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PAGE I PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, JUNE 2!), PUtt. Cbc plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SGMI-WKEKLY AT ITATTSJIOl Til, MCHIt A SKA. Entered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION ruicKi i.5o PEIt YEA II ADVANCE t vvvv vv v THOUGHT FOR TODAY Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, I- Comes o'er the council of the brave, v And blast them in their hour J. of might! Moore. . SITUATION IN MEXICO. -:o: Fine picnic weather. -:o: Fine summer weather at last. :o: Where arc you gonig to spend the Fourth ? :o: A woman's imagination works best when she is jealous. :o: It's about time for sugar to make another advance in price putting-up fruit season. , :o: The beautiful groves around Platts mouth afford pleasure to the young and old alike. :o: for lack of any other issue some of the politicians might promise to keep baseball out of politics. :o:- Living on 33 cents a day is not nearly so difficult if you do not have to live on 33 cents a day. :o: Enthusiastic ajplausc will be heard m the theater of war when they ring down the curtain of fire. :o: v Health officers are recommending ;: summer tonic that docs not cost a ct.-:it, and is absolutely safe. It con tains only one word: Walk! :o: It is well to sit down and consider what would have happened to this old world if Noah had been a chautauqua lecturer instead of a man who be lieved in preparedness. :o: The average Ngirl would rather be able to crochet a beautiful shawl than Lake a rattling good biscuit, but the well-made biscuit is a better aid to matrimony, don't you think? :o: President Wilson pays but little attention to the mumblings of the pacifists. It is just as well. They don't know what they want anyway just talking to hear their heads rattle. :o: We are heartily in favor of the new preparedness money reported to be in process of coinage at the mints. Wc owe a certain pacifist $1 and we are certain he won't tajce it if tainted with militarism. :o:- The men seem to feel it is perfectly proper for women to engage in all kinds of athletics, provided they wear entangling skirts so long that they can't possibly compete with the su perior masculine sex. :o: Tell everyone you meet about our "Home Coming." Especially all those living in Cass county, and inform those who once lived here and now leside at a long distance away from here. That's the way to get them here. :o: Hughes' greatest availibility has been his absence from his party for six years. All men who have taken any part in the progress of that party, in it3 workings, its activities, were disqualified because they tool: such part. :o: M. Sazowoff, Russian minister of foreign afFairs, says peace talk is lutile feince neither side wen. Hut if the game isn't over in twenty-two innings there ought to be a provision for haviv.g it cHd on account of darkness. The Mexican situation has reached a point where it is deemed necessary by President Wilson to prepare to meet the worst that might happen on the Mexican border. The president has called out substantially the entire national guard and has ordered every state to mobilize troops and have them in readiness for an advance to the border if needed." And in every state the utmost haste is being made to comply with the president's orders, and within a week's time a hundred thousand state militia will be ready for war, if war should come.. It is most unfortunate that conditions have arisen that demand the use of force, the shedding of blood and the destruc tion of property. .The people of the United States would be Mexico's best friends if they could have it1 so. President Wilson has been patient with the Mexicans and has pleaded with them to settle their differences and establish some kind of stable gov ernment. The president has impressed upon the Mexicans that the American people want nothing for themselves in Mexico, and had no desire jto settle Mexican affairs. As "friends and neighbors,'' the president declared, "the American people deem it to be their duty to lend any aid they prop erly can to any instrumentality which promises to be effective in bringing about a settlement which will embody tle real objects of the revolution constitutional government and the rights of the people.' The president has been severely criticised by po litical opponents because of his so called policy of watchful waiting, but outside of the demagogues the Amer ican people have sympathized deeply with the poor distressed and mis guided people of Mexico and have hoped that they might find some way out of their difficulties. There can be but one excuse for making war on Mexico, and that is the necessity of deefnding American lives and Amer ican territory. There can be no war of conquest, and Mexico is too poor to pay large indemnities. In the event rf war the United States will be at great expense, both in men and money, and the most that we can expect in the way of recompense will be a more orderly neighbor across the Rio Grande. It will be a case of whipping an unruly child to enforce obedience to the rules of goou society. Nobody is proud of the job, but neces sity demands it. A war with Mexico can have but one ending, of course. What the Mexicans expect to gain by provoking war with the United Slates is indeed a mystery. The lead ers must know that if war ensues the United States will of necessity bring Mexico to her knees in order to cure her of her anarchy and revolutions. A further benefit of the war, if war wc have, will be the opportunity given to the political blusterers to show that they can fight as well as find fault with President Wilson's efforts to preserve peace. Let's sec 'em go to it. :o: When you feel that you must abuse people, be an evangelist and get paid for it. :o:- When a man is boss in his own home, that is a sign his wife and children arc away. :o: German authoiities deny the re ports that they an; aiding Mexico, or ever had an idea of doiny so. :o: Still looks more warrish, but the United States means buiness, and is going light ahead mobolizing troops in all. state j. :o: Deduct all war business from the country's efforts and the balance is still greater than the heaviest export volume under' the Payne-Aldrich tariff. Friends of Carranza should take steps to have a guardian appointed for him. :o: What has President Wilson done that you would have undone? That is the question to ponder over between now and election day. :o: The preparedness parades in this country would be particularly inter esting to the fellows who became cver-heatcd in debating the universal disarmament theory a few years ago. :o: Carramca is likely to learn before long the penalty of illiteracy. Had he been apt in rhciciie lie might never have facet! the possibility of a hand- to-hand fight with the United States. :o: If Henry Ford has learned anything to his or our advantage by his peace Expedition to Europe, now is the time for him to cone forward and put it in practical implication on the Mex ican border. :o: The very first time the new Ash land ritle range was wanted for serv ice it was louiitl unlit. liave seme, people slipped something over on Uncle Sam? It certainly has that appearance. :o: The way of the transgressor is be ing strewn wiln tacks day ly uay. AN UGLY II US I NESS II is new urged that the prisoners in the Kansas penitentiary be compelled to wear night shirts and take a bath every day. Kansas always goes to the extremes. :o:- "It was a great victory for the do facto government," says an eye witness with an "les" on the end of his name: Now is the time to call it n great victory, for later on the eports will show that it was only a ?e facto victory. :e: A June bridegroom, like a college graduate, imagines the eyes of the whole world are upon him. Not so; pretty girl attiacts a good deal more attention, and no one stops to ask whether : he i-; mairied, single or graduated, or not. :o: Perhaps you don't realize the pre carious position of General Pershing's men at this time. If they withdraw they will have to walk backward.-; every step of the way, not daring to turn their backs on the Mexicans. So it's much easier to stay and fight. :o: Some people live in Omaha on pur pose to be elected to the state legis lature. Hut this is one of the years that those who have been elected for the last twelve or fourteen years arc going to be elected to stay at home and earn their living this election. :o: Other f-.tates in the union may 'cave more interests that bring about situa tions for war, but Nebraska possesses the patriotic young men who respond whenever there is a call for men to fight for the flag. In the Spanish American war she furnished more than her full quota and left many disappointed over the fact thai there was no need for them to serve. And they are ready to go again at their country's call. :o: COIJU SEES COW Irving Cobb, in a witticism anent the St. Louis comentioa, fortuitously landed upon a, happy simile. He said that the democratic delegates all looked as if they kept a cow, mean ing, of course, that they have a milk fed and. butter-fat appearance. And there's the whole thing in a nutshell. All America is keeping -a cow right now. Wc are rolling in plenty such as has not been our lot for a coon's age, and due primarily, and admittedly, to the European war and its wholesale demand upon us for anything we have to scdl at praeticul ly our own prices. Hut it would be a very easy matter to turn that plenty into want, and there have been sev eral conspicuous occasion when had it not been for Wilson's level head, it would have been so turned. America got its cow from Europe, and a right good. milker ;;he is, but just the same, 'tis an unruly beast, and if Wilson didn't hold he.r still it would be an uncommon hard job to milk her. Omaha Daily News. Prominent Mexicans in this coun try, among them Joaquin E. M. Ueit ran, who was a senator for nineteen years in the Mexican congress, de clare that Carranza, seeing that his power is failing, that his treasury is bankrupt, that he can no longer bor row money, is actively trying to bring on war with the United States and that he has distributed his army in northern Mexico and between Veia Cruz and the capital with that view in mind and never with the idea of capturing the bandits. Senator Pelt ran declares that there are now in Cat ra:r:a's iwrnv nearly all of the Villa followers and that they are men who fought the battles thit made it possible for Carranza to gain power. Peltran also declares that General Onregjn has under his command 43.000 seasoned cavalry, commanded by officers who received most of their framing outside of Mexico, and that they are placed in positions immedi ately to attack Pershing whenever he receives orders. The cavalry of Obrc gon alone is about equal to all the American forces on the lonicr. It is not at all strange Funston request etl that the National guard be sent for ward as soon as possible. Many thinking men have for some weeks believed that Carranza was determined to force war with the United States and every day has eon firmed the impression. There has been five years of turmoil in Mexico, 'nd the people of this country have been willing to let them light it out ! among them -elves. J,ut when ma- ;aud!ng bands invaded our territory, and he murdering of inoffensive American citizens, both in Mexico and on this side cf the line, not only con tinued hut increased in number, it was impossible to endure the aggivssior.s rny longer. Carranza has simply been jockeying for a position to escape the odium of declaring war on a nation that has always been friend ly, and without whose as. istance he could never have attained power. It is an ugly business, but when Uncle Sam gets through, no one will say it has not been thoroughly attended to. World-Herald. Dance at German Home Saturday night, July" 1. :o: Sometimes it seems that idle curi osity is about the busiest thing. :o: Une tiling certain there is no! hyphenism in the democratic party.' :o: A Plattsmouth woman looks so husky she is referred to frequently as "John L.' :c: home oi the cruel-en. lanciers are also anxious to keep their wives from finding it out. :o: Truth is a jewel, but if we tell too much of it we are liable to get our block knocked ofF. -:o:- There are some pretty fair cooks in the world, but none of them can disgui. e a German car) as a black j bass. The skirts will haw; to scar some what yet before they attain the alti tude record set by the latest bathing suits. :o: It is worth while to lerrember that vhcn his country called Cincinnati she did not drag him shrieking and protesting away from a pool table. :o: A married Plattsmouth ladv fondly l recalls her girlhood davs when she counted the white horses and she isn't red-headed, either. There being fewer horses t count nowadays, she has juvt as much fun picking out men who ought to wear wigs. :o: Mexico's feelings are said to be hint by the latest note from Wash- six ,j-h' IT, n Tit! w -.sir. W AT.:ni:oi.-3rEn. ENX j AWsclaLkftcparatirAs- : Tip iniui anctso.i" .-.jU.iJuL.1 ,-,Uiw. . , 1 ting, the SlffiDODuwJ Promotes Digcstion.dcerfid- j ncss andifest.LottuibB" Opitrm,Morpfciiie lioridaaai .; J T-A. CW J ilii'lintii c-- JirrifUf-Sdii' J'rpprrFAit - , a'jn'.'M.'togar Ja;5iinif7sigriacc U 31 Vi For Infants and Children. ii i i -f i j- ,i I,, , - i in rf- :3r IViUUXTiV U V PlMSpB 111 iCr-r - bv"vo. ;5t- -. a Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the gnature of 1 Wfv i Tk w r in sa or over Thirty Years Exact Copy of Wrar'er. THE CCNTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Never be!' ore -:o: in a national crisis was the country so supremely confi dent of the wisdom and the courage of its leader. :o: liat paper is so high and scarce that i onic of the big city papers were forced, to cut down their usual num ber of pages last Sunday. :o: In V.)l'2 republicans : imported the Payne-AJilrich tariff. Democrats op posed it, of course. The Underwood bill repealed it and now the repub licans fail to demand its re-enactment. Put the people will not fail to fee that Penrose and Smoot are still on the job. :o: The hunger after ofl'ico may have something to do with the roseate pre dictions of republican politicians, but their hunger is as nothing compared to the ravenous appctiee of the lobby that Wilson rcourged from the capi tal. The lebby is for Hughes unani mously, and then some. :o: There has been a split in the pro gressive national committee, assem bled to listen to the appeal of Teddy to turn the moose party over to Hughe:-., but it was not done by a long shot. Fifteen or twenty of the committee simply refuse to be sold out, and declared their intention to support President Wilson. : :o : The power of Candidate Hughes in controlling public opinion is shown in his action ,as governor of New York, when he sent a special message to the New York legislature advising against the ratification of the income tax amendment to the United Stales constitution. The Hughes message was used by the opponents of the in come tax' before a good sdiare of the legislatures of the various states, and was widely circulated through the metropolitan press. The net result when the returns were in showed forty-five states for the income tax amendment, ond just three support ing the Hughes opposition, namely, Utah, Rhode Island and Connecticut. mighty and splendid nation. Whoever actuated by the purpose to promote the interest of :. foreign ington. Those sobs you hear, how- power in disiegard of our own coun- ever, are those of the Mexicans who try's welfare or to injure nis gov- reallv are vcrv able to control their eminent in its foreign relations or i feelings. The sobs are svmpathetic cripple its industries at hi.ue, and ... . .... . i . .1 : . jr ones lrom l'mchot. Valiant anJpvnwuT oy arousing pre,. nice oi CJuIiek. j racial, religious or other na:.ire, cre ates discord and strife arcing our As loner as some people are allowed people so as to obstruct the whole to place their autos and motoicvcles --me process of unification, is faith- the side of Main street and less to the trust which the privileges leave them there for from a half to ot citizenship repose in hin: and dis an hour, don't blame others for doing loyal to his country. the same. Town people will do this We, therefore, condemn, as sub with impunity, and the parking place versive of this nations un.:y and in- .r. .. I . i .. . i ? ; ;s so near, i reat all alike. t"i, mm aa i.c.-mi ueu e ui u ... ir . il . .....:.: i J : o: iwenare, ii:e acuwues ami 'jesina. ol K .oseveU has at last done what he every group or organization, political intended to do all the time, in case or otherwise, that has for its object he failed to get the republican en- the advancement of the interest cf a (iorsement for president come out loreign power, whether sik:i object is for Hughes. He sui prises no one by prompted by intimidating the govern SO UCing. JIO IS SimpiV JCalOUS CI n.cni., a iu:iciLui lum' oi uiii-scm.!- President Wilson and will do anything tives of the people, or which is calcu- in his power to defeat him. Put he fated and tends to divide our peopie has simnlv t.viod fn sidl out. the nro- into antagonistic groups and thus to Lavish as we are with sympathy. None get too much of it. -:o: Young people are like coffee and tea sickening when to sweet. :o: Anything that is trained and sensi ble should have good manners. Yv'ouldn't Palm Beach suits look just as well if they were not so tight? ; j ; If ignorance is bliss, a whole lot of us certainly ought to rightiously happy. gressive party, but will never be able to deliver the goods. -:o: Nothing ever gives us more pleas ure th;m to meet an old friend, and especially one who has been confined destroy that complete agreement and solidarity of the people ar.J that unity ;f sentiment and national purpose so essential to the perpetuity of the na tion and its free institutions. We condemn all alliances and corn- to home for the past six months or binations of individuals in this coun more. Ed Parriott, one of the best try, of whatever nationality or fellows in the world, and a dved-in- descent, who agree and conspire iho-wool wemoe-vat, gave us a call together for the purpose of embar jesterday, and while he .still lacks a hashing or weakening our government good ileal of being a well man, we are or of improperly influencing or glad to know that he is able to get coercing our public representatives around. Anil we hope Ed will con- in dealing or negotiating with any tinue to improve, and in a short time foreign power. We charge that such "be himself once again." :o: THE KiXG OF PATRIOTISM conspiracies among a limited number xist and have been instigated for the -a 1 . I purpose ot advancing the interests o,T foreign countries to the prejudice and The part that the United States detriment of our own country. We will play in the new day of inter- condemn any political party which in national relationships which is now view of the activity of such conspira- upon us will depend upon our prepa-hors surrenders its integrity or modi ration and our character. The demo- J fes it s policy. From the' Democratic era tie party therefore recognizes the Platform: tissi-nicm uxio. iriuin jmane uemuiiMru- l :o: tio:i of the individuality and coherent Tvvo ball games. in Plattsmouth the i strength of the nation as the supreme Fourth. Jl ' T " t l A I. 1 1 issue oi mis uay 111 wnicn uic wuoiei :o world faces the crisis of manifold Will the Pull Moosers now take to change: it summons all men, of tall timbers? whatever origin or creed, who would count themselves Americans to join in making clear to all the world the unity and consequent power of America. This ib an issue of paliiotirjm. To; taint it with partisanship would be to defile it. In this day of test., America nuii-t show itself, not a nation cf par- j titans, bnt a nation of patriots. There is gathered here in Amciica the best of the blood, the industry and the genius of the whole world, the ele-; ments of a great raca and a mag- nificent society to be . melted into a fcirreT. What you want may not necessar ily be your right, even when you call them that. :o: Central America's support of Mex ico is something like Montinegro's aid to the entente allies. :o: No girl should build up her com plexion to the extent that when she wants to smile she can't. :o: You are not carrying your full load unlc.s you practice self-deni. in some form to some extent. :o: There is no such a thing as mono polizing trouble, although some make a strong effort in that direction. :o:- Does a man ever become so old that people do not "watch" him some times? Will I should smile to snicker! smokes! :o: The United States has been fortun ate in the last century in the nations that have picked on it. Last time it was Spain. :o: Al-out tne only reason we can see for the publication of the childhood pictures of Charles Evans Hugiics U to bring out the fnct that he wasn't born with tho.c whiskers. :o: It is now reported that the repub lican nominee for vice president be gan life a barefoot boy. That's no thing to brag about. Didn't all boys start in life without any shoes on? :o: Put. few lofers can be seen on the streets of Plattsmouth. There is no necessity for loafing when they are able to work and there is plenty of it in this old town all the season round. Pilc FISTULA Pay After you Are vurea E I Vb O a cvtrm of treatment, that cure3 Piles, Fistula and other Hectal Diseases in a short time, without a surgical operation. 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