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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JULY 2, U03.
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ft -A Weeicy Resume of tfte Really vnai news oy me cuu y
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For many years the great two and
three dollar weeklies had a summary
of the news which occupied consider
able space. It was the dryest reading
matter that ever got into print. It
consisted of the mere statement of
fact without explanation or comment.
Five or six years agoThe Independent
undertook to mane a summary cf
news and give such erplanation and
comment as would make it entertain
ing reading, and it was printed under
the head of "News of the Week." The
big eastern, high-priced weeklies soon
stole the heading and began to try to
imitate the style and manner of The
Independent One after another fell
in behind The Independent until Its
manner of relating the news has
spread all over the country, and the
old State Journal in its Sunday edition
has a man trying to put a column or
two in imitation of The Independent.
One of the readers of this paper, who
takes a good many others, said he read
such a column in another paper each
week, but it was a sort of labor to do
it However when he got to that feat
ure In The Independent he struck a
treat, in fact said he: "It is like cold
water running out of a jug when one
reaches the end of a long round in
the harvest field on a hot day."
sent one immediately afterwards and
it made the circuit in nine minutes.
This Pacific ocean cable should have
been laid. and owned by the govern
ment and a movement" to that end bad
n ade great headway when the Mark
Hanna Influence in congress put a
stop to it
The imperialistf at Washington gave
up the idea of grabbing the Isle of
Pines from Cuba and the recent treaty
leaves it in the Cuban republic. The
two naval stations of the United States
will . be located at Bahia Honda on.
the northeast coast and Guantanamo
on the southwest coast of Cuba. With
this arrangement Cuba is, perfectly
satisfied and our flag is still venerated
there.
: Every effort is being made by the
English . pres3 to induce the United
States to form, a coalition with the
British and Japan against Russia and
the tendency of Rooseveltian diplom
acy seems to urge us on in that direc
tion. The English say that all that
Is necessary is for the sUnited States
to call the Russian bluff and Russia
will get out of Manchuria in a hurry.
Let. the English call the bluff. If they
want to. Roosevelt and John . Hay
dare not thrust this country into a
foreign war. Such an event as that
would scorch them with the hisses and
curses of the American people. The
republican imperialism of this govern
ment has left it no gTound on which
to stand when it undertakes to make
a protest against the imperialism of
Russia. One of the Russian papers
says after discussing the Manchurian
matter: "We need here only mention
the conduct of the Americans after
the Spanish war, but particularly
their action in the Philippines. How
quickly the civilizing emancipators de
generated into an open policy of rob
bery and conquest." That republican
Philippine business is a damning blot
on the heretofore unblemished escutch
eon of American honor.
The Iowa republicans concluded that
what they wanted was a tariff that
should be a shelter to monopoly and
sc they knocked out the declaration in
their last platform that the monopolies
should not be sheltered by" the tariff,
and in jts place made the declaration
that where the tariff was too low it
should be raised and. where it was too
high it should be lowered. They will
probably find that a good many sched
ules are too low, but they will never
discover one that is too high. -...-'
All the news from the Philippines is
to the effect that the Americans" still
continue to leave the islands. The sep
aration from Spain ruined trade with
that country and the high tariff pre
vents trade with the United States.
The climate Is death to continued resi
dents and taken altogether this Phil
ippine business is the worst piece of
foolishness that ever any nation was
pfflicted with.
Calamity follows on the heels of
calamity this year all over the United
States. There has been another Johns
town affair in the state of Pennsyl
vania, and while the victims are not
so numerous thi accident 13 exceed
ingly distressisg. There was a heavy
downfall of rain at Jeanettrand two
dams above the place burst, sending a
wall of water down the valley that
swept everything before it The loss
of life is estimated at 200, and the de
struction of property ' enormous. . All
this 'loss of life as well as that which
occurred at Johnstown a few years ago
is the result of inefficient engineering
over which the public authorities have
control, and-the guilt lies there. There
are many dams in the mountains of
Colorado holding a tousand times
more water than these which have
given away : in - Pennsylvania and no
such accidents have occurred there.
But as long c-, the people of that state
insist on having a republican boss who
rules everything from the village to
the United States senate, they must
expect " to be robbed and large num
bers of them murdered.
Rev. Reginald J. J. Campbell, who
took the City Temple in London when
Dr. Parker died, i3 in this country. He
seems to be a very observing fellow.
He remarked to a Chicago reporter:
"One thing puzzles me in looking over
your newspapers where to find the
mind of the editor expressed, as we
find it everv day in London. Do you
have such "a thing here?" "After he
has been here a little longer he wilr
learn that editors of the big dailies
have no minds of their own. They
slmnlv write what the corporations
which own the papers tell them to
write.
There was another International au
tomobile race last week. It took place
In Ireland, no one was killed and only
Iwq were , seriously wounded. The
fieimans won over the French, and
the United States with its light ma
chines was .not In it The machines
made over a mile a minute. for nearly
400 miles.
- ThP statistics of the interstate com
TtiArrfi commission show that the rail
roads have doubled their earnings dur
1ns the last fire years, but they are
still too poor to pay the same rate of
taxation as the rest or tne people,
especially here in Nebraska.
' The American cable between the
United States and the Philippines was
fmtehwl on-the Fourth of July. The
president sent a message around the
world and it made the trip in twelve
minutes: Youne Mackay. who was
tnide president of the Postal Tele
graph company when his ratner aiea,
race war in Indiana shows that the
disturbance is one of national import
ance. If such an affair had occurred
In any of the southern states the great
dailies of. the north would have had
columns of editorial denunciation and
comment The. way that It has been
treated by them shows how unsafe it
is to rely upon th' plutocratic press
for Information. There seems to bea
determination on the part of the white
people in the southern part of Ind
iana to drive the negroes out without
mercy and without any regard to life
or property. The militia has been
called out and there have been sev
eral skirmishes, in onepf which it Is
report! that seven cf the Tvhitc mob
were killed and twenty wounded.
What will be the end of this no man
can tell. The Independent has very
firm convictions concerning what
brought it about The 'contempt of
human rights began with the inaug
uration of imperialism and discard
ing the Declaration of Independence,
and has been further stimulated by
lynchings which have been permitted
In all the states, north and south,
without any serious attempt to pun
ish the guilty parties. The more lynch
ings there are, the more crime will
increase. If we do not wish for blood
shed all over the land, we must insist
tba,t there shall be a return to law
and order even if the severest punish
ment must be meeted out to lynchers.
Heretofore the monarchs and kings
of the old world have never recog
nized the rulers of republics as their
equals. They have arrogated to them
pelves the divine right to rule and
however great a republic might be,
even if it had large armies and na
vies, millions of subjects and an en
ormous commerce, any little one-horse
king reigning over a country less in
number of inhabitants and extent of
territory than a county in the United
States, would have more honors con
ferred upon him. than the elected ruler
of scores of millions. The king was
held to be of different blood (and to
that The Independent agrees, for most
of them are undersized degenerates,
inheriting the loathsome diseases from
vile ancestors) and no ruler of a re
public could rank anywhere near them.
That sort of thiner has become too
rank for. the world longer to. endure
it The' English people and the royal
house gave President Loubet of the
French republic the same sort of a re
cention that has heretofore been- ac
corded to a monarch of the "royal
blood." when he visited the tight lit
tle Island last week. "The world do
move.
What The Independent has been ex
pecting for a long time is now occur
ring. The republican party having
abandoned all the Ideals that have
made the people of this country love
the flag and the government, anarchy
is resulting In many states and espe
cially in the state of Indiana. A large
part of southern Indiana and especial
ly the larce towns of Evansville is In
a state of absolute anarchy. Buildings
are burned, men are shot down in the
streets, in fact regular battles se3.11
to be fought and it is all over the ne
gro question. The republican govern
ment of the state of Indiana is prov
ing Itself to be Incapable of giving
the people of that state a decent gov
ernment or to even maintain law ana
order in a large part of the state. Im
perialism and the worship of - Mam
mon are slowly undermining the foun
dations, of society in this country. If
the Declaration of Independence had
been kept before the people of Ind
iana as their ideal Instead of having
been trampled underfoot by the gov
ernment at Washington, no such
scenes could have happened as, the
mob law in Evansville.
The number of fools in this world is
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astonishingly Jarge. The latest ac
counting of the St. Louis, horce racing,
gpt-rich-qiiick concerns, shows that
2.251 fools sent their money to those
men to the amount of $3,250,000. Af-
er everything is scraped together or
any value belonging to the concerns
and distributed, the fools will lose
something over - $3,000,000. It was
about the swiftest way for the fpol
and his money to part company ever
discovered.
So far the investigation of postofllce
steals has revealed the fact that
fomethlne over a dozen" coneressmen
have been interested in government
contracts and if the law were enforced
the republican majority in the next
house would be greatly, reduced. One
or two of these congressmen have
been interested in army contracts and
il a thorough investigation were made
it would be found that most of the
republican congressmen have had a
fineer in the nie during the last six
or eight years. As long as the doc
trine is proclaimed that money is the
chief end of man, that sort of thing
will continue.
It is claimed that the casualtlpa in
the late celebration of the Fourth of
.Tnlv far . outnumber the killed and
wounded in ,any of the great battles
of the revolution and the returns are
not nearly all In at this writing.
The later news from the seat of the
distinguished Intellectual ability. It
Id sad to think that xhile this saintly
man is passing away conspiracies
are forming to control the election
of a successor. Under the rules form
ulated by Pius XII., which govern the
election, it will be impossible to ele
vate any cardinal to the position of
pope who is not an Italian.
GREY GABLES-OYSTER BAY
TWO FAMOUS SUMMER HOMES ON
THE ATLANTIC SEA COAST
. WILL BE THE
CYNOSURE OF EAGER EYES
From This Date Until September, 1
Cleveland Is in One and Roose
velt Is in the Other.
About the time Teddy's protest con
cerning the Kishineff affair reaches
Russia, if things keep moving in the
same rdirection as they have for the
last month or two.. the czar will be in
a splendid condition to return a
friendly note about the massacres in
TVlaware. Indiana and other portions
of . the United States. The. United
States government under, the .Imperial
rule of the republican party will have
come difficulty in setting Itself as a
monitor of morals for the rest of the
world.
Grey Gables was brought into prom
inence by the Cleveland family soon
after the Cleveland wedding. There
for many years political pilgrims have
gathered as Mohammedans concentrate
at Mecca. Grover Cleveland is again
a factor in democratic circles and
there be those of the party of Jeffer
son, Jackson and Bryan who look
upon
GROVER AS THEIR MOSES
and would cheerfully follow h'm out
of the Egypt of two successive defeats.
Oyster Bay is the summer home of
Theodore Roosevelt and family. Less
imposing is the president's outing
place, but it goes without saying that
the man in power will be no less a
drawing card for the locality he has
selected for rest and "recreation.
Thitherward will turn the eyes of a
nation, and within the walls of the
seaside dwelling, "there shall sleep
night after . night a citizen of the
United States whose power almost
girdles the globe.
B. H. ROBISON,. PRESIDENT
of the Bankers Reserve Life of Oma
ha, will not be able to recreate and
recuperate at the seaside this summer.
The company' oyer whose interests he
presides is too busy gathering in good
insurable life risks to spare its presi
dent iust at this juncture. Within a
short time three tr more new states
will be organized for business. He
watches the onward , progress of the
r.ew home company with the interest
of a father observing the success of a
favorite son. To him
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
is a passion, his life work, the fruition
of twenty-five years of active, suc
cessful experience in the field of life
insurance activity. From a small be
ginning he has seen the' Bankers Re
serve Life stride into position as one
of the strongest and best western life
companies. Just now -President Robi
son can utilize the services of a large
force of first-class underwriters. Write
bim for details.
The illness of Pone Leo XIII. brings
to the attention of the whole of civ
ilized mankind th, career of one cf
the most remarkable men of the last
two or three .centuries. He was born
March 2, 1810, and was elected pope
February 20. 1878. While he was of
frail constitution he has outlived all
the cardinals who e.lerted him pope ex
cept one. The temporal affairs were in
a bad conn it ion wnen tie came mio
power, and the vatlcan was at outs
with most of the governments of Eu
rope. Under hi wjsf and conciliatory
policy all the old difficulties have been
arranged. The same port of wisdom
has guided his government of the
Catholic church so that it now hos no
oposition coming from any official
pc-urce in any government on earth.
Under him the church has become
more liberal and just as its harsh
eycluslveness has Wn put awav, it
has gained in numbers. Leo will go
down Into historv as one of the great
est of popes. Ills life has not been
sullied bv a single blot. After many
decades in which he has been In the
focus of the fiearrhliehts of all na-i
Hon h stands todav as one of the
saintliest of men. He was a man of
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trive 14 more milk. This Is a big favl-f?. pnaoinen ay
dairrmen, blacksmith and stock-raiser. Apf.iy wnn
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sprayer JiaoO. delivered. Askonr de.ler. 1' he can
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