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8 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT JUNE 18, 1903. Che llebraska Independent CinctJn. ntbmska. LIBERTY BUILDING. 1328 0 STREET Entered according to Act of Con grew of March 3, 1879, at the Postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, second-class mail matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. FIFTEENTH YEAR. $1.00 PER YEAR When making remittancea do not leave money with newi agencies, postmasters, etc , to be forwarded by them. They frequently forget or remit a different amount than was left with them, and the aubscriber fails to get propel credit. Address all communications, and make all drafts, money orders, etc., payable to Zht Utbrnska Indtpendent, Lincoln, Neb. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. T. H. TIBBLKS, Editor. C. Q. DE FRANCE, Asiociate Editor. F. D. EAGER, Business Manager. The last congress passed a law ex cluding adulterated food from the markets which Is manufactured by foreigners, but lie bill to prevent the sale of adulterated and impure food manufactured in the United States was killed. The trusts would have none of it and republican congressmen dare not oppose the trusts even in that matter. , At the risk of being 'called 'an anglophile The Independent wishes to call attention to ti e fact-that citizens of Canada can register a letter coming to the United States for 5 cents, while we are obliged to pay a fee of 8 cents. Then, too, Wilshire's Magazine, driven by Czar Madden to Canadian soil, pays but one-half cent a pound postage while The Independent pays one cent a pound. , The imperialist idea Is the idea of the savage and-the barbarian. Rear Admiral Luce in his addra.3 at the opening of the naval war college the other day said: "Any future problems in the" destiny of nan will be worked out through the instrumentality of the sword. There is no escaping if The man who is so imbruted- that he can see no ' advance of mankind ex cept the pathT.-.y be strewn with mu tilated bodies end accompanied by the weeping of stricken wives and LJttle children is not fit to old any office among a civilized people. The daily papers which made such a howl over the report of General Miles on the Philippines have been knocked clear out and fhey are all as mum as clams. The general's report was sent by the administration au thorities to Governor Taft for refuta tion and the govc-nor makes official reply as follows: "I think the gen eral statement of facts in the report of the lieutenant general is correct." The truth is that the war on the Fili pinos was inexcusable and unprovoked, and it has resulted in nothing but disaster to them and to us. Mr. Olyphant, former president of the Delaware & Hudson railroad, was cross-examined in the case brought by Hearst against the anthracite coal roads. He said: "It was only the kindness and sympathy of some of the railroad and coal companies prevented them from charging the public a much higher price for coal during the recent strike. The needs of the public ap pealed to them so strongly at the time that they could not help but feel sympathetic, and so they refrained from placing an exorbitant price on fuel." "When one reflects upon the exorbitant prices that the public had to pay for coal, the only conclusion that can be arrived Is that even the tender mercy of a trust Is cruel. IUPPRKSSING THE INDEPENDENT Many subscribers in writing tc the editor remark that "I always get Th9 Independent on the regular-day and I Icok forward to its coming with pleas ure." Perhaps' some of these days they will go to the postofflce on the regular day and there will be no In dependent. If that should happen they may all know that it has been sup tressed by the agents of plutocracy v"ho hold power under the republican party. Several times Madden and oth ers have attempted it and the pub-, lit-her has received new warnings frotu him. Every man knows that he can order" a hundred, a thousand or ten thou sand extra copies of any edition of 1 great plutocratic daily and the pub lisher will send them through the postofflce ; at the regular rates, but if an edition of The Independent is so interesting to H readers that they or der a few thousand extra copies to dis tribute to their :riends and neighbors, down comes Madden on us with dire threats of a suppression of the pub hcation of the paper. Two or thre reform weeklies in Nebraska have been suppressed for a considerable time by an arbitrary order of some imperialistic underling at Washington. Those publishers sent out their paper by putting a 1-cent stamp on each one. Their editions were small and they could do that, but the large edition of The Independent could not be han dled in that way. An attempt was made to suppress the Appeal to Reason, but Mr. Way land js a millionaire and had the rroney to fight them. While Mr. Wil shire was a millionaire also, he was driven to Canada and the publication of his magazine in the United States was absolutely prohibited. The postal treaty with Great Britain enabled him to print his ma&...Jne. in Canada and send it from there into the United States, the underlings at Washington not daring to bring on a conflict with Great Britain. Mr. Waylztnd in his conflict ordered thousands of copies of the great dail ies and they were sent to him at icund rates in huge bundles without any objection from Washington at all, while that was the very charge that had been brought against Mr. Way lend himself, and the same that is made against The Independent While living ia the country for the last year the editor of The Independent has learned that the farmers are flood ed with republican periodical litera ture for which they never subscribed and for which they never pay. i..r Maiden makes no threats against any publisher of a plutocratic paper. The advertised subscription price of hun dreds of them is only nominal. Any man knows that 25 cents a year for a large seven-column, sixteen-pag3 weekly is only nominal. The money to lay for putting out that kind of liter ature comes from the corruption funds of the republican party, the trusts and the privileged few. Every Independent subscriber pays for his paper and the price is ?1 a year. Any such an attempt as the pluto cratic underlings at Washington have made to destroy the ."reedom of the press if it had been undertaken a few years ago would have produced a revolution. Even in war times, when martial law was in force, Lincoln would not allow the suppression by military order of papers that were giv ing aid and comfort to the enemy and printing treasonable utterances every day. But imperialism has produced exactly the effect in this country that The Independent has always said that it would produce. " The Independent says to the whola plutocratic and imperialist crowd that it will not vary one hairsbreadth from its former course and that it will make the best fight it can for what it be lieves is-for the best interests of man kind. Every honorable and legal means will be used to issue it every week, It cannot alone fight the au- Would You? Would you pay ten dollars for five-fifty suits? Not if you knew it. There are men who are paying that four and a half dollars too much, but they are men who don't know it. We want those don t-hnow -it fellows to know it. Vve are selling genuine all pure worsted serge suits for $5.50. Nobody else is. We know it. We want you to know it. There are serge suits sold for less than $10. There are worsted suits sold for less than $10. But we are selling genuine pure worsted serge suits. The ideal, dressy, comfortable, summer suit at $5.50 per suit. We have plenty of them, for such a price is possible only to a concern that is a big buyer, and a concern that is not profit greedy. Look on page 2 of our spring catalog. If you haven't our catalogue send for one at once. tborities of the government of the United States who assume and execute arbitrary and unconstitutional powers, but it will make the best fight it can. If it goes down, it will go down with its flag flying. It will never make terms or surrender. However, the time may come when a plutocratic pa per will be issued by other parties fiom Liberty Building, but the writ ing in it 'will not be done by this editor. JUDGE CALDWELL Every populist regrets the retire ment of Judge Caldwell. He has for many years been to . them the one bright spot on the federal bench. They would have conferred on him any office in their gift We all re member that when Thurston, as at torney for the Union Pacific road, when it was in the hands of a re ceiver, appeared before him and asked for an order to reduce the wages of the employes. Judge Caldwell looked at the attorney in astonishment, and inquired if the other parties to that proceeding, the wage-workers, had been notified and when he was told that they had not, summarily, dis rr.issed the motion. His whole career was one that commended him to the lovers of mankind. Tie Denver News speaks of him as follows: The retirement of Judge Cald well from the United States circuit bench ends o: of the longest and most honorable terms of service known to American judicial an nals. Judge Caldwell was ap pointed by President Lincoln and enjoyed in an especial degree the confidence of that great soul." For forty years he has served the west as a federal judge. In" that time he has endeared himself more to the people of thi3 section than any other man who ever wore the ju dicial ermine. He has always stood for the rights of man against corporate wealth. His decisions on the railroad cases brought before him show that his heart has al ways beat in sympathy with the poor. He has .never been afraid to do what he thought to be right. Withal, however ,he has sought to be just and no corporation can truthfully say that it was ever wronged by him. He simply re fused to favor it, however, as against the people. It Is fitting, therefore, that the termination of Judge Caldwell's official career should have practi cally como with his participation In the great anti-merger case, the . decision on which ended the Mor- . gan-Hill railroad trust. It is not generally known that Judge Caldwell v-.s earnestly so licited at one time to allow the use of his name as a candidate for president, but he reufsed, stating he could -better serve the people upon the bench. This was in 1896, when the democrast, populists and silver republicans were casting; about for a candidate. Judge Cald well was a silver republican, and - a great movement , in his favor among silver, republicans, popul ists, laboring men and western democrats had sprung into being. Judge Caldwell did not think it proper, however, for a judge, and especially a federal judge, to be a candidate for office; so there the matter ended. The secretary of the New England' Home Market club, Col. Albert Clark, estimates the losses from the drout1! in the New England states at the' enormous sum of $130,132,000. The dairy interests are paralyzed and many dairymen are forced to sejl their cows tor want of any pastures What is true tf the New England states is also true in a great measure of New Jersey and New York. Mr. Clark considers the property loss caused by the western floods a small matter in comparison with the east ern drouth. The burden of it all will come upon the poor. Prices of food will rise in the cities and that will reduce the consumption of manufac tured goods there as well as among the farmers. The result will be less work for those who live by tfieir la bor. No man lives to himself and xio man dies to himself. The Independent has often won dered why Chauncey Depew ever got a reputation for wit The truth is that Depew being a great corporation ad vocate and the agent of the Vander bilts in the United States senate, it was necessary for the plutocratic newspapers to give him some sort of a reputation, and he having no quali fications at all as a statesman, they resolved to call him a wit But as Depew has at last said cne witty thing, The Independent wishes to give him credit for it In discussing the Cleveland boom, Depew remarked: "I don't remember that they ever off ere ,1 anybody but Caesar the dembcratlo nomination three times."