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THURSDAY, FEURLARY 21, 1916. PAGE I PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. 'Cbz plattsrsioytb journal n m.iMii.n $eni-wi:f.ki.v at i-lattsmoitii, xhiihaska. Entered at l'ostoffice at Iattsmout!i. Neb., as scon J-class mall m.itter. R. A. BATES, Publisher siufcmrrio.N ritici:: i-so .XHrW"HWH THOUGHT FOK TODAY. V We do a great deal of hirk- y , ir.jr in tin life on the ground of j J- rot Loins geniuses. Rose E. Cleveland. V j 1 -.A.'r-XV .0 Sunday a most beautiful day. .0 : Candidates are filing quite liely r.ow. :o: Mirrors can be made to lie, the same :.s figures. :o: No preacher -houM oppose prepared ness, for they all preach it. Alrr.o-t everybody lives in a glass h ue of ore kind or other. Remem ber that. -.11 : If spring n.ai.s port .-hirts again, perhaps wc can stand a great deal ir.ore winter. :o:- If "Old Sol" keeps up his present pace of drying out, the farmers will soon be p!owh.g. :o: Headquarters have been opened up in Lincoln to bnm Senator Cummins" presidential aspirations. :o: If di-agree:dde wives were only re tcr.i ii stituti'-ns there wouldn't be ury iHiges dating hundreds of years. At last our favorable balance of tr:..!c ha passed the billion mark. L'nder a democratic administration, too. :o: Annri'-an canned saimon is favor known th: ouhout the entire noiid. The exports of it amounted to $7. . W a vear. Senator Hitch.-ck has recommend ed Sam Hinkle for potma-ter at Hav. !t.k. Sam i an old Flattrncuth l- y. ind they all like him down this way. :o: Whilo th. war m ikes considerable '"copy" from time to time, a girl is :.pt to regard an announcement of her engagement as the mot important news. :o : In the death of Judge English Omaha loses one of its most able law yers, the state an excellent citizen and the democratic party one of its faith ful supporters and defenders. :o: Wedding bells will soon ring in this Id tcwn. It would not be policy to :-ay anything further, only the contracting parties were out Sunday fteir.oon looking for a vacant house. :o: Cheeks must not touch, arms must not h2 mound necks, and there must Le a spacj between couples hereafter, is the law in the Northwest univer sity. But i; is r.ot liable to go in Plattsmouth. :o: It will be remembered that there was another resignation from Presi dent Wilson's cabinet a few months ago. Rut, if anything, the incident failed to create as much :tir as the resignation of flarri-on, which has already Lecn lost sight of. , :o : "As your responsible .servant, I must tell you that the dangers are constant. I must go out and tell ihi jeople that new circumstances have arise-i which make it necessary that America defend itself. The facts of the world ate such that it is my duty to counsel my fellow citizens that the preparation for national d fr'nse canr.ot any lor err b porW Fici President Wilson's Pittsburg Address. January 27th. .hjva.xg HOOT S Ki:rEHEMJU3I ON WAR. j.:iihu 1:,,ot s speech at the itpub- lican state convention v.as a Ueeiara- t;on of w.ir Iore t;,an tnat, it was a ,ouc dcchiratic-n of v:;r war with many and war with .Mexico. The speech has r.o other meaning, !;nd insofar as .Mr. Root has power to commit the republican parly to a for eign policy in opposition to the policy of the Wilson administration, that policy is a policy of war. Mr. Root by his speech has render ed a highly important public service because he has measured and charted the c:ily ground of honost opposition to the president's handling of foreign sitfairs. There are two courses that the United states government can pursue, a::d only two. One of them is the course that President Wilson has followed. The other is an appeal to arms. What Mr. Root proposed to the country is that the republican party .-liould force a referendum on war and iake itself the champion of war. Has the republican party the cour rge and the sincerity cf Mr. Root? Will it accept the issue that Mr. Root has offered to it and go before the country ne:t fall as a war party avowedly committed to the doctrine that our differences with Germany nd with Mexico do not admit of riplr-matic settlement? We hope it will. Regardless of cur own vievs, we think the American people ought to have a chance Lo determine this ouestici for themselves as a clean cut issue. It is a matter that only the sovereign authority Df the Ameri-J can people is competent to decide. The power to declare war is vested by the constitution in congress. As congress is now constituted, an over whelming majority of both parties are opposed either to war with Germany cr war with Mexico. Bat this congress was elected before lie: many proelaim- ed a submarine zone and before the I Lusitania w." sunk. It was elected before the Carranra government was recognized in Mexico. It was elected when the whole country was commit ted to a policy of neutrality. Pel haps the sentiment of the coun try has changed. Perhaps congress is no longer represented. Perhaps the country wants war, as Mr. Root wants war. The way to determine is for the republican party to follow Mr. Root's leadership, to make his speech its na tional platform and go before the country openly and aggressively on that grave basis. Then every citizen could vote intelligently. He could 1 n:u ikau i. trke President Wilson and the policy j Whatever the demerits of Presi of diplomatic adjustment that Presi-; dent Wilson's policy may be, his dent Wilson has followed; or he could take the republican candidate for president, and the certainty of war with Germany and Mexico regardless of diplomacy and diplomatic adjust ments. If the republican party is not a coward, it must follow Elihu Root into th.e only course of honest opposition to the Wilson administration. It must make itself the advance agent of war. New York World. :o:- We are for Aithur Mullen for na tional committeeman because he has had great experience in managing political campaigns, and is the very man who can do lots of good work in the way of carrying Nebraska for Woodrow Wilson. Arthur Mullen is without a peer in this work. :o: The European war has brought un- j dre-amcd of prosperity Id Japan. Evi dence of this is found not only in the enormous increase in the gold reserve, but in the fact that the Japanese newspapers are busy chronicling the rise of many new-made millionaires, who plunged early in the war and j 1 tmerged with riches. The roads arc in a deplorable con dition. in: The bluebirds are here, but spring is not. :o:- Moving time will soon be here March 1. A healthy stomach has everything except judgment. :o: Affinities should be trained early not to write letters. :o: Another month and road dragging will be in order and spring plowing, also. The Fatherland, of New York, says Elihu Root is th.e mc.-t hated man in the United States. And why? :o: There is too much talk about pre paiedr.ess and not enough action. Most anybody can talk, but action talks the loudest. :i :- A Kansas newspaper, in comment ing cn the slow growth of tiie popula tion of that .state, asks the question: '"Why don't more people come to Kan sas, and why dor.'t. they stay here?" It is because it is close to Nebraska, a great Jeal better state. John Murtey of Alvo has filed for representative en the democratic tic ket. There is no question in regard to Mr. Murtcy's quaiiheation for the position, lie is a gentleman well post ed on all matters liable to come up in the legislature, and if nominated and elected, his constituents in Cass comi ty can depend upon their interests be ing well guarded. We know John Murtey and know him to be a splendid man. A SLANDER ON THE RFI URLIC. Mr. Root's attack cn President Wil o:i for noi protesting to Germany the overruning of Ucigiuni was 11: reality an assault upon tnu whole American people. Mr. Root himself waited eighteen month-; after the event before declar ing puhliely th it the president should have rent a protest to Germany. He was in the senate when the invasion took place, yet he offered no resclu t:cu condemning Germany or criticiz l:.g the president for not calling the kaiser to account. Nob dy in the United States at that time, or for months afterward, thought of such a thing as protest. The whole American people were glad to be out of the war, and indorsement of the presi dent's course and his neutarlity policy v.as universal. No political party in any campaign since then has ventured to raise the specific issue of Belgium not eun the convention last week over which Mr. Root presided. To attack the president now, because of his course concerning Belgium, is to attack the nation, because the union -icnuiesced in the president's course. course was thoroughly wise and ir reproachable, and to say that the na tional honor or the national con--slccnce was dragged in the mire is a slander on this republic. There is one supreme issue for Americans in connection with the European war. Do we want war or nonce? All specific questions arising in the course of the war must be con sidered with reference to that under lying question. It is political coward ice lo avoid outspoken preference for war with reference to Belgium; it is political cowardice again to make an illusion cf his handling of the sub marine problem, and the Lusitania case in partciular, while avoiding an .avowal in favor of war. And it is precisely that sort of cowardice ot which Mr. Root is guilty. A great statesmanlike mind, like Mr. Root's, professes that peace should be rnain- tained, but at the same time, he seeks to weaken and destroy the one man in maintainin'r peace bv accusing him 1 of deadening the national conscience , and sacrificing the national honor. lie is a perfect image of those patriots who continuously assaulted Lincoln for not saving the union with less war end bloodshed. Springfield Republic. HE NEVER SAID IT (?) Assuming to boss the affairs of a great political party in a state whose people are as intelligent as those in Nebiaska is not always a delightful undertaking. Colonel Bryan's orderly sergeant in this state now advises the public that he never said that democratic candi dates for state olilces must declare their attitude upon the liquor question, and that such declaration must be in accord with the Bryan position, or risk the opposition of tine Bryan a. If C. W. Bryan never issued such a proclamation, there has existed a slate-wide mistake among the intelli gent men of all parties. Queer how sueh mistakes gain curency! Some of the men who hold office in the state house have stated at various times that they had been visited by C. W. Bryan and given emphatic warn ing that they would have to speak out with regard to that position on the amendment. These demands were fre o'ji nt and insistent. So far as learned, not one of them 'came across." They insisted that they were exporting to be candidates for state olbce on their records for ef-'irii'!if-v ;imi i riinnmv. mid were rv-r- fectly ready and content to abide by the popular decree on the amendment. If C. W. Bryan was not urging this point among democrats, how did it happen that he had a tiff with Victor Wilson of Strcmsburg, candidate for railway commissioner, who. although an advocate of a dry state, refused to yield to the Bryan demand that d.emo ciatic candidates make their attitude on that point the measure of their fit ness for office? As a matter of fact, C. W. Bryan ba--e.s his chief preter.se as a guber natorial candidate upon his attitude on the liquor question. He has more that once hi-b. ted that a democratic can lidate for goernor mu.t make his campaign as an advocate of the amendment in order that he may have something progressive to light for. He and his lieutenants have scoured the siate for candidates for state of nees to meet his1 expectations in that rc.-pect. Results led only to the con clusion that lie could not find them, be cause dry democrats believe generally that the amendment is under the initiative and referendum a question independent, of party politics and should remain so. The. best evidence that, democrats re fund stubbornly to yield to that sort of dictation lies in the fact that most of the leading candidates that the Biyan lieutenants have been getting into the field for ei'.her state or na tional preferment are "wets." It must be humiliating to Mr. Bryan to state publicly that lie had urged five other men to run for governor in order that he might not have to make th.e race himself. The live he named aie Edgar Howard of Columbus, W. H. Thompson of Grand Island, I. J. Dunn of Omaha, Judge Thomas of Seward and J. S. Canaday of Minden. Of these the only recognised representative of the dry element is Mr. Canaday. It takes Eryanic logic to explain why C. W. Bryan urged four wet democrats to run for governor lo re lieve him of the necessity of flinging himself into the imminent deadly breach to run upon his dry qualifica tions. One of the men he says he urged to run has been attorney for an Omaha brewery, and may be yet. Political bos,si..m without a pie counter attachment is bound to be a fu:zle. Among the most active champions of the amendment there are a num ber who have let it be known that they do not like the Bryan effort to "lide" this issue, but they prefer not to protest because it might lead to dissension in the ranks of amendment supporters. Among them there is recognition of the possibility that anti- Bryan sentiment may ocst the amend- ment considerable support it would 1 otherwise receive. Lincoln Star. :o: We have interviewed a great num- bcr of farmers within the past ten days, and we have failed to talk to one democrat but thinks that John Wun derlich should have a clear field for sheriff on the democratic ticket. It is ! no more than right and proper that he ... - ' should. Edgar Howard is a better man for governor than Charley Bryan, but Ed gar is not near fast enough to get the nomination. :o:- Th.e war seems to have found a use j for everything recently invented ex- cvpt a Ferris wheel and the non-re-filable bottle. :o: . Pel haps the most pitiful looking object is the big man who has just made 11:1 unsuccessful attempt to kiss! a little woman. Some fellows run for ollice because they want the office. Others run be cause they think it will hurt some one else. See! :o:- 'hcn is an afllnity not an af finity?" l)-n't give this up until you have investigated the domesticity of the affinities who have married. V. F. Meran of (Hoe county should be selected a delegate to the demo cratic national convention because he is eminently fitted for the place. : o : Theie is a ro.-.ornbiar.ce between diiving a team of mules and running a newspaper. Some say one must swear to muke mules act properly. A conference of mayors of the large cities of the country is to be held in St. Louis March 11 and 1. The aim is lo start a nation-wide movement in er-pport ( f President Wil.-on's pre paredness policies. , Germany, according to a Lond.cn re port, wants to do the right thing by Seibia. and will offer to place Prince Eilel Friedrich, second sen of Emperor William, on the Serbian thione under an Auetro-German suzeianity. And indeed Scibia could do a whole lot worse. Germany can make Serbia prosperous. :o: GENERAL .MILLS' PLAN. No one l.no as ail about this pre pai edness business, or just w hat the count: y really needs, but if one knows anything, he should know it needs something more than is at present avmh ble. The question seems to cen ter around just what is needed, and opinions vary from universal militaiy service down to modest demands for more o.iiecrs for such troops as are at present in -ervice. The layman should er.d probi bly would be willing to liste: to th.e experts, if only the expert would agiee a little better, but thcr the lange of notions on preparednes seems about as wide and varied as in the street corner argumenis. General Wood and Scott, for instance, see the need of universal service, perhaps on the Swiss or Australian plan, but cer tainly some system which will lead every mother to raise her boy to be a soldier. But now comes General Nelson A. Miles, a figluer for half a century, ar.d says no compulsory service is needed, and that the continental army plan threatens a dangerous centralization of power. An increase is needed, he admits; say a regular establishment of loO.OOO men and a militia increase in proportion, with a plan for increas ing the foice to 1,200,003 to 2.000,000 by expanding the units of the or ganization, in cae of great need. The -peril of foreign invasion is exagger ated, he says, and it may be. It is possible, he admits, and therefore a larger force is needed, but not so much larger. The answer of the universkd service fans, and it is some answer, is that Miles fails to comprehend the vast r.ess of modern war, which means, al most, a nation in arms. And yet, on the other hand, there may be some thing to the theory that the conscript can't light as well as the volunteer. Those who have followed th.e war on all fronts point to the Canadians as the ablest soldiers, and they volunteer ed, and went farthest from home in their search" for trouble. And yet the Get man conscripts have done well enough for all practical purposes, not to mention the showing of the French, Auolrians and Russians. It is quite a muddled question, this preparedness business, and probably will be muddled further hefors con gress gets through with it. Children Cry The Kind You Have Always Bottght, and v Iiicli lias been ia use for over 0 years, lias borne the signature of and lias been made under Lis per- 6x y'-i- sonal rzfY, ' 6CU2, Allow All Counterfeits, Imitations and 'STust-as-jrood " are bt:S Kxperimenfs that trifle with and endanfrer t!io Ircaltli of Iniuuts and Children Experience against E.eriiuent- What Is CASTORS A Castoria is a harmless snbstituto for Castor Oil, Paro jroric, Drops and Soothinjr Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor ot'iT Narcotics uLstan e. ffs ajre is its guarantee. It destroys YVorn:.3 end allays Feverishness. Fop more than thirty years it lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, ITatuleney, Vind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Iiarrhaa. It refrulates the Stomach, and IJovrcls, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GEftOiE CASTORIA ALWAYS S3 iBears the Mr & 11 Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COM The ehanire in the weather didn't last lonar. :o: Old T-'A can't hide himself for long at a time. This is rreat weather, but there will probably be a late frost for peach buds and favorite sens. :o: Candidates are coming to the front at a rapid race. Hurry up, boys, and fcet your hat in the ring1. :o:- Most of the leading democrats of Kcbraska are for Senator Cummins for president, it would seem from reports from Lincoln. :o: There are good arguments pro and con and to and fro about preparedness, but one must concede that thei-e is a posibility that President Wilson is aware of situations more grave than we imagine. :o:- Ilcn. George W. Berge made a very fair clfcr to Charley Bryan, but he won't accept it now see if he does If he has got any political sense, what ever, he knows he can't get the nom ination, and would be snowed under, if he did. The truth of the matter is, George Beige is a fair man, but Charley Bryan isn't. :o: The International Harvester com pany is out with a circular instructing farmers to be careful of their seed corn and advise that owing to the early frosts and unnatural condition of the grain last fall that a great deal cf it will not germinate. This comes fiom pretty good authority and you had better test it before planting time. :o: If Colonel Roosevelt goes as a dele gate from New York to the republican national convention, and William Barnes, jr., says he can go as one of the "Big Four" if he so desires, and if William II. Taft heads the Connecticut delegation, a situation will be created so full of posibilities as to make the convention one of the greatest national interest. e u ft rsaiuLH rav Mirer von urn t:nrnn .M. . ooim ul. ncaimcui, ludi cures rues, fistula ana oir.T Rectal Diseases ia a short time, without a surgical operation. No Chloroform Ether or other general anasthetic used. A cure guaranteed in every case ac cepted for treatment, and no money to be paid until cured. Write for book on Rectal diseases, with testimonials of prominent people who have been permanentlj cured. DR. TARRY Bae Building Omaha. Drs. Rflach & SUiach, The Dentists The largest and best equippo I loutal .::icc; in Umah.. 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Remember, when you start a political tale of woe the entire worl 1 closes both ears. :o: Harmony is a great thing when suc cessfully worked, but it is hard to accomplish when those who claim to be away up in party lines, bring forth dissensions because they cannot have everything their own way. Itching, bleeding, protruding or blind pilts have yielded to Doan's Oint ment. 50c at all stores. You Can't Beat mnn THIS! i3 25 lbs of granulated sugar for $1.00 10 lbs Langhorst's Special Blend Coffee $2.50 $3.50 In order to introduce this special blend coffee we make the very liberal offer above FOR 30 DAYS-CASH WITH ORDER. An absolute guarantee of satisfaction or money refunded. Mail your order to L. F. LANSHORST, Elmwood, Nebraska m " " ' cnn-fuilv sienlied .'for n. iiL' riOOn PJMTCfl BLOCK, OMAHA