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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1917. FLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. .PAGE 4. Cbe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED IEMI.WEEKLT AT PUATTSUOl'TD, NKBRASICti Satsredat Postofflc at Plattimouth. Nb., as second-class mall matter. i. i 1 IILf R,' A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION miCKi H.M For country and home. Cut out politics for awhile. :o: Hard on picnics just now. :o: - Politics is running rife in Wash ington. -:o:- Uneasy rests the foot that wear: a tight shoe. :o: Now proceed and conscript a little Wall street money. :o: Making war on rats is one way to reduce the high cost of living. :o : Wisdom is a wonderful asset, when one has horse sense enough to ap ply it. :or Business men who are not in poli tics .seldom clamor for municipal own ership. :o: The police shake-up in Omaha has no doubt resulted in much good to the city. Anyway, in these trying times of conservation, thevc will be no more pie-eating contests. :o: Perhaps by this time many of the war bridegrooms will be glad to en list to secure peace. :o: Every man may have his price, but as yet no hen has consented to lay a cold storage egg. :o: The French line may be getting thin, but so did Dob Fitzsimmons at the time he had his heaviest punch. :o : When Constantine left Greece ht? took his crown with him. probably figvuing that crowns would be out of style before his son got a chance to wear it. :o: If Ilaller is guilty of one-half of what Dick Metcalfe, accused him, he s-hculd resign as regent without any further ceremony. 'Put none but loy al men on guard. -:o:- The average capacity of all box cars, for instance, is 50.7 tons, but the average load carried per car now has been only 15.5 tons, just 13 per rent of the capacity. :o: It ought not be necessary to re peat day after day how brave and patriotic American citizens are. They are both, and the world knows it. The world is to get further demon stration of the fact soon. :o: Nebraska City is going to have a home-coming day Thursday, August 1. What about Piattsmouth having one? If they are good investments for Nebraska City, they should also be for Piattsmouth. :o: The applications for exemption from the draft come a plenty, and it is amusing to note the pleas that some of them put up. Uut some of them are so flimsy as to be ridicu lous. :o:- The appointment of Dill Maupin by the state conservation council as director of publicity, is the wisest thing that council could have done. This truly is a selection of the right man for the right place, and no mis . take. :o: Hollwcg went up against the wrath of the German crown prince and was compelled to retire as chancellor. Now everybody over there seems to be spitting fire at the man who just a few weeks ago was heralded as one of the empire's greatest statesmen. It's a dollar against, the doughnuts that the same feeling, and in more intense form, exists against the kaiser, but '-K give expression to it. PER TEAR IN ADTAMCB HAS OUR IIOUK STRUCK? The very serious uncertainty which characterizes all things Russian must at once result in added intensiveness in our own participation in the war. Our allies naturally will anticipate a speeding up of our military program We ourselves realize the necessity of preventing a permanent turn in tho tide favorable to the enemy, as a re suit of Russian weakening. Splendidly did Russia pull herself together once before when her ene mies believed that she was out of the fighting for a long time to come. Can she do it again? Certain it is that all her future prospects in the path way of liberty and democracy depends on her firm fidelity to the powers al lied in defense of liberty and democ racy. In Kerensky, Russia has a leader of rare force of character and magnetiq personality. He is the proper com bination of kindliness and iron resolu tion. But a nation whose very exist ence apparently hangs on the genius, energy and moral force of one indi vidual is in grave danger. The one man who stands forth as the possible political savior of his people may fall tomorrow as the victim of internal hatred, jealousy or fanaticism. Russir. is full or anarchy and treason. The fall of Kerensky would prove a na tional and international calamity. Civilization may well pray that such a disaster may be averted. It would be an unwarranted as sumption to believe that the fate of a whole people, much less of many peo ples, hangs on the life of one man. There doubtless are other Kerensky. in Russia. Eut this man seems so masterful, so democratic and yet s' capable of assuming absolute domin ion at the crucial moment that he fits the situation, possibly, as few men could. In any event the call on America will be urgent and insistent. It is no small task which we have undertaken. The western front is a practical dead lock and operations on the eastern front are in a chaotic condition. Amer icans may as well look squarely int the facts. We arc in for a long, hard struggle that will demand of us all that we can give. The sooner ws weed out treason, shame cowardice into hiding and get the country into its fighting clothes the better for us and for civilization. The hour has Striirk wVlOn Tlrt 1 1L- 111.. dvrmfr,A I ""-t j .u, p.nK-wn.skcrcd men who whine and criticise should be shamed into silence. lhere are enougn real virile men J wun red blood in their arteries to win I this war for civiliation and protect and feed the anemics and peace-loving besides. Millions of our boys will go to the front. For their sakes and for the sake of the country and civilizatiop let treason be henceforth recognized as treason and the German govern ment as our enemy. It plotted against us in peace, forced us into war, and voices contempt for our genius and courage in war. This way must be fought to a permanent peace. Therefore we must win it. :o:- And still it rains occasionally, but not loo much, only for the joy riders. :o : Even the crushing defeat of the Russians fails to turn Austria from its purpose to secure peace at the earliest possible moment. ;o: The orderliness of the American troops in Europe is provoking admir ing comment from all others there. Europeans have had the notion that Americans were a noisy, unrestrained lot of boors and they cannot under stand how the soldiers are so quiet, but they now believe that our boys have determination. IN TIME OF NEED. Organzier of the new Home Guard in Nebraska report - considerable op- position. The opposition is usually in form of ridicule on the part of citi- acens who say there will never be needltoaay tne oasis 0 England s Norman of a Home Guard in any Nebraska f aristocracy. The landless America) town. ' Wait a minute, brothers!. mwm m . . .inose or you who now oppose the organization of the Home Guard are no doubt the same citizens who dis- couraged enlistments in the Nebraska- National Guard. Perhaps you are thq same good, but misguided citizens who have frequently uttered words which a good citizen should not say in op position to his home government in time of war. Walt a minute, brothers Soon six thousand splendid boys of the Nebraska brigade may be started over the sea to defend 'the American flag on foreign fields But they may not reach the goal. The ships which bear them mav meet an enemv sulk- marine, and one or all of the trans- ports may go down. God forbid, but indeed ships do go down at sea when enemy submarines attack, and so iijof continental information." In the may be with the ships which shall bear our own Nebraska boys upon the voy- age of duty and of honor. Wait a minute, brothers! Try to imagine the situation in a, score of Nebraska towns in that un- happy day (which we pray may never dawn) when the cable might bring announcement of such a death for our own loved boys. And then Human nature is human nature, but it can be quickly changed to brute na- ture under stress of great grief. In that sad day the friends and relatives of loved ones sent to death by order of a war-mad autocrat might happen to remember how it was that in I thoughtless moments certain of our own citizens had spoken sentiments I pleasing to that mad monarch over I the seas. And then will come a timo I when the thoughtless ones .will be j glad that Nebraska has organized I home guard companies to nreservr a calm A x' ------ k.-u ilJIUW IlUt lC I preserved without the presence of the 1 - C5 Think it over, brothers! Think once again, and then perhaps j your better self mav erain the ascend- I ... I ency, and you will cease ridicule of the Home Guard, and begin doing your part to perfect an organization which all good citizens feel may be a greatly needed here at home to pre serve quiet and order as our own brave soldier boys are needed to com bat a war-mad monarch beyond thq sea. Columbus Telegram. -:o:- EXEMPTIONS. A wealthy farmer in a Nebraska draft district, one of whose six sonsfnounccd from New York the other ..1 jm . . I xeii witnin tne tirst quota, has offered an eighty-acre farm to anyone who Kvill tafcn hu rm r. i ti, I Doubtless there would be takers, fo I such a farm in that particular nart of i X I the state is worth, more than th average young man can cam by fif- I teen years of labor. I But the trade cannot be made. If J sucn deals were possible, we should I 1 m ... - - have the rich hiring the poor to do I their share of the fighting for -them. I The draft law contemplated no such J plutocratic operation of the war. Un- J less its spirit is violated, there will J be no buying of military indulgences. I We have progressed in the last half j century. When men were drafted forfduce. the civil war they were permitted to j i ..... . l ... 1 nue substitutes. It was one of the j criticisms of Grover Cleveland when j a candidate for office that he had em- ployed a substitute to take his place I m uwi war. mere was no givinff of I farms worth ten or fifteen thousand dollars to substitutes then. Seven or eight hundred dollars wa3 a liberal price. The viciousness of the substi- tute system was not appreciated then suniciently to prevent its use. Today 1 such practices woukl not be tolerated if known. I ui all men, the man with such- quantities of Nebraska land that he can anord to give away an eighty- acre farm ia the last man who should' reiuse to fight his country's battles, me men rtho own the land of country orn the country. It is truly tncir country, it their country were Conquered, it is ltq land the conquer, ors would take, as the Normans took I in England the land which is even . . - i I would have his iob under a connuernr no less than before. He would lose I - r - W r ' woisi oniy ponucai ngnis. uut I tiie landed proprietor, with both po- f litical and economic rights at stake, would be a sufferer indeed. If he lsn t willing, himself or by his sons;. tu fiffht for his country, who should De? Nebraska City Press. o: KICII MAN'S CONSPIRACY. A war news item of unusual inter- est, to the effect that there is a con- spiracy among the "international financiers" to bring about an early Peace was published prominently last Friday on th? first Page of the New I lorK nmes. ine information was I unearthed by "New Europe," a week- y Puliation in London, which the Times says "possesses special sources I course of the article headed "Unholy I -Alliance of Finance" New Europe says: We learn from an unimpeachable source that a secret conference of in- ternational financiers which recently J to place in Switzerland was in - J sPed by somewhat different motives I rom tnse which wcre'ascribed to it I at the time. Acting purely in the interest of the great capitalists of I ,, X A. 1 1 t li -n.li - al1 countries, it aimed, above all, at i. an immediate peace such as would arrcst the growth of international so- cialism and the rising tide of revo- I . Iuton throughout Europe. The gath- I . ... erinS sought to forestall the holding 01 atocKnoim conference bv a tlircct arrangement between the bel- "fferents in which national claims I t 1 . . . wouiu De entirely subordinated to considerations of world-wide finance." The nature of the "considerations of world-wide finance" alluded to may lbe easily conjectured when it is re- membered that thi wnr hn rnt nl. -wmtf m 1 read more than 80 billions of dol-I liar and that what Senator Borah caI,s the almost incomprehensible burden" of 07 billions of war bond-: L 1 ,,ai5 aireauy Dcen imposed. One reason why the world of high finance may well be alarmed is in dicated by the Des Moines Register in the statement that "to meet the running expenses of Great Britain and pay interest on the bonds already issued will take 53 per cent of the total income of the empire." And the taxes, everywhere, are falling more and more heavily, and more and more directly, on wealth, in the form of levies on incomes and excess pro fits. As an example, it was an . .. . day that the steel corporation had set aside, from its parninM. Kit mill! nc v ... cess profits tax for the three months period Pndin .T,, no ; X 1 vivviitill 37 ner cent of the net earning. In 37 per cent of the net earnings England excess profits taxes have mounted as high as 80 per cent. If the war should last two or three years longer, at a daily expense to the world of 100 million dollars or more.. the mountain debt would become so vast that to pay interest on it alone, not to mention reducing the principal would require about all that land, labor and capital, in some of the countries involved, was able to pro- To land goes rent; to labor wages; to capital profits. Rental values may be confiscated by the state, pro- rfits may be confiscated, in verv lareo part or wholly. But the wage fund cannot be confiscated. It must bo paid,"dolcd out directly to the labor- ers, else they cannot live, or work. or rear children to keep the wheel of industry and civilization turning after they are gone. Would .it be anything to wonder at if the world of high finance wora "consnirinn-V to Tirl tho wni- Would it not be remarkable, in- deed, if it were not? Is it not threatened with the loss of 'the goose that lays . the golden eggs ?, a And yet there are men foolish enough to speak of this as a "cap- ltahsts' war" to enable the wealthy to forge the chains of servitude still more securely about the bodies of the poor! It makes no difference what may have been the aims and motives in ith bpo-inninor THo fo,.f ,,t.,,, i w ..si. A AtAVLl Ls l t L V .'M.lllll.. - - - - - - - - -W lout clearly that this is a war for f democracy, for the rights of the common people, not merely in the lands where the troops are fighting but in the lands from which thev jcame. When it is ended the rights J as well as the privileges of the rich will be encroached upon, as a result f the lessons the war has taught and government, more than fore, in every country involved, will be of the people, by the people ei.d I for the people. World-Herald .Q. SPEAKING ABOUT PEACE. There is peace talk in Gcrmany: I dnu more 01 it in Austria, it is a fit topic for discussion everywhere. j The allies in Europe occasionally mention it, to say that there be no sucn peace as Germany proposes. There is little discussion of peace f 'n this country, not so much as there I was before Uncle Sam forced into the war by reckless fright- I fulness. Some day the United States j WH bejjin to discuss peace, for this j is a peaceful people that abhors war. I Aml when this country lays down I the terms of any peace that will be acceptable to it, the chief condition 01 11 will te that the world must be made safe for democracy, and that 1. those old world rulers who, claiming to iule through the divinity of kings; have for a century sought to destroy I.. - tne eim of popular rule, must be II ... . I deprived of the power, if not the in I -"auon, 10 ever go to war ap.'am. With the disposition of disputed prov nces, the control ot colonies 011 other I . mZ . A- 1 j1 1 - . -ouneiua anu ine juristic! ion o: dynasties this country and people are not concerned except insofar as they nave a bearing upon the problem of preserving hereafter the peace of the world. When the Prussian autocracy be- Sins to entertain a desire for a peace that will deprive it of the power to set the world afire .ifr-.in TT,.,1 Cnm will be ready and eager to listen. And when that shall have been accom plished, Uncle Sam will address him self to the task of fully and decisive ly Americanizing the United States. Lincoln Star. :o:- NOT THEIR WAR. Just how some of the pro-Germans. those whose love of the fatherland i? i f titer man ineir ue vol ion to ine -A. 1 Jl. 1 . .1 - . . .1.- ,VII llltlll CI II llil J possess, can say that this is Wilson's war is one of the unfathomable riddles 01 ine present age. president W ilsrn was sustained-by both houses of con gress by almost unanimous vote, :ir3 today leading republican politician? say there is but one party in this country, and were a presidential elec tion held tomorrow it is doubtful if the republicans would place a nomine in the field. We are one party, on country, one purpose, we are m a struggle to break down the last bar rier between plutocracy and de.ift'- racy. We arc not seeking expansion nor indemnity, but are simply making the world safe for democracy. Ulys ses Dispatch. :o:- BEING A SUSPECT. L.ongrcllow said: "run many a shaft at random sent, finds mark the archor little meant." At the present time it is well to bear this fact in mind and weigh your words before you speak of the war and its objects. If you are loyal, it will not be hard for you to eliminate all questions of unfealty. If you are disloyal, "The bogy man'll git you if you don't watch out." There is no middle of the road path you are either for the government or against it; you must go the limit; you cannot say "I would be in favor if such and such was done;" we are in the war, nndj must win to save our nation from utter annihilation. Even' a rumor of disloyalty will leave a stain that even Net Contents laFliiid pracnnH ,t't-Kmr ti r.uini.-.T PEIt CENT. 3 K7 i ; AVc4clablc Preparation hrs- similatinthcFood by Rcula i tiiul thc5wnacIisandBa!sw. sBisas ; hereby Promou.Di$csUon ChccrfulncssandReSLContMns i neither Opium.Morphine nor i MinerolJT Narcotic : ; J'untkrn Sctd V Alx Snna I few. n't r. .. ' 'O c I forhelte Sail I Ar. if Sent S J'titrntrnt fiiCerbaiateSeJt harm Jind CfanfifJ Sagar huiiergrrn Flamr 1 Remedy fcr Z, 5 o i Consiipation and Diarrhoea-j '1 and Kvcribniiv:" LOSS OF SLEEP mi fUE GESTAVnCOMPAKlf. NEW VQif.'V Exact Ccpy of Wrapper. J0" ueatn cannot cttace, for your children and grandchildren will be -. . . compelled xo bear the stigma and will be pointed out as descendants of a traitor. Watch your words. Ulysses I w-v i-cviev :o:- WOODMEN CIKCLE TICNIC IS A BIG SUCCESS Yesterday the Woodmen Circle gave 1 picnic at roman Grove, in the ?outh portion of the city. The picnic was directly under the supervision of Mrs. A. J. Trilety and Miss Anna Rys, and was a sure success in all its ap pomtments. They went to the picnic pointments. grounds during the morning, and when the noon hour camp snrpnrl thJr well filled baskets on th. ,w the trees, and did ample justice to th ROOu things to cat. During the aft ernoon the younger portion of the picnickers played games and enjoyed themselves with the swimrs which were put up by some of the members, I ind which added to the enjoyment of j the affair. Both the youngsters and j those older thoroughly enjoyed them selves, and thanked the two ladies 1 having charge of the anDointments ior furnishing them a good time. A. J. Trilety assisted greatly in taking parties to and from the grounds in his car. ,... ..... - . . . . 5 f LIJ 1 V . JT. lm if mm m m mm w J 0 G I I 1 Uttl For Infant3 and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears tho Signature of For Over Thirty Years THt CCNTAUN COMMV. 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