Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, March 14, 1895, Image 2
Tho Plattsiiiouth Journal DAILT AND WEEKLY. C. W. SHERMAN. Editor. TERMS FOR-DAILY. One copy on year, In advance . by mall . . .15 Ou One copy aix months. In advance, by mail, 2 50 une copy one month, In advance, by mall, no One copy, by carrier, per week 10 Published every afternoon except Sunday. WEEKLY JOURNAL. Single cepy, one year t Single copy, aix montha 50 PubilaheU every Thursday. Payable In advance Entered atthe postofflce t riattsmoutn, Ne braska, aa second-class matter. The bill to repeal the valued policy law has been indefinitely postponed in the house. Warden Beemer of the state peni tentiary is to be investigated for cruelty to prisoners. The president has got "a congress off his hands' and has gone fishing or hunting in North Carolina. Ttik annexation of New Fouudland to Canada is likely soon to occur. It is looked upon with favor by the Eng lish crown. ' Ir non-partisan action for the best interests of all cities could be secured it would be a great step toward secur ing good government. No CRor pays so well per acre as a good orchard. No use going to South bn California to raise fruit. It will yrpaeig right herein Cass county. The St. Louis Republic reports that Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs. Cleve land, has been in Omaha recently on a tour of investigation of the Morton sayings. The expenses of this city must be cut down. This is apparent or the city will go irretrievably into debt. The electric light scheme ought never to be passed. One thing is needed in the coming city council election: The business element of the town ought to be recog nized. Favoritism to particular inter ests has no place in the council when material interests cf the whole city are at stake. The legislature is really getting down to hard work, and is sifting oat numerous bills that cannot be passed for want of time or ought not to be passed. The university grab is still alive, and it is possible the house may pass it. Taylor, the absconding South Da ka defaulting state treasurer has been captured and jailed at Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he had just landed by steamer from Ilavanna, where, in turn he had been tracked. The state lost 305,000 by his villainy. It was all a mistake about the win ter's backbone being broken last week. It may have been a little rheumatic, but the snowstorm and cold of yester terday and last night completely reju venated it. With the mercury down almost to zero old Winter became im bued with all the vigor of youth. The wheat market took a boom the other day and went up 3 cents all be cause reports of the agricultural de partment showed a shortage of 70,- 000,000 bushels of the stock on hantl. Corn followed slightly. For the sake of some of our "long' holders of May corn we hope it will keep on going up The taxpayers of Grand Island, without regard to party to the number of 600, met Saturday night last and nominated a strange ticket for city ofil cers with Wm. II. Thompson, the Lit tle Giant, the man who so electrified the people of this city last fall, for mayor. Senator Stewart has introduced a bill for the abolition of the death penalty in Nebraska. It is a good bill and ought to pass; but if it does not pass the present law ought to be changed to make executions come off in the penetentiary, and at an indefi nite time. Such a bill would be of un told advantage to the state. The silver advocates who have their headquarters at the Bimetallic League, have organized a new party, with A. J. Warner at its bead, and having issued a manifesto have suggested the came of J. C. Sibley as a proper candi date for president. They are in gen eral the fellows who, if they cannot succeed, are anxious that the republi cans shall like Taubeneck and that class of populists. The trouble between Brazil and Ar gentine, which has been a source of annoyance and discontent between the two nations, has at last been set tled to the satisfaction of both by the deci sion of President Cleveland, as arbi trator. The Argentine government was awarded a decision in its favor. Both sides to the controversy seem to be pleased that it has been settled by arbitration. TUK COMINO STIU'GtiLK. Omaha World-Ueratd. The coming struggle for political supremacy should not be a three-cornered one. The leading issue will necessarily bo the silver question. Ef forts are being made to make it the second or third matter of consequence, but too much has been said and written in this country in the past few years for and against the white metal for it to occupy a position other than first in national politics until the ques tion is settled. Every man in this country has studied the question more or less, and every man knows whether he is for or against bimetall ism. Thus the issue is squarely drawn and there can be no middle ground. The two parties will announeo their declaration of principles in duo time. The democratic party will come square to the front as the avowed champion of the free and unlimited coiuage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1. Tho re publican party will either beg the issue or declare unqualifiedly against silver. These two parties must settle the question, and since it is evident that the majority cf the people of the United States are decidedly on the side of bimetallism, and since there will be no side party looming up to advocate monometallism, it follows that a third party organization would draw all its support from the friends of silver and weaken the cause in ratio to the number of votes it could secure. A third party a silver party would force a division of the house against itself and defeat would be inevitable. That the mouometallists will en courage a third party there is nodoubt whatever, nor is there any doubt that the expense of such a movement would be incurred very cheerfully by the advocates of the single gold standard, for that would throw the machinery of government under their control, which would be the minority with class interests overriding the majority, whose interests include the productive agencies of the entire country. It behooves the friend of the tuass.es the producers of the country, there fore, to discourage propositions and overtures which have for their pur pose the organization of what would amount to a formidable second silver party, and thus hopelessly cripple a common cause and give victory to the most heartless and exacting taskmas ter the producing class of this or any othercountry could be bound to. But surely no thinking man would lend his support to such an impolitic course, and let us hope that there are not enough unthinking sovereigns tomake such a movement at all formidable. The minds of the people, the condi tions of general trade, the low price of farm products and the difficulty labor has in finding employment all of which is the direct consequence of de monetizing silver, all conspire to give the cause of silver which is the cause of the people, a substantial victory a victory the advantage of which would immediately be felt in all the channels of production and labor. Therefore let not this most righteous cause be weakened by it real or alleged friends. The monetary commission to meet other nations in conference which has recently been authorized by congress, has, ao far as the members of both houses are concerned, been ap pointed, and its character has been determined. The members ap pointed fron the senate are Jones of. Arkansas, Daniel of Virginia and Teller of Colorado two democrats and one republican, but all advocates of free silver. On the part of the house there were appointed Messrs. Crisp, Culberson and Hill two demo crats and one republican. Crisp is moderately for free silver, Culberson is a little more pronouncedly so, while Mr. Ilitt is a man of the "parity" sort that is, he is afraid to trust silver as money except when it is backed up with a gold guarantee. The president is to appoint three more members of the commission making nine in all but it matters not who he may name, the advocates of the white metal will be in the majority. The general opin ion is, however, that it matters little whom, the president may appoint, tho commission will not be able to accom plish anything; that the money-loaning institutions of Europe are determined to maintain tho single gold standard, because they can thus corner and con trol the volume of money, and they have these governments under their control, and will not permit the adop tion of the double standard, and there fore, that this commission can accomp lish nothing. If, however, tho United States were to adopt bimetallism these European nations would soon be forced to follow suit because otherwise they would lo;se their trade with the silver using countries which the United States would gain. A political organ which i3 con stantly booming its party as the panacea of all the ills of the nation may be set down as an habitual liar. Parties must bo judged by tho prin ciples they are pushing forward, and if they have none in the interest of the masses that are uppermost, the party must be condemned as having the shadow without tho substance of pa triotism. Tho dead level of partyism is no better ou one side of the poli tical fenco than on the other. To Il lustrate: When the republican party had no principle!) to push forward it became fearfully corrupt, and credit mbbilier schemes, Little Bock bond jobs, the selling of post tradeships, whiskey ring frauds and kindred cor ruptions ran riot in its highest circles, amid their most profound declarations of patriotism. So when one sees a prediction made that when that party comes into power it will make every thing lovely, you can depend that someone is trying to humbug tho people. It is an easy thing to fiud fault with the doings or sayings of other people. ThevirtuoHS action of a friend may be distoited iuto a misdeed if committed by another person. Thus we see that our good neighbor, Bro. Polk, is find ing fault and denouncing in language quite as vigorous as it ia polite, the proposed legislation for lending seed to the drouth sufferers to the value of $200, (KM as a grab and a steal, while he lauds in the choicest rhetoric of pat riotiam the scheme of giving a bounty from the state treasury to ihe growers of sugar beets (who do not need it) or the makers of beet sugar. Senator Manderson last year made a strong ar gument showing that big money was made by the growers of sugar beets t and we presume he told the truth. That being true the teet growers nee no bounty, while it is quite evident that the beet suar makers need no bounty, else they would not havo so mnch money to spend lobbying before congress. The legislators who are in tereited in pushing the fr?e teed ap propriation esteem it an act of help to the needy; but Brother Polk denounces it as a steal. He looks upou the sugar bounty as a great help to enterprise, while many others regard it as a use less donation from the people's treas ury to the purses of men who are al ready rich, or who do not need it. We presume if beet seed were to be bought with the appropriation and the bounty be given to the farmers, a double bless ing might be afforded. Cannot Brother Polk work a scheme of that kind? Is it not easy to find fault? M h.Polk in his paper keep repeat ing the assertion that the republican party will bring prosperity to the country if it gets into power. It would be interesting to know what Mr. Polk thinks his party would do with the financial question if it were in power now, and it is also an interesting ques tion what the party will promise to do with the money question in order to get into power. The money problem ia the question of the day. It must be settled right in the interest of the masses. We know that Mr. Polk favors free American silver, but will that be the policy of his party ? We should like to have him express himself. lie knows that his party was in power when the mischief from which the peopJe are now suffering was accom plished when the silver dollar was destroyed and its free coinage was stopped, now will his party reverse, its action and give the people honest bi metallism ? If not, how else will it get into power? Let us know. It must be very amusing to Gov. Ilolcomb to note that the men who were last fall the loudest-mouthed in their declarations that his election meant calamity to tho state, are row urging him with the greatest solicitude to take the course they have marked out for him. It is a pleasure to know that the pre-election predictions of these men havo come to naught, and they now have learned to rely upon him as a most excellent chief execu tive of the state. Gov. HoLCOMit has signed the oleo bill, which prohibits the manufacture for sale or tho sale of oleomargarine in the state, recommending the repeal of that part which forbids its manufac ture for sale in other states. Better than this was hardly to bo expected in view of tho fact that tho men who wero making oleo were a part of the "business men's association" at Om aha who exerted every poaaiblo effort to defeat his election. City politics aeem to be in the dumps nobody apparently taking any inter est In tho matter. If the tax-payers don't arouse themselves presently they can depend that there are thoso who will. On this occasion when economy of tho most rigid sort ohould be exer cised, and the best possible material for the city council obtained, it Is time to look about aud see what can be done, instead of sitting down and do ing nothing. Wake up I MK. HUYANVS ri'UI.SONAI. AJ lAtllS. j Tho Lincoln Journal's Washington; correspondent, Mr. Annin, writes thus of our late congressman: "Representative Bryan bade good bye Tuesday to his friends in Wash ington aud left tonight for Cincinnati, where ho speaks ou bimetallism to morrow evening. Mr. Bryan has quite nn extended trip before him and will lecture in Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri before reaching home. His programme is to conclude in Lin coln ou the afternoon of March YJ. Mr. Bryan states that he will at once re lesumo the practice of law in Lincoln, incidentally editing the Omaha World Herald, at long range from that city. He has concluded his public career for tho present and seut out all his garden seed, cleaned up all requests for public documents, stirred up the pension office upon pension matters and now earn estly desires that uny further requests of this nature shall be pent to his suc cessor, who begins today to pull a sal ary from the United States govern ment fordoing work of that kind. Mr. Bryan gave one-half of his garden seeds to the relief commission for dis tribution in the western part of the state. The other half he divided among the counties of his district, after filling all orders received by mail. His last work tu congress was done in securing the passage in the house of the bill admitting free of duty the diphtheria cure known as antitoxlne. He called this up about midnight on Sunday night and got it over to the senate about 2 o'clock on Monday morning, but Senator Aldrich objected to the consideration of the bill and it died in the senate." The music-lovers of Omaha have in preparation a benefit to be given by Jules Lumbard, the veteran concert vo calist, who for more than forty years has been hinging happiness into the hearts of the people of this country and it goes without saying that it wil be a great occasion. A more generous patriotic old soul is not to be found in all thi broad land, or one who is more deserving of such an honor. Gifte with a great voice and having the talen to use it, Jules Luuibard has .core more successes in concert or solo than any other American, and he has been most unselfish in the bestowal of his talents. He ought to have a great ben- fit. kins. A. J. Waun'eu says: "The first net in the monetary revolution that is fast transferring the wealth of the world to the few hands was the demonetization act of 1S73; the last and culminating acts are these of 1M;, shutting off the supply of money for all India, and the United States from silver.' Gen. Warner is partially cor rect only. The gro.it money-loaning system which has grown up in the world, by which the earnings of labor and enterprise are transferred to the pockets of capit al, bad paved the way for the success of the gold basis scheme. Or course the rich people who have income taxes to pay do not like to pay the money, but they have no right to question the justice of tho tax. They kuoA- that tho poor are compelled to pay more than their share of the tariff taxes ou the goods they buy, and that their own profits are not taxed at all. There is abundant evidence accumu lating, however, to the effect that a great many men who ought to pay a tax on income are endeavoring to evade it. The life insurance companies, too, the most rapacious and greedy of all the corporations, are fighting the tax in tho U. S. courts. They will have it to pay, however. Tin: Nebraska City Tress is "talk ng through Its hat" when it argues that free gov rnment is secure In this country becauso we have overcome outward foe and .secession from wi th ru Nominally we have a free govern ment now, but it i: no louger one of equality. Tho laws today are made for the benefit of corporations nnd ho wealthy. There must continue to o be a struggle of the forces of labor and enterprise with concentrated wealth. It is true now as when first u ttored that "eternal vigilance is the ricoof liberty.' May. W. K. Vandkimiilt has re tired her divorce from lit r Ji gtj with ut a contest, ou the ground of adult ry, aud while, by tho ruling of the court, she is permitted to marry again, e is not. Thus tho chief scion of the ouse of Vanderbilt is without a lega h ieir. It will tako the "400" of the N ew York Uppertcndom a good while o overcome the shock which this suit ias brought upon it. Essentially cor rupt as it is, its members have kept up a semblance of eminent respecta bility, and to have tho skeleton in the closet brought before the world in this manner was "perfectly awful." D. W. Fostek of Union writes to the Nebraska City Independent de- Carpets and Rugs. For the Spring Trade we have replenished our Stock of Carpets and Rugs at prices to tempt anyone needing goods in this line. We Have the Stock To select from in Cotton Chain 2-plys, all Wool 2 plys, all Wool 3-plys, Body Brussels and Moquettes. Our Rugs are well select ed and lower than ever in prices. LAGE CURTAINS, POLES and FIXTURES and WINDOW SHADES. Newest Goods at Hard-Times Prices. E. 6. DOVEY & SON. fending the act of the legislature de- prulng oleo makers of the right to color their butter, but contending that t Is all right for creamery butter makers to use the sitae coloring mat ter for their butter. His argument is very-thin. He is asking for a privi- ege he is unwilling to grant another. It is a fraud in either case and the farmer-creamery owner is the last man who should be willing to take such nn advantage. Tun Nebraska City News is pleased to be called a "cuckoo" organ, and we are quite sure nobody will object if it lot s not, only it is, perhaps, too mild a term to describe its lick-spittle Fort or work. To expert anything better of the News people, after the years of etrayal of their party to. John Watson which was like the treason of Ar noldfor the money there was in it. For such a concern to talk about 'honesty in politics !" Why, Satan iimelf could not excel such sublime mpudence. The men who in 1SCI set up a gov ernment of their own in the southern states, and after obtaining possession of everything within their borders only wanted to bo "let alone,' showed no less a spirit of disloyalty and indif ference to their country at large than do thoso men who, while professing to e democrats, seceded from their party n Nebraska nud sat up a party of heir own to help out the republicans. Sonio of that class talk of the man who stood by the organization as party wreckers. Ik it were not for the enormous body of debt incurred by speculation labor of all kinds would command much higher wages. As it is labor i3 taxed to pay the interest on all this debt bo foro it can apply a dollar to pay its own wages. In addition to this interest on borrowed capital and on rents must be paid out of the fruits of labor's toll, aud it is little wonder that the millions who toil are kept at tho door of poverty and want, while the few are rolling in wealth. Tm: republican party aa represented in tho city council last year seated .a man as councilman to fill a vacancy who was not elected and was not even voted for, for the vacancy. To do that they were obliged to go behind the re turuH, a thing which it was necessary to observe in order to secure the eUc tion of Hayes fcr president in 1ST.-.. Joe llradley 's decision w as good repub licanism then, but it was not good law when Hawkins was needed in the city couucil. We guarantee a fit in spectacles, c r no sale. Geuing & Co l'reldrnt f the (ionnry Live Stork Com pany Write- Magnet Chemical Co. Gentlemen: I have for months been a sniTerer from Itching Files, and tried numerous so-called remedies which nid me no good. I procured a box of M Ao net File Killek. and I confess " he first application gave me great re lief, and whil I feel I am not entirely cured, I believe that before I have the entire box ued I will be well. To every one suffering with this un pleasant disease I sincerely recommend Maonet File Killek. Yours Truly. Sam Cosset. South Omaha, Neb Fres. Gosnev Live Stock Company. Nine days later Mr. Gosney write?: "I am entirely cured of the Files ard Maonet File Killeii did it." For sale by Gerlne & Co. e 6 0 o a s Ia cut in clothing! 6 ParticularlT In our Chllil- rou's Department. 0 o ii- juu jinve b euiau amount pi w r.. . - . . . iuouey to pena. ana rour child O needs some clotbing. X JJItwill - - Surprise youf How far a littlo money will go nt o MORGAN'S, 5 The Leading Clothier. f i i 1 a