THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 19161
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
'Chz plattsmouth Journal
riHLISUKD SEMI-WECKI.Y AT PLATTSMOITH, NKBIIASKA.
Entered t Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION rniCEt I'EIt If EAR IX AVACE
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
V. c never Know for v. hat Gad
V is preparing us ia His schools J
for what work cn earth, for
what work in the hereafter.
I- Oar business is to do cur work
j in the present places whatever J-
that may be. Dr. Eugene Ab
S!ett. ..'.....- V- !
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Only ten more days.
:o:
And off come the auto parades.
-:o:-
Hav your autos handsomely deco
rate!. :o:
Many prizes are offered for the fin
est decorated cars.
:o:
It is not safe to judge a jrood-look-i:ig
prii 1 by appearances.
:o:
This is the land of free speech, and
lots of times too much of it.
-:o:-
"Tf the railroad strike is pulled off
it will prove a case of gigapt'C paraly
sis. -:o:
Is Wall street petting suspicious of
Hughes' mode of campaigning? It
lo!:s very much like it.
:o:-
As a general thing any sort of lie
rl.-.nt a thiv.-ty man in a dry town
will get a big laugh among those who
never tried it.
Are the frills any more beautiful
now than thsy used to be before the
newspapers began to run articles
signed by beauty specialists?
It doesn't make much difference
what you name the little girl baby.
She'll change it to suit herself when
she goes away to school anyway.
:o:
Nothing but the mismanagement of
the state campaign can defeat Keith
Neville. Men of experience should be
in command at democratic state head
quarters. :o:
"Did you ever see an editor's pecket
book?" asks an exchange. Acting on
the suggestion, we took a look at our
own, and closed the suggestion as very
unpleasant.
:o:
The public has ample reason to sus
pect something wrong with the wheat
market. The price is actually jump
ing up before the farmer has had a
chance to sell his wheat.
:o:
This community is supplying load
after load of cantaloupes for the
Omaha markets. As fine melons as
jaised in Colorado are grown on the
Missouri river bottom south of Platts
mouth. :d:
t'hot with a bootjack and confined
in the city jail, is the remedy sug
gested by an exchange for motorists
t nless they muzzle their autos and
reduce their speed to something less
than fifty miles an hour.
:o:
Even the sunny south is al.io pre
paring. With an increase in popula
tion of but 11.13 per cent, Dixie's as
reused valuation has increased 81.23
per cent, and its total wealth 129. 23
per cent. That will make even Ne
braska and Kansas hump.
. :o:
Wiltiam Allen White, cx-progies-Five,
who has returned, but without
enthusiasm, to the G. O. P., says this:
"Thc republicans will make a mistake
if they conduct their campaign against
the president. A winning campaign
must be made positively, not negative''-
The president is stronger then
the politicians think. To keep him in
the limelight may result disastrously
for his opponents."
HUGHES AND LABOR.
It is stated as a conclusion current
among prominent representatives of
organised labor that 80 per cent of
the voters connected with labor or
ganizations are for Wilson for presi
dent.
Evidences are not wanting that the
president stands high in the estimate
of intelligent labor leaders. They be
lieve that the president has some ap
preciation of the handicaps that beset
the man who toils with his hands and
entertains a sympathy for him that
is unusual.
Samuel Gompcrs was quoted re
cently in a statement that this ad
ministration has done more for labor
than any other administration ever
did.
Eut it is not so much what the pres
ident is, cr has done, as what his rival
for the presidency'is, and is likely to
do, that inclines union labor toward
Wilson.
Candidate Hughes spoke the other
day to a company of manufacturers
at Detroit. Undoubtedly the full text
of what he said has not been given,
but friendly reports indicate that he
said some things that will hardly at
tract to him the support of laboring
men. He warned the laboring world
that the democracy of the United
States will not stand for a continua
tion of this strife between capital and
labor, and be regarded as a mere
economic unit, but as a fellow-worker,
a human being.
That utterance was a challenge to
union labor, uttered for the gratifica
tion of a body of employers. For un
ionism regards the workman as an
economic unit, and while it does not
entirely disparage him as a human
being, it does subordinate the indi
vidual for the general advantage.
The record of Mr. Hughes amply
accounts for the slight confidence re
pored in him by the elements that do
the thinking for organized labor, the
sentinels on guard for the busy army
that has no time to keep close and in
telligent watch over its highest inter
ests. Here are some facts that may
be given as reasons why labor is not
for Hughes, as given by the Albany
Times-Union:
As governor he vetoed the 2-cent
fare and full-crew bills and the bill
providing for a S-cent fare from
Manhattan to Coney Island.
As justice he has concurred in de
cisions that:
1. State and nation can exercise no
control over railroads except in the
narrow field of transportation.
2. Private shippers cannot recover
damages when their business is
ruined by illegal rebates.
3. Congress and the federal courts
can wipe out state railway laws and
commissions that compel rate reduction-.
4. Railroads in determining "reas
onable rates" can include in their val
uation land given by the people to
them.
The first decision referred to was
in "the case if the Great Northern
Railroad against Minnesota; the sec
ond, that of the Pennsylvania Rail
road against the International Coal
company.
Hughes' greatest service to the rail
roads was performed, however, when
he wrote the decision in the Minne
sota rate case. The people appar
ently got the decision, but the cor
poration got the law. ,
This case came from the lower fed
eral courts, where Judge Sanborn
handed down a decision that was de
nounced by resolution in the gover
nors' conference, at Lake Mohonk,
where a special committee of gov
ernors was created to notify the su
preme court that if the Sanborn de
cision was sustained, it would be re
sisted by the states.
With this ominous threat of organ
ized resistance, the case came to
Hughes, who had been selected to $25,000 FOR CANDIDATES.
write the decision.
Justice Hughes gave every appear- Is the campaign to be waged in Ne
ance of reversing the Sanborn de- j braska by the Anti-Saloon league to
cision, while in reality he sustained be a fight for the adoption of .the
Judge Sanborn on every point of law
for which the railroads were seriously
contending.
The facts all indicate that Mr.
Hughes is a corporation man, and or
ganized labor has spotted him as such,
Lincoln Star.
:o:
All family trees do not bear peaches
by any means.
:o:
As' a general thing the famous per
former is . better than the famous
critic.
:o:
The republicans have been assailers
so long that it seems hard for them
to be assailed.
:o:
In school we were taught to love,
honor and obey. No mention was
made of wives, however.
:o:
Unfortunately the divorce praetor
can do nothing to prevent the separa
tion of the fool and his money.
:o:
Only a very few more days till the
boys and girls will be wending their
way up High School hill every morn
ing and noon.
-:o:-
The family album of old courtship
days must have been a consummate
bore if it was any worse than the
modern kodak albums.
:o:
"The mercury to hover around 1)0,"
says tne weatner neaunne. tan t
"hovering" be prohibited some under
the ordinance against loitering?
:o:
And now the railroads are threat
ened with a telegraphers' strike. Hut
f they are not going to be able to run
any trains they won't need anyone to
listvifri-h thpni.
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:o:
Governor Johnson of California, and
Mr. Hughes don't seem to have any
use tor one anotner. lney step at
the same hotel without intimate re-
ations or even speaking to each other.
:o: r
Mr. Bryan denies the rumor that
he intends to move from Nebraska.
And he ought to know. There is no
occasion for Mr. Bryan to leave Ne
braska, unless simply for a change
of climate.
:o: -
Did you ever know any of those fel
lows in charge of the Anti-Saloon
league to give a dollar out of their
own pocket for the cause? No, but
they manage to draw salaries and" get
away with all the money given to
them.
:o:-
Had Huerta been a citizen of the
United States instead of a Mexican,
and lived in a republican state, he
certainly would have occupied one of
the seats of the mighty in the United
States senate, and alongside of Pen
rose, Smoot, Gallinger and Harding,
and would have been a standpatter
in the old guard of protection, privi
lege and presumption.
:o:
Mr. Hughes promises to stop ey
rravaganc appropriations by congress
if he is elected president. Mr. Hughes
did not stop such appropriations when
he was governor. His administration
was the most extravagant that New
York had then known. And the gov
ernor of New York has a power that
lii not vested in the president. He can
veto separate items in an appropria
tion bill, but the president must ac
ept or reject the bill as a whole. New
York World.
The question,, under discussion, in
the senate -was the joint resolution
providing relief for flood sufferers in
North Carolina. Senator Penrose, of
Pennsylvania, arose: "There is hardly
a day," said the senator, "that we
do not report out some appropriation
involving a large sum of money two
millions the other day for victims of
tuberculosis, this morning again, five
hundred thousand, and so on, day
after day. After recording my note
of warning, I will allow the joint reso
lution to take its natural course."
There, Mr. Voter, you have- Mr. Pen
rose! Should the republicans regain
control of the senate, he would be the
most powerf il figure in that body.
prohibition amendment, or is it to be
devoted to the boosting of favored
partisan candidates into office under.
cover of the prohibition contest?
In a large display advertisement
published in the Lincoln Journal on
August 16, and signed by J. H. Grove,
treasurer of the Anti-Saloon league
of Nebraska, a plea is made for cam
paign contributions. In that adver
tisement appear these paragraphs:
"Some of this will be needed by the
Dry Federation for the amendment
fight.
"Twenty-five thousand dollars will
be needed by us to work for the elec
tion of officers who will enforce this
law, if passed; to work for the elec
tion of congressmen who will favor
national prohibition, and to pay for
this advertising."
This means, as plainly as words can
convey thought, that of the funds to
be raised for the prohibition fight
$25,000 is to be divided in the effort
to elect favored partisan candidates
to office.
The Anti-Sa'.oon league took an ac
tive part, in the primaries, in nominat
ing A. L. Sutton for governor over
Mr. McKelvie, Mr. Madgtt and Mr.
Miles, and in nominating John L.
Kennedy for senator over former Gov
ernor Aldrich, despite the fact that
McKelvie, Madgctt and Aldrich were
and are avowed champions of pro
hibition.
It is reasonable to suppose, there
fore, that the Anti-Saloon league, hav
ing succeeded in nominating its pre
ferred candidates, means to devote a
part of this $25,000 to electing them.
The Anti-Saloon league should state
its purpose frankly. It should name
all the candidates it proposes to sup
port with this $25,000 fund. It is ask
ing dry democrats and dry republicans
alike to contribute to its treasury.
They have a right to know and they
should exercise that right what is
going to be done with their money.
Is the Anti-Saloon league going to
conduct a partisan campaign with, the
funds donated to it for the prohibition
fight?
Is it going to use prohibition funds
to turn the state government into
the keeping of the republican party,
and to send republican congressmen
to Washington to tie the hands of
Woodrow Wilson and put an end to
the democratic legislative program of
constructive progressivism ?
If so, then John D. Rockefeller can
afford to contribute to the Anti-Saloon
league treasury. The House of
Morgan can afford to contribute. The
railroads that are depending on the
republican party to free them from
state control can afford to contribute
Every great corporation in the coun
try, every special interest that cen
ters in Wall street, and that today is
opposing Wilson and democracy, can
afford to contribute. It ought to be
possible to raise even more than $25,-
000 for that purpose.
But the thousands of democrats in
Nebraska who are for prohibition;
who are proud of the record made by
democratic administrations at Wash
ington and at Lincoln; who are de
voted to democratic policies and prin
ciples and are working for the elec
tion of democratic candidates to make
them effective these democrats have
a right to know, if they contribute to
the Anti-Saloon league fund, just what
candidates their money is to be used
to favor and what candidates it is to
be used to oppose.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for
the election of candidates is a mighty
comfortable campaign fund in Ne
braska. While we cannot speak for
the republican organization, we ven
ture to say it is more than any demo
cratic state committee ever had at its
disposal since Nebraska was a state.
The avowed and advertised intention
of the Anti-Saloon league to divert
that immense sum from the prohibi
tion campaign and use it to help elect
partisan candidates creates a situation
that is well worth public attention.
World-Herald.
-:o:-
Governor Johnson, of California,
don't seem to have much use for Mr.
Hughes. '
Nine more days only.
:o:-
Till the auto parade, August 31.
:o:
Of course you will attend the first
day.
:o:
The girl who pins her faith to a
man ought to us a safety pin.
:o:
Only eight more days until the com
mencement of "Home Coming."
:o:
Football practice will begin with the
taking up of school. Doctors, please
take notice.
:o:
If it were not for protection the
republicans would have no issue at
ill. Of course, Hughes puts in most
of his time abusing President Wilson.
His crowds have been rather small in
California, which would denote that
the people of California are very tired
cf his balderdash.
:o:
Condemnation of pork-barrel legis
lation has became so easy and so
fashionable that to denounce it now
adays amounts to no more than to
denoujice murder as ah immorality.
The pork barrel is doomed, but the
winner is the man with the courage
to kick it in, and do -it first.
:o:
The Kansas woman who was de
feated for the democratic congres
sional nomination by a minister, has
decided to run as an independent can
didate. Wonder if she had a grudge
against the minister's wife? "Kansas
women should have an opportunity to
vote for a woman candidate for con
gress," says this woman physician,
Yet some people will claim that
women don't know anything about
politics.
.n.
A Texas farmer has plowed up a
very nice consignment ol silver bars
worth at least $100,000. It is thought
'.hat they were buried there in the
sixteenth or seventeenth century when
the Spaniards retreated from Mexico.
Probably the farmers in lexas will mance than the tales of famous trav
now keen more of an eye than ever on elers, for they deal with the lands
the furrows they turn over, whether lnat carry a personal appeal to those
the labor accomplished with a gang,
.sulky, walking plow, spade, or a forked
stick. Thus the equivalent of some
millions of dollars of time, energy and
wasted eyesight will doubtless be ex-
pended in a vain search of the elusive
metal.
:o:-
KOM!N'CE of the pioneek.
In a state that is just preparing
to celebrate its semi-centennial, what
a distinction must attach to the per
son born in this state eighty-nine
years ago. The oldest person now liv-
ing wno was born in AebrasKa, a
woman said to have Indian blood In
her veins, is now mourning the death
of her husband, who has just passed
away at Barneston at the age of 83
years. '
There is romance in
tho thought
mat tne town in wmcn sne encoun-
ters her widowhood bears the name
of her husband and herself.
Wn.t o tas.. nf nitnrv it. wmild
be if the memoirs of this dead and
gone Nebraskan, the late F. M.
Barnes, had been transmitted to pos-
terity. He may have left some tangi-
,,., , ,,-r
ble record of his long and useful life
other than his name attached to the
town he helped to found. If he did not
it is a pity. If he did not, no effort
, , , , . N , ,
should be spared to secure from his
relict a comprehensive recital of her
birth at Bellevue so nearly a century
ago.
These old-time Nebraskans, who
faced the rigors of a habitation begirt
bv the uncertainties of life among
mf
Advance Sale Notice
Pedigreed Duric Jersey Swine
at Publi Auction!
On Monday, October 16, 191G I will
sell at I'ublic Auction to the highest
bidder about 100 head of Pure bred
Duroes Breeding foards, Gilts, Bred
sows, some open sows, sows witn ut
ters, some weanlings, some June and
July pigs that will make nice breed
ing animals by January 1st.
Every thing will be sold as I wiil
discontinue breeding Durocs for the
present.
Call and see my animals.
W. B. PORTER,
Mynard, Neb.
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semi-savages, when the buffalo and
the Indian struggled for dominion of
the Iand' have an estate lo leavc that
surpasses in value any item of the
vast material wealth that industry
and fortitude have wrung from the
I truittul soil. 2o people nas any
I richer heritage than the chronicles of
its adventurous progenitors in achiev
ing the conquest of new lands
Their life stories are richer in ro
u;10 com3 after them to take up the
WOrk they so dauntlessly begun so
long ago. That is why each chronicle
of the derith of a pioncer brings to
each of us a sense of personal Iojs.
If we onIy knew a1 that each such
departing personage could tell, what
an atmosphere cf delicious romance
it would create for each of us who has
IFY!
1 ARE TAKING
ORE IT IS
iOST INFLUENCE ENTIRE BODY
The welfare of mankind demands
tnat lhev should be supplied with
nourishment and tins can only be done
thrpuh perfect digestion. It is not
how much we eat, but how much is
digested that-counts.
When digestion is bad the entire
system suffers. Getting back to
healthy condition of mind and mady
can oniy be had in many cases by the
tonic treatment.
11 a lom- treatment- is seiecteu, it
must be a tonic which has a good in-
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fiuence on the entire dictfstive tract.
huanv tonics stimulate digestion, but
do not affect the intestinal tract, or
lAl - a a? i IL . 1 1- xl 1
in" portion oi tne uouy tnrougu
which the food passes after it leaves
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the stomach. About three-fourths of
the diffcstion takes place after the
food leaves the stomach, therefore,
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Sunday Night, August 27th
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an interest
Star.
in Nebraska. Lincoln
:o:-
If the country should consult a for
tune teller it would be advised of the
prospect of an increase of railway
rates as a result of the trainmen's
demands.
:o:-
The allies claim that the war will
end when they drive the Germans to
their own soil, which, they claim, will
be inside the next year. Wc arc afraid
if we wait for this to occur we will
have to wait several years yet for the
war to end.
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P
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Srrtn Biti'iima,
City and Country
views deLiz'il
lurever. Ileal h.
Thought.. tki!l.
Pc'Ievie(Onuli)
NVb. Box?.' I r.
David R. Kerr.
Ckasiral. Literary,
Scientific, Teachers'
Certificates, BiU.?,
Art, Piano, Voire,
Violin, Public Pryak
tiii!. D.-amtiM,Home
KoonoDjy, Physical
Induration, Gyinna
ium. Swimming Pool
ATONIC
A GOOD ONE;
the value of Tanlac, as a tonic, can
be plainly seen when it is known that
this preparation is designed to re
lieve the entire intestinal tract,
as well as the kidneys and liver. By
stimulating these organs to activity
it relieves constipation, sallow skin,
backaches and "tired feetings," which
usually come from a disordered con
dition of these organs.
Tanlac is valuable as a stomach and
intestinal tonic. It relieves misery
after eating, digestion, dyspepsia, gas
and bloating. It supplies food for the
lerves and promotes healthy sleep.
Tanlac may now be obtained 4n
Plattsmouth, at the Mauzy Drug Co.
Tanlac may also be obtained in
Springfield, at H. Fiegenbaum's store,
and in Weeping Water at the Meier
Drug Co.
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