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Over Our Boor. s a Lucky Horseshoe inter It Means GOOD LUCK to Every Buyer who Gets Inside Our Store this Season. 3tocfe to Please tln.e lLJOLy To Save tli. IMIon Sang w t . Hi Call and see the New Goods, the Clean Goods, the Bright, Fresh, Stylish Array of Fine Qualities and Sound Values that are Going Wfitfln rjfliie HBesit of EJven'yttMnng ilDae Mew easoHB flBn'Snags AiimII EPMces EDwnn tf the ILowest IPHn&ti IEven K summed! We expect a share of Your Patronage Because you cannot AFFORD to Pass us we will, nrcL fho HrofllaQt 1 1 1 ic& for vmir "We do, Come to THE LEADING CLOTHIER AND The Plattsmonth Journal, DAILY AND WEEKLY. C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. TERMS FOR DAILY. Dm- copy one year, in advance, by toKll .r 00 nut' copy six months, in advance, by mail . 2 50 one copy one month, in advance, by mail . 60 ! copy, by carrier, per week H t'ulillshed every afternoon except Sunday. WEEKLY JOURNAL. Millie copy, one year .11 iiO Sircle copy, six (uontns .. V) I'uMlsheu every Thursday. Payable in advance. Speaking of inquisitorial taxes, what tax is it which sends a grimy fin gared customs officer groping through your valie as you pass from Canada into the United States 'i lioVEKNtiK Lkwelling is doubtless convinced that a moitgage is a great del easier to cancel than the Lease he lias on hand. A mortgage can be fore closed, but the Lease can neither be closed nor foreclosed. Mrs. Lease telegraphed across Kan sas from the scene of battle to her anxious ones at home: ''First blood for your mother." The emotions of Mr. Lease were not described iu the dispatches. St. Louis Republic. Andrew Carnegie, after making a protest against the Wilson bill as be ing un-American, has gone back to his catle in Scotland. Mr. Carnegie's in tense Americanism brings him to this country occasionally to warn us against the foreigners. McKinleyism taxes the poor and exempts the rich. It taxes a man's liberality to his family and exempts his skinflint neighbor's hoards. It taxes marriages and births and ex empts the man who is too mean to have a wife and children. We need an in come tax. Representative Tarsney, of the Kansas City district, the other day was discussing the bill to tax incomes, and in answer to the statement that it would meet with tremendous opposi tion from the class receiving incomes, replied: "There are more men driving drays than receiving incomes." And he was about right. From a number of protectionist or gans it is learned that a petition against the Wilson bill, signed by 75, 000 citizens of Troy, N. Y is to be presented to congress. As the last census showed only 60.956 people in Troy, including children of tender years, it would appear that somebody has been perniciously active in signa tory labors. irn m FOR us if you want the Purchasing Power of Your Dollar Developed to the Extent. Times are never so hard that you cannot afford to trade with CAriT.1. CORKKSI'ONUESCE. Washington, D. C, Jan. 5, 1S94. Conversation on the weather is always a standard topic for small talk in social circles, but hardly worth while to write about. At the risk of wearying the patience of the reader 1 will say, how ever, that the weather here for a fort night has been phenomenal. Not a day in that time has the mercury ranged lower than 35, and most of the nights have been of a part with the days. There is not a particle of frost in the ground, and today a gentle September like rain has been falling all day. Al though at home there would be mud every wheie, here, in this marvelously wcil-paved city, one could walk a hundred miles without doubling on one's tracks, on the sidewalks or streets, and not be able to get the sides of one's shoes muddy. The pavement is mostly of asphaltum, but there is a generous quantity of brick and stone. Congress is dull as yet, because the democrats have not been able to muster a quorum thus far the republicans re fusing to vote. This is rather dis couraging to democratic hopes on the tariff, but it is only a temporary set back, for it will only take a few days of republican abuse and vindictive assault in debate to bring the demo crats all into line for the Wilson bill. The democratic members of the ways and means committee held its final meeting .Tan. 2d relating to its busi ness connected with the pending revenue features of the new tariff bill, at thetreasuy department, taking into consideration the questions of an in come tax, the whiskey tax and the tax upon playing cards. The committee has been divided on several proposi tions and it was only after a long struggle and the most persistent fight that the final determination now given out was arrived at. The result as to the income tax is a pronounced victory for Mr. Bryan, who has persistently advocated an income tax. The decision was in favor of an income tax, not only in favor of a tax on corporations, but of individuals, on all incomes of more than $4,000. The vote in the com mittee stood C to 5 the minority agreeing to stand by the majority in the house. The committee also agreed to increase the whiskey tax 10 cents a gallon, and extend the bond period to eight years. This tax is to apply to all whiskey now in bond, and therefore that Wi MOMENT will add to the revenue, it is estimated, 510.000,000. The income tax feature, it is be lieved, will apply to 50,000 persons at the least in the country, be sides all of the corporations. This tax has been favored by Mr. Bryan for sev eral years, in his campaigns before the ' people, and is unquestionably a popu- lar measure throughout the whole j country except in the large cities. Iti is :t measure which w ill put the capi i talist on more of an equalty with thej m isses of tax-payers men who keep j up the revenues of the country by the! tax they pay under the operation of j t li tariff Inn' ! The vote in the committee was some thing of a surprise, and a most gratify ing one to Mr. Uryan, as he really anticipated before the meeting of the committee that the proposition for an individual income tax would be de feated, and in that case it was his purpose to make a minority report in its favor. The vote in the committee stood: Those in favor McMillan, Turner, Whiting, BryaD, Bynum, Tarsney. Those opposed were Wil son, Montgomery, Cockran, Stevens and Breckenridge. Mr. Bryan is preparing a speech on the tariff, including the income tax feature of the revenue bill, and has been exercising his usual care in its preparation. His speech, it is safe to say, will include much information not given by anyone else. His inten tion at first was simply to offer his views for printing in the record, but his fello-members of the committee insisted that he must be heard in the house. He is in high feather over his victory on the income tax proposition, and it is apprehended that his oppon ents will not get much consolation in the result of the fight he has made. The income tax proposition is gain ing friends as the people are heard from. It is remarkable, however, with what unanimity the eastern press is denouncing it. The N ew York papers are howling like dervishes over it, as if it would be their ruin. When it is known that only about 20,000,000 is to be raised by this provision, which will be the only tax on property which the government levies, while some 250,000,000 are to be collected from the necessities of the masses, this tax cuts an insignificant figure, and can in no sense be a burden on any man. It is worthy of note in this connection to recall the fact that Senator Sherman is on record as saying in the senate, in 1870, when the repeal of the income tax was under discission, that of all 3ml o Drggauxx , FURNISHER OF CASS tuxes an income tax was the least in quisitorial of any. The president has as yet taken no action as to the presidential postoffice appointments in the First district of Nebraska. When he will ct is a problem. lie sterns to be peculiarly blessed with the gift of continuance that is, he takes up one of these cases occasionally, and after considering it awhile, puts it back on the riles aud continues it indefinitely. AsTiie Journal readers are aware, this paper has not taken an active part in the contest for the l'lattsmouth postoffice. Up to the time that Con gressman Bryan made his recommenda tion of Mi. Butler The Journal ed itor was an active friend of Mr. Fox. but as that recommendation was made upon the endorsement of the county committee and of the chairman aud secretary of the state committee, the editor concluded that that ought to set tle the matter, and any further contest would only lead to party disorganiza tion and personal ill-feeling. The writer has hail ho reason to change his opinion in that respect, albeit he is none the less anxious to see Mr. Fox properly rewarded for his straight laced democracy and excellent personal q ualities. The democrats of the house are hav ing a party caucus tonight, and it is remarked that several of the kickers against the Wilson bill have fallen into line, and it is safe to say there will be no concerted action on their part against the bill. C. W. S. The Lincoln Journal ought to be in better business than to permit worn out political imbeciles to throw mud through its columns at the distin guished jurist who has just retired from the supreme bench of this state. Everybody recognizes that Judge Max well is unfortunate in having been hounded by a pack of spotted office holders who have been exposed for their stealings in open court. Those fellows naturally have the sympathy of other spotted ex-officeholders, but a state paper which stoops to the prac tice of opening its columns to such fel lows to squirt their odor at decent men, commits an offense against good morals as well as fair journalism. The effusion of old man Thayer in a recent issue of the Journal was doubtless written by some member of the late impeached state house gang, as the old man himself is known to be al most a paralytic in both his mental and moral make-up. Judge Maxwell (S-OOBSo retues from the supreme bench of tlii.- state as the leadintr character in the first quarter century of Nebraska's history, and with a national reputation which no man of the Thayer stripecan tarnish. The fact that he has nothing in common with boodling politicians and spavined office-holders really adds to the great respect aire dy entertained for him by the people of this state. If old man Thayer and a lot of other '. high-smelling politicians up about the state capital are masquerading to save funeral expenses, the Lincoln Journal ; had better pass the hat aud have the ; fetid gang quietly and speedily interred land thus lelieve the overtaxed nostrils of the people of this lonz suffeiiiig ! commonwealth. Bury them, we say. ! and be sure ;md place them with the right portion of the anatomy undermost ! State Auditor Moore has shown a disposition to be fresh and flossy ever since he took possession of the office. His late-t wild break was made last week when he declared that there was a deficiency of $222,000 between his books and those, of Treasurer Hartley, and that his books were a! solutely correct. This stirred up a hornet's nest in a short time, and an investiga tion showed the books of Tre;surei Hartley to be all right and the mistake was located in Auditor Moore's office. Instead of making an apology for his break, Moore tries to hedge. Again Congressman Bryan has shown the strength of his personality in congress. The dispatches note that he has persuaded the ways and means committee to favorably report on his income tax measure, which was so violently opposed by the members from the eastern states. Even the Omaha Bee concedes that "young Mr. Bryan" is a power in congress. Such a victory as Bryan has secured m his fight against the wealth of the east is worth more to Bryan than would be the ab solute control of federal patronrge in Nebraska. Papillion Times. The supreme court has decided that the state's case against ex-Treasurer Hill must be tried in Lancaster county. That settles the matter. The poor plundered stateof Nebraska can never win an action in Lancaster county. In the name of high heaven will the Lancastei farces cease ? Wouldn't it be frightful if free coal should bring the American miner born in Hungary down to foreign pauper wages instead of his present munificent 40 cents a day? by. IVIonftv Fullest COUNTY. CARNCIilK'S 1 1 K N E VO I.K S V K. Andrew Carnegie says that he will give 51,000 a day to the poor of Pitts burg if the people of that city will give a like amount. Furthermore, thai lie will give a dollar with every dollar col letted by public subscription. That's benevolei:ce. But for some years An drew Carnegie has been a If ader in the work of Kcrewirg down the wages of emplovesin iron and steel woiks to the lowest, possible point. That's business. It v iil be, urged by mme that but for his business policy Carnegie could rot novv be so benevolent, but it may be urged by others that but for his bus iness policy there, would be little or no need for his benevolence. When the judgment day balance sheet shall be struck it is n- t likely that the balance due Carnegie on account of benevolence will be very great. Being a farmer who works the farm instead of a politico-agriculturist who works the farmer. Secretary Morton has not hesitated to declare the gov ernment system of seed distrsbution an expensive affair tlat does not justify its cost. By so doir.g he has incurred the hostility of a good many congress men, who looked to their brilliant ser vices in distributing garden seed as the chief evde:ice of their statesmanship and the leading argument in favor of their re-election. Louisville Courier Journal. The Astor family has 5200,000,000, principally in real estate, and the Vanderbilts follow with nearly as much, chiefly in railroads. In what way do these enormously rich men pay their share of the cost of the federal government In what earthly way can they be marie to pay it except through the operation of an income taxV Guand Sachem Croker of Tam many Hill is opposed to an income tax. Mn Croker has lately been put to the urpleasar.t necessity of reveal ing his ssets. An income tax follow ing close upon such an exhibit would be a discrimination against Croker as one of the many New Yorkers who have more than the law ought to allow. Gov. Fennoyer may blather about hard times in Oregon, but what does he think of this from Macon, Ga: "For Sale One monument, situated in Riverside cemetery, Bibb county, Geor gia, with granite tiase and figure on top." i 1 A X erf
