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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
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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.
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Democratic banquet Thursday night.
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Short skirts are r.ot intended for
bow-legged girls.
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This would be a fine year in which
to bring the war to a close.
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We know it is a little early but
how about a Fourth cf July celebra
tion ?
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The reason the fe'low who knows
it all is happy, is because ignorance
is bliss.
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The first shall be last and the last
shall be first in getting out of an
elevator.
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"Nothing is so bad that it could not
Le woise," says one paper, forgetting
bad eggs.
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Indications point to an early spring.
We hope Mr. Indication js correct.
Don't you?
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How wonderful is the woman who
ca-i make herself lenk like the pic
tures in the fashion journals.
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Women criticise the women's
fashions as much as the men do; and
that's all it amounts to in either case
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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administration at Washintiron. C. W.
Hrv.in .luring ntVior plpmpnt nf un-
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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
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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.
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Removing the cauce could never
remedy hereditary bow-legs.
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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.
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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?
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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
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The coasting has been fine this
winter.
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Are you ready for the democratic
banquet?
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This would be a fine little year in
which to bring the war to a close.
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Still there are some tooth pastes
that cannot be made any worse by a
war tax. ,
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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
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Even the man who seolFs at the gos
pel hopes to be saved by it or some
other power at the last.
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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.
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A pessimist arises to remark that
a lot of people are optimistic because
they don't know any better, and are
unwilling to learn.
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The rank and file of the democrats
of the state are O. K. But it is the
professed leadeis that always raise
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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.
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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.
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Procrastination is the national
sport of a lot of patriotic citizens.
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The demociatic stat. committee will
meet at the Paxton hotel in Omaha
Saturday.
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The trouble with democrats cf
Nebraska is, too many want to be
bosses or they won't play.
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It may be said of the republics
l leaders that if thev nominate Roo-c-
velt, it won't be their fault.
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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.
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We predict that Louis D. Brandeis,
for judge of the United States su
preme court, will bo confirmed with
out any trouble whatever.
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Everything looks favorable for a
busy summer season in Plattsmouth.
And our building contractors are pre
paring for it in good shape.
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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.
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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.
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