The Piattemouth Journal
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Official County Paper.
(iov. Crounsk is governor no more,
but ex-governor now, if you please.
Hilly An'.nin writer froru Washing
ton tli At Jim Uyd will not te appointed
postmaster at Omaha. That much is
settled.
Silas A. Holcomb is now governor
of Nebraska, and if an) body in the
wide world thinks any less of the state
for its choice he has been very quiet
about making the fact known. He is
as hard to find as the men w ho ab
ducted Harrett Scott.
A New York butcher has given no
tice that he intends to serve horse meat
to his customers. Secretary Morton
as called upon to prevent the salt of
horse meat, but he writes that there is
no authority warranting the interfer
ence of the United States government
in the sale of horse meat.
At this time, wken Nebraska as n
whole feels poorer than ever before,
we submit that it is inappropriate for
the legislature to vote for giving
bounties to sugar beet raisers or beet
sugar makers. If Oxnard would spend
the time and money used in lobbying
in congress and at Lincoln in his busi
ness he would save enough to make a
good living.
Barrett Scoxrand his whereabouts
seem to be the center of an Immense
sensation just now. For a man who
has been a curse to the county which
honored him one would think he de
serted little. There is nothing con
clusive of the fact that he was not
tiken away by his friends to L driven
out of the country to avoid the neces
sity of going to the pen. Holt county
has a pretty tough reputation, any
how. The Omaha World-Herald has done
a fine pieceof business in securirgthe
services of Alfred Henry Lewis as its
Washington correspondent. As a letter-writer,
keen observer and critic of
events political and otherwise Mr.
Lewis hs no superior at Washington,
in our judgmett, and the Nebraska
public will s.-Kn learn to look for and
read that of the paper first. II has
long written for the Chicago
Times, and is a wonderfully bright
young man.
The Nebraska City Independent is
slightly disgruntled at the prospective
appointment of Ja3. C. Dahlmann as
warden of the penitentiary under (iov.
Holcomb. There should be no such feel
ing. The warden can do little good
for the state no long as t!ie Mosher
contract ho!ds,or in fact, any contract
which practically puts that concern
under control of the contractor. The
stale should work its own convicts,
and not make merchandise of them.
When it does that, the wardenship
will be a place worthy a good man's
ambition.
Tins republican legislature will, if it
conforms to republican principles and
shows due regard for intelligent pub
lic sentiment, restore the party to su
premacy for a long term of years; but.
on the other hand, an indifferent,
lobby-entertaining, time-killing, salary-grabbing
legislature means in all
probability a humiliating rebuke at tb
polls In the next campaign. Above all.
this is not only the time to do right
things, but to do them promptly and
in a manner that will in every way
meet the approval of the people.
Lincoln Call.
Trie bond-buying syndicate of New
York bankers are seeking the official
blood or Secretary Carlisle with a ven
geance, and it is reported that they
sent I'ierpont Morgan down to Wash
ington to demand of the president
Carlisle's resignation, which Mr. Cleve
land very properly told them they
couldn't have. Affairs are said to be
in a pretty mess, and the president is
seriously thinking of declining to re
deem any more treasury notes with
gold for the purposes of shipment to
Europe. If he does this it will be the
most sensible act of his life, and will
do more to solve the money problem
than all that baa been done within the
past twenty years. Let the quarrel
between Wall street and the president
proceed. It Is a good thing for the
people.
An Attack On the Income Tax.
New York World.
John G. Moore has brought suit to
test the constitutionality of the income
tax. Mr. Moore is a. member of the
brokerage firm of Moore & Schley,
through whom sundry senators scan
dalously made money by speculating in
sugar trust stocks while the sugar
sckedules of the tariff bill were under
consideration in the senate.
Men like Mr. Moore who have
"money to burn'' will tlud no diftlculty
in multiplying suits of this kind. Uusi
nesa is dull with eminent lawyers as
with other people, and fat fees will in
duce thesa gentlemen to aid clients In
finding out by expensive suits at law
what they might learu much more
cheaply by reading the decisions of the
United States supreme court.
The income tax has come to stay. It
is just, constitutional and especially
commrnds itself to the popular sense
of right. It will bo altered by future
congresses as to make it conform more
closely to the demands of justice, but
it will not be abolished. It will be
graduated, so that incomes below
000 shall be untaxed and incomes be
low lOt(.d taxed at a nominal rate,
while above that figure the rate will
increase with the uruocnt of the in
comes. The burdens cf Kuvernment will be
laid upon accumulated wealth wfcere
now they rest upon iudustry. Super
fluity instead i f necessity illbe made
to pay.
S I've UAL people, including Mr.
Frick, and Dr. Defries, the editor, have
been discussing the problem of govern
ment ownership of railways, in the Fre
mont Herald, to the end that much
diversity of opinion and considerable
information on the subject has been
evolved, to y nothing of the give and
take, cut and parry of intellectual
combat that has been brought rut !
it. The editor well sajs that "if rail
roads were operated on a basis that
would return a fair profit upon the ac
tual amount invested, there would be
little heard of the demand for govern
ment owner?hip.M
Anent this subject, last summer
while in Washington, the wtitei
made the acquaintance of and
had some pleasant converse w ith lli'p
resentathe iJoa'ner, of iuisia;ia,
who is not only au acute
man of afTairs, but has giteu
the railroad pmb!ern much considera
tion. In that chat Mr. Jloalraer ob
served that while railways In general
charged "all that the traftc will
bear and did many thli gs that were
demoralizing to the public, the mana
gers were not so much to blame. They
took things as they found them. The
roads wero all capitalized for far more
than they could te replaced or were
worth, were loaded down with trends
at high rates of inter st which had to
be met, and with stock and preferred
stock, until it was next to impossible
to make dividends even in properou
times, at fair rates. Th manager,
therefore, finds it necessary to make
rates high, and at this the jcople kick
and an agitation is started for control
ling the rates through state legisla
tures. To prevent this the railway
management goes into politics, using
all the ammunition at its command, in
eluding the seductive pass in all its
divergent methods or use, the hiring
of lawyers, with fees contingent on
their control of county, district and
state conventions, and to the effect of
corrupting every channel of political
action which they touclr. In the mean
time cheaper methods may be invented
for handling freight, new avenues for
traffic opened up, wages of men re
duced, new and cheaper machinery put
into use and still by reason of this
immense drain of political expense,
the rates must be kept at the top notch
because if dividends fall off the road
goes into default and perhaps a new
manager and set of officers is put in to
displace the old. "The chief source of
all this trouble and agitation lies at the
foundation, said Mr. Uoatner, "once
squeeze the water out, put iioNtT men
in control, who will be satisfied with
reasonable salaries, and rates would
come down, the railroad 'pass system
would disappear, railway lobbies
would no more infest legislative halls,
a horde of hangors-on would seek
other employment, business principles
would prevail in railway management,
strikes would end, and the problem of
cheap transportation would soon settle
itself." That course of argument was
very impressive, and it is submitted as
about the best statement of the matter
that has come to our notice.
John a!. Tiicjkston, whom the re
publicans have agreed on for senator,
in an interview with a Bee reporter,
speaka very glibly about the loyalty to
the people with which ho will accept
public office, and says his selection for
senator comes to him not because of
his relations to the railways, but in
spite of that, and it has taken years to
live down the prejudice against a pub
lic man in corporate employment -all
of which sounds very nice, and if the
public could overlook certain other
things it would be a source of public
gratification. It is known by Mr.
Thurston's own testimony, and other
wise recently published, that when first
employed by the IT. i railway and
always nlterward to affect or defeat
certain legislation at Lincoln, and
that the methods there carried out was
to corrupt, vitiate and demoralize
tho course of legislation to tho scandal
of thetdate and the injury of public
morals. Can he blind himself r tho
public to believe that a man can cor
rupt himself; can he handle pitch with
out becoming defiled V His business,
in effect, wus unquestionably to defile
others. Could tho fountain bo purer
than tho stream? Is tho man who
plans and profits by a robbery any bet
ter than the thief who committed the
theft ? Yes, it did take a long time to
bring the republican party down to u
level with Mr. Thurston and hi
methods, but the process h:s been car
ried on for years, not only by him, htiw
by others in tho emplo) of other rail
ways, until oue can hardly find a
county or community through which
these arteries of commerce) run but
that they have left their impress in the
form of a depraved public sentiment,
it low state of morals nnd a corrupt
ami debased set of politician .s, all
dominated by corporate rottenness.
It will take years of penance nud rtght
acting for John M. Thurston to undo
the wrongs he has committed under
cover of "professional employment."
If ho had a real active conscience, like
Judas of old, he would tfo hang him
self instead of accepting a ieat in the
V. S. stMi.ite at the hand of a opr
whoru h has corrupted and betrard.
Tiikkk is no fa'-t more pressing
upon the legislature now in nession
than that some better j-jMern of ases
merit of taxes should te invented. In
Cass county, for instance, there are
fourteen banks, having on deposit
from their customers cash amounting
In the a?gtegte to something like a
million and a half dollars, ami tfide
this there is probably an t q.il amount
on private deposit and in circulation,
jet, when one looks Into the tax bks
for this money he doee m t find taxed
up one dollar in looji than fifty.
Why, there was shown to to more
money on dejn?sit in the Citizens bank
atom when it failed than was put on
the tax books of (. county last ear !
Thus the kind of prorty which Ismd
subject to Shictuitl n, nd should te
taxed at its face value escit almost
free, while th property in sight the
land, buildings, merchandise, machin
ery, stock those thirds which repre
sent th eutrrpiist and industry of the
people are taxed out of proportion to
the whole amount of property In exist
ence. The fault is largely in the law.
The assessor i not given power enough
to find this missing projrty, ami this
the legislature should supply. There
are too many loop-hole, whereby the
well-to-do citizen is temrted to evade
paying tax on the money he has In his
possession or under his control. There
are too many temptations to perjury,
either in the assessment law or In Its
method of enforcement as it stands to
day. And It should b remedied by
the present legislature.
EnoAK Howard, who represents
Sarpy county in the legislature, and
edits his paper, the Papillion Tiroes,
from the capital city, is very frank and
outspoken in the expression of his
opinions and of what he observes.
Speaking of the republican senatorial
caucus he says that every member
voted for the great railway attorney,
John M. Thurston. "liven Ilaller of
Washington and Davies of Cas.n, two
alleged anti-monopoly republScans,
swallowed the railroad dose without
even making a wry face. I am glad
every republican voted for Thurston,
because this unanimous vote for the
Union I'acific spokesman completely
explodes the theory that there is an
anti-railroad faction in the ranks of
Nebraska republicans, liven Kose
wter dared not raise his voice against
the unanimous choice of tho Nebraska
railroads. Never again can we give
place in our dictionary to the words
4anti-railroad republican. ' Thero is no
such a commodity, at least none in tho
Nebraska legislature.
A oood many eastern capitalists
are refusing to pay their income tax.
They want to wait until the courts
have passed upon the constitutionality
of the law. Very many of these kick
ers are men and women who live upon
incomes from investments in Ameri
can securities, and who have no use
for the United States oMier than the
protection this government affords
them while they hob-nob with Europ
ean aristocracy. It is to be hoped that
they will find no hole to escape from
the operation of this most just and
righteous law. Omaha World-Herald.
sonin Sample Railroad Method.
Twentieth Century.
There is something like a panic
among tho railr ads owing to the recom
mendation, if one may call it that, of
Commissioner Wright that the govern
ment lissome contiol of every trans
portation line, i'l e corporation mag
nates are nwme that a strong public
sentiment has been aroused in th's
country in favor of government rail
way systems, and they take good care
to cow it dow n, as they cow down all
other sentim-nts. In pome of the towns
in the Keybtone Mute the 1'enus) Ivaniu
railroad exercises a veritable reitn of
terror. In Coatsville and such places
the corpoiat.on seenres arbitrary privi
leges by threatening to it move round
hoiisesandsiiuiI.tr btructutes to Wil
mingtoii. Of course, urnall settle
ments are very dependent on the rail
road. The citizens are employed by i.
and the .storekeepers sell to the em
ployes. Property tiwnei want U.e
r :iilro:ol to enter in the town that it
may bo kept "alive." No magnates
appreciate these things better than tbe
muguatcs of the Pennsylvania ratlioad
and their reign of ttr ror in some towns
would win the palm from every Inc m
despotism. A very shameful advan
tage is taken of this state of affairs
when some citieti is injured in a rail
road accident. No employe i.r sSote
keeper or property owner dare testif)
against the road. No local jur dare
tuing in au adverse verdict. No won
der the hiretl representation of the
Pennsylvania railroad stood upnot long
ago be fort the rob,! jritj.'-s of the
s ipi eiKt court of ilie pfrnii I i;ieatet
common v ealth of Ibis republic ni
thre.ttrned the to w ith his clieniV dis
pleasure if thev titled decide against
the corporation. m
Thk llarrctt Scott abduct! n case, up
in llr It county, i iio!er a uiue-ditys
wonder, and lefusts to down. Since
he wn taken from the carrite vtith
his wife, child and niece, nothing sub
stantial has incurred to indicate what
has become of hitn. IlN friends at
O'Neill !. id th it he was murdered by
enemies and his !ody seer eft 1. On
this theory much work has t-een done,
and three men are under arrest for
participation in his tductinn. They
were kiHiv.it to be his political enemies.
Sunday r. Well was iloo red in htl
ahatotored housr, a?;d this searched
for two ii.i)s. in I ope o? finding his
Ovd), tut tli.- WES fiti.t'U giwn up.
On the other hand, it is rnw held by
his enrtnit s that alt this cor..cen train ri
of effort .u the ii.-.r of h:s muid-r
ha- been tn.sile to gve h'.m time to s
caje and gel t l! (: of tin- cuntrj
neroe it tei;i :,i c:U5 d t tl e pos
sibility of such th.ng.so that all trace
of him would ho impossible. 2t is a
strange case, at le.;st.
TllKKi: need tote no better evidence
of the fart that the tepublican party of
Nebraska r affected b a moral
miasma, wh clr sttths the moral con
victions of its members, than to see
the entire party repreentaties in the
legislature vote for John M. Thurston,
for years theoil ro rn bo? s, for senator.
As intimated by Mr. Howard of Sarpy,
such men as Davies of Cass, have no
moral stamina to resist the all-pervading
power of the railroad ring. Like
a great serpent that iower has wound
Its colls alout the descendants of the
party at Lincoln until its members can
not resist the dictation of the lords of
the rail. Protesting that they w ant to
stand for the ieople such men as Da
vies are as babes and sucklings in the
hands of their masters. To do other
than to fall into line would mean poli
tical suicide. And such a party has
the audacity to call itself patriotic!
It was eighty years ago yesterday
since Jackson won his great victory at
New Orleans with a handful of raw
recruits over Packenham and the
flower of the Uritish army of regulars.
The splendid courage of Jackson in or
ganizing victory was never equalled
except by Jackson himself when, as
president, he overthrew the money
power represented in the United States
bank. O, for a man with the heart and
spirit of a Jackson in the presidential
chair nowl lie would dare to stand
for the gold and silver of the constitu
tion and drive the money-changers out
of the temple of liberty which they
have since his time made a veritable
"den of thieves.'
An' easter n writer fuggeats that the
frequency with which eminent men
are stricken down by death at public
functions can bo accounted for only by
the Intense nervous strain to which
they aro subjected. The thought
comes to our mind, however, that if
public men were content to be entirely
honest with themselves and the public
they would probably not be aubjected
to such a mental or nervous strain. The
effort made to find an excuse for doing
or saying tho wrong instead Of the
right thing nny bo at tho foundation of
! the trouble.
Cannot Colonel Ilreckinridgo and
Miss Pollard bo persuaded to cease
worrying the ears of the world ? Last
year they wearied it with the tales of
their escapade and rletddy quarrels.
Now the colonel is aspiring to a seat
irr the senate as if that b dy were
not degraded enough already ;-nd he
is hiring constat les to hang on his
heels and seize the box office receipts
from his lectures. The world believes
both to have been both sinned ngaiust
and sinning. Now let thern "take
back seats" and be quiet, if they can't
be decent. Ibetton Traveler.
TtlKY have a grand Jury in Il'ce
county, Kansas, which has been in ses
sion four weeks and refuses to adjourn,
even at the invitation of the district
judge. Their sessions cost the county
about j 1M a day. It seems that such
a boly can only be adjourned on its
own mot 'on.
TtiK Lincoln News is rather pointed
in its allusions to members of the
sporting fraternity Tri m P'nltnnnuth.
It sa s that "recently trier has Inn a
great Influx of gamblers In tl e city."
We havn't noticed the absence of more
than one of this clsss from town.
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r.r.u.r.K in
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QUEENSWARE.
FLOUR and FEED
Am. Kinds or
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In Sfason.
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M-jH always in tock.
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whi:I'.:: v can ;f.t
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Special Attention Given to the
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Rates-Si Per Day.
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Every Man whose watch
has been rung out of the bow
(ring), by a pickpocket,
Every Man whose watch
has been damaged by drop
ping out of the bow, and
Every Man of sense who
merely compares the old pull
out bow and the new
will exclaim: "Ought to have
been made long ago! "
Itcan't bctwistedofTthecase.
Can only be had with Jas. Boss
Filled and other cases stamped
with this trade mark
Snd for a watch can cptntr (Irta).
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PkUaJlphJ.
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DR. A. MATTHEWS,
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Tlio Painless Dentist,
Weeping Water, Nebr.,
MakoNa SjK'rin'tj- of Pine ! 1 ri'.Uv.ct, f!oM
sii'l JVm r Sal:i Crown", HrMe work, etc.
TIIKTI! P 'smVKI.Y KXTIJ A (,'TE I)
WITHol'T PAIN Il 1 AN;ER.
Dr. Agnes Y. Swetland,
HOM IiOPATHIST.
K-cl! n'.; :-.:! ,ti U Olieirlr. p:cae of
Office : ly,';tr;n ;ru Omita, Keb
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,m m PEilHYHOYjiL FILLS
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VI? Have Mcry Id Loan at 6 per cent
iaTi t -r f !' ; i;.rtr 'n Hflv c-tSoti of the
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HEART DISEASE.
Fluttering:, No Appetite, Could
not 51eep, Wind on Stomach.
'Tor a lor.;; tim.-? I had n terrible
Tnin at mr heart, which flt:tt.-rcd al
most lnc ..fanlly. I had no apatite
and could nut slccjx I would 1
conirlkd to sit up ia 1x1 and belch
pas from my stomach until I thought
every minute wou'd be my laU
There ws a feellr. of orprc-"-ion
nU)Ut civ heart, and I va afraid to
draw a full breath. I could nt sweep
induced me to try
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
and am happy to say it has cured me.
I now have a splendid appetite and
sleep well. Its elTect was truly mar
Ye'ous. Ml- HARRY r, STARR, rott.'iville, Ta.
Pr. Mll- Heart Cure ! f hl oa a ros!tlT-e
irurant' that tlie trt-t txulo ttnetit
Al dru?f tt 64-H it at IL, fi bottles for t.S. or
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Park Remedy Co., Boston, Mass.
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the value by s!rmpitn? the name ana ;ri. e m
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prices aJ the v:i Ulct-.-.su s p:o:H. 0t Utc
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