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The Plattsmouth Journal, DAILY AND WEEKLY. C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. TERMS FOR DAILY. One copy one year. In advance, by mall tS 00 One copy six months, in advance, by mall . 2 BO One copy one month, in advance, by mall . 60 One copy, by carrier, per week 10 Published every afternoon except Sundav. WEEKLY JOURNAL. Single copy, one year 1100 Blugle copy, lx mouths 50 ruoiisnea every 'inursuay. rayaoie iu auvance. Entered at the postoffice at Plattsmouth, Ne braska, as second-class matter. OFFICIAL COCXTY SEWSPAPEK. : WKSTEKN FAtEltS FI.EASK COPY. On the 25th day of October, 1893, ; Hon. Thomas J3. Heed of Maine ad- ; ; dresaed the republican club of Mas-: : sachusetts, at a dinner given at j : Music hall at Uoston. The Boston : : Herald of October 2G (the next day) : : gives a report of the speech, to- : gether with the applause which : greeted the speech. The following extract from the speech, as reported : : in the Herald, is of interest to the : : west: : "And let me tell you right here i that there is no state so deeply iu- : : terested as the state of Massacliu- : ! setts. Applause. It it were not : for its condition I should say: Let : these men try it. Let us have a : : lesson of free trade burned into the quick, and then let us have peace. ' j Applause. Uut when Massachu- : : setts sits around to mourn her des- : : troyed factories, her ruined indus- I : ties, her ruined machine shops, she : sits around to mourn for eternity; i for if they are once destroyed the : omnivorous west will do the manu- j : factoring for the country. TAp- ; plause. You have the start; you ; ; have the power; you have the " prestige. You can keep it. or you : . can throw it away, and the only way : : in which you can keep it is by mak- : : ing the voice of the majority of your : people to be heard, and to be beard : across the country." Applause. Senator Hill's speech appears to have been opposed to both income tax and syntax. The official returns will probably show that syntax has been the greatest sufferer at his hands. With Dana only half way across the ocean the New York Sun begins to commend the policy of Cleveland in Brazil. By the time Dana reaches Conosa the Sun may be commending Cleveland's policy in the United States. The opponents of the Wilson bill, in the protection fastnesses of New Eng land, are said to be organizing in con templation of a descent upon Washing ton a la Coxeysarmy. It is not likely, however, that this threatened invasion will stir the senate and the police and military otlicials of the capital to such fearsome depths of hostile preparation as did the rumor of Coxey's coming. There was no need of a Chicago question club debating the question, "Is Senator Hill a Democrat?" Hill declared himself a renegade to his party, out of its law completely, a wolf's head and a political derelict, when he spoke the concluding wordsof his speech in the senate. The finding of the club, however, being in the negative, the record should show that it was ltesolved, That when David Bennett Hill vain-gloriously ami emphatically boasted "I am a democrat" he was a liar. NKCTIOXAL I'KKJLDICK. Eastern republicans take to section alism as a negro's pup takes to the neighbor's eggs. "South" and "west" are terms to express antagonism to democratic measures as common just now in the eastern pres as the term "north" was in the south and "south" in the north while the Kansas-Nebraska bill was up. The New York Times, which has never lost its republican instincts, says that the difference between the north east and the south and west on the currency is the difference between knowledge and ignorance. The straight republican papers go further. Boards of trade in republican cities pass reso lutions upbraiding congress for con sidering an income tax which favors the less wealthy south and west and imposes burdens upon the "best citi zens" of the east. This language has appeared in dozen? of petitions and resolutions. Republicans bellow whenever a southern democrat gets an appoint ment. Every measure of reform is branded "southern treason" or "west ern ignorance," as if no additional disqualification were needed. The east is to be set aflame with sec tionalism this year. And all the time the torchbearers are deploring the sec tionalism of the west and south in de manding an end of one-sided legisla tion. Eastern imperialists cannot change their natures. They are sectionalist by instinct. CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE. Washington, D. C, April 19,1S94. The position of Senator Smith of New Jersey on the tariff bill new be fore the senate only gives emphasis to the declaration heretofore made in this correspondence that the east is arrayed against the west and south in the pur suit of its own selfish ends, and that it cares nothing further for party success than will conduce to the advancement of the interests of the men of wealth in its section. lie opposes the essential features of the bill and especially de nounces the income tax as undemo cratic and socialistic in its operation. The fact that it is a tax on wealth in stead of poverty, as a tariff tax is, does not appeal to his sense of justice. In fact, it is doubtful if the operation of a protective tariff for thirty years, to the advantage of the rich, has not so dulled the perceptions of eastern people gen erally as to make it impossible for them to honestly decide between right and wrong. Year ago the Chicago Tribune demonstrated that fourteen men, tak ing the country over, were taxed by protection, while only one man was benefitted, and it seems that the ruling classes of the east were made up of these fifteenth men whether of one party or the other. But the Wilson bill will become a law, including the income tax, the Smiths and Hills and Brices to the contrary notwithstanding and then western people will begin to see and appreciate the benefit of a relief from their burdens, and the rich men of the land will better appreciate the fact that they owe to the govern ment a stipend iu consideration of the protection afforded them in the posses sion and enjoyment of their property. While the government taxes the neces sities of the people to the extent of $240,000,000 yearly through the tariff, it is silly to assume that the rich can not pay $30,000,000 from their incomes amounting to an excess of $4,000 each, without its being a burden. Well, the house has adopted a rule providing for counting a quorum, and the republicans are happy. The rule is a bad one, no matter who advocates it, however, as the future will demon strate. It is productive of absenteeism, as it only requires the presence in the house of 179 members and the acquies cence of ninety members to carry through any sort of legislation. The other eighty-eight members and the absent 17" members may be opposed to the bill, but that fact will count for naught. Thus a few more than one fourth of the people's representatives may pass any law they can unite on, and minority legislation has become a fixed fact. The politicians of Boston are about as narrow in this day, apparently, as they were in the early days of theanti slavery agitation. Sometime since a social-political society there, through their congressman inquired of Mr. Bryan if he could be induced to deliver a lecture for their benefit in the Hub, and if so upon what subjects he would apree to talk. He gave his assent, naming "Money and Taxation"' as his subject. This was agreeable, and the arrangement was made for the affair to come off on the 25th inst. A few days ago, however, he was asked if it would not be agreeable to talk simply on the tariff and the income tax, and he piomply wired them that it would not do. Notwithstanding this the mana ger went ahead and advertised the meeting, giving that as his subject. Then they wrote him to that effect. The only thing left for the orator to do was to inform these thin-skinned gen tlemen that if they were afraid to hear the views of a western democrat on the silver question he would be compelled to cancel the engagement he agreeing to pay the expenses thus far incurred. The matter is not settled yet, further than this, that unless they recede and allow him to talk on the subjects at first agreed upon, he will not go to Boston. It seems very natural for men who have been in public life here to drift back to this city. The fact is illus -trated in the case of two of Nebraska's ex -senators both Mr. Tipton and Mr. Van Wyck now being residents of Washington. The former came here some years ago, and is living a quiet lite with his wife and a granddaughter at No. C03 Florida avenue. I visited him a few evenings ago, and found him enjoying a good degree of health and vigor. He is a very com panionable man, and keeps well posted on current events and Nebiaska affairs, including politics. His eldest son is here and occupies a good position in the patent office. His son, l'erry Tip ton, has just graduated in the Balti more school of medicine. Senator and Mrs. Van Wyck reside at the Portland flats a caravansary in the fashionable quarter of town. The general is in reasonable health. These old gentlemen are occasionally seen about the capital and especially on the senate side, where they enjoy the special privilege of the freedom of the floor and they seem to enjoy their distinction very much. Senator Tipton says there are only three senators there now who were members when he sat in the chamber. That was twenty years ago. Thus time changes. C. W. S. TOM 1CKKO VS. T1IK W EST. Chicago Times. Some time ago the Times called at tention to a speech made before the Massachusetts republican club by that representative republican, Thomas B. Reed, in which he warned his New England hearers to rally 'round the tariff lest by its abolition "the om nivorous west" might secure all the industries which now make New Eng land wealthy. The speech seems to be giving Mr. Reed more or less trouble and vexation of spirit. He hopes to ask the suffrages of the people of these United States in support of his presi dential ambitions at an early day, and iu that connection regards the om nivorous west in a spirit more friendly than he manifested toward it at a Bos ton banqueting board. And so when the tell-tale quotation from his post prandial oration began to be widely reprinted in the papers west of Ohio, he hastened to qualify and explain it. In a letter to a Kansas man he sought to repair his error of judgment, but with very slight success. He pleaded that the speech was entirely extem poraneous, but in his letter, which was not extemporaneous, he rather intensi tied what republicans will doubtless consider his error by admitting that the tariff alone holds the manufactur ing business of the country in a far-off corner. "I pointed out to them," he said, referring to his New England auditors, "that the legislation tendered them was foolish; that the low duties of the Wilson bill would destroy their manufactures in common with others, and that when once destroyed they would be rebuilt under re-established protection nearer the market and nearer the materials as cheaply as in New England.'' Now, as a matter of fact, Mr. Reed said nothing of the sort. Congressman Bryan, who was attacked in the letter quoted, brought the matter to the at tention of the house of representatives and showed that the speech was made a month before there was any Wil son bill. Nor was there a suggestion of "re-established protection" in that light ot after-dinner oratory. Im pressively addressing a well-fed com pany of prosperous Bostonians who liberally punctuated his remarks with "applause," "great applause," and "laughter," Mr. Reed told them that there was no state so deeply interested in the maintenance of the tariff as Massachusetts, for if by abandoning the practice of taxing the rest of the nation for the benefit of New England the workshops of Massachusetts should be ruined, "the omnivorous west would do the manufacturing for the country." There was nothing in that speech which spoke of manufacturing in the west under re-established protection. That was one of Mr- Reed's after thoughts and rather more clever than the thoughts which come after a ban quet are apt to be. But even if we ac cept Mr. Reed's letter to the Kansas mat- as expressive of his real, what-a-difference-in the-moruing opinion we find him still admitting that the tariff of which he is a strenuous defender is a robbery of the people. For he admits that if the tariff subsidy were taken from the New England manu factures their factories would die out and others spring up nearer the ma terials and nearer the market. If it were necessary to make cotton prints at the very lowest possible price cotton would not be shipped from Mississippi to Fall River,thence woven and shipped back to Mississippi for sale. If it were not that a certain immunity from com petition enables woolen-goods makers to violate economic law we would have woolen mills in the Missouri valley in stead of paying freight on our wool to Massachusetts and freight on the cloth back again. Mr. Reed is keen sighted enough to discern this fact and his warning to the protected manufac tures of Massachusetts t cling to the tariff which shields them from "the omnivorous west" was doubtless sin cere and certainly justified by the facts. OI1U MARINE SERVICE. With our outrageously unjust tariff laws, our unwise shipping laws and our class legislation in general we have finally reduced our American merchant marine to a mere nothing. The amount of grain exported from New York port in 1893 was 5T,7G8,7-G bushels. This was carried abroad by foreign vessels as follows, as shown by the New York Produce Exchange: "Of this grain three cargoes were sent out in sailing vessels, 171,427 bushels. One (British) carried 107,745 C. E. bushels, and two (derman) carried 3, Gb'2 bushels; not one American. By steamers th-re were sent off 5o.ry.JH bushels in 1,(12 cargoes in liH vessels. Of these there was one American, the Chester, which took 10,357 bushels of wheat to Southampton. But tLere were 21" British ' vessels employed, which carried 04 cargoes, amounting to 34,-59 ,ri")3 bushels, a great d a I more than half the export. Next came the ( Jerniaps with forty vessels, hich carried " 2.'l bushels in 12Scargi es. The Dutch li;ui eleven vessels 4iid took ninety-two cargoes, amounting to -l.Col.lll bushels. The Belgians had twelve vessels and took seventy-six cargoes, or .--10,:H2 bushels. The French had fifteen vessels employed, which took 2,4M.29 bushels in firty thiee cargoes. The Portuguese had six vessels and took twenty-nine car goes, in all 2.213,108 bushels. Four Norwegian vessels took 124.502 bushels; seven Spanish took 597,149 bushels, and six Italian 813,olG bushels." The New York Journal of Commerce in commenting on this says that it is true with one exception, and that is that the Chester is a British vessel in that s'je still llys the British flag, con sequently every bushel whs carried in foreign bottoms. AliOLISIl TIIK SKNATK. The demand for the abolition of the United States seuate is growing year by year. It grows because year after year the eenate shows itself the enemy of progress and the bulwark of the privileged classes. There was never a senate more thoroughly out of touch with the people than the one now existing. The scan dals which its treatment of economic and financial questions has created are notorious. The senators who ow n coal lands and want a tariff on coal, the senators who speculate in sugar-trust certificates and demand a tariff on sugar, the senators who have profitable relations with New York millionaires and Gght an income tax are well known to the country . They are the agents of the people, but they utilize their agency to plunder their principals. It would be a good thing for the people of the United States if the sena torial nest of mercenaries could be annihilated. There is hardly one man in that body who fitly represents the people. Stock jobbing and the defense of the privileged classes for a good and valuable consideration are the specialtieof this body. It is a clog on mf!romTroro,ro,ro?rom.mmtg Wescott To Take Care of the Boys. It's only fair that the Boys should have a chance in this great SUIT SALE, and so WESCOTT offers 100 Boys' Suits, ages 14 to 19, long pants, at the nominal figure of $5. They are ALL WOOL and such as you have always paid from $8 to $12. Catch on, Boys, and take a swing, for 100 Suits at $5 won't last long. No Suits charged. The Men's Suits at $7.50 are on the move. Over fifty Suits sold and delivered the past week. WESCOTT, THE "BOSS" CLOTHIER. the wheels of progress, a load on the shoulders of the people, a masked battery ever ready to open fire on the advancing force of popular emancipa tion. The senate ought to be abolished and will. Not this decade surely, nor per haps in the next, but sooner or later the absurdity of the theory that the house of representatives speaks for the people and that other official forces must be maintained to nullify the ac tion of that house will be understood. Then the senate will be abolished, though the theory applies to undemo cratic features of our national govern ment other than the senate. KKI'I KI ICAN OPINION. Mere are two reasons niven by two republican papers why times are i-oj hard. What do you think of them? "The reason times are "The reason farm pro ducts are so low is be cause there Is an over production and there are too many 'ople en. Alined in farmine." Chicago Inter Ocean. so hard in cities is Id ealise co many i'Ople crowd In from rural i is triets. More ieopie should till the Boil." CuicHKO Tribune. Conokessmax IJkeck'N ltiixi e inti mates in his letter to his constituents that he still has the physical strength to do a great deal of good work. 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