OCTOBER 1, 1903.
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A cablegram dated at Manila, Sep
tember 26, says that General Olga has
surrendered his whole force, officers,
men and guns, and that now the war
is over. Most people will remember
Iiaving read something like that before.
Attorney General Knox has given
the Declaration of Independence and
the constitution another kick and those
documents will soon be so little
thought of that it will not be deemed
necessary to even kick them. The
military governor confiscated a house
in Guam, built by a lieutenant with
Us own money. The governor took it
because he wanted it for a residence
for himself. The lieutenant appealed
to Washington and Knox decided that
the constitution does not apply to
Guam and the military governor can
do what he pleases there. There is
nothing in Guam but the imperial will
of the commander. That is the sort
of disgrace that the republican party
has visited upon this nation. It will
not take long to apply it to these
states. They have already begun it
out in Colorado.
The anthracite coal 'trust has not yet
answered the questions put. to it by
the census officers. As the president
thus acknowledges that Baer and
Morgan are bigger than this govern
ment, it would of course be useless to
suggest that the census officers make
the legal inquiries of the Standard
Oil trust. Teddy is a brave man, but
he would not dare to undertake that.
The coal dealers are sending out
their price lists for the winter sup
ply: There was much protest last year
against the high prices, even, when
times were good and everything was
booming, but this year the prices are
from 25 cents to a dollar a ton higher
than twelve months ago. If there is
any-protest, the plutocratic papers do
not let it get into their columns.
everything that is needed in a house
hold and pays the freight to all con
sumers in Nebraska with a slight ad
ditional charge to those in other states.
It includes 21 articles running from
sugar (21 pounds for $1.00) to stove
polish. Everything is first class of its
kind and the firm being absolutely re
liable that amount of goods for the
price will astonish every household
that receives them, both on account o
the quantity and quality. The editor
of The Independent is under no obliga
tions to this firm, but he is to the
farmers and workers in Nebraska, and
he considers it a duty to tell them
about this opportunity.
Some of the papers in Colorado de
clare that the situation in Cripple
Creek was brought about by the so
cialists who have captured the labor
organizations there. The political so
cialist holds that all measures except
the full one are but palliative and un
desirable, and that the greater the
misery and privation to which the
population is subjected the sooner will
come the earthly paradise they paint
in-such heavenly colors. "That being
the sentiment, no effort has been made
tp relieve the condition existing, but
every effort was made to increase the
evils from which the miners" suffered,
-The Declaration of Independence
went first, and out in Colorado the
writ of habeas corpus has followed it.
The constitution does not seem to fol
low the flag even as far as Colorado,
for tha instrument most positively
declares that "the writ of habeas corpus-shall
not be suspended, unless
when in cases of rebellion or invasion
the public safety may require it."
The Consolidated . Lake Superior
company was capitalized for $117,000,
000 and is now on the auction block
for $5,050,000. A man by the name
of Clerque was the Napoleon of fi
nance who engiL-jered that thing. He
was one of the divinities that wor
shippers of Mammon were bowing
down to not long ago. From middle
class people $30,000,000 were contri
buted to this concern of which they
will lose every dollar. The wage
workers hold $200,000 of worthless
time certificates, and many of them
are in absolute want and already have
had to be provided for by charity to
jkeep them from starving to death.
Forty-five trusts have gone into
bankruptcy during the last few
months. They were all of the New
Jersey breed. Among the latest is' the
American tin , can trust, which, put
stock on the market to the amount of
$80,000,000, of., which $62,000,000 was
water, and the American Tobacco com
pany, which had issued ten million of
stock. The receiver could find only
$135,000 worth of property. If the
people down east had been readers of
the Nebraska Independent it would
have saved them hundreds of millions
of dollars. A fe .r thousand of them
did read it and they still have their
money in their , pockets.
It is not at all astonishing that in
the state of Quay and Baer, the peni
tentiary should be turned into a den
of counterfeiters and only to be ex
pected that other crimes should be
discovered there. Several of the em
ployes have been stealing lead pipe,
plumbing fixtures and a whole lot of
other things, sending them out in the
wagons that brought them in and af
torwards selling the same articles over
again to the state. Several of them
have accumulated considerable for
tunes in that way. And Quay and
Baer still rule.
The proposition of Secretary Shaw
to call in and pay off the 5s of 1894 is
somewhat of an "astonisher." It is
simply a gift to the holders of the
bonds of $300,000. Those bonds be
come due April 1, 1904, and can then
be redeemed at their face value. Shaw
proposes to offer a premium and pay
themnow with Interest in full up to
date. Such deals as that with bond
holders have beea so common during
the last thirty years we suppose no
protest will be made. In any other
nation on earth such a proposition
would produce a condition that no set
of politicians would dare face.
Henry Gannett of the geographical
survey; who took the recent census in
the Philippines, does not substantiate
the stories concerning that people
printed in. the imperialist papers. It
does not show that the Filipinos were
the "Apaches of Asia." On the con
trary, Mr. Gannett says: "The work
of enumeration was all done by the na
tives, and they rendered highly satis
factory service. As a class I never
saw more intelligent faithful or capa
ble enumerators than those we got in
the Philippines. We employed more
than 6,000 of them, paying at the rate
of $2 a day. Some finished up their
assignments In a week, while others
were engaged for a month or more."
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century, but that thing happened out
in Colorado the other day.,
According to the revised figures of
Ellis H. Roberts, United States . treas
urer, there has been added to the vol
urae of money during the last year
$80,000,000 of gold, $29,415,000 of, sil
ver, making an addition to the cur
rency of $109,415,000, besides the enor
mous increase of national bank notes.
bun wall street howls for more
money."
All Europe' is poking fun at the
trusts. Leroy-Beaulieu, the French
economist, in a recent article in a re
view, speaks of them as follows; "It
can hardly be doubted that the result
will be a resounding crash in a good
part of the trusts. .They are mere
excrescences on a body in an excess of
health, and Europe troubles its mind
entirely too much with what they may
hereafter do. The truth is, .they do
not play, never have, played, and in
our opinion never in ' jhe near future
will play, any such role in the devel
opment of -American industry as is
popularly ascribed to them. With a
few exceptions those comprising com
panies, like the btandard Oil, which
deal with: quasi-natural monopolies
they are ephemeral organizations,
founded on shocking abuse of paper
credit, with feeble power for resist
ance in adversity, and with creative
force much more apparent than real."
It seems that some of the dailies are
getting tired of the talk of republican
caders who continue to chatter about
our "duties," "obligations" and "re
sponsibilities" to the residents of the
Philippine islands, and have the im
pudence to ask what those duties, ob-J
igations ami responsibilities are. So
far, however, it has been impossible
to get any of the imperialist statesmen
to even attempt to describe them.
" Secretary Root's staff bill for the re
organization of the army which was
passed against the protest of General
Miles has established a Kilkenny .cat
room at the. war department where a
fight goes throughout all the offices
hours of every day in the week. It
has. . created such . a disturbance . that
the authorities are at last acknowl
edging that the law wirT have to be
'.'slightly amended."- : '
, General Chase,, commanding Colo
rado's military forces at Cripple Creek,
announced In Denver last week that
"it is the Intention of the mine own
ers to completely stamp out unionism.
'And the-troops will remain there un
til this is done."
r What competition will do when con
trasted with trust methods is shown
; cy the firm of Branch & .Miller Co. of
Lincoln. This firm puts up a combina
ltlon grocery order including almost
The effort being made to force the
people to pay extortionate prices for
coal during the coming winter is one
o? the . most damnable conspiracies
against the public welfare everperpe
trated since the dark ages, and the
government does nothing to stop it,
The Lehigh Valley has closed down
twenty of its colleries, the Susquehan
na sixteen, while the Wilksbarre col
leries will run but four hours a day,
and the Delaware & Western will run
on three-quarters time. All this is
done to prevent a fall in prices after
they have been raised $1.50 per ton.
. There is. great distress among the
Filipinos of Batangas, Negros. Taya
bas and Cebu, the result of failure of
the crops, owing to the ravages of lo
custs. The government is now dis
tributing $350,000 worth of rice among
the afflicted districts, which is to be
p&id for in work. How much foreign
trade do the imperialists think that
they can develop among a people of
that kind by holding them in subjection?
Things keep happening in this coun
try that never happened before. A
civil court in which half a company of
soldiers with bayonets fixed, standing
around a judge who was to render a
decision in a habeas' corpus case, has
not been seen even In Europe for a
The Panama canal treaty is dead and
the Colombian government shows no
signs of making an attempt to nego
tiate another. The readers of The In
dependent will remember what it has
said in regard to an isthmian canal
ever since the matter came before con
gress. The way to get an isthmian
canal is for the government to take
over the s railroads. As long as the
railroads dominate congress there will
be no isthmian canal.
will mourn his death as that of a per
sonal friend. Mr. Lloyd was a man of
I considerable wealth, but he devoted
I it and his time l the cause of r the
common people.
The other night the lights burned In
the office of J. Pierpont Morgan, at
Broad and Wall streets, until , after 7
o'clock. Behind the drawn curtains
could be seen the silhouettes of several
persons. A policeman guarded the
front . entrance and a carriage stood
solitary and alone near by. There
was evidently a long conference being
held. Nevertheless the next day steel
stock showed a new low record.
The military satrap out in Colorado
who filled the court room with soldiers
and then marched away with his pris
oners after the court had ordered their
release, thought better of it before the
next morning and released them. But
he has been making arbitrary arrests
ever since and at th : present time has
several of the; citizens ' of Colorado
locked up in his "bull pen." ,
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
Macedonia continues to be the most
miserable place in all the world. There
la more sorrow, suffering and death
there than anywhere else. Think of
imperial" Macedonia when its king
wept because there were no more
worlds to conquer. Imperialism has
Its punishments, though centuries may
elapse before they are administered.
When the phalanxes of Alexander
forced their way over all Asia, he lit
tle thought that the day would come
when the hordes of Asia would devas
tate, burn and murder over the whole
face of his own land. '
FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO., LIVE
STOCK COMMISSION MER
CHANTS, SO. OMAHA,
NEB. ";;
Cattle receipts are again liberal here
contrary to the expectations encour
aged by a heavy run and a bad market
last week. Fat cattle prices arc a lit
tle lower and feeders from 20 to 30c
lower than a week ago, except on the
heavy ones. Prospects are good for
the corn crop and the feeder market
cannot go. much lower. Now is the
time to buy feeders.
We quote choice corn-fed steers $5.25
to $5.40, fair to good $4.75 to $5.20,
heavy western beef steer3 $3.75 to
$4.00. Choice high grade three year
olds $3.50 to $3.75, younger, high grade.-
?;.15 to $3.45, common down to $2.15.
Cow stuff still low. Best $2.50 to $2.60,
stock neirers $3.25 to $z.ou. Steer
calves $3.00 to $4.00, veal $3.00 to $5.00.
Grass bulls $2.00 to $2.75.
. Sheep receipts liberal and the mar
ket slow and 20 to 25c lower than a
week ago on fat kinds, but about stea
dy on feeders: We quote as follows:
Killers. Feeders.
Lambs $4.65 $4.90 $4.25 $4.40
Common 3.50 4.25
Yearlings .... 3.75 4.00 3.30 3.75
Wethers ...... 3.20 3.40 3.25 3.50
Ewes, 2.40 . 2.70 2.25 2.50
Hog receipts continue light. Range,
$3.70 to $5.90. , ...
Henry D. Lloyd, an able writer and
for a long time an active worker In
the people's party, is dead. He was the
author of many works, all advocating
the principles of populism. His visit
to New Zealand resulted in the volume,
"A Country Without Strikes.". He
was a man of most lovable character,
and the editor of The Independent, al
though he has me Mr. Lloyd but a
few times, with thousaads of others,
Phrase-making has a great deal to do
with controlling votes. If a phrase
sounds well thousands accept it and
act upon it, whether it be true or
false. Governor Odell of New York
in . a recent speech said: "A man
with a grievance i3 always to be
avoided," and immediately every mul
let head in .the land answered back:
"Yep, that's so." Franklin, Washing
ton and a few other men like them had
a grievance some 127 years ago. Were
they to be avoided,? Abe Lincoln, Sew
ard, Chaso and some others had a
grievance some 49 yea: 3 ago. Should
they have been avoided? Some hun
dreds of thousands at the present
time have a grievance because the
trusts watered stocks and stole their
money. Are all of these to be avoided?
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