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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, MAY 4. 1916.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY 4
It is a much shallower and
more ignoble occupation to de
tect faults than to discover
beauties. Carlyle.
:o:-
Mcy parties are now in order.
:o:
The first of May, and all seems
well.
Slight frost Monday night, but no
injury.
:o: ;
Disagreeable Sunday, but beautiful
weather since.
::
The fruit crop ia yet in gocd condi
tion, unless it be peaches.
:o:
Only four weeks till Decoration
day. The day wc all should remem
ber. :o:
The young girl who is to graduate
is now the "whole cheese," or thinks
she is.
:o:
The general rul is 4hat it takes
housewife five years to live down
bedbug.
:o:
In this country nn aristocrat has to
do something more than avoid work
to prove it.
:o:
You can nearly always tell when
a man is wearing a mv suit, without
looking at the ruit.
:o:
A new linen collar that can't be
melted down by perspiration is an
nounced. Good thing.
:o:
"Exchange"' gets a lot of credit for
things the country editor is afraid to
say on his own responsibility.
:o:.
House cleaning time always puts a
man on the bum, because he is too
lazy to help his wife, and wants to
be.
:o:
Sometimes there is r,uch a thing as
giving a man an office which forever
afterward bars him from earning a
living.
:o:
Thousands cf Americans slaughter
ed by Turks. Stay away from that
God forsaken country if you don't
want to be murdered.
:c:
Evidently it will take more than a
world war to cure men of the habit
of breaking in shoes that were never
made to fit human feet.
:o: -
It is surprising how easy it is to
get father to beat the rugs after
mother has lugged them out and
spread thorn on tho grass.
:o :
J. Fuller Gloom has always re
gretted the fact that a half dozen
towns have not killed each other off
claiming to be his birthplace."
:o:
From the amazinz array of infor
mation that fellow Carranza has just
given us about Villa's condition, it is
suspected that he has just been talk
ing through , his hat.
:o:
English "Tommies" continue to jest
in -the trenches, although a wave of
poison gas naturally depresses a man
xirhn hnc nvrr h;-p.ithPM anvthinf
) ii Kf - - - r -
worse than a London fog.
:o:
A scientist has figured out that 10,
C00 mosquitoes may be killed for one
cent, which strikes us as being impor
tant to many cities. Nov if this sci
entist will tell how much it will cost
to kill 10,000 dandelions, maybe it
would prove beneficial to some people
Jn Plattsmouth.
. :o :
It may be good advice to say, "Don't
talk war, talk business," but at the
came time you have to have some ex
planation for the high prices you arc
obliged to get for your merchandise,
and if the war is really responsible,
thf best thing you can do is to tell
ivhv and how. Mr.ny people won t be
lieve you, even at that, but will think
i? merely an excuse you, or some-
hnHv else is making to gst a little ex-
at. ah vou can do is to learn
Ill Jrnrti and tell it.-Trade Exhibit
Time is the kind of money a let of
people can't see.
the members of the council, the ponce
I'Kll VEAIi IX AD VAX CIS
BUSINESS MEX IN POLITICS.
Most sensible people will agree with
ex-Governor Shaw that the govern
ment should seek to promote business
instead of to ruin it. There is even a
general feeling, of late, that "big
business" may be decent and bene
ficial to the country. . We agree with
the secretary that business should not
be hampered by red-tape restrictions
that are without practical value and
that business men should not be kept
continually on the rack merely be
cause they have been successful. We
also agree with him that a protective
tariff will be mere necessary than
ever, after the natural protection of
the great war is ended and the mil-
I lions of Europe who arc now fighting
or providing the means with which to
fight, have become engaged in pro
ductive industries, in competition with
ours.
But if Mr. Shaw.'or any other pub
licist who is pleading for the cause of
business, hopes that business men arc
to be freed from all restraint, he has
failed to reckon with the host. Combi
nations in restraint of trade are as re
pulsive as they ever were. The pub
lic will not, and it should not, submit
to extortion. The people will not con
sent to being taxed forever, through
high rates or prices, to pay dividends
' ory watered stock.- Th ?y will not sub-
' . . .1 1 " f A 11'
iffii; xo xne wrecKing oi great pudiic
rervice corporation;;, for the enrich
ment of high financiers. The country,
or at least some of its political lead
ers, went to an extreme in denuncia
tion of capital and in proposal of fa
natic remedies for acknowledged
abuses. But the pendulum should not
swing to the other extreme. The
reign of the demagogue may be over,
at least temporarily, but the pluto-
ciat will not take his place. Business
men can and should have great influ
ence in politics. But they should ex
ert it in the interest of fairness and
honesty. Otherwise the damagogue
wfll find a. resentful people ready to
listen to his wild theories again. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
:o:
Prosperity
reigns supreme
in
riattsmcuth.
-:o:
The cartoonist who pictured Villa
as a skunk hiding behind a cactus
bush appears to hav: it in for the
skunk.
:o:
The man who talk:? a great deal
about what he is going to do for the
people is getting things fixed to put
something over on them.
A farmer up in North Dakota is
building an ark to be ready for an
other flood. Evidently that farmer
believes strictly in. preparedness.
:o:
What Plattsmouth needs is more
factories. No spot on earth better lo
cated for such enterprises. Come on,
boys, and view our lovely location.
:o:
One hundred students of Yale have
made affidavit that they never learned
the use of tobacco until they entered
that school. What sort of prepara
tory schools do they have back east,
anyhow?
:o:
Will Idaupin truthfully i emeries in
his York Democrat: "The man I
pity most is the disappointed poli
tician who goes around with an in
growing grouch and an outgrowing
snail for the friends who have made
him successful in politics and in
finances."
:o:
One objection to Roosevelt's nomi
naticn is the fact that he isn't a re
publican, but it is believed that this
little fault can be overcome if, with
him as a candidate, there is any show
to again restore the republican effice-hc-Mers
and grafters to power. They
don't care who is president, so long
as they are cared for. See?
:o:
The Plattsmouth Journal says it
has in its possession the firat paper
printed in Plattsmouth, "The Platte
Valley Herald." It is dated October
18, 1800. Better rend it to the State
Historical society, as it might prove
interesting. But we believe that a
paper was printed in Plattsmouth be
fore 13G0. Nebraska City News.
There may 'have been, but we have
no .record of it. Mr. Kirkpatrick,
whose father was one of the first
-.ettlcrn of Cass county, ar.d he, him
self, born here, it would seem to us
that he would know Something about
it. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a gentleman
of 68 or C9 years of age.
MVW M
AN UNDAUNTED PROSPERITY.
In spite of conditions and probabil
ities that seem well calculated to dis
courage a militant prosperity, busi
ness continues to go forward with
steady strides in all sections of the
country. The fear of possible em
broilment in the European war has
not stepped it. Apprehension of the
changed conditions upon the return of
peace disturbs it not. The imminence
.cf a presidential campaign injects no
appreciable element of uneasiness.
Not even the threat of a great rc.il
lcad strike operates to allay business
activity. Take up the latest issue of
Dun's Review and glance over the
classified business headings. Here
they are:
j "New England Brisk Movement
cf Spring Merchandise and Steady
Progress in Manufacturing Lines."
"Middle Atlantic States Satisfac
tory Conditions Fully Maintained and
Prospects very encouraging."
"South Atlantic states The Situa
tion Favorable in Practictlly all De
partments and Optimism General."
"Southern States x Spring Trade
Opening in Satisfactory Volume and
Continued Activity Anticipated."
"Central States Heavy Distribu
tion of Seasonable Merchandise In
dustrial Departments Busy."
"Western States Liberal Anticipa
tion of Requirements Reflects Gener
ally Well Maintained Confidence."
"Pacific States Indications, as a
Rule, Favorable, and Merchants Make
Few Complaints of Conditions."
From which it appears that pros
perity, this time bearing the demo
cratic brand, has made conquest of
the entire country. Even the Pacific
coast merchants, whence recently
came much hope for the -republicans,
"make few complaints of conditions."
The masses have forgotten about
the tariff as the surest method of star
vation. They have no anxious
thought about the dinner pail, nor the
idle forges about which John M.
Thurston used to mournfully sing.
No firm footing anywhere for the re
publican cause to brace itself upon
for the coming tus of war. Lincoln
Star.
:o:
For the past ten years the demo
cratic party has been gaining in
strength and interest, and is now in
power in the state, and now to be de-
defeated by the doings of its own par
ty members is an outrage and a
shame. We have said, time and time
again, that the primary election sys
tem was not the proper method of
nominating candidates and we proph
esied several years ago that it would
result disastrously to the democratic
party. Under the present system of
nominating candidates, the men whom
you would think could be nominated
easily come out at the little end of
the horn. Had the old convention
way prevailed the right man would
have been nominated. In a convention
Mr. Bryan would have undoubtedly
been selected as one of the delegates
at large and Charley Bryan would
have been probably nominated for
governor, but the primary occasioned
a long and exciting campaign and
everybody that wanted to came out
for office, and excitement was worked
up to such a pitch as to create enmity
among democrats who had heretofore
pulled together in democratic har
ness, and wounds were created that
may never be healed. But we hope
all will return to their sober senses
and fix, upon some plan by which wc
can have a good, old-fashioned re
vival and all get together for the No
vember election. The late primaries
have made us more sternly against
that system of selecting candidates,
and we hope the next legislature will
repeal the law in its entirety.
:o:
There are many ways in which har
mony can be brought in the demo
cratic party of Nebraska. The best
way, however, is for the leaders of the
two factions to meet in the next few
weeks and devise wayi and means by
which the factions can be united for
action in the campaign. There is no
mistaking the fact that the democrats
can carry their ticket to victory if we
all pet together. Tho democrat who
is not in favor of united democracy is
no democrat at all, and the sooner we
know where he is at, the better it will
be for all concerned.
:o:
It must really be spring. They say
one pair of lovers who called it off
several months ago, have made up and
set the day; that a divorced couple
arc about to be remarried, and that
the bachelor who sent the magnificent
Easter bouquet really is in earnest.
:o:
The Sinn Fein uprising has result
ed in the razing of the Dublin post
office. But happily, Dublin won't
have to barter with n score of con
gressmen from remote and unconcern
ed parts of the empire for five years
to get a new postoffice.
:o:
Some people don't seem to under
stand when the people don't want
them. But such people, by insistence,
very readily find out.
Our citizens, the most of them, at
least, are happy and contented.
Farm hands have no trouble in get
ling work.
:o:
The busiest g. o. p. presidential
bees might easily be mistaken for
drones.
:o:
Don't smoke cigarettes near a gas
oline tank. If you are not worth much,
gasoline is.
The road drag should be used as
early and as often as conditions are
right for it.
:o:
Some people are going to find this
fall that a "nomination is net equiva
lent to an election."
To a man up a tree, the Mexican sit
uation is deserving of even more at
tention than the German situation.
it is again reported that Villa is
surely dead. If he is, produce the
body and the people will believe it.
.i :
Come to think about it, more than
six weeks have parsed since the
groundhog went in his hole, and peo
ple, that is, the sensible ones, are
wearing their winter underwear yet.
Confound the groundhog, anyway.
:o:
Senator Hitchcock extends thanks
to his friends in Cass county who
gave him such a magnificent support
for renomination in the recent pri
maries. The senator is a great fa
vorite in Cass county.
:o :
All sorts of proof has been Sub
mitted, at one time or other, that Vil
la was dead, excrpt the body. Obvi
ously, the thing to do now is to aban
don the requisition, and go after him
with a writ of habeai corpus
:o:
A well-worked road will shed the
spring rains as well as save so much
work later that early dragging pays
better than the old "stitch in time.''
It saves much of the discomfort of
traveling over muddy roads; too.
BIG BUSINESS GETS RESTIVE.
Mentioning an candidates who
would be acceptable to its members
Senator Root, Senator Weeks, Henry
Estabrook, Fairbanks, Barnes, Knox,
McCr.II and General T. Coleman Du
Pont.t he Business Men's Presidential
tial league of the G. O. P. announces
the organization of itself at New
York-. N
It seems to have no use for such
men a.-; Roosevelt, Ford, Cummins,
Borah and Robert G. Ross of Lexing
ton, Nebraska. Nor for President
Hyilson. It professes a purpose to
deal, not with persons and personali
ties, but with an idea, and the idea is
to favor "a big, successful business
man for president." However, in the
list it mentions r.3 cligiblcs the only
recognized business man's name is
that cf DuPont." The rest are all
politicians and statesmen, not so read
ily identified as business men as is
Robert G. Ross of Lexington, who, it
has been claimed, runs or works in a
livery stable, but who is by other re
pute a farmer. The farmer has
come to be reckoned as a business
man.
Ormsby McIIarg is chairman of
this noisy organization. Ormsby Mc
IIarg, who began the campaign four
years ago as an ardent Roosevelt man
and later deserted to the enemy.
"You should demand that the gov
ernment's business, which is your
business," says Ormsby, "be directed
by a president who is-a real business
man."
That's good. Thanks to President
Wilson's wise administration the
country today is full of real bushiest
men, for business has been exception
ally good recently. No better meas
ure for the promotion of legitimate
business was ever enacted than the
currency measure. Another good
business measure is the trade com
mission. But Ormsby and his ilk want for
president "a bis, successful business
man." Transposed it would be "a
successful big business man." Big
business dotes upon the republican
party, and its sentiments are recip
rocated with fervor. It is by no means
a one-sided love affair, this Ormsby
wooing. Both parties to the compact,
big business and the G. O. P. are
at the tryst with the goods. But
there are doubts that the wedding will
take place on schedule time, for mod
ern thought is dead against the per
petuation of the race of the unfit.
Lincoln Star.
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A CARD
I take this means of expressing my
heartfelt gratitude to my immediate
friends and our neighbors from the
nojth who so kindly assisted in my
numerous deaths and burials. Should
opportunity ever offer I shall be glad
to do as much for them.
Francisco Villa.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO.
Whether Villa be alive or dsad, is
cf exactly the same importance as
whether or not Huerta saluted the
flag. That is to say, neither is of the
slightest consequence whatever. Mex
ico is in the situation of a drunken
man who is beating up his family and
disturbing the peace of the neighbor
hcod. The duty of the neighbors is
to go there and subdue him and save
his family from further sufferings
Not only that, but in this ruffian's
house, sharing in the violence and in
jury, are numerous members of our
own family, who are there on legiti
mate errand i and entitled to our pro
tection. The Mcmco doctrine bestows
upon u--, so long as Europe acquiesces
to it, the prerogative of discharging
the functions cf neighbor nations and
acting as the agents of foreign pow
crs in the protection of their subjects
life and property.
Discharge of this duty, on our own
par t and on the pr.rt of every nation
yhce subjects are injured through
Mexican anarchy, calls us into Mex
ico, r-s we were called into Cuba. Our
plain duty is to sur-press rapine and
murder. Restore peace, order ant
prosperity, and having established a
competent government of Mexicans
retire. Abdication of this plain
duty, on the ground that Villa has not
been caught or that Ilucrta has or
has not saluted the flag, is discredit
able to our national honor and may at
any time serve as the just occasion of
offense against us by other nations,
whose vice regents in dealing with
Mexico we profess to be and are. If,
in addition to this evasion of nlain
duty, we go on to excuse ourselves on
the ground that we may get hurt or
roil our hands er that we cannot
think of interfering with the Mexi
cans' inalienable rights to ho robbed
r.nd murdered, then our position is not
only wrong in practice, but it is pus
illanirrfous in principle. There are na
tions in Europe that, if the great war
were not engaging their every re
source, would not submit for a single
day to the ignominy that Mexican
bandits visit daily upon their citizens
nor endure for a moment the craven
and slovenly way in which wc perform
cur doty as custodian of international
lights and obligations in tho bleeding,
starving and dying country to the
south of us. The Mexican problem
stands just where it has stood since
the fe.ll of Diaz and the beginning of
the present reign of anarchy.
How long is a reasonable length Vf
time?
;o:
Now that tne :ho.t skirt has come
to stay, why can't the girls be per
suaded to get into military training?
Dandelion parties are being formed
in some section- to fight the pests.
Such an organization could find plenty
to do in Plattsmouth.
It has taken the people a long
while to learn that the candidate who
promises a business administration is
rarely able to reduce taxes.
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General farm work is well advanced.
There has been abundant moisture and
the prospects are favorable for an un
usually large acreage of corn.
Mr. Roosevelt puts the question of
his nomination entirely up to the re
publicans. Well, ain't that the way
with all other republican candidates?
The Methodist Episcopal conference
at Saratoga Springs, New York, has
declared for church union of the south
and north branches. That is a great
idea.
:o:
Only ten more weeks till Fourth of
July. Will Tlatlsmouth celebrate the
great ratal day? Many have asked
us, but as we arc not the boss, we are
unable to say.
. :o:
The Sinn Fein rebellion progressed
to the point where a president was
hoson. However, in the course of a
cbcllicn, the selection of a president
is only the first milestone.
A) :
Can anvbody tell offhand what Mr.
Burton or Mr. Fairbanks or Secretary
Sherman or Senator Weeks or Justice
lughes thinks about preparedness,
Mexico or submarine warfare?
Saloons have been operating at
Hooper, Nebraska, without authority
from the lw for thirtyeight year:.
What has the Nebraska Anti-Saloon
league been doing all that time?
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It is just as important to be sure
you are wrong before backing out as
it is to be sure you are right before
going ahead. But some people are so
egotistical as to think they arc right
all tire time.
By the .way, there won't be any
more elections now until the seventh
Hay of next November, and we are li
able to have a good, hot summer in
tervening, in which to "sweat out ,
your grievances. I
Children Qry
Afr?, fsy ifl
Tho Kind Yoir Have Always. Bought, nrxl vhlca has heen
zv. use for over CO years, lias heme tho sfTiatare cf
and has been maclo under LI; pcr-
tJvj?4hJ?-?-?:-, sonal supervision since its iirCar.cy.
-tuznrjt s tUcSltZt Allow no oire to deceive Ton i:i r 'z.
All Counterfeits, JinH aiions ar.d Just-as-rjood " arc l "t
I2xeriuieiitu that trifle vlh and endanger tho hcr-Ith of
IiiJants aiid Cliildrcii Experience against Hrerimcnt
What ss CASTOR i A -
Cas?tori.i is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Iare
fjoric, Drcp.? and Soothing- Hyrnps. IS Li plea.s-int. 15
contains neither Ovinia, loyphino r.er other irr.rcotlo
ei:Iistnnco. f is aire is its guarantee. li dest-cy.; V.'orr:
and nlJays Feverisliness. For more than thirty vear:s i j
has boon inconstant use for the relief of C'; Sallo-',
Flatulency, Vind Colic, all Tccthinjr Trov.hlrs arcl
Diarrhoea. It regulates tho Stomach a::;l Jiowrlj,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and i::s:;:rai slcon.
Tho Children's Panacea Tho Jtfothcr's Friend.
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TMC CCNTAUf COMANV. NEW VORK CITY.
Impi ovemcr.ts in every section of
the city.
r- :o:
If you have r.o br.ck yard to clean
up, pe:haps a hath wouldn't be amiss,
x :o;
Cheer up! There will not be an
other primary election for twenty
four more months, and if wc would
havs our way, there .wouldn't be one
then.
Not many wcehs now until the can
didates for president and vice presi
dent will be nominated, after which
Lhcre will be something doing: in pol
itics, and the excitement will continue
until the election is over.
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Ii. M. Fuller, chairman of the Thur
ston County, Washington, Democratic
Central committee, announced that a
majority of the delegates from that !
county had, ngreod to o to the demo
cratic state convention at North Ya
kima May 2, phdpred to work for the i
selection of William J. Bryan of Ne
braska as the delegate from Washing
ton state to the national democratic
convention. Fullers announcement
.aid this action was beimr taken in an
effort to inflict a "silent rebuke" upon
the standpat c-emocrats of Nebraska,
who refused to send Bryan to the na
tional convention as a delegate from
his home state.
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The trouble with shooting Villa on
the spot is that he keeps jumping off
the spot.
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The standpat republicans are in the
raddle in California. The progressives
made but little showing, comparative
ly speaking.
:n:
The Elmwood Booster cldb has
been reorganized and now goes by the
name of the Elmwood Commercial
club, with the election of the follow
ing officers: L. F. Langhorst, pres
ident; Joe Capwell, secretary, and C.
S. Stone, treasurer. Success to the
Elmwood Commercial club.
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Senator Shppard, democrat, of
Texas, said in the United States sen
ate last Friday that the United States
was menaced by a rapidly increasing
aristociacy of land owners and pro
posed a constitutional amendment to
authorize congress to purchase land
anywhere in the country, hold, subdi
vide and sell it, and make loans for
tli2 purpose of encouraging farm
home ownership. The amendment, he
taid, was similar to one adopted in the
state of Massachusetts and approved
more than 3 to 1 by a popular vote.
This amendment would be very ben
eficial to the poor people of the coun
try who desire to farm.
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