back of al the fronts. It must be annoying to submarine u4w,w "I'l""' ptains that su of their conduct :o:- Even the man who seolFs at the gos pel hopes to be saved by it or some other power at the last. :o: Activities of Speaker Clark dis qualify rumors that he would oppose the president's defensive plans. Speaker Clark and Minority Leader Mann go hand-in-har.d in defending the president's preparedness policy. :o: A pessimist arises to remark that a lot of people are optimistic because they don't know any better, and are unwilling to learn. :o: We still believe that if Dr. P. L. Hall would consent to run for the democratic nomination for governor of Nebraska, he would sweep the whole platter and save the democratic party in the state. It is said that Germany is weaken ing, but as Lloyd-George says it, we are still unconvinced. The hypenated gentleman, being on the other side, is stewed in prejudice. You can't be- ! V . 1 1!eve mucn i'ou ad tnese clays, be- cause of prejudice. It is as abundant and invisable as the air VYe believe thr.t every democrat should have a voice in shaping the policies of the party ?nd in the selec tion of candidates, which they now have. Now one democrat is as good as another, and those who assume to dictate that one democrat should do mis or tnat will linu out mat tnat is passed in either of the parties. The people are free and independent and will be found voting just as they please in the election this fall, from president down to constable :o: HOW IT WOULD WORK There is Machiavellian cleverness in the attempt to fasten upon the democrats of this state as ,their can didate for governor a man who is in open opposition to the one policy of tne democratic president which is ex- citing the most acute attention at this time, and will continue to monopolize attention during the coming campaign. Were the democrats to go into the battle with C. W. Bryan as their chos en candidate for governor, either his election or defeat could and would be interpreted as a rebuke to the national administration. If through the opera tion of any now undiscernable forces he should happen to be elected, his election would look like a rebuke to the president because of Mr. Bryan's recognized hostility to the program which the president is so zealously bent on carrying into effect. If he should be defeated, as seems most likely, it could be claimed that the people had become disgusted and turn ed to the republican party for cham pionship. Doubtless it would serve best the plausible purpose of the pacifists if Mr. Bryan could be elected, but if he were defeated they could lay the de feat upon the democratic party and the administration. If C. W. Bryan should be the candi date of the Nebraska democracy a re publican victory would be more easily interpreted as an endorsement of the attitude of the administration than would the election of a democrat who i opposed the president's policy of pre- paredness. Lincoln Star. A slight wheat. IOWA AND BRANDEIS. If a public man is to make secure his title as the people'. friend must he renounce all claim to independence of judgment and lay fairness forever aside? It seems a silly question. But the press dispatches tell that Clifford Thorne, Iowa state railway commis sioner, has gone to Washington to protest the confirmation of Louis Brandeis as supreme judge. Brandeis is not fit to be judge, Mr. Thorne be lieves, because in the eastern railroad rate cases, he admitted that the rail roads needed an increase in their revenues. This admission, in Mr. Thome's estimation, constituted an act of betrayal. And the dispatcne tell further that, since the state of Iowa cannot officially defray the ex pense of Mr. Thorne' trip to Wash ington, private citizens are fulling over themselves in grabbing for that proud privilege. The Iowa dain Dealers' association, the Corn Belt Meat Producers' association, and nine commercial clubs iv. j listed among those eager to put their money up to help Thorne knock Brandeis out. Meanwhile, every reactionary poli tician in the country who has the nerve, ana practical:., an tne great aggregations of corporate capital, are joining with these Iowa farmers and business men to fight the Brandeis confirmation. Their professed objec tion is that Brandeis is "too radical'' and that he "lacks the judicial tem perament." Their real objection, as everyone knows, is that he is the sym pathetic friend of the plain people and the resolution champion of the square deal. If he were merely a demagogue they would not fear him so much. But he is an honest and a very capable man, a man of intellectual integrity, a passionate lover of justice. It is this that makes him dangeious to tho.-e who are not satisfied with justice, who demand, as their share, a little mere than justice and as much more as they can get. A demagogue can be handled," as a rule. If he cannot, he ?oon discredits himself and is no onger formidable. But an honest man imbued with the passion for justice, if he is also an able and fearless mai and if he is as willing to grant tlv rights of his opponents as to deman recognition of the rights of those he champions such a man cannot be handled, and is not easily discredited Such a man is truly dangerous. Hence the opposition to Biandeis by the greatest and most powerful specia interests of the country. But because Brandeis is a just man, because he is disposed to consider both sides of a question, because he is not willing to deal unfairly with the rich est man, or corporation, any more than he is willing that the poorest shall suffer injustice because of this he admitted frankly his belief, founded on much investigation, that the rail roads were entitled to more revenue than they were receiving. And be cause of this he is damned in the house of his Iowa friends. It has been said that republics are ungrateful which is to say that the people are ungrateful. Shall it be said they are unreasonable as well and that, passionately resenting injustice of which they themselves are the vie tim, they are insistent on injustice cf which they are the beneficiaries? Mr Brandeis' corporation enemies, and his corporation-politician enemies, have been fair enough to concede his hon esty and sincerity. But his enemies drawn from the ranks of the plain people, it appears, are impugning his honesty. And why? Because, in the matter of railroad earnings, his judg ment differed from their judgment and was adverse to their contentions. It is the manifestation of just this disposition that does so much to dis credit reform and reformers. No man, in this view, can be an honest friend of the people unless he takes, invaria bly, the popular side. No man can be a sincere enemy of corporate greed and cunning unless he declares in whatever contention that may arise, and whatever its merits, that the corporation is and must be wrong. If he be a just judge he must be, of necessity, always on "my" side. If he, be not on "my" side then, as an ines- j capable conclusion, he is crooked. Despite the Iowa ebullition, how ever, it is not true that this is the popular view. The people, in the long run, are just. Jn the long run they renounce the leadership of the dem agogue and cleave to that of the man of honest and impartial judgment. There can be very litt'e doubt that, if the nomination of Louk- Brandeis wore submitted to a popular vote, it would be accorded the overwhelming ap proval of the electors of Iowa the same as those of Nebraska. And among those voting to approve it would be thousands upon thousands who. less knowledge of the case than Brandeis posses es, nevertheless are firm in the belief that he was mistaken in his opinion in this par ticular case. World-Herald. The idea has been advanced that munitions plants of thii count! y ought to be removed to the center some where, instead of being all along the eastern seashore where a foreign fee might do thorn a whole lot of harm Some people, however, aiv always bor rowing trouble before they get to it. John Wunderlich i.5 entitled to the democratic nomination for .dierilf, if he wants it. It has been the rule for years in both old parties, that where a candidate has made a creditable race two years previous, he is entitled to the second attempt, and democrats are in duty bound to ivc him the op portunity. :t: Two millions of British laboring men have passed resolutions for re ductions of armaments as a move in the direction of permanent peace. If the men cf al! nation:; did likewise war would be at an erd pieity quick, as from their ranks cones the soldiers, uid it is thev who stand the brunt of the battles. The idea of Swell-Head Harman coming out for govemcr, i all moon- -hir.e. But there is a movement to that effect, reports from Lireoln say. Harman has had about all he is en titled, and more. too. We have been in Nebraska about fourteen years, and every election Harman has been up for temethir-ig. A good band-wagon candidate foi governor on the democratic ticket would make all democrats scramble for scats, .is is always the case when we have a safe and competent driver of the band-wagon. A competent leader means everything to the demo cratic party. An incompetent leader means disaster. For years George YV. Beige lias as stcd in democratic campaigns. He has made the race for governor when there was no show frr a democrat to be elected. He has assisted in elect ing democrats, and gene over the state speaking for them. What has Charley Bryan done? Virtually noih ing, except for himself. George Beige is a peoples' man, Charley Bryan a selfish man. :o: Remember that the democratic banouet is next Thursday niirht, :md that Governor Morehcad and Attoi nev General Reed will be there to entertain those who attend. It will only cost you the small sum of $1.00, and the enthusiasm will repay any democrat for coming many miles, be sides the fine talks of the governor and attorney general. Come, and nelp start the ball to rolling, and go home happy. :o: Editor Perkins of the Fremont Her ald, democrat, volunteers the follow- ing: r or iear tne cuuor oi me mi ald may be unjustly accused after the primaries of being a quitter, he wants it distinctly understood here and now that if one C. W. Bryan is nominated for governor on the democratic ticket, the republican candidate has gained at least one unlooked-for vote in Fre mont. Put that in your pipe and rmoke it, and also 'stop the paper' if you want to. ro : The rank and file of the democrats of the state are O. K. But it is the professed leadeis that always raise h 1. v.- vN -.v. J. '.. vtvj 7" - iv ais 15 Flaid Dratted I ! I! I r- ni tA n -.-...; -; w tirTr.ml nnilllCQUa i 'V: c i: ! cnvichs Mid Bowels oN 7.ZiTjr?TaBJB'&r. it ?'' : iVilLLii r rrrr.T. i r tv I - c T"! ."or s! ieilf llCfl- fl' Opit"2i,Morpiiinc nor jjei Or- 1,'ot Narcotic. 1 , . i t"l ! J xSMlfl I JV-'firmLii - ' - 'Vfl a: J, , - 0 ?- -- w ;s-c r- n oriii. it; i .r : lOSSOFggr j .(7 Ei:act Cor y of Wrapper. iU'hTr,iTn During the past 'thirty days, says th Cincinnati Knqedrer, more than one- million employes of industrial cu'.abli.-hmer.ts an 1 transportation line.- in the United States have been notified of advances in wages, the great majo: ity of iko:;e advances be- ng made voluntarily by the employers y i ea.-on cf piofilble business. Dur ng the fust fifteen days of January t is stated that the dividends and in- eie.-t payments uw routed to invest ors and depositors will be far more than 2o0,U00,000. During the calen dar year ll'lo this country received liO.OOO.OuO in gold from abroad more than it exported and .luring that same period ihe gold dug from the mines of the Jnited States amounted to up ward of SJS.000,000 in value. Five hundred and eight million dollars in gold was the net gain of the United States in the yellow mctail during a single year. That increase in gold holdings of the country under the old national banking accounting system would justify an increased issue of paper currency of $2,000,000,000, ant under the smaller reserves deemec necessary under the federal reserve banking system an increased issue of 1,000.000,000 paper could be safely carried. :o : EGGS FOR HATCHING. S. C. Rhode Island Red eggs for hatching, Toe per setting at the house, by express ?1.00 per setting, by the 100 $4.00 at the house. The very best strains. A few hundred "Progressive" and "Suncrba Everbearing Strawberry plants for sale at f 1.00 per 100. Have 2 or o registered Duroc-Jer sey bred sows for sale, bred for March litters, bred to a son of "King the Col." W. B. Porter, Mynard, Neb. 'Phone Platts.4021. l-13-d&w-tf AFTER LAG RIPPE WHAT? F. G. Picvo, Bedford, Inch, writes: "An attack of Iagrippo left me with a severe cough. I tried everything. I j;ot so thin it looke 1 as if I never would get well. 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Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Bears the J PTmt.nrn Jr w THE CIKTAUH COK'llir, HtW YORK CITY. - ti''lrii - Mft - mM Procrastination is the national sport of a lot of patriotic citizens. :o: The demociatic stat. committee will meet at the Paxton hotel in Omaha Saturday. :o: The trouble with democrats cf Nebraska is, too many want to be bosses or they won't play. :o: It may be said of the republics l leaders that if thev nominate Roo-c- velt, it won't be their fault. :o: If we wanted to go down in hitoiy as a fal?e prophet, the one big thing we'd pull off would be to predict an early peace in Mexico. :o : We predict that Louis D. Brandeis, for judge of the United States su preme court, will bo confirmed with out any trouble whatever. :o: Everything looks favorable for a busy summer season in Plattsmouth. And our building contractors are pre paring for it in good shape. :o : When a girl tells her suitor that she will be a sister to him, he thinks she is letting him off easy, but the thump near bursts him wide open ju t the same. The man who is always claiming that the future will justify him evi dently thinks posterity will have an unusual amount of leisure time on its hands. :o: There is not so much talk about the high cost of living as there was a year ago. 1 or the simple reason tliai people have become reconciled to live at any price. WHAT CHILDREN NEED NOW, In spite of the best care mothers can give them this weather brings sickness to many children. Mrs. T. Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wds., writes: "Foley's Honey and Tar cured my boy of a severe attack of croup after other remedies had failed. It is a wonder ful remedy for coughs, colds, crou; and whooping cough." It stops la grippe coughs. 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