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About Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1894)
Over Our Boor. uteri lucky II w orseshoe 1 It Means GOOD LUCK to Every Buyer who Gets Inside Our Store this Season. Stocfe to Please tlb.e JsurL-y To Save tlie 3o:n-e3r of all -WJclo O ome. Call and see the New Goods, the Clean Goods, the Bright, Fresh, Stylish Array of Fine Qualities and Sound Values that are Coins to be Wfiitfln the HBestt IF IBveryttSnSnng the New es&aa JBirimgs Anndl IPiriiees HDd&wnn to tBne ILc&west lPiiifi ISves Mannnedl We expect a share of Your Patronage Because you cannot AFFORD to Pass us by TT7" G?r a e CLO, Come to THE LEADING CLOTHIER AND The Plattsmouth Journal, DAILY AND WEEKLY. C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. TERMS FOR DAILY. Out- copy one jear. In advance, by mall. . . 15 00 Onu copy alz months, in advance, by mall . 3 50 Om- copy one month, in advance, by mail . 60 One copv, by carrier, per week 10 IVibliBhed every afternoon except Sundtv. WEEKLY JOURNAL. Single copy, one year .11 00 8iile copy, ilx months .. 50 Published very Thursday. Payable lu advance. Tins patronizing announcement of London bankers that they will take United States bonds to the amount of $2."j,000,000 must be highly gratifying to the officials of the United States treasury. And it is very likely to set the people thinking whether it would not be better to coin the 353,000,000 of unrepresented silver bullion in the Utiited States treasury than to pay $750,000 a year to British bankers for the temporary use of British gold. The people of Ohio are singularly given to hysteria. News from Wash ington that the flag which flapped over th portico at Washington was worn out and the custodian of the building had no money wherewith to purchase a new one, led one Ohioan to telegraph the governor, demanding an army of 5,000 to raise a flag on the capitol and hang the man who palled the worn-out one down,whle a second patriot called clamorously for transportation for 32, 000 Grand Army of the Repuulic men to Washington to accomplish the same end. It would appear from this sud den outburst of flag patriotism that there is a chance still in Ohio politics for Bloody Shirt Foraker. Ever sinco the 19th of last Decem ber the local democracy have had their ears on the ground waiting for news from the national capital concerning the appointment of a democratic post master for Plattsmouth. But up to dato no news not even an intimation has been received from the "great fat her" at Washington, and today the adjectives "scandalous," "outrageous,1' "preposterous" express the views of common democrats on the condition that confronts them. During the past thirty-two years the democracy have had control of the local postoffice for a period of a little more than three years, and in view of such a condition of af fairs it is to be hoped that ere long Grover will conclude to distribute the pie in eight among the faithful. Sold 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 CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE. Washington, D. C, Jan. 17, 1894. The sensations of the week thus far are the president's presentation of the Hawaiian matter to congress, the sen atorial rejection of the nomination of Hornblower for U. S supreme judge, and the unhorsing of Czar Reed in de bate on the floor of the bouse by the superior debating power and eloquence of Bourk Cockran. The latter event occurred Monday afternoon and was highly enjoyed by all except the czar's republican friends. From the stand point of the press gallery it was a veritable picture the battle royal be tweeu these giants of the two systems of governmental economy protection and free trade. The victory lor Cock ran was pronounced and emphatic as all spectators admit. One thing is very evident as this tariff debate goes on the protectionists are outmatched every day, and are fighting a losing battle. Every day makes this more and more apparent. Tb simple fact is the protection doc trine won't hold water; it is indefensi ble when it comes into open debate. One by one their fortresses of defense have been blown into ruins by the more effective cannonading of truth from the guns of free trade. They were forced to admit that the tariff is a tax whenever they plead for compensatory duties. Next they were forced to ad mit that the consumer pays the tax by the same state of facts. The men who wanted duties levied on wool and eggs, for instance, under the pretense of favoring the farmer, must admit that the average tariff of 92 per cent on woolen goods is a heavy burden on the users of woolens. Another thing: When a republican urged, as he did on the house floor yes terday, that those few democrats who were interested in saving tariff duties on articles in which their districts were interested should join with the repub licans to save the whole line of pro tected interests, he let the cat com pletely out of the bag. It is only by a combination of these robbers of the people that the Bystem has been main tained. The cotton, woolen, iron, steel, crockery and glassware interests are the front and center of the system. To succeed they were obliged to take in all the others that now make up the net-work of the protective system. Lumber, wool growing, salt and the products of the farm have all been taken in to enli9t the help of these 123 several classes so that they could con trol the majority tf the congressional districts, if possible. But the people have wakened up to the i.i rmity of i paying a thousand minor's or more a year to the barons of this system, under the pretense of paying higher waget to l labor. They now are driven from the ruling to the minority side in both houses, and can only say that the sys tem enables the manufacturer to pr.y better wages, but that these wages can only be enforced by trades' unions, which, in the case of Carnegie at Homestead, was nulliOed by the aid ot bayonets at the beck of the boss of the mills. The natural laws of supply and demand are upset to favor a class of capitalists who dole out only what they must of the plunder t keep the workmen satisfied with thtir share. The Nebraska papers are represented here by some of the capital's best cor respondents Perry S. Heath of the Bee. Wm. E. Annin of the Lincoln Journal, and Mr. Schrader of the World-Herald. As news-gatherers they rank well with the representatives of other papers in the country. Mr. Anniu is, perhaps, the most industrious, as well as the most strongly partisan, while he is also the best fellow, socially, of the lot. Washington, L. C, Jan. 19, ISM. That the senatorial election in Iowa has been concluded is apparent by the re-appearance of Hepburn, Perkins and Lacey, who were, up to the final vote, all satisfied that they were in the fight with Mr. Gear, the successful man. It may have taken management to elect Mr. Gear, but to do so simply argues that republican judgment if easily to be biased by the wiles of the lobbyist and politician; because any one at all acquainted with the relative merits of the men would decide in Gear's favor without hesitation every time. Although Gov. Gear is not a lawyer, he is a very acute mm of busi ness, and has so long been connected with the management of public affairs that he is more thoroughly equipped in states-craft than either of his com petitors, while every one recognizes the fact that Mr. Gear is a far broader and greater man than the others, and one possessing more of the elements of greatness in -v-ry settee. It is signifi cant, however, of the rottenness of that party that the railroads are said by his opponents to have controlled the result. The senate, after launching into a discussion of the election bill, became o h FURNISHER OF CASS COUNTY. k filleted with a fit of laziness and ad journed over from Thursday till Mon day. The five minute rule debate in the house this week has been productive of many interest ing and exciting incidents notably the debates between Ccckran and Reed on Moiula. in which the boss was clearly vanquished, between Cockran and Walker on Tuesday, in which the latter rather got the laugh on the great .New Yorker, and the sharp contest over the proposition f Tom Johnson of Ohio, to put steel rails on the- free list, with Dalzeil of Pittsburg, the representative of the steel rail pool. Johnson is largely interested in steel rail production at Johnstown, and pro testing that he was not trjing to put money into the pockets -i his stock holders, wanted to know the reason, if there was any, why his amendment should not prevail. This discusMon largely took on a personal character, and it was a diamoud-cut-diainond sort of an affair, in which the good-natured Clevelander came off first best, and drove the champion of the pool into a comer. His argument for free steel rails was based on the fact that the steel rail pool were paying one mill 51,000 a day for closing its mill thus throwing 1,200 men out of work. The latest bout of this interesting sort came off today, in which Congress man Bryan successively silenced Dol liver, Walker and Boutelle and came out of the fight with Hying colors. This was not so much of a battle of wit as it was over the princip.es involved in the protective theory, snd, without boasting, he drove every one of them to the wall and made them very porry they interrupted him. I wished that the men of his district could have been here to have witnessed the fight. They would have been prouder of their mem ber than ever. C. W. S. It would appear that the board of supervisors of Mills county, our Iowa neighbor, was desirous of creating a monopoly uf the ferry business across the Missouri river between this city and tho Iowa bottoms. It may be that our trans-Missouri neighbors wish to destroy feiry competition, and thus maintain tolls at such a figure that they will be prohibitive on their own people coniinj; to this city to market their produce and do their trading. Or they may simply be giving an exclusive franchise to one of their own citizens to the exclusion of all others. 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