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PLATTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1916.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY. -fr
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i- If the time we now spend in
J- money making and the time we J
J spend in merry making, could be
exchanged, I wonder how long it
would be before we would begin
to complain of our hard luck.
-l Emilart.
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An onion day will keep your friends
away.
:o:
The flatterer often flatters the flat
tered. :o:
Good work is more important than
good luck.
:o:
The substantial kind of patriot is
the man who pays his bills.
:o:
After next Tuesday it is hoped
we'll all enjoy a brief breathing spell.
:o:
Europe must be getting to the point
where it would like a change of venue.
:c:
When it is all over but the shout
ing, there are always those on hand
willing to do the shouting.
:o :
The Wichita, Kansas, Beacon calls
us "sons and daughters of Uncle Sam."
Why not nephews and neices?
:o:
Despite Mr. Root's silence on the
subject, it is apparent to many that
he hath a lean and hungry look.
:o:
This is the merry season of the
peach buds, the bumble bec and the
"shadow p-olfer'' in the front office.
:o:
Sometimes a man bases his reputa
tion as tt disciplinarian on the fact that
the children are afraid to see him
come home at night.
:o:
If people were content to tell all
they know and let it go at that, the
conversation might lag worse than it
does.
:o:
. Every democrat in Cass county
should vote for L. G. Todd for float
representative.' This is Cass county's
year for this office, anyhow.
:o:
If Teddy Roosevelt does not get the
republican nomination at Chicago,
there will be doings in opposition to
the man who is nominated.
:o:
Ex-Senator Burkett has carried
Iowa for the republican nomination for
vice-president. It will not surprise
anybody if Mr. Burkett looms up as
the winner.
For years the office of float represen
tative has changed first one county
and the other, turn about. This is
Cass county's time. So vote for L. G.
Todd, your home man.
:o:
Villa isn't wise at all. He should
surrender, apologize, spend a few
months in jail, hire a good lawyer, re
gain his freedom and become an evan
gelist or chaut.auqua lecturer.
:o:
Here's to the press, the pulpit and
the petticoat the three ruling pow
ers of the day in Plattsmouth. The
first spreads knowledge, the second
spreads morals and the third spreads
everywhere.
:o:
The tip trust is quaking in its boots
again, having been rediscovered and
exposed. The tip trust has formed
such a habit of quaking in its boots
that eminent specialists already have
pronounced it St. Vitus dance.
The New Republic thinks that Mr
Roosevelt is very "impressionable"
and is largely colored by his surround
ings. It is an interesting idea, and
has all the charm of novelty. Now,
perhaps, we shall hear Buchanan was
a stern, unbending character, and that
Lincoln always did what the slavehold
c-rs desired.
:o:
Stand by the Cass county candidate
for lieutenant governor, Hon. W. B
Banning. A leadership in the senate
for two terms gives him an experi-
mrn that well fits him for the post
tion. He is a genial, whole-souled,
-Tree-hearted irentleman, with such
ability as no other man running for
PEU YEAU IN ADVANCE
The time to be ready is when oppor
tunity knocks.
:o:
A cheerful person is a great ag
gravation to a grouch.
:o:
The "almighty dollar" inaugurates
a heap of queer transactions.
:o :
A good fighting politician never for
gets where he "buried the hatchet."
:o:
Experience is usually pretty costly,
but it seems to cost an aviator a lot
more.
:o:-
If you had rather be imposed upon
than fight, people are likely to impose
upon you.
:o:
Whether or not stockings talk at
Palm Beach, it is reasonably certain
that money does.
:o:
A lucky man is one who isn't hen
pecked until his daughter gets old
enough to attend to that business her
self. :o:
After this primary is over it is a
sure thing that those candidates who
are defeated will not be in favor of
any more.
:o:
A Plattsmouth woman says the rea
son she didn't take her husband to
church with her was because he talks
in his sleep.
:o:
The fellow who neglects to make
hay while the sun shines is usually the
same fellow who wants to borrow your
umbrella when it rains.
:o:
There never was a primary election
held but that somo fellows gets nomi
nated that can't possibly be elected.
We hope the democrats of Cass coun
ty won't make any such mistakes.
:o: 1
A vote for I). W. Livingston for con
gress is a vote for the right nun and
a gentleman who will reflect credit
upon the people of the First district
if nominated and elected, lie is one
of the ablest lawyers in southeast Ne
braska and a fine talker.
:o:-
There are upwards of 300,000 Irish
men fighting in the British army, and
everyone of them volunteered his serv
ices, in case you are curious to know
where the sympathies of real Irish
men are in this war. However, it isn't
unanimous, for there are eighty-seven
Irishmen fighting with the Germans.
:o:
""Since it is impossible for the Ger
mans to continue their extorts on the
present scale a radical change is look
ed for shortly," says the correspon
dent from the Verdun front. That was
what the same correspondent said
forty-nine days ago, but the efforts
were continued and the change didn't
come.
:o:
There is nearly six months of hard
labor for the successful nominees af
ter the primaries next Tuesday before
the general election in November, and
the man who thinks he can pull
through without any more expense at
tached will be badly fooled. So you
had just as well count on it costing
you at least two or three hundred dol
lars to get a show down.
;o:
Primary election next Tuesday, and
you should make it your duty to go to
the polls and vote. Consider condi
tions, if you can, across the water,
then compare your liberties to theirs
and if you take time to think of it we
believe you will take the time to go to
the polls and vote for what you think
best to retain the liberties that you
are now enjoying. You owe it to your
self, your family and your country to
do so. Do your duty.
:o:-
Manufacturers of medium and high
grade shoes predict that footwear will
never again be as cheap as it has been.
Everything that enters into the mak
ing of a shoe is dearer and the tend
ency is still upward. On top of other
advances the wholesale leather trade
and the tanners, since the last of Feb
ruary, have advanced the price of
Russia and gun-metal calf two cents
a foot; white cent, ten cents a foot;
sole leather, two cents a pound, and
cut soles two cents a pair. Further
advances arc predicted this month and
the manufacturers, in the face of such
a market, find it impossible to let their
salesmen quote prices on sorting-uii
orders to come later. Only on order.-
for prompt shipment can prices be
named.
It is an old saying that politics
makes strange bedfellows. Mr. Bryan
is conducting a prohibition campaign
in Nebraska, and his two principal
candidates, besides his brother, are
James C. Dahlman and I. G. Dunn.
Mayor Dahlman's record as a prohibi
tionist is known to all men. Mr. Dunn,
who is a fluent speaker and lawyer
well known in Omaha, is not so well
known out in the state. He has been
an able attorney for an Omaha brew
ery for a long time. But what makes
the association so peculiar is that
when a democratic legislature enacted
the S o'clock law, Mayor Dahlman
and Mr. Dunn headed a body of men
who went to Lincoln to persuade the
democratic governor, Mr. Shallenber
ger, to veto that law. Mr. Dunn being
spokesman of the delegation. Gover
nor Shallenberger refused to veto the
law an,d then Mayor Dahlman and Mr.
Dunn started out to beat him for a re
nomination for a second term. They
succeeded, and Mr. Dahlman got the
nomination, but was himself defeated
by a large majority and a republican
was elected.
Now Mr. Bryan gets into bed with
these two men and lying snugly be
tween them denounces at least one
democrat who helped to secure the 8
o'clock law as a tool of the liquor in
terests. We refer to Arthur Mullen.
It is doubtful if in all the history of
political conflicts, another such fel
lowship can be found. Wrhy politi
cians will engage in such queer an
tics is a puzzle to the ordinary man.
Except when very minor offices are
involved, they never win out. If four
years ago when Bryan was fighting
Dahlman for governor, any one would
have predicted that in the next cam
paign they would be found fighting
together to beat the two men Mullen
and Victor Wilson practically re
sponsible for the enactment of the 8
o'clock law, he would probably have
been turned over to the insanity board
for examination. Very strange things
sometimes happen in politics, but
nothing ever exceeded the strange fel
lowships that Mr. Bryan has formed
in this campaign. World-Herald.
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ROOT AM) ROOSEVELT.
Elihu Root was chief engineer of
the celebrated steam roller which op
erated so successfully, though disas
trously, in Chicago in 1912. Colonel
Roosevelt, as all remember, was the
leader of (hose who resented steam
roller methods and jumped the reser
vation and spilled the beans. And
now a peace pact between these two,
so diametrically opposed four years
ago, is reported.
To one on the outside looking ir.,
that savors more of harmony than
anything the little fellows in politics
might formulate. For when Root and
Roosevelt meet on amicable terms, the
Big Boys of the game get together.
Just what the meaning of this recon
ciliation is it would be difficult to de
termine, since the two principals of
the affair dismiss the conference as
having been merely a discussion of
preparedness. That, no doubt, is true
enough, but the topic might have been
military preparedness, or preparation
for the coming Chicago convention.
More likely it is the latter, for the for
mer can wait; in fact, it has grown
rather used to waiting. And on what
terms would these two be likely to
get together? Ono has been president
and no one ever disputed that the
other was a big enough man for the
place. The ablest statesman of his
country, Elihu Root has been called,
and he has done much to live up to
his reputation. As cabinet minister
and senator, and as a diplomat abroad,
he has given much evidence of unusual
ability as a statesman. He would make
quite a president, and quite a formid
able candidate, should Roosevelt line
up his following behind him. Nor was
Roosevelt such a slouch of a presi
dent. Even among those who like him
least, it is admitted he has personal
ity; that he is a man who does things,
even if he frequently does them wrong
or docs too much. He would be
hard to swallow for those who stuck to
the republican ship when it hit the
rocks in 1012, but Root's indorsement
woidd help. But an agreement le
tween these two doesn't signify that
either is a candidate. Even more like
ly it is an agreement to name some
one else. Knox or Hughes, perhaps,
but not Taft. The big, outstanding
fact is that they seem to have reached
an understanding.
The world is filled with discouraged
men and women. Discouraged because
they know they will have to wait un
til they are dead to find out how good
they really are.
:o;
Germany may be efficient because
she doesn't have many elections. Elec
tions make people mad at each other,
and when people are mad at each
other they fail to do their work well.
. :o: :
While a man has always been able
to loaf without tatting, he is able to
smoke too much.
There is nothing in either the pub
lic or private life of Senator Gilbert
Hitchcock of which any Nebraskan
need bo ashamed. On the contrary,
there is a gieat deal of which any Ne
braskan can be proud. The former has
been demonstrated bv his enemies
through numerous mud-slinging cam
paigns, in which Mr. Hitchcock lias
emerged victorious, and the latter he
has demonstrated himself in the coun.
cil chambers of the nation, where his
every vote has been cast in the inter
ests of the people.
Though his enemies accuse him of
being the agent and tool of corpora
tions and trusts his record in the
United States senate disproves em
phatically the charge. If there was
anything in his record that even hint
ed that he was in league with the cor
porations, it would have been brought
out long before this. His enemies are
relentless and persevering and would
not have overlooked the slightest op
portunity to flaunt his dereliction in
the face of the voter.
The charge that a man is a tool of
trusts is one easily made when v.o
proof is required; but it becomes a
boomerang when made where proofs
are demanded and there is nothing but
the clean record of the accused to
point to for evidence.
Senator Hitchcock's every action
gives the lie to the; charges. Had he
been in the least connected or concern
ed in the interest of the trusts, oppor
tunities untold have been afforded him
to use his voice and vote in their be
half, but not once has he done so.
On the contrary, both his voice and
vote and the influence of his great
newspaper have always been on the
side of the oppressed and against the
oppressor. This is a matter easily de
termined. All one has to do to prove
it is to look at his record, see how lie
has voted, read his speeches, and then
pass judgment. If there has been one
occasion when he favored trusts and
corporations as against the people, it
has escaped our knowledge, and what
is more remarkable, it has escaped the
knowledge of his enemies. Otherwise'
they would be heralding it to the
world in clarion tones.
Mr. Hitchcock has been persistently
and consistently a democrat, lie has
favored democratic policies. If he has
been wrong, democracy has been
wrong, and we do think that even his
worst enemies will admit that. Falls
City News.
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DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP.
The political party that will win and
hold public confidence is the party
which, bcinr in control, adopts a con
structive program. Under President
Wilson the democratic party has car
ried on this program with respect to
most propositions and it has ad
vanced accordingly. The only weak
spot is the reluctance of many party
leaders in their support of the presi
dent and his dealing with foreign na
tions and the disposition to object to
anything in the way of preparedness
for national defense.
There is more ill-considered opinion
on preparedness than uron any ques
tion ever presented to the public. We
have never had a public question on
which it is so easy to convert men as
is the cass with the preparedness side
of the present issue. Mr. Bryan, fa
mous as an orator and skillful as a de
bater, is very ready to deliver one
sided lectures on this question, but
he does not dare to cross swords with
this proposition with any well inform
ed man. He knows that his fallacies
and his half-truths would be readily
punctured and that his inconsistencies
would be readily exposed.
The trouble with the democratic
party is that in carrying out a pro
gram on preparedness some of its
leaders have dwelt upon the thought
"what is good politics?" instead of
"what is best for the country?" They
ought to know that the "best politics''
always is to provide the country's
needs. Because "no party platform
has ever declared for preparedness"
even the present-day provision for na
tional defense has been handicapped.
We have a good illustration of this
just now on the Mexican border.
Plainly the whole thought of the
democratic leaders who have opposed
the president's preparedness plans has
been politics "peanut politics," too.
The only criticism that could be made
of the president is that he has not
gone far enough and that he has been
too apologetic to the anti-preparedness
sentiment. Of course, this is not
properly a criticism for the president
was once opposed to preparedness and
he appreciates the sentiment that
prompts many good men to object to
it. But the good men will-be convert
ed, just as the president was convert
ed, when their eyes are opened. In the
meantime the president and others
who know the country's great needs
will push forward, knowing that the
common sense of the American people
will approve" their plans. R. L. Met
calfe, in Nebraskan.
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Seme reminiscences and comparisons
are suggested by the death of . Cole
Younger, once a notorious outlaw con
nected with ihs James gang. He was
said to have taken part in bank and
train robberies netting over $100,000.
Youngcr's career would not be possible
now. The bank breaking business is
very slow, that is unless one becomes
a cashier or president and breaks in
from the inside. The modern bank is
too well protected on its exterior. It
is more than a one night's job for the
average vault to be blown open. The
less impregnable kind is not usually
worth the risk. Of course, there have
been some ncftable train robberies in
the last few years. But this takes
much moie nerve. There are always
chances that some impulsive passen
ger may pull his gun, too. With a
leader any train load of passengers
might prove to have several formid
able fighting men in it. Telephones
cover the country with such a close
network that the getting the spoil does
not mean getting uway with it. And
yet there is said to be more crime than
ever before. The scene of it has been
transferred from the frontier to the
heart of the great cities. The Young
ers and Jameses of th-j present day
sdink around dark alleys and streets
and sandbag the late and lonely pe
destrian. They hold up cowering
clerks in suburban store-, and rifle the
money drawer. The pickings of this
business are poor, much less than
what men of such nerve and address
could secure in manufacturing and
merchandising. The loss in all this
petty crime is not simply the purses
rnd money tills stripped. It is tha
crime is made to seem easy and at
tractive to many youn.g men. Cities
need to strengthen their police forces,
not merely to protect persons and
property, but to make crime difficult,
i-nd thus save weak hor.ded young fel
lows from false and deceiving allure
ments. :r:
RESPECT FOR THE FLAG.
Jealous defender s of Old Glory, the
Daughters of the American Revolution
have lately complained that our flag is
being desecrated by being lft out ai
rtight at recruiting stations and in
many other places. The D. A. R. are
nice old gills, or young, as the ca-;e
may be, and in keeping- alive the pa
triotic traditions of a nation, their la
bor is not all in vain. But there are
times when they seem to take them
selves too seriously. In its fullest
meaning, a (lag is the symbol of a na
tion; the cloth in which its design is
worked out may le tatfcrd in the
breezes of night, and faded by the
dews and rain. But this is, after all.
unimportant, so long as the people,
who dwell beneath it, continue to re
rpect it as they should. Time was
when the flag might be a literal rally
ing point in time of war, but that ha
changed with modern methods. The
battle flag has past end now the colors
appear in headquarters or in parades;
in real action, an army studies to be
inconspicuous. Still, a nation's re
spect for its flag must remain the
same; it stands for something which
all patriotic citizens respect. But
there are various ways in which that
respect is shown. It is best s'hown by
good citizenship; by helping ono an
other, by good workmanship and the
proper development of the nation's re
sources in time of peace; by defend
ing what it stands for when war's red
flame shall affront the land. The rest
of it, the ritual and ceremony, the
standing at attention when the band
blares forth "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," uncovering when the colors pass
by, are of less consequence; pretty
tributes, no doubt, to a nation's em
blem, but not the essentials which
make the flag worthing standing for
and by. And there is little of the mil
itary in this land of peace; it is not
strange that many do not know the
set rules of conduct concerning the
flag. Perhaps this will be corrected
by a larger army, but the D. A. R.
ought, really to find something more
important to take up their time.
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Hon. W. 15. Banning should receive
the support of every democrat in Cass
county at the primaries tomorrow. Hi
is the man for the place. A man of
ripe experience in the state senate
would bear a commanding influence as
lieutenant governor, lie is a Cass
county citizen and we should all vote
for him. So go to the polls tomorrow
and mark a cross in the circle after
W. B. Banning's name for lieutenant
governor.
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William Lorimer blames the "an
tagonism" of the Chicago newspapers
for all his troubles in congress and La
Salle street. Something sh-uld be
done to stop the newspapers from "an
tagonizing" legitimate activities like
Mr. Lorimer's. It was the newspapers,
you remember, that put clairvoyants
and medical quacks out of business;
and Abe Ruef and Mayor Schmidt out
of temptation's way. Oh, there are
lots of reasons why newspapers should
be disciplined.
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IUXOIU) SUSTAINS HITCHCOCK.
Senator Hitchcock need have no dif
ficulty in cfFoctur.lly refuting the dec
larations of Mr. Uryan to the effect
(hat the ronator opposed the meas
ure.; which the president souprht to
have congress enact. The record is, of
course, better evidence than the pas
sionate words of Mr. Bryan, uttered
in Lurninyr hatred of the senator
whom he would destroy.
And the record is tha? Senator
Hitchcock voted for every one of the
important Wilson measures. He voted
for the tariff bill. He voted for the
income tax. He voted for the federal
reserve currency :ict. lie voted for
the trade commission act and the anti
tiust act. lie voted for redemption of
Alaskan wealth from the clutches of
the Gujrtrenheim conspiracy and the
:ct to repeal the free Panama canal
(oils.
In rcfer-jiice to at least two of these
measures he differed with the admin
istration as; to some of their features
anil sought 1o have them amended. He
did .secure the amendment of the fed
eral reserve act, and it was made a
better measure because it was amend
ed an he asked. He did seek to have
the bank guaranty feature incorpo
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of his failure, when it came up for
final passage he voted for it.
He did seek to have an anti-trut
clause inserted int. the tariff meas
ure. It would have been a better
measure had he succeeded. But he
voted for the bill without it, just as
he would have done with it.
Unfortunately for Mr. Bryan the
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senator, and after all, the man who
lias the record behind his utterances
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