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About Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1894)
Wit, ' Autumn Hangs a Lucky Horseshoe Our Boor It Means GOOD LUCK to Every Buyer who Gets Inside Our Store this Season. ver Stocfe to Please tlxe 3Ctz3r Call and see the New Goods, the Clean Goods, the Bright, Fresh, Stylish Array of Fine Qualities and Sound Values that are Coins to With the We expect a share of Your Patronage Because you cannot AFFORD to Pass us by. "7"o Can, S"11, Give the Greatest Value for your Money Come to us if you want the Purchasing Power of Your Dollar Developed to the Fullest Extent. Times are never so hard that you cannot afford to trade with THE LEADING CLOTHIER AND The Plattsmouth Journal, DAILY AND WEEKLY. C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. TERMS FOR DAILY. One copy one year. In advance, by mail 15 00 One copy.siz months, in advance, by mall . 2 50 uu copy one moiiw. in advance. Dy mall . ail One copy, by carrier, per week Ill Published every afternoon except Sunday. WEEKLY JOURNAL. Single copy, one year .1100 Single copy, six months 50 Published every Thursday. Payable lu advance. Times are particularly hard in Russia. This is due to the democratic administration in those parts. A London tailor has taken the measure of Chauncy Depew. So have the people over there. lie is bigeuough to be the most popular candidate for president at every banquet he makes a speech. They ary trying to prove that Editor Murray of the Norfolk Landmark is not a democrat. It is strongly sus pected that this is being done for the purpose of securing him a federal ap pointment. Washington Tost. Statisticians estimate that in Great Britain there are TOO millionaire families, 9,650 families "very rich," 148.250 families "rich," 730,500 in "moderate circumstances," 2,008,000 "struggling to keep up," and 3,916,900 poor.' . Tub New York Daily America is in juring its weak lungs in an effort to nominate John L. Stevens for governor of Maine. But that's all right. If Maine wants to be annexed to the United States, Stevens is the sort of person to do it. Tobacco was discovered in 1492. In 1692 the United States raised 565, 755,000 pounds on 757,326 acres of ground. In 1884 the world's produc tion was 768,000 tons on 2,029,000 acres. In 1892 there were manufactured in this country 2,877,779,440 cigarettes. The Kearney Journal arises to re mark that "The fellow who perambu lates the country these times looking for a soft place can in most cases find what he is looking for under his hat. It's the baby whose father violates the eight hour law by working ten that gets a new dress these times. The lamp post is the only thing that can make a living on the street corner, and sunshine is going to be a pretty thin diet this winter." Prices a Best! IP lEveiryiiDafinng tffliie New esasoin UBiriiirogs Annd JPn3ces ID)owim t the lowest IPonnutf FOR A TERRIBLE CRIME. The contest for postmaster at Ne braska City has a general interest, be cause in it is involved the right of a democrat to be a friend to one of the most popular democrats in this country. The Nebraska City News, which poses as the official orgar of Secretary Moiton, says: A well-known gentleman who has been at Washington recently, says: "There are at present three applica tions on hie, those of II. M. Hoydston, J. II. McClellan and V'olney Street. I do not consider Mr. Boydston in the race, owing to the fact that he is a Bryan man and Bryan is not an ad ministration man. It leaves only two candidates in the field, namely: Mc Clellan and Street. Just which one will get it, I cannot say." Another gentleman, who is within touch of the administration, offers to wager any amount that the next post master would not be MiClellan, so ac cording to that, from the present out look, Volney Street will be the appointee for postmaster when Post master F. E. Helvey's commission expires in April next. The News bad hoped that Mr. Boydston would lethe appointee, for he has been a most faithful, life-long democrat and one of the hardest workers in the ranks. There is not a democrat in the city who has worked harder for the success of his party than Mr. Boydston, and de spite hi? endorsements, which are the best to be obtained, he is not likely to secure the appointment, simply because he is a personal friend and admirer of Bryan. The Fremont Herald, as thorough a democratic newspaper as ever went to press, takes this up and says: Now, this opens an interesting com mrntary upon the situation. Here is Mr. Boydston, recognized as one of the best workers of his party, a democrat without shadow of turning, competent, popular, and "held up" because he is a friend of Mr Bryan, who carried Otoe county by nearly 400 majority! Nobody accuses him of not being a friend and supporter of Mr. Morton during all his campaigns, and we do not believe that Mr. Morton will select a man for the reason that he didn't support Bryan. No one doubts that Mr. Morton can Dame the postmaster in his home city he even did that dur ing Mr. Cleveland's first term, when relations weren't so friendly, and which was about all the recognition he did get. If on this showing Mr. Boydston is not appointed postmaster at Ne braska City, he can stand it, and Mr. Bryan can 6tand it. The party will watch the outcome in Nebraska City and at Lincoln. And Bryan's friends are usually not ashamed of him. The "World-Herald believes that the effort to punish Bryan and Bryan's friends for Bryan's success has been thwarted. There can be no doubt but hat f! j what efforts were and are being made to turn down men charged with being "friends of Bryan." What a terrible charge this is. Boydston, the young, capable, enthus iastic democrat, will lose the Nebraska City postoffice because he is "Bryan's friend!" It may be well to remember right here that Mr. Bryan has other friends in Otoe county. When Mr. Mcrton himself could not carry the county for governor, Mr. Bryan carried that county for congress by a majority of 400. There were a good many men in Otoe county guilty of the awful charge of "Bryan's friend." Mr. Morton was defeated for con gress in the old First district, but Mr. Bryan was elected in the same district over a barrel of money by a big ma jority. There were a good many men in the old district who were guilty of' the terrible charge of "Bryan's friend." I When the state was re-districted. and Bryan's district was arranged for the special purpose of defeating him, the young congressman was re-elected in a contest where thousands of dollars was expended to bring about his defeat. There were a good many men in the new district who were guilty of the outrageous crime of "Bryan s friend. When liryan made his great tariff speech and his great silver speech in congress, the best blood and brain or this laud set aside personal prejudice to do him honor. The galleries of the house and the great newspaper offices of the country were full of that despica ble class which comes under the head of "Bryan's friend." And today, if the democrats of Ne braska desired a leader who need not die with his party in the hindmost ditch, but one who could lead the party to victory, where would they find him? Would it be Tobe Castor, who cannot distinguish a democratic principle from a railroad tie? Or would it be the man whose "friends" are branded as unfit for public place, because of their friendship? These are "thoughts worthy of the thinkiDg." If it be a crime to be "a friend of Bryan," then the prairies of Nebraska are filled with criminals so debased in their iniquity as to publicly claim it as a proud and honorable priv ilege. Omaha World-Herald. Only on two occasions has England gone to war to aid a weaker nation, j The first was when Elizabeth sent an expedition to the relief of the Dutch ; and Flemings to help them against the' Free trade twenty years ago was a encroachments of Philip TI, of Spain, i term of reproach. Its enemies called The second was the war of Greek in-lit a foppery of over-educated literary dependence in 1827. fellows. Now it is the belief of the mm Morgaj FURNISHER OF CASS COUNTY". SETTER ACCEPT THEIR LICK. Manufacturers who are raising a calamity howl are not anxious for the welfare of manufacturing industry as a whole, but only for a little more o the McKinley bill for themselves. With them it is as with a stock gambler who knows he is buying on artiuciai values, out believes m one more spurt of the market. The manu jfacturers know that the McKinley bill must go. They howl just to keep it alive until another congress, which mav le republican, takes up tariff tinkering. Their howl is a blunder. While the Wilson bill is the most complete ie forin ever presented by a majority party, it is the most moderate the democrats will ever propose. Tariff reform must progress. If the Wilson bill becomes a Jaw, the next democratic bill will be a step nearer to taxation 1 for the treasury alone. If the Wilson bill is emasculated in the senate or smothered, the next bill will makeup for the lost time. Calamity howlers do not appreciate their luck. The convulsion of parties during t'je silver debate gave the re publicans a better opportunity to take the offensive than often comes to a party so soon after severe defeat. The obligation of being honest in dealing with a heathen queen and the discon tented Caucasians of her islands gave jingoism an unusual opening for noisy demonstration. The democratic party is closer to being on the defensive to day than it will be again for twenty- five years. Moreover, all democratic leaders have not the marvelous pa tience, conservatism and foresight of Cleveland and Wilson. A reform defeated in 1894 may easily become a rush and a revolution in 1S98 More people will comprehend then that the McKinley tariff is an outrage panic-breeder, a trade destroyer and a terrible cutter of prices in export pro ducts. Indignation may refuse to temporize with the arrogance of in trenched privilege. Protected manufacturers are fool ishly ignorant for men in partnership with government cf public opinion if they do not realize that even in 1894 j Cleveland and Wilson need only say the word to arouse an immense popular ; support of an immediate tariff for revenue. It is only lately that the masses have realized that the tariff taxe3 tbe p00r and ,ets the ricn eaCape labor organizations and the farmers. It is a poor man's doctrine. Stop the policy of conservative tariff reform and its successor may be more than a policy of revenue tariffs. It may be a crusade anions the unmoneyed . , . , . . majority for absolute free trade and for a tax system which will compel wealth to pay the expenses of government that consumption in the home may be ex empt. These calamity howlers are standing on thin crust. The leadership of the democratic party is conservative. The instincts and judgment theparty are conservative. The Wilson bill is posi tive but conservative. For all this conservatism, it may oc cur that tbe democratic partv will be compelled to give free trade a sweep ing demand from a people aroused by the conviction that a tariff discrimi nates against the poor; that it not only taxes the f aimer and laborer to pay dividends on capital invested in manu facturing machinery, but taxes them to relieve concentrated wealth from shar ing in tbe payment of a half billion a year for running the federal govern ment. ttemcmDer that no democrat can ever meet the people. with an assertion that free trade is not right and scien tific. Every indoctrinated democrat knows that free trade is right, and if me thousands whose incomes are measured in hundreds ever unite in a fierce demand for a tax system which win reach the hundreds whose in comes are measured in thousands, the leaders even if they are another Cleveland and another ilson can not stop at a 30 cent tariff. Manufacturers would better take moderate reform from Cleveland and Wilson than quick and leveling revolu tion from more radical leaders. They J would better get their reform while the I democratic party is struggling with republican panics, bullion purchases, deficitesand annexationist messes then wait for the hour when the tariff is the i only question to dispute. St. Louis I Republic. There is yet considerable disparity between the price of corn and that of I hogs, but no doubt farmers would pre - fer to see the former commodity go up At . 1. j "f a - i 1 man iub lauer cume uuwu. jjut lacts I are stubborn things to handle. jonx ii. tjrEAR is said to have a cinch on the U. S. senatorsbip from Iowa. Iowa republicans could make no better selection. Gear made a splendid governor, and outside from his politics, is a good man. ven Cammed! CRIMINAL "HI LLDOZINO. Following the example of a Con necticut iron inannfarr ' ponnouinj., , vut jiviQLIVU IJOO ' HTH a notice demanding the resignations of i, i..D . , , , 311 empiojes who are democrats or who favor the Wilson tariff bill. Moreover, the superintendent of the works has been instructed to give no more em ployment to democrats. If there is no law matting such in terference with the political rights of American citizens a penitentiary of fense there should be one, or else all laws prohibiting corrupt practices at elections, the purchase of votes, the in timidation of voters and the tampering with returns should be swept from the statute books. If an employer is to be permitted to intimidate his workmen by threatfinm; to withdraw their means of support, a ward boss must not be condemned for intimidating hostile voters with a club. Incidents of this character have be come too common of late to be passed by as mere sporadic cases of partisan folly. There is every indication that intimidation of workmen has become a well-defined feature in the republican attack upon tariff reform. Only a few days ago an eminent prelate of Brook lyn ascribed the destitution prevailing in that city to concerted effort of local manufacturers to score a point against the W'ilson bill by wantonly shutting down th ir works and starving their employes. He may have erred on the side of exaggeration, but that there is some republican effort in this direction is indubitable. The marshaling of the people into the hostile camps of the emplo er and the employe wculd be the last thing which true friends of the rpnnhiir. would wish to see. Yet thin i ot.mi the thing which will come out of the Presen t republican campaign against the Wilson bill. One of our merchants has some very nice designs in decorated china ware. On one of the pieces a mustache cup and saucer is a very pretty design of Cass county's new court house. One of our distinguished citizen's conceived the idea that a china cup and saucer 1 with a picture of the court house upon Jit would make averv anDronriarA unristmas Drespnt fnr t rt - 1 -- G. Todd. And that noble patriot received the cup and saucer for a Christmas pres ent. But one incident concerning the purchase of the present considerably dulls the humorous edge of the affair. Up to the hour of going to press we have recened 1,894 new calendars. ' 1- il Ortl - -:t.
