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J lei 1 if! -j led i nt douoie corn-crit " tv of 4.500 bushels, good bear Miard also 600 young apple trees, u J nrinrlmi 1. cellar. The Flattsmouth Journal DAILY AND WKE8LT. C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. TERMS FOR DAILY. Oue copy one year, in advance, by mall...t5 00 One copy tlx months, in advance, by mall, 2 50 One copy one month, in advance, by mail, 60 One copy, by carrier, per week 10 Published every afternoon except Sunday. WEEKLY JOURNAL. Single copy, one year fl 00 Single copy, alx months 50 Published every Thursday. Payable in advance Entered at the postofflce at Piattsmouth, Ne braska, as second-class matter. Official County Paper. The democrats have placed in nomi nation a ticket which deserves the sup port of the party to a mao, and every one can unite in its support with en thusiasm. This newspaper will venture dollars to doughnuts that the South Omaha Tribune editor gets bis editorial in spiration from a source that is politi cally on friendly terms with the U. P. railway and its attorney, John M. Thurston. Thk editor of the Xews is said to give it out privately that he is a "free silver republican," but he's not well enough posted yet to be sure about the ratio. That's good, and shows pro gress. There is hope that he may be really converted to the true faith after a while. County conventions of the Ohio de mocracy are liberally and bitterly de nouncing Senator Calvin S. Brice for bis part in that infamous sugar schedule bargain. Brice's agents are doing their utmost to stem the tide and prevent bis being outlawed by the state convention, but their efforts will apparently be in vain. The Ohio democrats are right. Let them re pudiate Brice and all his works. By so doing th-y will gain more prestige for their ticket this fall than they could by any. other means. The? shallowness of Mr. Strode's plea respecting the effect of high and low tariff is so apparent to a thinking man that it needs no argument to meet it. Greater minds than his have tried that plea and found it was a failure. Much of a politician as Mr. Blaine was, and anxious as he was to succeed, he never made such a claim as that of Strode. Garfield was "for that kind of protection that Iead3 to free trade," but Strode's is of the sort that could have no ending. By a strange concidence (?) Majors, railroad candidate for governor, and Tobey Castor, railroad democratic pro moter of republican success, met at a way station one day this week. They were on trains going in opposite direc tions, any yet seemed to know they were to meet each other. A long con sultation was held in the space be tween two freight cars, free from ob servation as they erroneously supposed. Yes, oh, yes, "keep in the middle of the road" and let the "roads" have the persimmon. Fremont Herald. Edgar Howard, of the Papillion Times, is spoken of as a probable legis lative candidate from Sarpy county. We don't know many people in that county, but of all we do know, Mr. Howard is about the fittest man for that place, and he has the best wishes, at least, of the man who "brought him up" at the printer's case, and knows him from "'way back," that he may win. He is not only bright and capa ble, but he is true to those who trust him. It will be in the closing months of 1395 that Utah will become a state- me 4Dtn. ine recent act or congress authorized the meeting of a conven tion in Utah to frame a constitution. This convention is to assemble in March rext, and the constitution it produces will be voted upon by the Utah people in November, 1895. If it be ratified by the people and approved by President Cleveland, the latter will then issue a proclamation declaring Utah a state. At the last census Utah bad a population of 207,905, a very re spectable figure for a new state. In a neat pamphlet entitled "Facts About the South," Mr. R. II. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record, Baltimore, Maryland, furnishes statis tics that show how fallacious is the idea held by people not familiar with the condition of the eouth at the pres ent time. It has been generally un derstood that the southern people were a leisure-loving, good-natured class of men who were willing that the north should do all the hustling, but Mr. Edmonds shows conclusively that the rate of development in manufac turing and other interests has fully kept pace with the rest of the country. tf tniniFi. - l,n 'Ua ffiVETIlMllaik r WOOL PRICES DSDKB FREK WOOL. The wool market just now affords a good study for the political wool grow ers of the country. It will pay them to study facts a while, and forget their theories and their calamity cries. In 1890 McKinley listened to the pleas of Delano, Harpster and Law rence and granted them greatly in creased duties on wools in order to raise prices. But prices never de clined so much and so rapidly as during the four years of McKinleyism. The decline has been almost steady, except that it was checked for a few months, after the election of 1892, and that it was changed into an advance during the last two months. The decline has been from 85 to 60 per cent. High duties on vools, then, have not caused higher prices, as these wool prophets predicted. This is mistake number one. Nothing was more certain, in the opinion of some of the wool growers, than that free wool would greatly re duce prices of domestic wools and ruin tliR wool and sheep producing indus tries. For the flrst time, since 1816, all wools are now free of duty. What are the facts up to date ? All wools become free on August 2Sth. We quote the following prices of foreign and domestic wools from the American Wool and Cotton Reporter: DOMESTIC. Grades. Prices 1894. July 5. Centn. Aug. 30. Cents O. Pa., & w. Va. xx and above 20 to 50 to 21 O.. Pa.AW.Va. No. 1 .... 19to20 21to23 Mich. Wis. & N. Y. No. 1.. 18 to 19 19 to 21 California No. spring free 13 to 13 13 to 16 Texas fine 12 mos. choice. 11 to 13 12 to 14 Idaho fine 9 to 10 10 to 12 Montana fine ined. choice. 11 to 12 13 to 15 FOREIGN. Australian.combinjschotce 30 to 33 19 to 22 Australian, combine good 29 to 30 18 to 19 Australian, clothing 30 to 32 19 to 21 Cape and Natal 25 to 26 14 to 15 Montivideo 25 to 37 14 to 15 English coarse 35 to 37 23 to 25 This is indeed a strange phenomenon for the consideration of the National Wool Growers Associations. Prices of foreign have declined about 40 per cent., while prices of domestic wools have advanced about 10 per cent, dur ing the last two months. The Reporter of August 30th says that the chief feature of the Boston wool market has been "the purchase of a million and a half pounds of Montana by a manufacturer," and con cludes "it has been, on the whole, a fair week for trade, and wools in gen eral have been sold at as high a price as at any time during the month, medium wools are especially firm. The feeling in general is hopeful." Under New York, the Reporter says: "De spite the uncertainty surrounding the markets there is no quotable chaege in prices. There are a good many arguments favoring a steadiness in prices of domestic for some time to come." Prices of domestic wools, then, have not tumbled with the adoption of free wool, as was predicted by the pro tection prophets. This is mistake number two. It might be supposed that after such monstrous failures Dalano, Lawrence and Harpster would withdraw into their shells and never peep again at the wool question. This is, however, unlikely. The real ques tion ia. will the real wool growers ever again believe these false prophets. The dangerous character of railway domination in politics has time and again been demonstrated to the voters of Nebraska, and they have every reason to believe that the election of John M. Thurston is the election of a man who is nothing if not a tool of these corporations. There is not a hair in bis bead that sympathizes with hon est, independent citizenship, and from the nature of his employment there cannot be. It would be a menace to free institutions to have such a man in the senate. The democrats of Ohio are kicking themselves sore for having elected such a creature, in the person of Cal. Brice, to the senate. Brice has not only disgraced the democracy of Ohio, but has brought dishonor on his party by his utter disregard of party pledges and his boodlerism in behalf of trusts. A vote for the republican ticket means a vote for Thurston. That Thurston is smart is only the worse, because he can do all the more harm if elected. NOMINATION WON ItY IIRIISERV. Mr. Rosewater, of the Omaha Bee, delivered an address at Fremont on Saturday evening 6n "Republicanism vs. Boodlerism," whih abounded in charges of villainy against the present republican management, and his charges were so sustained by facts and proois vi meir irutn as to be un answerable. Of the methods bv which Mr. Majors received his nomination he said, among other things: "Furthermore, I charge that Majors was nominated by bribery. There were any number of delegates and I get it directly from Mr. Jack MacColl whose fares were paid by Mr. MacColl from different sections of the state.and -J 1 ri2estoraHT w mi I la aold ijT. miiw - kTio they were bought up the night before I money, with annual passes, or with pledges or promises of rebates, what ever it may be. They were turned over, they were bought, and I denounce it as one of the most disgraceful mines that ever happened jn the state of Ne braska. When a man procures his nomination in that manner, no man, no matter what kind of a partisan he may be, is bound to support him. He is absolved. The fraud absolves an things." Mr. Strode quoted the speeches and writings of certain men and states men to prove an impossible proposi tion - that free trade has been disas trous to the country whenever it has been tried in this country. He ought to know that he cannot fool thinking and reading men by any such non sense. Why, if his statements were accepted truths of history he ought to know that there would lo no free trade party in this or in any other country in the world. If the low tariff had always been the disastrous failure he pictured it, no man, much less no party, would ever advocate anything but a high protective tariff. He is surely smart enough to see this; and he is simply fooling with people in pre dicting an argument on such an absurd proposition. If he wished to quote history, why not be fair about it and quote testimony of Mr. Blaine as well as Mr. Carey? Did Mr. Strode imagine he could make any friends by simply quoting one side of a contro versy, and then calling that "history ?" He must have felt the weakness of his cause when he failed to quote from Mr. Blaine, when he says, page 19G of his "Twenty Years in Congress": "The principles embodied in the tariff of 1846 seemed for the time to be so entirely vindicated and approved that resistance to it ceased, not only among the people but among the pro tective economists, and even among the manufacturers to a lartre extent. So general was this acquiescence that in 1856 a protective tariff was not sug gested or even hinted by any one of the three parties which presented presi dential candidates. It was not sur prising, therefore, that with a plethoric condition of the national treasury for two or three consecutive years, the democratic congress, in the closing session of Pierce's administration, en acted what has since been known as the tariff of 1S57- By this law the duties were placed lower than they had been at any time since the war of 1S12. The act was well received by a considerable portion of the republi can party." Mr. Strode should he fair to his re publican aud'tors, at least, even if it does knock the bottom out of his ar gument. and still people will make them, and when they compare the vigorous manly, argumentative speeches of Ulen W. Field two years ago with the weak, puerile effort of J. B. Strode Mon day night they must be ashamed of the comparison. To compare Strode with Field on the stump is putting up a lap- dog against a mastiff. The republi cans ought to go off and kick them selves. The democratic primaries in Otoe county were held on Saturday and were of the liveliest sort, it appearing that the Morton and Bryan elements each endeavored to win over the other. In the city each bide carried two wards. The joke is on the two editors of the News Messrs. Mar well and Hubner who were both snowed under in the Second and Fourth wards, where they respectively reside. The Press puts it down as a fact, that the first was carried by the Mortonites because some of Bryan's friends were away from town at a ball game and that the ball game was set for that day by design of the Mortonites, to get the boys away rrom the primaries. it would tie a strange incident if the county were to be carried by the Morton crowd be cause of that ball game. It is confes sedly close. "Protection" and "paternalism fraternize together. They mean the same thing. Protection means the giving of a bounty to one class of people the manufacturers to "en able" them to dole out a part of their profits in the form of "wages" to their employes the laboring men. Pater nalism means that the "government" shall care for all the people who need it. The protected manufacturer acts as agent for the government in caring for the laboring people under him. In essence they mean the same thing they mean that freedom and equality in government is a failure, and that free men, with an equal chance in the world, cannot take care of themselves. The practice of this worse than absurd doctrine for thirty years past has well nig'j taken all the spirit of self-dependence out of men's minds. F. G. Fricke & Co., recommend Johnson's Magnetic Oil for rheuma tism, neuralgia, sprains, bruises, lame back. It quickly relieves pain. fIX'r4 on & DOSltlTe wilt benefit. It It VAN OK THUKSTOX WIIICII1 Papillion Times. There is no u?e disguising the issue. It is Bryan or Thurston. If the repub licans control the legislature Thurston will be chosen senator, while if the democrats and populists are jointly in control Bryan will certainly be sent to a seat alongside Senator Allen. It is Thurston or Bryan. Which will you choose? The one is the polished orator, the great railroad attorney, the defender and advocate of eastern ideas. The other is the eloquent orator, the j true statesman, the able and tireless champion of western interests. No man can more ably represent the Union Pacific in the senate than John M. Thurston. No man can so faithfully plead in the halls of congress for west ern sentiment as can our own Bryan. Representative John T. Dunn, of New Jersey, has some very strong ideas on polit'cal economy, and they are thoroughly practical, as is the man. Speaking of the effect of the republi can policy upon farmers, he said: "If there is any class of people under the sun who ought to vote the democratic ticket it is the farmers. Since I860 farm values have decreased fully 40 per cent in the United States, as shown by the census figures. There isu't a country place in New Jersey to day that is worth over $50 per acre for farming purposes. 1 happen to own the old Doty homestead, on the out skirts of Elizabeth, on which the cele brated Ben Wade was born. It con tains eighty-four acres, and in I860 was held at f25,000. I am now negotiating to sell it for $5,500. Land is the only thing in this country that has not kept pace with the increase of population. Protected industries have absorbed the increase of value that, in the absence of laws favoring a special class, would have gone to land owners As a legitimate consequence of this beautiful protection doctrine, Egyp tian cotton and Indian grain have been brought into competition with the pro ducts of our soil, forcing down prices of both to the lowest point ever re corded." Hank McMaken, the ice dealer, i3 no slouch of a politician, and he ia of the republican sort. As he moves 'round over the state a good deal, he finds out some things. A month and a half ag he stated his belief that the "pops" were going to carry everything in Nebraska this year, but now he says he isn't so sure of it. He has been keeping tao on the stream of emigrants who are moving out of the western, burnt-out counties for the winter, and said yesterday that they were nearly all populists or democrats. Out of 126 families whom he has accosted going overland, he found only four of the men were republicans. So he figures out that there may be some hope for Tom Majors yet. TnE !ifTern!ce betwen tin- MtKii -ley bill and the Wilson lull as p;is is that in the rase of the f rrner the protection lobby dictated the whole bill accoidir.g to rrpublkau ti-sti- niony- while as to t ne u nson dim only a few of its schedules were dictated by the lobby? Imagine if you cm, Mr. Strode as the success'T to Wm. J. Bryan, at tempting to till his place. Ifwould be like a bean rattling around in a bladde If he ever got any distinc tion it would be like the rays of the moon a reflex from the sun. In glancing over the otlicial returns of the Maine election, Mr. McKinley and ex-President Harrison may both be expected to note the fact that Tom Reed's majority was less than thai of any republican congressional candidate in the running. Mrs. J. Benson, LADIES' FURNISHER. OMAHA, READ THESE PRICES Ladies' Skirts from 75c. to $14.40. Ladies' Waists from 50c to $8.50. Narrow v al. Laces from 15c doz. up. per Butter Cream and Black Laces in Bordon and other styles from 10c a yard to the finest quality. Our stock is very large and no old goods on our shelves. We make a specialty of Ribbons and Handkerchiefs. Good quality Gloria Silk Sun Um brellas from $1.00 to $5.00. Specially low prices on Ladies' and Children's Hoiseiy and Underwear. We have many lines of Ladies' Fancy Goods, not kept in other stores. We are giving special prices in Gloves. In short, we make special prices in every department. Come in or order by MAIL. We will give your order prompt and care ful attention. MRS. J. BENSON, 1519 Douglas St., nearl6tb, OMAHA, NEB. OHAS." CJrtf.xixx. Attorney at Law, t To Your Own Interests? I 1 ERIIAPS you are, but of not, you ought to be. There's one good way tc prove that you're in the land of the living buy your I Furniture, Stoves and House t OF IPEA RLM HIS PRICES will not admit of Competition $ they're so downright low. Give him a call. PEARLMAN, The House Furnisher. S OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE, PLATTSMOUTH. $ THE EVER 1 fHHf" I OF I ITVff fr OF PLATTSMOUTH, Is distinctively the place where the Farmer's Dollar Goes the Farthest. We lead, as ever, in Buggies and Carriages. Th is year's line is larger cannot fail As to Implements, Our two large store-rooms are brim-full of the BEST and MOST PERFECTED to be found in the Implement market. SPEAKING OF rT Q pn cr-c We Manufacture Odl ilCOO, The Very Best For the Money, and are the only firm using "Old Fashioned Oak Tanned Leather" in Cass County. Consult your own interests and Deal with an Establishment which conducts Business on the Plan of Giving Real Worth in Return for the Buyer's Money. FRED GORDER & SON, 307-30!) Main SI reef. Hnllsmoulli, X It HEART DISEASE. Fluttering;, No Appetite, Could not 5Ieep, Wind on Stomach. "For a long time I had a terrible pain at my heart, which fluttered al most incessantly. I had no appetite and could not sleep. I would be cempelled to sit up in bed and belch gas from my stomach until I thought every minute would be my last. There was a feeling of oppression about my heart, and I was afraid to draw a full breath. I could not sweep a room without resting. 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