PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEK LY JOURNAL,
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1817.
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Cbe Plattsmoutb jjournal
n nuisiiKn shmi-wkeklv at i-lattsmoith, Nebraska.
Entered at roatofflce t riattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
IBCKIPTU PIUCEi H PER YEAR
IX ADVANCE
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
N o . man can. ,,ivduce great
. thirds who is not thoroughly
sincere in dealing "th him
M. Lowell.
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F.vei y'x'iiy !
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fjr Old Glory.
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.heat
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does iK-t c.'m the
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crv
won't Wiirk with the
Ki. !:;.. has ..ud for rommi.-.-imi
m .f governrru r.t.
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7h .;. won't he so many schooners
. an-und ir. Nebraska after the
- f M.iy as formerly.
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Wa! ga, can .iblat.
lor rc-e.ee-
.n.-st am- hour
. can I j found at his
hour i:i the day.
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V- have :luays believed that 11
- welding deserved a bigger
1 .! .'. ; c tk:.r. a divoice ca-e.
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N':. ! : about the kgi.daturc ad-.-ir.e
:: the first 01 next
v . ... : -onu- time i ;r;ng the week.
; :;' i.-.:ir tip.e for the weath-
. i-:...; to turn .-. the faucet. A little
!-t !i"v V.f'.il l do lots of C"OU.
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.litis a that iM'O'i -,' i oi
will k:,i ck the high c-t of
NORMS' SOriHSTKY.
family tnat p'an.
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a lav.
Me!lt !l.o- C lJolloV
i.ioi!v-s tran for r. . w buildings
Novembt r, Miys an exchange.
: t uonv n would rather have
,-ar than a new h'u. e anv da v.
("ol' r.'.d Tom Majors .'.rave Senator
N-'ri- a line trimming at the banquet
i.:" o!n Tuesday iiitriit. Tom Ma-j-
-- i- ju t tin- man that can do it
htp. it comes t defending American
I; '.pVs. when a-sailed by such men
ii.- No'tj-.
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There seems to be no doubt about
that i:rand old Roman, Champ Clark,
being re-elected to the speakership of
the hoti.-o. In all hi.-tory there never
wii a morr popular man presiding:
ov r congress, lie is loved by repub
Ii ; ii as well as democratic members
a iike.
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'i i -ot i.ili-t.- of Germane are be-
a:nl there are rumors
-f u' oit a!"at in that country and
A :- ii ia. II1.: t eh-iher there is any
tr. tii in the n ports is a horse of an-
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.rnany. th- seeds have
: some time
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i thf .!(! y shall huvi.
t!ie J la p. burs and the
rn - uiil have foil'
V.f!
d the
T '.'At m'i.-cui ity, the shacl
. . limy v." ill have been broken
limbs of millions, and demo.
A nave erected the temple
.:n. o-,t of the ruins of the
a.v l the p:ions of an' ocrai v."
ir.an:e- . . Jwel oi .Missouri
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; heartily attree v i 1 1 1 the Spring
Jo - i llepiil.iican when ( says: "If peo
'.i are t I pfcted t rise out (
n- i for "The Sta-- Spangled Ran
r. . ti,c air itself . hvdd be treated
v.i;h re--i,ect. In a New Voi k re.-tau
ia; the other day a jjatron was justi
1.,- !y iieliJiant v, in n a chorus
:;i-i; jm l, ttlrnx suits spiced up their
.... r,:rn. -; i.v wain-r ll.fs ;i nc
w 's l'-vz Li the flair be
thca -ei"iouly. and tet cheapened."
There is a weakness in the vocal at
titude of Senator Norris. He is de
fending his reputed action in not vot
ing to authorize any man to plunge
this country into war. It is either a
false or a mistaken promise. There
was no proposition to authorize any
body other than the president of the
United. States to do anything. There
was no proposal to allow him "to
plunge the nation into war." President
Wilson is no more apt than Senator
Norris to needlessly get us into war.
The proposition was to authorize the
piesident to arm American merchant
ships for their protection against
nithloss destruction by submarines.
Technically speaking, the country was
already in war, because it was being
assailed through the destruction of
American lives on the high seas. If
the vote of Senator Norris had been
to prevent submarines from shooting
up American ships and destroying
American lives it would have been a
vote to prevent any man from plung
:ng us into war. Rut a vote to deny
to American ships the armament need
ed for protection was nothing more
nor less than a vote to punish an
American ship and all its passengers
and crew for going upon the high
seas at all.
The senator's course fails to take
ir.to account the fact that there arc
hundreds of thousands of American
seamen whose homes, are upon the
high seas, and that the recognized and
hitherto universally sanctioned laws
f nations have for generations guar
anteed them the right to pursue their
industry peacefully without molesta
tion. A foreign power has as much
right to drive the American farmers
. , . , i it.
I t orn tiieir Ileitis necause uiey aie
aising food as it has to drive Amer
ican seamen off the seas because they
ue transporting it.
Senator Norris is welcome to the
ig audience that heard him. A great
leal bigger one eared not for his ex
planation and his sophistries. Lincoln
Star.
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Of course Senator Norris did not
seek to put right the fellow who sar
castically inquired how many newspa
pers would print the senator's speech.
He did not tell the fellow that re
quests had been made for copies of it.
lie would rather have the fellow be-
ieve that Wall street would not let
the papers use a speech like that, and
doubtless the fellow was callow
enough to believe it. Rut that" was
not the onlyr instance of lack of truth
and frankness on the part of the sen
ator. I lis whole speech was based upon
i false premise that the president
wants to get us into war. Lincoln
Star.
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We have all the confidence in the
world that congress will do its duty
The senate is composed of the peo
ple's representatives, and we believe
they arc men who have studied well
the war problem, and will use good
sound judgment.
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Oti' e in a while we find a man who
refuse.; to advertise on the grounds
that he has more business now than
he can handle. He is probably cor
reet. A man who does not advertise
is. not capable of handling much busi
ness.
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More birds, it is said, are killed
during the closed season in the spring
than in the open season in the fall
Many hunters have given up duck
hunting altogether, rather than hunt
young birds in the fall.
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A CHEAP GAME OF POLITICS. Governor Neville will sign it and do
his full share in enforcing it.
Rut if there is not this spirit, if the
legislature falls an easy and weak
minded victim to the cunning partisan
plotters who are seeking to fool it into
doing the wrong thing, the legislature
will be discredited and the democratic
party will be made to suffer for it at
the polls next year.
Primarily the responsibility is with
the democratic party. Therefore ev
ery loyal democrat who desires demo
cratic supremacy in Nebraska to con
tinue, should constitute himself a
committee of one to urgo his mem
ber of the legislature to lend himself
to no rule or ruin policy. World-Her
ald.
Suppose the house of representa
tives hold to their acts on the prohibi
tion amendment and the senate stand
by its acts, please tell us what is to
become of the "bone dry" proposition
It is plain to be seen that republican
'politicians and newspapers are playing
partisan politics with the prohibition
bill pending in the Nebraska legsla
ture. They have two arrows in their
quiver. Their first hope is to fool a
democratic legislature into passing a
bill so unnecessarily drastic in its pro
visions, so obnoxious in its battle-ax
assaults upoa the homes of the people,
so offensive in its turning loose a
horde of volunteer and irresponsible
spies and informers to persecute good
and respectable citizens, that the state
will rise in wrath, next year, against
the party in control of the legislature
that enacted it.
Their second hope is to set the
house and senate by the ears, to get
them involved in irreconcilable differ
ences, to destroy all spirit of i-eason-
able compromise and concession, to the
end that the legislature may adjourn
with no prohibition law enacted. Then,
in that event, the g. o. p. plotters will
charge that the democratic party was
controlled by "the brewers" and the
bootleggers and failed to keep its
pledges to the people.
Either way, it is figured, the repub
lican partv would stand to win and
the democratic party to lose. Either
way a republican could be elected' to;
succeed Keith Neville in 1U18, and the
legislature and statehouse be returned
to the control of the republicans who
are thirsting for office.
Ths scheme is being worked so
brazenly and so openly that no demo
cratic legislator can be blind to it. It
is so sinister in its willingness to sub
vert the cause of good and honest gov
ernment to partisan ends that every
intelligent citizen should resent it.
In the furtherance of this plot the
columns of republican organs are be
ing filled with wild and false stories
of the alleged "outrages" and "betray
als" that are being committed in the
consideration and perfection of the bill.
In the furtherance of this plot the sen-
ite galleries were packed, the other
ay, with a crowd of partisans that
insulted with hisses and cat calls so
clean and honorable a gentleman and
so splendid a citizen as Senator Al
ert, when he was discussing with his
accustomed moderation and sound
common sense, the details of prohibi
tion legislation. In the furtherance
of this plot every effort is being
made to induce every friend of pro
hibition in Nebraska to believe that
prohibition is to be slaughtered unless
the house "stands firm" and refuses
to consent to any change in the bill as
it passed that body.
All of this is cheap and mean and
contemptible. It is playing in the very
basement of politics. It is high time
that democrats in the legislature and
out of it, that sensible and high-mind
ed citizens of all parties, took cogni
zance of the situation.
This legislature, before it adjourns,
should pass a law to facilitate and as
sist the enforcement of the prohibition
amendment. It .should be an honest.
sensible, workable law. It should
place in the hands of Governor Ne
ville, and of the law-enforcing authori
ties in every community, every proper
and needed weapon for dealing with
bootleggers and other law-breakers.
Failure to do this would be a betrayal
of public trust not to be tolerated.
Rut that is not to say that a prohibi
tion bill must be passed exactly as it
came from the house, or exactly as
amended by the senate. The house bill
was passed without discussion or con
sideration except in committee. In va
rious of its sections it is clearly faulty
and objectionable. It needs amending
Rut that is not saying that every
amendment proposed in the senate, or
that may be adopted by the senate, is
sacrosanct. We have no doubt that
various of the senate amendments are
desirable, and that others are unde
sirable. The problem must be worked
out, eventually, in friendly consulta
tion and co-operation between the two
houses.
If there is that friendly consulta
tjon and co-operation, an honest and
broad-minded threshing out of differ
ences there need be no fear of the
result. A good hill will be passed, and
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IT WAS A FILIBUSTER.
Senator Norris has to have some ef
frontery to come to Nebraska and tell
the people that it was not a filibuster
in which he participated.
If it was not a filibuster in which
the senator took part, there is no such
a thing as a filibuster. ,
Filibustering in legislative affairs is
delaying legislation or action in an as
sembly by dilatory motions or other
artifices. For almost two days an
overwhelming majority in the United
States senate sought to have an armed
neutrality resolution adopted authoriz
ing the president to take certain ac
tion during the inevitable vacation of
congress for the protection of Amer
ican ships and lives.
That majority- of four or five.to one
was unable to pass the resolution, sim
ply because the twelve senators which
included Senator Norris would not per
mit a vote to be taken. A very old
and equally nonsensical rule of the
senate permitted unlimited debate up
on anyr measure. This rule these
twelve senators sought to utilize to
prevent a vote upon the resolution.
That they did not talk the bill to
death was due to the fact that not all
of them were given the floor. Senator
Norris did his share. He says he
talked something like an hour and a
half. As is always the case at the
close of a session of congress a great
quantity' of legislation was pressing
for action. Several great appropria
tion bills providing funds for operat
ing expenses of the government were
pending. Among them was the army
bill.
All day Saturday, all night Saturday
night and until noon Sunday the fili
buster went on. Frequently at inter
vals Senator Hitchcock sought to get
the twelve to agree that a vote should
be permitted before the session ex
pired at noon Sunday by limitation.
They would not consent. At 1 a. m.
Sunday Senator LaFolIette, leader of
the filibuster, was going about among
the other eleven filibusterers, urging
them each to talk some, "in order that
his own time, when it should come,
might not be too long."
That is, he wanted help in talking
the legislation to death. We wanted
help in filibustering. Had these men
consented at any time to agree that a
vote -should be taken before congress
expired they would have been given
opportunity to say all that was neces
sary. Senator Norris has not tendered his
constituents any assurance that one of
the purposes of that filibuster was not
to prevent the passage of the army
appropriation bill, which was in fact
one of its inevitable accomplishments.
It requires much assurance upon the
part of the senator to deny that there
was a filibuster. Lincoln Star.
Tomorrow is "All Fools' Day!'
Wheat is steadily advancing in price.
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Rack-to-the-farm movement is in
style now.
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Lawn mowers will soon be pushing
to the front.
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It is what you don't know that is
liable to get you into trouble.
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The present is where we stand and
watch the future dissolve in the past.
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If you believe in preparedness, don't
fail to plant as large a truck patch as
possible.
The price of print paper continues
to climb. If something isn't done
soon, more of the small newspapers
will go to the wall.
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Occasionally you will find a man so
considerate that he will even make a
fool of himself to save some woman
the trouble of doing it.
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John Wanamaker is authority for
the statement that no boy ever be
came a great man if he failed in his
youth to learn to save money.
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The new government radio station
at San Diego will be able to signal at
least 12,000 miles. Why not put on
500 miles more and reach the limit at
once.
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The state senate w ill work this week
on full pay, while the house members
will sit and suck their thumbs. When
the pay stopped many of the house
members lit right out for home. That's
what they are there for simply to
draw their pay.
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An American newspaper man,
George V. Racon, has been sentenced
to one year and one day in federal
piison for plotting to set on foot on
American soil a conspiracy against a
friendly nation. He was arrested in
England as a German spy.
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From the report of the secretary of
the state board of agriculture there
is much less grain in the state this
year than there was last year. This
report, however, does not include
grain in the hands of the elevator men.
whose houses are full to overflowing.
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LET THEM KNOW.
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The time will come when people will
read of kings as they now read of
witches, and wonder haw nations could
have been so foolish. They will read
of the selfishness of kings, how, for
lust of gain and power, they aroused
subjects to fight and kill. Future
generations will wonder how the
world could have stood for hereditary
rulers.
The theory that a gold surplus con
stitutes a yellow peril strikes the av
erage man as being as panicky as
an Eskimo that hades is a very warm
place.
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When you vote for Jesse Warga you
know you "have the right man in the
right place."
Next Monday the wheels of con
gress will begin to grind. If you have
anything to say to your representa
tive now is the time to :,ay it. Re
member, he is working for you, and it
is up to you to tell him about what
you want him to do. Do not delay, do
it. today.
If you are in favor of this country
lushing into war then it is your duty
to notify your representatives in
Washington of that fact.
On the other hand, if you are op
posed to pushing the United States
into war then it is your duty to make
that known to your representative.
Congress alone har the right to de
clare W:t'.
And what congress does is supposed
to be done because the vast majority
of the people of this country so de
sire it.
How is your representative to know
your sentiments if you fail to tell
him 7
Congressmen and senators are not
mind-readers.
They are desirous of carrying out
the wishes and desires of their con
stituents, but in order to do this they
want to feel sure that they have felt
the public pulse and read the tempera
ture correctly and that they know
just what the degree of sensible heat
is.
So, get busy and write to your con
gressman and senators that they may
know how you stand on the war ques
tion. Hastings Tribune.
A protracted session of congress is
freely predicted.
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We say, stick to the text of the pro
hibition amendment.
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Germany, it is presumed, is framing
up another peace proposition. If there
is any possible show to have peace, we
are in favor of it.
Children Cry iror Fletcher's
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use lor over over 60 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his ccr-
jWrfrtt, sonal supervision since its infancy.
, ' tmun uuc IU UCVCiVl" yVU. ill lillS.
AH Countsrfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health cf
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTOR I A
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric.
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty ycr.rs it has
teen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
T7ind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishnccs arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friead.
SEN
CASTOR! A always
Bears the Signature of
f 1
in fe For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CF NTU R COMPANY, NKW VOIK C fTV.
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Did you get "April fooled?"
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If a word to the wise is sufficient,
why isn't wise?
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One of the best house-keeping sys
tems in the world, is not to mort
gage it.
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Shall we have juac? or war? That's
what is bothering us now.
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Kvery suite should have a fool in
spector. Tlie governor should recom
mend Mich a law for Nebraska before
the legislature goes to pieces.
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That social worker who said disea-e
is dying and poverty is being starved
ut, is probably correct, but isn't it
i lingering death and long-sustained
fasting?
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Th democrats in congress have
unanimously re-nominated Champ
Clark for Speaker. There is nothing
very strange about that. We knew
that he would be.
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Evidently there are three kinds of
Mars. The ones who lie for prifit; the
uios who lie to create scandal and the
common, everyday liar, who has be
come thoroughly practical, and lies
because he can't help it.
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Farmers are planting more pea
nuts than ever before. The peanut
has become available for a multitude
of useful purposes and is no longer
dependent for a boom on the county
fair grounds, or at the circus.
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Red-headed boys ore now coming in
to their own. Large stores in large
cities are now employing only red
headed boys and girls, because they
are brighter and more reliable. Red
headed women have always been favorites.
To err is human. To forgive is diplomacy.
Those are certainly funny looking
little hats the girls are wearing.
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Only twenty-eight days and it's all
over; and then, "Oh, how dry I am!"
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If you want fair play you should
man.
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Public criticism is the mosti power
ful weapon there is when properly
Used.
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Cle;n up. Don't let your home look
like no one lived there. It only takes
a little work night and morning to
keep your property in ship-shape or
der. :o:
I'laiit nunc corn to make up for
the spring wheat that is no good.
Corn bread is good, and who is there
that can't relish corn cakes? Yum!
Yum!
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Tiie people in the west are not anx
ious for war, but it is the moneyed
men of the east that are howling for
a conflict. They won't have to go to
war, but will remain at home and rob
the families of those who are patriotic
enough to go to their country's de
fense, t 4
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Says the Springfield Republican:
"Fool things said are piling up. The
pacifist orator in New York who
wanted to see certain of our most dis
tinguished citizens shot, is matched
by Rev. Dr. Ilillis of Brooklyn, who
announces that the sight of the kaiser,
Tirpitz and Hindenburg hanging by a
rope would fill him with happiness.
And he is the successor of Henry
Ward lleecher! The lunatic fringe is
at large."
ANOTHER NEW TOWN
DEAVER, WYOMING
IN THE BIG HORN BASIN
Dcaver is the new town for the 20,000 acres of the Government's irri
gated lands in the IJasin on the Turlington's main line just east of the model
irrigated locality about Powell, Wyo. Dcaver will be the trading center for
over ."500 farms and will prosper from the start. It offers business chances
that are comnvm to any new and growing town. The first unit of 12,000
acres of Government irrigated free homestead land will probably be offered
July 1st. 20 year payment plan, -no interest for water rights.
Place your name and address through my office, on file with the Govern
ment Reclamation Service in the IJasin so you may be currently informed
about the granting of these valuable farms and be given the opportunity to
secure one of them.
Writte for Big Horn IJasin Folder describing
this wonderful territory.
S. B, HOWARD, Immigration Agent, C. 6. & Q. R. ft.
1004 Farnarn St., Omaha. Neb.