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I I ) The W eekly Journal C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY AT . PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. SUBSCRIPTION. Ona Tear, in advance 31.00 Six months,, in advance, Three months, in advance, . . . 50 ADVERTISING Rates made known on application. THURSDAY, J AX. 2, 1&9C.. Has anybody een or heard tell of anybody else who has Keen any "pat riotic" editorials in the Little Loy alist of a recent date? Toe great need of tkis town is not only that business men hhall sell as cheap as they do in Omaha, but that they shall have the courage to adver ti3e the prices. That's the way to stop trade from going to Omaha. The can all do it if they adopt the cash principle. There will be no actual trouble with Great Britain over the Venezuela mat ter. She has been so long accustomed to having her way in gobbling up the odds and end3 of possessions the world round, that when Uncle bam met her bluff it was a great surprise, but she will come to time handsomely. Make a note of this. TnE Crete Democrat thinks "now that Dick Outcalt, cashier of the de funct Capital National, has been de clared innocent of any of the charges made against him by the jury, it will be in order for the U. S. court to jerk up all those who have lost money in that rotten institution and fine them for attempting to convict the officials of perjury and theft.' There is a good deal of affinity be tween wealth and aristocracy. The wealthy planters and merchants and bankers of Cuba are all found on the side of Spain and against the revolu tionists. During America's struggle for independence the wealthy men of New York city were all tories, and throughout the country the tories were made Hp almost entirely of the men ot wealth. In this .aspect of things wealth of men or nations is not de sirable. The American system of govern ment is founded upon individual free dom; the European system is founded on the divine right of kings. Our government comes up from the citizen; the ether comes down from the head As our government is different so should our financial system be differ ent. Ours should be framed so that it will tend to dissipate scatter or diffuse the wealth among the people instead of concentrate it in the hands of the few. Congress is denying itself the usual Christmas vacation in an endeavor to work out some scheme for the relief of the national treasury. The republi can majority will take advantage of the situation to push for higher pro tective tarifTs and for the issue of more bonds. The easy way out of the diffi culty would be to start all the mints to work at full capacity turning out the popular standard silver dollars, and issue orders for the execution of every Englishman who comes over here and talks treason against the people's money. Papillion Times. The strange, unpatriotic and pro- English attitude of the Omaha Bee re gardieg the Venezuela dispute is rap idly bringing that newspaper intodes repute among citizens of this locality. Its publication of Geo. W. Smalley's letter Sunday, is especially condemned, because a more pronounced and detes table exhibition of disloyality to every thing American wa3 never read by an American public. Smalley takes the side of the English in every respect and denounces the president and Mr. Olcey for everything mean he can think of; and the Bee prints the letter on the first and second column of its first page, with every evidence of en dorsement. That paper ought to be boycotted till it is brought to its senses, and to realize what loyalty to ita country means. The attitude men take on the money question is a fair indication of their position on the Venezuelan dispute. Seeming to realize that their system depends upon the good will of England the goldbugs are found to be carping at the president and the Monroe doc trine. In other words they are antag onistic to the independence of their own country. On tbe other hand, the men who favor bimetallism the free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1 are uniformly and enthusiastically in f ? vor of the Monroe doctrine, and for standing by tho president in the posi tion he has taken of defiance to Eng land and her schemes of plunder and robbery of American territory. The logic of this situation can be under stood at a gUnce. The free coinage men are for freedom and independence from British rule in finance as well as in our foreign policy; the goldocracy is erected by British aristocracy and de pends for success upon British favor. It is that policy which is making the times easy for the rich and hard for the poor, and the present situation shows that the rich, in their craze for gold, have lost their love of free insti tutions, while the poor and that takes in the great mass of Americans hav ing little or no property to place their hearts upon, are alive to every patri otic impulse, and realize that freedom is their bulwark and defense against oppression. Cul'in Situation. The situation in Cuba is daily becom ing more interesting r.nd critical. Three weeks ago the rebel forces were cou G ned to the eastern half of the Island, Gomez and Maceo, their com manding generals having their army in the province of Puerto Principe 2o0 miles east of Havana, with what Gen. Campos, the Spanish cammander, termed an impregnable wall of bayo nets stretched across the island to pre vent access into the country west. Since then the patriot army has broken through that wall, carrying fire and sword with them, destroying tobacco and sugar plantations and the railway lines as they went, fighting and whip ping detached bodies of the Spanish army wherever they could pounce upon them, eluding the main army of Cam pos and with great strategy avoiding a general engagement, until they are now almost within sight of Havana. Gomez forces have advanced through the provinces of Santa Clara and Matangas two hundred miles, in the verv face of a force four or five timas a3 large a3 his own, and is now in full march upon the capital city having Gen. Campos and the Spanish army in his rear, frantically endeavoring to catch up with the fleeter-footed na tives. To be sura Campos has the sea route open by which he can move his troops from Matangas. Spanish re ports from Havana brought the report Tuesday that a great battle was in progress, and later told of a great vic tory won over the insurgents, on a plantation between Cardenas and Ma tan can, but it turns out that only a small portion of Maceo's command was engaged just enough to hold the Spanish troops in check while the main army was gettiDg out of the way and well on the road toward Havana, which seem3 tobethe objective point of the onward march. Gomez entire com m ind i3 said to be about 12,000 nn-n, while the Spaniards have a force of fully S0,000 well-equipped men, mostly rawrecuits from Spain. It is impos sible to understand the otjact of Gomez strategy up to the present time. but thus far it has had the effect of frightening the wits out of the Span lards, and it can be well assumed that as long as he is doing what the Span iards do not waut him to do be is do ing just the right thing. The Cuban cause has wonderfully brightened lately. There is a son of the late General McClellan in the house, Geo. B. Mc Clellan, who represents one of the New York City districts. Tammany Hall, the friend of his father, picked him up a few years ago, elected him an alder man by the biggest majority ever given anyone for that oface in the city of New York, and while in that position he way acting major of the city dur ing the several absences of Gilroy. Later they sent him to congress. The Tammany people always look after their friends, and in young McClellan there is promising material for a big leader. Hi3 first bill was to authorize the president to confer military com missions on all those officers who bad been appointed by Abraham Lincoln but had not been confirmed, though they had served in tbe rank conferred. The republicans in the house of con gress have passed a temporary bill adding about 60 per cent to the duties under the Wilson bill, and have the impudence to say it is "a tariff for rev enue only," and to meet present emer gencies. They then postponed their holiday recess in crder to pass a bond bill giving the secretary of the treas ury power to issue coin bonds at three percent. Neither of these are the measures suggested or desired by the secretary and now they boast of their patriotism ! Both of these measures bear the impress of the "cuteness" of the man from Maine, but they show no evidence of statesmanship. They seem to fall into line with the presi dent's goldbug policy without doing so in tact giving him to understand that they agree with him, but have not the courage to say so. Both measures are cowardly political makeshifts, arid never will be passed by tbe senate. Subscribe for The Daily Journal only ten cents & week. IGNOBAXT OR DISHONEST WHICH? Hon. Grover Cleveland, President: After discussing at length the manner in which the greenbacks and treasury notes are used to drain the treasury of gold, you say: "I have ventured to express myself on this subject with oornoofnAQO onl nloinnaflo r f onAAAh nave you, as a matter of fact, ex pressed yourself with plainness of speech? Do you not know that tbe retirement of greenbacks and treasury notes is powerless to protect the treasury so long as you refuse to re cognize silver as a standard money equal with gold in legal tender quali ties? How, according to your idea, can the government maintain the parity between gold and silver except by redeeming silver dollars and silver certificates in gold or demand? If, after the retirement of green backs and treasury notes, you refuse to furnish gold on demand to those presenting silver or silver certificates will not gold go to premium according to the same theory which has led you to redeem greenbacks and treasury notes in gold? If you expect to follow the retire ment of greenbacks and treasury notes with a proposition to retire silver dol lars and silver certificates, why do you not use enough "plainness of speech" to convey that idea to tbe American people now? Have you neglected to follow out the gold standard to its logical conclusion, or do you shrink from disclosing the heartless and merciless steps yet to be taken by the worshipers of the yellow metal? Those who believe in bimetallism warned you two years ago that a re peal of the Sherman law was impotent to relieve the people; were you ignor ant then or did you purposely tieceive? The believers in bimetallism warn you now that a retirement of green backs and treasury notes is impotent to bring relief. Are you grossly ignor ant of the subject, or do you practice deception while you profess candor? Tell the American people what you in tend to do with the silver now in cir culation; are you going to redeem it in gold and thus continue the drain on the treasury, or 13 silver to be recog nized as a standard money? Are you ignorant or dishonest, which? Omaha World Herald. Representative Wheeler, of Alabama, has introduced a bill in con gress to reduce the salaries of all government officials who receive $5,000 or more, 20 per cent and all salaries which exceed $800, 10 per cent. This is a move in the right direction and were it submitted to the vote of the people of the United States it would J be carried by an overwhelming majority. There is no question that a salary of $4,000 a year now purchases more of all tbe necessaries of life, in cluding food and clothing, than $5,000 would three years ago. All salaries in this country are too high, from the president of the United States, with his $50,000 per annum, down to tbe man who cleans the spittoons at the capital at $75 a month. Neither the govern ment nor the state has any right to pay a higher salary than is necessary to secure conpetent service and every cent over that is an unjust exaction imposed upon the taxpayers. Rep resentative Wheeler's bill will not pass congress. It will never get out of the committee room, yet it is a fair and just bill, expressing really the demands of the people. But political parties are no longer organized on the lines of the country's interest, but selfishness is the dominant factor and each party tries to see how much it can get out of the treasury for its fellows. Nebras ka City News. TnE contention by Great Britain could not be more concisely stated and shown up than it was in the wind-up of Mr. Olney's "note" to Salisbury, re cently published, as follows: "Thus, fcs already intimated, the British de mand that her right to a portion of the disputed territory shall be ac knowledged before she will consent to any arbitration as to the rest, seems to stand upon nothing but her own ipse dixit. She says to Venezuela, in sub stance, 'you can get none of the de batable land by force, because you're not strong enough: you can get none by treaty, because I will not agree, and you can take your chance of getting a portion by arbitration only if you first agree to abandon to me such other portion as I may designate!' It is not perceived how such an attitude can be defended nor how it is reconcilable with that love of justice and fair play so eminently characteristic of the English race. It in effect deprives Venezuela of her free agency and puts her under virtual duress. Territory ac quired by reason of it will be as moch i wrested from her by the strong hand as if occupied by. British troops ; or covered by British fleets. It seems, therefore, quite impossible that this portion of Great Britain should be assented to by the United States . " HOT TALK BY INGALLS. "Tbe president's message is an ad roit appeal to the profoundest passion of the American people," said ex -Senator John J. Ingalls to a reporter. "Our conception of the Monroe , doc trine is vague, and our love for Venezu ela is platonic, but we all hate Eng land. It is hereditary. It is so in tense that it obliterates party lines, effaces sectionalism and makes us homogenous. We divide on protection on silver, on the race question, but in our hatred of England we are unani mous. The sloppy diplomatic twaddle about kindred blood, and a common language, deceives nobody. We feel that'England is our only enemy among the great powers of the earth. It has been so from the beginning of our his tory. At every crisis in our affairs we J have encountered the secret or open hostility of England, and the tone of her press has always been " cynical, sneering and contemptuous. "But there will be no war. Like all ruffians and bullies, England is a cow ard and poltroon when it comes to a showdown; she never fights her equals; she kicks women and children.; she bullies Turkey, Egypt, Hindoostan, South Sea Islanders and African tribes and tyrannizes over the weak and feeble but when Grant notified her that she muse pay ror tne depredations her pi rates committed on our commerce in the rebellion, or take the consequences she accepted the Geneva award and sent her check for $15,500,000 in f ul settlement of our claim." Editor Raker of the Gretna Re porter has been sentenced to serve year in tbe penitentiary for uttering a constructive libel, by Judge Scott of Omaha, and in passing this sentence Judge Scott has committed a greater offense against good order of society and tbe freedom of the press than the editor committed in either criticising the court or in telling the truth as to the foreman of the grand jury. It is clearly a case of judicial tyranny, or the desire to "get even" with news papers who criticise courts and espe cially Judge Scott's court. The su preme court has been appealed to and will doubtless prevent the execution of the sentence. ADOLrn Landexbero, who is evi dently a banker, writes an article for the January Forum, in which he at tempts to "set out the desirability ef a complete combination of tbe banking concerns of the country into one grand clearing-house, so that all the transac tions might be centralized and passed on by the ultimate or central manager. Of course he favors the gold standard, and decries the free coinage of silver, putting it on a par with with the "un limited printing of greenbacks," and the "issuance of paper money against real estate." 'Of course from such an unreasoning, bigoted source no good thing could be expected and the reader is not disappointed. That writer evidently thinks tbe banks own tbe earth, and all they have to do is to put a fence around it. State Senator Mighell of Hamilton county is holding back 10,000 bushels of corn for higher prices. Prominent Druggist of Blair, Neb., Writes Magnet Chemical Co. .Dear sirs: rne goods which we bought through your salesman are sellers; the Magnet Pile Killer es pecially sells good and gives excellent satisfaction. We have re-ordered through our jobbers several times. Respectfully yours, Palmer & Taylor. For sale by Gering & Co. Farmers who expect soon to lay in their winter's supply of coal will find that Ilenry Ilempelis prepared to fill all orders for the best quality at lowest prices. Yard at the B. & M. shop yards 38 tf BILSTEIN & SEVILLE nave re-opened the old BILSTEIN MEAT MARKET in the NEVILLE BLOCK Opposite Postoffice. Have for sale A Complete Line of Beef, Pork, Veal AND MUTTON. All Kinds of Home-Made rilKHH or Sausages. HMOKEI) Cash aid for HIDES and TAL7 OT7- Om ah m He p. Corner 12th and Howard Sts. Under the management of B. BILLOW AY It la Omaha's newest and best-fitted hotel. Steam heat, electric light: Bates, COO, $2.50 or $3.00 a day. Give it a irial and you win 4 never want to go elsewhere. Was bought before the Advance in Prices; consequently our bargains in Felt Boots, Overshoes, German Sox And WARM GOODS cannot be beaten. Come, jingle your money and see what we can do for you. Heel-plates Free. Bring in your Repairing. SHIS PLATTSMODTH, NEBRASKA. AND FROM- .the ) The Leading Butchers, ( ? PAY THE BEST PRICE AT ALL TIMES FOR i Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, Poultry, BUT : ER, EGGS and HIDES. ? S See them before selling. They keep on hand C s the best of C Fresh, Salt and Smoked Meats, i I Fresh and Salt FISH and OYSTERS and GAME J C in Season. N Plattsmouth The attention of farmers who expect to plant orchards is called to the fact that I have home-grown trees, war ranted to be true to name, by a man who you know, and at prices that will compare with any nursery in the land. ach. ..100.. 1,000. "i.sjis. oo iss.oo .12 10.00 a 30 .35 25!66 .06 3.60 '"."as .10 Apple Trees, stunaard varie ties. 3 years old Same, 2 years old.. Plums, bine fears. 3 years Cherry trees, 3 years Concord vines, 8 years.. ... reacu trees Cooe berries Currants, choice kinds Will take corn tcr part trade and give two cents a bushel above market price. Parties living too far away can send orders. Will be carefully packed in moss. J. E. LEESLEY. Proprietor. H. D. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS. OFFICE-Rooms 1 and 2, Colon Brat, Plattssnoutn, - - - IJob. We're Right in the "Push." WHY? Because our Win ter stock of m m ills OTKER $ $ Everything New. Groceries, Canned Goods, Dried Fruit, Tobacco and Cigars. A. P. THOMAS & SON Have openen a splendid new stock of these goods in FITZGERALD BLOCK Which the public is invited, to purchase. QUICK SALES, SHALL PROFITS Will be tbelr motto. It will also be their purpose to keep open a First-Class lieat Met Where everything in that line will be kept in first-class order. Farmers are invited to call and trade. yrrr if: