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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
OCTOBER 8. 1903, .
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NEWS OF THE. WEEK
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A Week ty Resume of the Really Vital News by the Editor w
Postmaster General Payne keeps on
Indicting Beavers. Two-or three more
indictments were filed during the
week. Payne seems determined to keep
It up until all the blank indictments
are used up.
The trial of James H. Tillman for
scooting editor N. T. Gonzales has
continued through the week. The In
' dependent has no sympathy with any
of the men who engage in these south
ern shooting affrays, and none what
ever with Tillman, but it wishes to
register a protest against the way the
northern dailies are reporting that
trial. They give but one side of the
case. One whole day was taken s up
with reading the denunciations and
slanders contained in the editorials
nrintedln Gonzales naner durintr one
year. While Tillman has been de
nounced continuously by the editors of
northern papers, they cut out all ref
erence to the matter In these Gonzales
editorials which was sent to them by
the Associated pres. The nature of
these attacks on Tillman by Gonzales
can be seen from the following sam
ple and there were scores of th'un 11 e
! Gonzales, in spea1 ing of Tillman,
says: "He is a proven liar, defaulter,
gambler and drunkard, a character
that has never before essayed to offer
himself for the chief executive of a
proud - commonwealth. A man who
has not accounted for the monev en
trusted to him to build a confederate
monument, though repeatedly called
upon to do so." Most men will won
der why the shooting was not done
long before it was.
The literary bureau cf the republican
party located in the census office at
Washington is about to issue a bulle
tin denying that the cost of living has
Increased 27 per cent -and declaring
that wages have advanced as much as
the most of living. That is the kind
of work that the bureau was expected
to do when it was made a permanent
thing. Let any housewife look over
her accounts for the last three years
and then ask her' whether the cost -of
living has advanced 27 per cent or not.
The-Madden, raids on this offtce in
tended to1" suppress -or .curtail the cir
culation of The Independent have at
tracted a good deal of attention
throughout the United States. The
autocracy out in Colorado have adopt
ed a more speedy and effectual meth
od of suppressing papers to which it
Is opposed. The mil'tarv raided the
office of the Victor Record. The raid
was made because in a recent issue
the paper called a member of the na
tional guard an ex-coniot. Some hoTirs
after the "editorial and mechanical
force of the Record had been arrested
and placed in the military jail, called
the bull pen. the aggrieved soldier was
sent to make a formal complaint
against the prironers. The arrests
thus were aecompHhed before the
complaint were filed, and included
printers and other person who wpre
not in any wav responsible for the
matter published in the paper. Not
withstanding all that, the wife of ODe
of the emploves. after barricadine all
the doors and windows, went to work
on a linotvpe machine, set the matter,
made up the forms, smugeled a press
man in. got out the paper on time and
although the soldiers were still guard
ing the buiMing, opened the doors and
let the newsboys in who went out and
tried to sen papers to the guards.
But the soldiers are still there mak
ing arrests accordine.to their whims
and notions. The "sappers and miners
of liberty" of which Lincoln warned
us are at, work, in every part of the
country. Y,
maimed for life. Capital not only de
mands the earnings of the people, but
often times their lives also.
The infernal lying constantly in
dulged by the daily press has an ex
ample in the stories persistently pub
lished for month3 asserting that the
steel trust had orders ahead for a year
to the amount of the full possible out
put
was the only paper to denounce as
false these stories.. Now the stel
Will there be another Homestead
riot? The steel' trust has posted no
tices cf & reduction cf ages there?
The steel trust first induced its em
ployes to Invest all the money they
had saved in its stock and now it pro
poses to reduce wages, trusting to win
because the workers have nothing
saved up to live on during a strike.
Miss Ruth Bryan, daughter of Will
iam J. Bryan, was married last Sat
urday, on her eighteenth birthday, to
Wiliam Homer I eavitt, an artw of
Newport, R. I. It. is said that New-
of the mill3. The Independent iUn i i- T i.
i i nr iiiiiiiiv in iiiir in ii. v in ir
widower thirty -two years of age. He
, came to Lincoln last spring tn '-
fee in his place. All that Miles sail
about that bill is. comtngtruevr ,r
Senator Hanna is making about as
big a fool of himself in his speeches as
any ward politician .eyerdidr He Is,
accusing Tom Johnson of being indi
rectly responsible for ther murder cf
McKinley, becaus3 Johnson advocates
some things which Hanna calls so
cialism, and the socialists caused the
death of McKinley, he says
George Fred TVilliams refused even
to attend the Massachusetts demo
cratic state convention. The Boston
papers speak of his absence in the fol-
lowing way: "The session of today
lacked the exciting features of former
year. There was missing the plctur
tfsqueness and fire lent by George Frd
Williams and his train of moral
.t-fffSS Vr lm i Portrait of Mr. Brvan to be exhibited j Bacchants who formed the Massachus-
and shutting down many plants be
cause, as they say, of overproduction,
md the Impossibility of selling their
"roods. Still the dailies go lying in
their old fashion without any let-up.
They seem to think that, there is no
possibility of an overproduction of
lies. '
at the St. Louis fair.
The Colorado militia is still resist
ing the courts and defying arrest pon
warrants issued by the district judees
The sheriff has been told that he cold
not serve warrants for false Imprls-
to' military rule. There seems to he L J!i5..ag!L c.cPl!?cf
little of "the spirit of 76" out in that "T
So many persons are killed on grade
crossings in Chicago, the Catholic
priests keep bicycles standing ready
at their doors so that they can in
stantly mount and hasten away to ad
minister to the dying. Some of the
Chicago dailies publish cuts of lhse
bicycle priests. The victims offered
up to Molock and Mammon are more
numerous these days than at any time
in all history.
setts corps of the army of Bryanism.'
The Massachusetts democracy h.as
been so thoroughly captured bv the
gold democrats that the nomination of
Osston, the greatest corporation man
In the state, for governor wa3 made by
acclamation. There was not one pro
testing voice in the whole convention.
So thoroughly plutocratic was the
whole affair that th convention in
drleed in insulting flings at the peo
ple's party in Its platform. Tn 1
and 1900 the Massachusetts delation
to the national democrauc convention
was a Brvan delegation, with that
brilliant orator end honest, patriot,
George Fred .Williams, at . its head.
What hope any man can have of the
Kansas Citv democrats controlllnc the
next democratic " national convention
Is past comprehension.
The "pathway of . capital Is strewn"
with the. blood of the' ponle. Dnririg
the month of RentemW fiftv-four per
sons were killed. In CMraeq on street
car and rnllroad crossings, besides a
large number wounded and some
region. This is the defiance
General Bell, a militia general, issued
to the courts: "I will say right now
that neither the sheriff of the county
of Teller or any other countv nor any
constable or any number of them will
be allowed to serve any civil process
from any court in the state upon any
officer of this guard while on duty."
On with the dance!
The mine owners who broueht on
the Boer war are suffering the re
venges of outraged justice. The offi
cial report from Johannesburg an
nounces that there is a shortage of
115.000 laborers in the country and ro
prospects of anv more coming. Half
the mines are idlo.
The czar of Russia and the emperor
of Austria have been holding a con
sultation over the horrible state of af
fairs in Macedonia. It appears that
the settlement of the trouble there
have, by the other powers, been dele
gated to them. Some sharp orders
ere sent to the sultan through the
Rusian and Austrian ministers at
Constantinople. The sultan is accused
of needless and barbarous cruelties
and the two governments say that it is
their duty to come to the assistance of
the victims. We may therefore look
for something to be done. The agents
a , j. VII B LULL IIUIVCIOILV U V lllfriai
Wiai I j tee AAA a & -a i n.i: x 1 nf tha ffori Prnco aav Vi n t (liAncanila et
Ills, .thi.W IU iVHfiniCl a tllII1IIIK lO vv .u Viuuo Mini mviuiuuu vvi
Morgan has not only lost his prest
ige In Europe, but a good many of
the eastern papers are poking fun at
him. The following are some of the
expressions they use: "Sic transit
gloria mundl - We read in the papers,
now, that It requires yacht races to
get Mr. Morgan's name into the pa
pershe who, a few short months aeo,
overshadowed the earth. So passes
the glory of this world. Solomon, or
whoever wrote Ecclesiastcs, would
have enloyed the history of Mr. Mor
gan. All is vanity." "Hts name has
lost its magic." "An exploded proph
et," etc. -
The street car magnates of Toledo
bought up the city council and had
the pegs all set to pass an ordinance
to suit them. That is the town Golden
Rule Jones rules oyer. The night that
the ordinance was to be passed, half
the male population of the city turned
cut, packed the council room, the halls
and streets. The council did not pass
the ordinance. They thought that
they saw blood in the eyes of the
crowd. Would it not have been bet
ter for the people of that city long
ago to have adopted the referendum?
If they had, they would not have had
to resort to a semi-riot to prevent a
rascally council frc selling them out
The total Jewish population ofthe
United States is now 1,127,268, while
there are only 26,614; in the British
empire. ' ' - -
be used for relleious purposes provid
ed tht the citizen?? would give the
remainder of $100,000. is growing all
the time. In the excitement that fol
lowed the offer about $10,000 was b
STibed and thue subscrmtious
souned. The Lincoln Evening News
rmari's: "If it were not for the
precedent which Mr. Rockefeller has
established of raising the price of
kerosene sftr everv donation to "M
caero university, the citizens of Ne
braska ml eht not be so SusoiMo" of
the diclnterestdues3 of Rocei'er
benevolence. ' The price of vprosepe
per .goPnn is of more importance to
the whole number of Nraeva rr,n.
smners than the comparative small
R"m wich the h'r of the'bfwnn!
has offered to corrupt the iudmueut
and ronfse the vision of the people
of this state."
women and children are starving to
death in the mountains and many hun
dreds cf wounded have no medical at
tention whatever. -
Fifteen new indictments have been
handed in during the week of past
office officials at Washington. That
Ilanna-Heath business demoralized
the whole department.:
A railroad magnate sent his son
from the. Pacific coast to a college on
the Atlantic coast The boy traveled
in a private car and had two chefs,
two porters, a valet and other ser
vants to attend to his comfort and be
longings. In tha1. magnificent way he
passed through the cattle districts of
Wyoming and Nebraska where thou
sands of farmers are facing bank
ruptcy on account of excessive freight
rates and the low price of cattle
farmers who vote to pay the taxes
that the railroads ought to pay and for
the judges rnd other state officers that
the railroads nominate. The reason
they vote that way is because they
don't know any better. -
The attorney general, Knox , is his
name, , always has an opinion ready
for any difficulty that arises from un
dertaking to make .an empire out of
this republic. Last week he decided
that the officials of Porto Rfco, al
though servics the United. States and
appointed by; the president, are not
officials of the United States and not
entitled to the , franking privilege.
Some of these days some foreign com
plication will arise with these officials.
What will their status be then? Wilt
they be simply officials of Porto Rico
and will Porto Rico enter into dlplo-
The steel trust has been skinning its
workmen as well as those pople who
bought its stocks. ; The bosses in the
works have been making the men pay
them a rake-off for giving them work.
TLese great combinations ae meAt
it.g new difficulties every day. A con
cern with an income almost as pieat
as that of the largest states, whose
p'ants are scattered all over the coun
try, roust expect such thincs The
tosses stand in very much the same
relation as officeholders and thev are
no better sort of men. They will tae
a rake-off whenever thev can get it.
TTow can the head officers located in
New York know what is poin? on in
pftnnsrlvania, Michigan, and Wiscon
sin? The trust theory is rotten to, the
very core. ' -
A' lot of scoundrels demanded $50.
000 from the Northern Pacific road,
setting a time for Its payment and
threatening that if it were not paid
tc blow up the trains and bridges with
dynamite. Of course the money was.
not paid, and one day after, the time
set these scoundrels actually did place
dynamite on the track eight miles west
of Helena, Mont. The front part of
the engine was destroyed, but no lives
were lost That road owes a duty to
the public to hunt the wretches 'down,
if it costs $100,000. As a business pro- -position
for the road, the : expend t?i re ,
of that much or even more would be ;
a good investment
The sort of "spielers" that the re
publican party sends to govern our
"subjects" in Porto Rico may be gath
ered from the fact that those chans
down in Porto Rico have been using
the franking privilege in such a way
that the. steamers were encumbered
the roods and chattels sent back
home through the use of "the mails.
To cut off the graft. Attorney General
Knox, decided that thev were not offi
cers of the United States and not en
titled to the franking privilege. If
the "civilizers" at so near a point as
Porto Rico do such things, what do
you suppose thev do In the Philippines
10,000 miles away?
Three, thousand .business men and
citizens of Victor. Colo., sent a -petition
to the republican governor of the
state asking for the recall of the
militia, as the militia was sent there
id the first place against the protect
o the civil authorities This modern
American shah simply replied:' "The
militia will stay there."
The gold democrats hare complete
ly captured the organization in Mas
sachusetts. It is now announced that
they will not. for thev cannot, make
anv state campaign. They, have no Is
sues differing sufflcientlv from the re
publican party upon which to make a
campaign. To attempt to make a
speech or write an article upon the
thesis, "We Want the Offices, don't
seem to be an 'inviting task.
..The reorganization of the army has
created such continual disturbances at
the war department such prolong
Kilkpnny cat fights that it has ben
found necessary to transfer General
Corbln to the command of the depart
ment of the east and put General Chaf-
Two of the "civillzers" that we sent,
to the Philippines, George Forman,
chief inspector, and C. J.. Johnston,
constabulary supply officer, being1 .
charged with boodl ing, robbed a safe
of $6,000, captured a ship and fled.
Finding that their ship needed coal,
tbey pirated a native vessel and took
what coal they needed from it Where -they
have gone to nobody knows.
The war. department has now an offi
cial censor in the person of Col. Henry
Alexander Greene. . Colonel Greene
forpierlv performed 'the ame duties
in the Philippines. , Imperialism con
tinues to. advance step by step. Vote v
'er straight. . . ' .
The shrinkage In the value of steel
stock, from the price it. sold at last
year to, the present time is $402,438.
768. or just about 50 per cent Or
negie holds a first mortgage on the
whole concern of $301,059,000. which is
probablv all that it is really worth.
Carnegie don't care a fig whether steel
stock goes up or ,goes , down. ... Mor
gan is the man who walks the jBoor.
Your Troubles
Readers of The Independent who
have, troubles physical troubles Ill
ness of any kind or character, should
write to Drs. Searles and .Searles of
this , city giving a full -description of
the trouble. It is follyto suffer from
a disease that continues-to weaken
the system, sap the energy and event
ually claims, your life when you can
E,et treatment from specialists who
will cure you in a short time. Many
cases can be successfully treated by
ioall. These doctors conduct all their
own correspondence and preserve it
strictly private and confidential All
rrivate letters they answer personal
ly with a pen and thus avoid the pos
sibility of Information getting out
through the carelessness of a confi
dential stenographer. Tell your trou
bles to Drs. Searles and Searles. P. O.
box 224, Lincoln. Neb.,' and you will
never have occasion to Tegret it.
P Farmers, Attention!
Do. you wish to sell your farm?. If
so, send full description, lowest price
and best terms. . Or; if you . wish . to
buy a farm, ranch or Lincoln home,
write to or call on Williams & Bratt.
1105 O st. Lincoln,, Neb. ....
