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PLATTSMO UTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, JULY 3, I'M.
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Cbc plattemoutb journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOl TH, NEDHASKA.
Entered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
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ij. THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The great mind knows the -J.
power of gentleness, only tries -J-l
forces because persausion fails
Browning.
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When some get a good start, they
stop.
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farmers are too busy to come to
town these days.
:o:
Everybody knowns ' just what le
wants until after he gets ic.
:o:
Enthusiasm and politness make
other people tired when overdone.
:o:
A man was fined the other day for
fishing without a license. .Look out
boys!
. . :o:
Apparently a lie facto government
isn't a government at' all, but a nu
cisance. :o:
The Mexican war cloud is shaped
like a man's hand with his thumb
to his nose.
:o:
One trouble about modern cam
paigning is that there are too many
orators and too few listeners.
:o:
Shall we enjoy a sane Fourth in
Plattsmouth? We may to a certain
extend if the young boy is pretty well
guarded.
:o:
Films are to be used in aa anti
mosquito campaign. But cannot we
persuade the pests to sting the screen
folks instead of flesh and blood?
:o:
There wil not be any hard fighting
in Mexico right away. Carranza ha
complied with the demandjS of Presi
dent Wilson in releasing prisoners.
:o:
The senate passed the cneral pen
sion bill, appropriating lf3 millions
in about two minutes Tuesday. The
senate can be speedy when it wants
to.
:o:
"From the cradle to the grave" as
we undertsand' it only applies to
women, when speaking of the lives
of men you say: "From the cradle
to the altar." '
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When the Bull Moosers become
possitive Vic Rosewater is in the
saddle in the managing of the repub
lican campaign in Nebraska, watch
the whole push flock to the standard
bearer of the democratic party
Woodrow Wilson.
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Some men, evidently construe that
"the good will provide" to mean that
they can load in the hated lobbies
and other public places all day and
that somebody is going to deliver a
sack of flour and a peice of bacon at
their houses without cost.
:o:
If we are to believe the reports
from Sweden concerning the German
food supply, the food dictator's job
is getting easier ever day. In a few
more weeks, the report says, at the
present rate, he won't have anything
at all to do. When Germany suffers
for food there will be others suffering
as greatfully in other waring coun
tries, also.
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Kansas City Star: Congress ought
not to haggle over the question of
taking care of those dependent on
volunteers. Certainly it ought not be
necessary lor a man to serve nis
country at cost of actual privation
to those he leaves behind. Provisions
for dependents of the men who go to
the front is not charity, it is justice
For the government to refuse to deal
' fairly at such a time would be a na
tional humiliation.
FEIt VEAU IN ADVANCE
MEXICO
President Wilson has never wanted
war. In the days when his opponents
attacked him and tried to goad him
into the use of the armed forces of
the United States, he remained stead
fast to his determination that the
blood of young American soldiers
should never be shed except as the
last recourse in the effort to uphold
the honor of the nation.
Once, when even graver eventuali
ties were threatened, the patience of
President Wilson's statesmanship was
rewarded by diplomatic victory that
made the shedding of blood unneces
sary. It was the president's previous
moderation that gave such force to
the ominous ultimatum which brought
full concession to the rights of Amer
ica and humanity.
No president in the history of the
United States has ever placed the
cause of the people of the United
States upon a higher plane. No
president has ever struggled more
valiantly to preserve peace with
honor. His critics have proved the
case for President Wilson'. Their
unanimous approval of his present
course has not dulled the -edge of his
desire for honorable peace.
The immovability of the president
in the face of selfish and partisan
criticism, coming from those who
thought more of personal advantage
than of the welfare of the nation, has
been the best security of the Amer
ican people throughout the time the
world hr.s been darkened by war
clouds. If the sword of righteousness must
now be unsheathed, the American
people know that it is because peace
ful means have been exhausted. If
the sword be raised to strike, it is
because the head of the de facto gov
ernment of Mexico refuses to respect
the rights of America.
No president has ever tried so hard
to interpret the real spirit of Amer
ica. Mr. Wilson has said that he
would rather know what the men and
women, gathered around their own
firesides, are saying than to listen to
the orations of the self-appointed.
In his handling of the Mexican
problem, President Wilson has been
guided by the single impulse to do
what the Americanjpeople would have
him do to exhaust all the peaceful
means at his disposal to protect the
lives and property of Americans, and,
failing in that, to uphold the honor
and dignity of the nation by the use
of its armed forces.
The note written by the state de
partment to Ganeral Carranza in
response to his threat to attack the
American troops presented the com
plete case of the American govern
ment against Mexico. As in the
European situation, when the ultima
tum with its ominous note brought
full concessions, it marked the end
of President Wilson's patience.
The lives of the American soldiers
in Mexico, soldiers who were sent
there to protect the border from the
raids of bandits, bent on murdering
Americans, had been threatened.
In the might of righteousness, the
sword of America was then raised
to strike, and in the struggle that
threatens, the nation enters upon its
task with a clean and fearless heart?
Behind the president, who has so
truly represented the charitable spirit
of the American people, behind the
president new in his grim determina
tion to use the full military and naval
strength of the nation in support of
the American troops in Mexico, stand
the nighty host of patriotic Amer
icans, united, valiant and conscious of
the faithfulness of their leader to the
ideals of real Americanism.
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Another great ball game next Sun
day and one worth coming many
miles to see the Armours of Omaha
against the Red Soxs.
Did you attend the ball game yesterday?
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Life in Mexico io one perpetual
chavirari.
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No sunstrokes have been reported
up to date.
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The spring-fever is now expected
to be quite calm.
A week from today the wheat har
vest will be in full blast, and it will
be some crop, too.
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The candidates will soon be sing
ing "Oh, Promise Me," vas they ap
proach the voters.
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A henpecked man sometimes wond
ers why there is such a fuss made
over only ten commandments.
:o:
The friend of the great common
people is the fellow who is going to
help your out if he is elected.
:o:
If anyone thinks that Nebraska is
simply used to increase the railroad
mileage to coast, is mistaken. It's
a real place full of real people, who
are doing things w:orth while, and
who are in earnest about it.
:o:
The firecracker nas caused a great
many disastrous fires on the Glori
ous Fourth. This should be born in
mind in scattering around your fire
works on the great natal d:ty. It is
just as well to caution your lads.
:o:
Perhaps Secretary McAdoo is right
when he says the half dollar has prac
tically fallen into disuse. When you
remember that in bringing you sixty
cents in charge from a $2 bill the
waiter always appears with a quarter,
three nicklcs and two dimes you
know why there is little use nowa
days for a 50-cent piece.
:o:
As the average citizen in this coun
try is better off now than he has
ever been before, he will "Stop. Look
and listen" a gocd while before he
takes the leap into the daik which the
republican chieftains are. most cordi
ally and even frantically inviting him
to take. They offer him nothing bet
ter, nothing new, nothing concrete.
They simply stand on the side of the
road making faces and throwing
brickbats at the democratic proces
sion a it sweeps grandly on .to vic
tory with bands playing and banners
flying. Champ Clark.
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TWO TYPES OF MEN
One prominent officeholder has
had the "gall" to denounce the call
for the National Guard as "cold poli
tics." He soon heard from some of the
veterans of the civil war and he will
never forget what they said to him.
When it comes to defending this na
tion against constant raids from a
neighboring country there is no place
in America for such citizens as that.
Partisanship may go to great lengths
in all domestic questions, but when
it comes to aiding and abetting a for
eign enemy who has deliberately
slain peaceable men and women and
repeatedly in vaded our territory,
that is another matter.
The viciousness of such partisan
attacks s the more apparent when
one reflects that these same men
have been denouncing the administra
tion because it did not call the mili
tary force of this country sooner. Any
party that encouraged such creatures
as that .would have the same end as
the copperheads of the civil war.
When it comes to defending the lives
and property of American citizens
against any foreign foe, this nation
will act as one man, regardless of
party, with an abnoral specimen of
humanity here and there objecting.
President Wilson is not pratterner
after the man who is a bully on the
streets, declaring that he can whip all
creation. He is more like the quiet
citizen who loves peace, but wrho,
when at last compelled to defend him
self, is a fighter to the last drop of
his blood. It is the common experience
that such a man is the one who final
ly settles affairs and settles them
right. There is another American citi
zen of exactly the opposite type, who
always carries a big stick, and he is
supporting Hughes for president.
World Herald.
WILL NOT BE SOLD OUT
We don't believe in the brand of
politics in which silence on the issues
before the people becomes the chief
asset of a aspirant for a presidential
nomination. If there are any issues
worth contending for the candidate
of a party ought to come nearest to
being the embodiment of those issuer.,
not the man who has said least about
them.
Silence ought not to make or to
measure a man's availability for the
great office of president. It looks too
much as though he were the tool of
others. A monkey wrench never says
picks it up and puts it to the use he
chooses for it. If that is "practical
pclitics" then we believe in a dif
ferent brand.
Suppose Mr. Hughes had turned
out to be a genuine progressive of the
LaFollete type? Or even a man like
Louis D. Brandeis? The laugh would
have been on the big bosses who put
him across, for these interests fought
the confirmation of Brandies to the
bitter end.
As it is he is perfectly satisfactory
to the "old guard," and they knew it
before he was nominated, and there
fore can't be wholly satisfactory to a
progressive like LaFollette, whom
the big interests wouldn't considered
for a moment.
The Pilot editor is a LaFollette
progressive and therefore Hughes is
not a satisfactory candidate for us.
If we were a rank partisan or expect
ed to ask an office we would prob
ably swallow our progressive ideas
and whoop-er-up for Hughes as our
ideal candidate. Since we qualify in
neither of these classes and principles
mean more to us than regularity we
can't support a man who is so thor
oughly satisfactory to the "old
guard."
If there ever was a real difference
between progressiveism and stand
patism that difference still exists. If
the progressives in congress were
ever right the cause for which they
fought is still right and the stand
patters are still wrong.
It isn't so easy for u?, s it ap
parently is for some, to mix up light
and wrong and then claim the product
is all right. The "old guard" is bade
in the republican saddle and Hughes
is their candidate. As a progressive
from principle we cannot conscienti
ously support him, for to do so would
be to admit the standpatters were
right all the time, and the progres
sive movement was wrong. AVe don't
think so and we're not going to say'
we think so just to be regular, it
matters not to us what every other
former progressive does.
As truly as "Once a Mason, always
a Mason," because he knows the se
cret work, once a progressive always
a progressive, for it is an attitude of
mind and heart, not a cloak that can
be readly thrown off. Blair Pilot.
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There has been two advance rc
presentatives in this city so far this
season for carniral companies, and
no grounds could be secured on which
to place thir shows and those who
like such entertainments are deprived
of them on this account. When we
mit.sed the Heinze carnival company
we missed one of the best in the Unit
ed States. We want a good company
or none at all. And it will pay the
amusement committee of the "Home
Coming" week to try to get in com
mication with the Heinze company.
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There are two little words, simple
enough in themselves, that introduce
untold trouble in the world and are
responsible for more gossip, .scandal
and harm than any two words in the
English language. These two words
are nothing more than "they say."
Those words have done more to ruin
reputations than all other things. If
you never quote what "they say" you
may be quite certain you are not
causing some innocent party to suf
fer and quite certain you are not a
gossip.
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The two things that make the dem
ocratic platform stand out among the
great political documents of the coun
try's history are its A.mericanism and
its democracy. It is a charter of na
tional honor and individual freedom.
."Is it hot enough for you?" Don't
shoot!
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Look where you land your fire
crackers. -to:
j Old Sol is putting in some pretty
gcod licks just now.
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Oniy two'more days till the Fourth.
Will you spendid it at home?
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It is all right to have a good time
on the Fourth, but don't get too reck
less. -:c:-
Still, it is better to raise one's boy
to be soldier than to raise him for a
chronic loafer.
If you are. really getting the worst
of it, people will lineup in your be
half without being asked.
Human vivisection i: going to make
idiots useful members of society. The
resources of the age are truly wond
erful. :o:-
Corn fields, as a rule, are free
from weeds, which' goes to show that
the farmers work whenever they
have the opportunity.
:o:-
Now that science has taken to bor
ing through human skulls, it may
silence criticism by discovering a way
to get ideas through the holes.
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The father of the republican candi
date for president was an English
subject. We thought those whiskers
denoted something of that kind.
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There has been still another boost
in the price of sugar, and you might
as well begin seriously to train your
self to like pickles for a dessert.
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Sir Roger Casement will have to
hang unless the king pardons him.
lie has been convicted of hih trea
son, which means the death sentence.
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Indiana Hull Moosers .insist on
keeping a third ticket in the field.
The nomination of Fairbanks was
evidently more than they ( could
stand.
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Give a man a shave and a hair cut
and he he looks almost as gocd a
new. A woman 'can turn the same
trick with a curling iron and a little
face powder.
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This is also the season when the
patient young lover goes to the pic
nic ar.d eats peanut buter sand
witches saturated with juice from the
pickled beet jar, and swears they are
the finest things he ever tasted.
Who controlled the republk-r.n na
tional convention of 1012? Boss Ten
rose. Boss Barnes, Boss Smoot, Eoss
Gallinger, Boss Murray Crane, etc.
Whe controlled the republican na
tional convention of 101G? The same
well known bosses.
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We clip this apology out of a
country weekly, which shows how
easily mistakes can be made in some
papers: "We wish to apologize to Mrs.
Orlando Overlook. Jn our paper last
week we had as a heading, 'Mrs. Ov
erlook's Big Feet.' The word we ought
to have used is a French word pro
nounced the same, but spelled 'fete.'
It means a celebration, and is a very
tony word.'
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Look for a strenuous election and
a campaign which will cost both par
ties millions of dollars. The demo
crats are in the saddle, and for pa
triotic as well as other reasons, will
defend their trenches most valiently.
Looking down the line of influential
democrats it is not difficult to ob
serve many men who have' plenty of
money, a part of which they will be
willing to spend in defense of their
party, and their president. And the
republican party, aided and abetted
by recent progressives, will not find
their campaign treasury lacking
funds.
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The road leading from this city to
the riatte bridge is about the wm'.U
piece of road in Cass county. Those
who travel this road to Omaha ray
that the road on to Omaha from hf
other side of the river h in i'm condition.
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Passing of Harper's Weekly
The merger of Harper's Weekly
with the Independent probably means
no more than the discontinuance of a
publication which long since ceased,
to pay expenses. It is unlikely that
its absorption menus anything more
than the purchase of Harper's sub
scription Ikt probably not . a long
one. In the days when there was but
one real cartoonist in the United
States Thomas Nast the publica
tion that secured him was bound to
leap into prominence and prosperity.
Eat the present generation soon
found cut that the trade of cutocn-L-t
can Ive learned, . almost like any
Dtlier, by men cf ordinary gifts along
the proper line. Xast may have a few
present day equals, but there are a
score who produce not merely one
cartoon a week, but one a day. Nast
belonged to a , former generation.
Great as was his genius, it may be
doubted whether his reincarnated self
would be an extraordinary asset in
these days of keen competition.
George William Curtis, editor of Har
per's in its palmiest days, was a
master of English, .whether on the ed
itorial page or the lecture platform,
where he was one of the mcX popu
lar speakers in the' days when the
"lyceum lecture -as a matter of
course in every ' considerable town.
But people nowadays care loss for a
polished stylo or for the personalicy
of the writer than did their fathers.
If an editor has something to say,
and can say it forcibly and concisely,
his literary "style" is to the average
reader a negligible quantity. People
no longer accept as law and gospel j
the dictum cf an editor, however
great, merely because of his person
ality. They have learned to think for
Mew Passenger Service
To Douglas and Casper, Wyoming
LiE ZOHE OF PROSPERITY AMD fJCHDELL LORDS
v now operate through passenger train service form the East to Do!i;,s
and Casper, Voming iu, Alliance through the North I'latto alCy nJ
Weudover.
Wooner.ito through, .-tannaid sleepers between Omaha, Lincoln and Sf;oU.
blulV, Douglas and Casper.
jHi.imo Ai liKS.OK MONUELL LAN DS: f his excellent body of land h
:;LM acre tracts is situated only live to ttn miles north of Douglas, Wyoming
This urea is well grassed and especially adapled for cattlemen with small herds
.... f i firminir. These new Burlington through trains take. vm. n
l.undthis service has been inaugurated to help the development of thi
plcmlid body of Motidell lands.
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For Infants and Children.
Mothers Know That
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themselves. But the chief reason why
Harper's and publication of its class
have hard sledding is that they can
not complete with the modern Sun
day newspaper. When one can get
more and better for a nickle than he
can for a dime, he is very apt to
spend only the nickle. Inevitably the
best class of such newspapers will
steadily drive old-style weeklies out
of business. They may be less lofty
in style than the more pretentious
weekly, but their work "is good enough
"for human nature's daily food," and
they get closer to the average' read
er. That they also get cloe to the
advertiser goes without saying.
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A fool" and his money are ooon
popular.
Warning Do not attempt to flirt '
with a crime wave
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Take your troubles as they come,
but take them in water.
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Peace is coming, so is Christmas
and at a greater speed.
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The pacifists seem to expect the
guard laws to. protect our army.
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As tomorow is the Fourth no paper
will be issued from the Journal office.
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Ma.ee love, we are told often turns
tc real love, but its different with
stage money.
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You can hire a boy to drown a
tat, but he draws theJinc when it
comes to the dog.
It is never loo late to mend. Even
an old rounder may embrace an op
portunity to be a good grandfather
after he has burned his years and
dollars like a fool.
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