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About Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1895)
The Plattsniouth Journal DAILY AXD TVKKKI.T. C. W. SHER2XAN, Editor. TERMS FOR-DAILY. One copy one year. In advance, by mall. . .15 00 One copy lz month. In advance, by mall, 3 50 one copy one month. In advance, by mall, SO One copy, by carrier, per week 10 Published every afternoon except Sunday. WEEKLY JOURNAL. SlntlececT. one vear II 00 Single eorr. ax months W Payable In advance PnbllaheU every Thursday Entered at the postofflce at PlatLsmouth, Ne braska, as second class matter. We believe that the rank and file of the party should at once assert themselves in the demo cratlc party and place It on record In favor of the Immediate rettoration of the free and un limited coinage of sold and sliver at the present rattn nf i tn i m tuh coinage existed rrior to 1873, without waiting for the aid or consent of I any other naUon. such gold and silver coin to be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private. Iowa republicans have set the time ot their state convention at June 12. That rarty is" again in the power of the railways since Larrabee has re tired. Many of the mills and factories in the east are increasing their working forces and voluntarily increasing the cav of the employes. This means better times. Senator Palmer of Illinois evi dently poked his nose into a hornet's nest when he opposed the calling of that democratic state convention on June o, to take action on the money question. Petroleum oil is on a wild boom, on the supposition that eastern wells are giving out, and during the past week has gone up from 56 cents to S2.00 a barrel. It's a great opportu nity for speculators. Tub city of Lincoln has something of a school problem on its hands also. The district has $00,000 of a floating debt, and don't know how to meet it except by cutting teachers' wages and tbat the teachers kick against very vigorously. The News seems to be worried over the fact that Dr. Dearing went hunt ing and intimates that it will fight him next fall because he didn't divvy up with his ducks. The wonder is that it didn't open its batteries on Judge! Chapman who also went hunting. It is rumored that a scheme Is on foot to have the frontage boundary of the city fixed, so that the bar may be occupied by the 15. & M. R. railway. It seems on its face that it would be a good scheme. If the com pany wants to improve that bar by all means let it be done. Tub Sevs has seen a two-column ar ticle in which the "vagaries of the 1C to 1 silverites is shown up in an unan swerable manner." By all means such an article ought to be printed. It would be a wonder of intellectual force and analysis. Let the public have it without fail ! Gov. Holcomh has commuted the death sentence of Charles Carleton of Dodge county to imprisonment for life. Carleton was to be hung at Fre mont on the 26th of April next, for the murder of August Gotbman In June, 1393- The governor's action appears to give satisfaction in Fremont. Tiib propositions of peace from Japan to China include the indepen dence of Corea, the session of the Island of Formosa, and an indemnity equiraleat to400,000,000 in our mon. 7, Lne Dermaneiib ucuuuautY ui iuii.ai- the permanent occupancy thur and contiguous territory, and a new treaty opening the rivers of China to free commerce. i If the Nebraska City News wants some lively anti-silver doctrine, why don't it print Mr. Buchanan's letter to Mr. Morton ? Its readers would enjoy that immensely especially where he tells that if a vote were taken today in Nebraska the advocates of free silver at 10 to 1 would carry the state by 0,-OOOmajorltyl Timb was when Wm. It. Morrison Lthat thejr have not forgotten that un waa the beau ideal candidate for the happf ?vent There are m,IIions of the presidency. Since residing at Wash ington, however, he has been imbued with the gold mania, and can no longer be trusted as the man of the people. ! His recently-published interview, In which he would make silver subsidiary to gold, has cooked his goose com pletely. True Dea Moines Leader is under a new management that of Messrs. Strauss & Dawson, a capitalist and a real newspaper man, and it is rapidly coming to the front, both in business and in editorial strength. In a few days type-setting machines will be put . m r a, ml, I The demOCraia OI lowa ucc duvu a newspaper at the capital, and it will .,Kf ho a nvinsr investment. THE UNIVERSITY AITROTKI ATION. Facts have recently come to light which make a bad showing for the state university management, and whoever is to blame should be made to shoulder it. It will be remembered that a bill was presented to the legislature early in the session asking for an additional appropriation of four-eighths of a mill tax levy for the next two years to complete the library building, and the bill was killed after discussion, one of the members from Cass (Mr. Davies) lighting it to a knock-out because of its extravagance and that it was un necessary. It was uhown that the pres ent valuation would bring $1)2,000 a year upon a half-mill levy, aud that if any thing was needed to complete the library, $50,000 would do it. The bill wan withdrawn and another was pre sented asking for 373,000, and the most persistent fight was made for that amount, the legislators being solemnly assured that not a dollar less would finish the structure putting plumbing, H-is fitting and heating apparatus. The bill wus passed by a slim majority. Now comes some strange develop ments which are certain to cast sus picion on the future movements of those asking favors for the university. No sooner had the legislature ad journed than the contract for the com pletion of the library was let for $4l, 000 just about as predicted. Hut this is not all, nor the worst phase of the matter. A statement has been made by some of the regents of the university, that at a meeting of the regents and faculty, held some months ao, he had advised against asking for a dollar of an appropria tion from the legislature, for the reason that, as lie figured it out, the university had or would have enough money at its disposal to complete the library building and pay all necessary expenses beside. lie estimated that from the government and the state annuities the sum of $302,000 would accrue, ami tuts would leave, utter meeting necessary expenses of the in stitution, $50,000 for library purposes, and this could bo made to do without asking the state for a dollar! The faculty and other regents declined, however, to take this view of the situation, and it was said that the appropriation of $73,000 asked for could be used to the ad- vantage of the school in other ways and it was, therefore, insisted upon and pushed through In view of these astonishing facts. of which we are assured from reliable sources, it is time that that institution should be put in other hands. Tde great statesman from Maine (great in stature, we mean), Mr. Ueed, told the people of Boston a year ago last October tint no state in the union was so deeply interested in a protec tive tariff as Massachusetts, and he il lustrated this by telling them why. "You have the start; you have the power; you have the prestige; you can keep it or you can throw it away," and he warned them thit if the protective tariff . were taken away by congress that "start,' "power" and "prestige" would go to the "omnivorous west," which was nearer the market for the goods now maue in -Massachusetts. Those de clarations by an eastern man to east ern people ought to teach western people that the protective tariff was enacted at the instance of the cast and kept up for 30 years for the benefit of the east, and at the expense of the wesi; out It has not done so. Men's patriotism has overcome their know ledge as well as their business sense; and lheJ had ratber vote to put no ,lln,iw.i. n. ... .iiumo iwmjw ui uis esi man into their own. ltepublicans of Nebraska vote to give the Oxnards a bounty on sugar beet raising at the expense o me masses, but they also vote to keep up the power and prestige of the New Lngland manufacturers through a pro tective tariff. This binding power of party prejudice is wonderful i marvellous. Mit. Cleveland has probably for gotten that when the hard times set in he was going to give the people "an object lesson," but he can rest assured poor laborers and mechanics who have ?l umesout employment and objects of public charity since then who will have reason to remember that as long as- they live. -That "ob ject lesson"of heartless gold bug finan ciering has been burned into their very bones while he has been drawing his salary of $50,000 a year with absolute Indifference to their distress and suffer- logs. Hence he writes, trying to awaken the wealthy to begin anew their crusade against the masses in be half of a further concentration of wealth. He will find that he cannot fool the people longer. , They have I mailt a naur ilanlaratlnn 9 t.. .1 v,.n. nuun in muepcuu- I ence, and it means bimetallism at M Itol. TIIK INCOME TAX MUST 8TANI. The members of the supremo court of the United States are men of emi nence in their profession who were appointed to seats on the bench be cause of their opposed learning, fitness and impartiality; but the people have no rijiht to forget that they are mere men, subject like other men to tempta tions and a ith the common weaknesses aud selfishness of humanity towaid themselvet and their own interests. They are all men who have private fortunes aside from their salaries, and as they are paid $8,000 a year, the amount of their silaries alone subjects them to the payment of incomes under the income tax law. Is it not very juestionable, therefore, us a matter of common justice and right whether hey hail jurisdiction to sit on that case? That Miprcmo judges have commou failings Is proven by the 8 to 7 decision in the Tilden-IIayes contest. n which cso the members divided on mrty lines. The country has no right o expect too much of its judges, any moie than of its juries. A just verdict would not be expected from the fairest ury in the world If the members were to profit by the decision in the case on one side or the other. The story which Mr. Lincoln used to tell, of having been engaged by the defense in a hog- stealing case a very clear case in which the jury decided for his client . a because, as lie atterwarus learneu. every member of the jury "had a part of that hog," is a case in point. That income tax case should have een ruled out of the supreme court. because the judges were interested in the verdict, and werv, therefore, in competent to give a decision with judicial fairness and the highest sense of honor. The decision is wrong and will not stand the test of time and verdict of the masses, whose rule is higher than the ipse dixit of any court upon earth. People said the greenback was not and could not be made a legal tender; but the life of the natbui depended on it, and t'e court carried out the mandate of necessity when it gve congress me authority to ruaKe u;e greenback constitutional. Common principlrs of justice require that wealth, in whatever form, shall pay ts equitable share of taxes for the protection afforded by the law and therefore the Income tax is equitable aud just, and it has come to stay, whether the present judges continue to sit there, or go down to deserved oblivion and obloquy. "I euLtEY c that capital and wealth through combination an J other means nometlnira galu an untitle Wantage; ami It must be conceded that th maintenance of a aoun! currency may. la a sense, be InreVed with a Kreater or lc Im portanoe to Individual according to their con- illtlon and rlrcunntancvti. PrrlVtil t'leve land' letter to Chlcaa gold hugs. Thatplaintalmost equals in its pa thetic character that made by President Harrison in his llrj letter of accept ance, in alluding to the Carnegie strike. to-wit: "I regret that all emplo)es of labor are not just and considerate and that capital sometimes takes too large a share of the profits." There is much similarity between the two positions. Under gold mono metallisui "capital ami wealth" have tho best of the masses just ascapital," under a protective tariff "sometimes takes too large a share of the profits. And it is just so that, under the doc trine of the president and his gold bug friends, an"uudue advautage"is taken of the poor. That admission was as un fortunate as ii was true. J. It. Puciian'AN, a prominent gold standard democrat of Nebraska, writes a piteous plaint to Secretary Morton in which he sets out his belief that owing to the silver wave which is sweeping over the country "on a vote today on the naked question of a 10 to 1 silver platform, Nebraska would give lit a majority of f0,000, or near it.' And well may the goldbugs be fright ened. The wave is gathering force every day and hour, and will sweep al over the country by the next election If a theory or doctrine is wrong free discussion will destioy its power ant lessen the number of its advocates Judged bv this rule the sincle cold - F W standard of money has been con demned, for it is fastlosingitsstrength with the people, .while the more bi metallism is discussed and the better it is understood the stronger it is be coming with the people. This state ment will not be questioned. Judged by the same standard, it is right. Tnic riattsmouth.News comes for ward as the champion of the Water company, and charges sinister mo tives against T11.1: Journal for ask ing that fire protection be made ample, as required by Its contract with the city. Possibly if the News man were not getting his water rent free and had not been for years he might speuk In a different tone. When one accuser another he ought to have clean hands. TIIK li.TK I.KillSI.ATrKI':. rapmiou Tiiuon. Never did a more incompetent body make laws for tho state. Never In legislative assembly was principle held so low and party prejudice so high. From the bout of organization both houses have been the creations of the Oxnards and of Hill I'axtmi. iNot n single measure of legislative relief was granted the people of the state, every appeal (or rather command) of the corporations has been granted with alacrity. The people asked to have the stock yard charges lowered. Hill fax ton said no, and Paxton won. All the people of the state asked for a reduced express tariff, but the express com panies' lobbyists said no, and the lobby won. All the people of the state wanted cheaper telephone and tele graph tolls, but Casper K. Yost, the king of the combined lobby, said no, and Casper won. The traveling public thought sleeping car rates were too ligh, and askei for a reduction, but in oft, sweet Italian tones Tom lienttn beaded for Pullman, and Pullman won. All the people of the state asked the legislature to exercise the strictest economy in its expenditures, but it has howered money on all the state iu- titutions with a lavish hand, and has allowed every claim any man had the irill to present. Some of these claims were such palpable steals that the ina nity managers did not dare permit heir exposure to the light of day, and 3 peremptorily refused to allow the steals to be discussed within the legis- ajive halls. The constitution of the tate declares that cltizanship shall not be based upon religious lines, but this legislature has passed a bill giving certain privileges to a bigoted secret society whose members aie sworu to oppose the election to otllce of citizens whose religious belief dHs not suit this ociety of bigots. Perhaps the legisla ureh.is accomplished some good for the people, but, frankly, the writer. who was a member, is unable to dis cover but two acts of cood namely, a refusal to repeal the valued policy and the tie.nury depository laws. W'v must tUe tt.e aseuibly ctedlt fordoing right in the. instan cs, but duty com pels in to damn the rent rolling frrces or their crimfii subserviency to the corporate powis which pulled th strings and made the presiding oJlleers and ui ijority le.vlers d ince to corporate uusie. TIIK I'KOfl.K WANT ACTIO. NOT Tliert i not hi lli Iowa delegation in c-Mitfres-n a briffhttr or more active realer of puMic opinion than Col. W. 1. Hepburn of CUriinl.i district. Hke- the astronomer who reads the stars. C1. Hepburn makes a study of and reads the current of popular thought. In n recent interview in Washington Col. Hepburn give the results of a month! observations anion; the peop!e f low. 1. ami, a the newspaper prints it, lie s?ys, in substance: "The silver question is the only t-pic people will talk about. When ever two men get together, whether al the tHsstctVice, on the jdret't comer. In the cars, or at the railway station. Mw discuss nothing else, r.nd th senii- ment Is almost nnaninion that the government f-hould at 01 re deel.ire in favor or the tiee and unlimited co:nago of silver, regardless of the policy of the European nations. I should sy then? weie nearly as many silver it. en in the republican party us among I he demo crats. Neither party has a monopoly of th sentiment, and It looks as if they would make a race to see whiih cnfi make the most sweeping. deehunt ionf 0:1 t he subject. "Xo, the president's letter -will nnt do any good. He does not come near hitting the mark, and has not the slightest comprehension of the state of publfc feeling. You might as well try to put out the Ikes of perdition with a bucket of water, or sweep back the tides with a broom. The people, want action, not words.'' Jov. Holco.M11 has delighted tho hearts of all honest po.-ple in the state by vetoing the bill repealing the ttate depository law a bill which gave the state treasurer and his gang the con trol and profits on the use of more than a half million of money all the year round, and would have beon worth $40,000, at least, to Treasurer liartlett and his associates, who are well-known D. it M. men. That veto made glad the hearts of at least twoof Cass county's representatives. Men of all nhiades of pollllea who hal any buslne to transact at Lincoln during tho rfos Blon concur In tho verdict that this has been tho inoKt corrupt and dlsrepuUbla leglnlatlvo a(M?inbly that lias ever been held In this tati. Itepubllcan Exchange. It may be will to remember, too, that It was the most solidly republican of any legislature that ever met in the state. This is proof of tho fact that the perfection of republican rule is the essence of dishonesty, depravity, mora) disrepute aud corruption. The lite legislature well reprenented the party. Gorder & THE OLD RELIABLE . . . . . . IMPLEMENT DEALEKS, Oflcr Special MONEY-SAVING BARGAINS for the Spring Trade which the opposition cannot touch. Particular . ppositi attention is directed to Our New . . . Moline Drill-Drop '-New Departure"Tongueless P. .If!, onTQ And Janesville DISC vUlUValUI o THESE IMPLEMENTS CANNOT BE EXCELLED. In the Harness Line . . . We are, as ever, in the load. We are still making the same line of hand-made Work Harness which gave such excellent satisfaction last year. Our Light Harness is vastly superior in quality to the factory-made stuff and the price is lowxr than ever. Kindly remember that we use nothing but the Genuine, old-fashioned, OAK-TANNED LEATHER. WE GUARANTEE to save you money on good quality Wagons, Buggies and Spring Wagons. Call and be convinced. 509 MAIN STREET, $500,000.00 DRY GOODS Cloaks, Millinery, Shoes. ;riiu!rat ?! liver llrlri by iri"A7 oriv v Souvenir eut wltli each orler i:lr islt'u nouvetilrs to iLo-e who trim; In ailv.-rll-t'Bicut with then. W. W. Cor. 16th and Douglas St. OMAHA, NEB. The largest tte in Omha, owning our own building ami pa)ing no rent, together with the fact of buying and sellimr our god- f r pot e.tsh, enables us to sell god for less money than any other houe in America. MAIL ORDERS FITED lor J.4M -Hid .?ver ft.l v . 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LIVINGSTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, I N 8URAICE, PI attain G4 1 it, , el.raata nu n n 1 rt Son Planter, . . . PLATTSMOUTH. W. L. Douglas QlflP I3THCEEST. WO WilVLa TIT FOR A KING. $3. CORDOVAN, fi TRENCH A.OiAMCUOCALr. ?4.3? f 1 ki Calf &Ka?jcaci ' 3SPPOUCE,3SOLE3. Over One Million People wear the L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes AM our shoes are equally satisfactory They rive the best value for the money. The ley equal custom anoee in atyie ana 111. itlr erlncr qualities are unsurpassed. Th The rrie are uniform, tarn JX"1 on sole. hrom $1 to $3 aavea over other make. If youi deihi c&naot supply you vt caa. Soid by JOSEPH FT T.J. THOMAS & SON KEKI OS TIIE1U IKKiKS YOK SALK AT Til Kilt . . . MEAT MARKET The best meats in the market. BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, VEAL. POULTRY, FISH. OXJESEID . . . HAMS, BACON, CANNED GOODS, Etc. In fart, everything ?ou want tl at is the most palatable for the table, and in thn best style and form. ("all and we will prove it. T. J. THOMAS &SON, FiUeerald b!k, Main St , IMattsmoutb SAM GUT1ANH & CO. WHOLESALE ovd RETAIL DEALERS IN Pure Wines, Liquors AND THE BEST CIGAES, Sole Agents for the Celebrated MILWAUKEE Pabst Beer. Deliveries mado to any part of the city or shipped to anyplace. WM. NEVILLE, RESIDENT MANAGER. The Plattsmouth Mills, C. HEISEX,, Prop. This Mill Iihn leu rebuilt, iid furijlslusd wjt?) Machinery of tho best manufacture In tho world. Their "Plansifter" Flour, lifts no Superior In America. Give It f rlal and be convinced. STREIGHT & SATTLER, Snefiinriito llvury Itrock, Fnrnitore i Dndertakiog Store, Ititnsrpn, IMkdoi, Orcano. Our ir.iU ir l!n ojniir.j la every deta An luTCMtlxatlon UcerUt:) torouInce