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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1903)
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT ir I NEWS OF THE WEEK! This Dinner Set and Lamp Z delivered to any louepeuueow reauef, trbigut prepaid, Wtbuiu xl lh 200 mile of Lincoln, for,, ',.. A Weekly Besum of th &xlly Vlt&t.Nevrspy the Editor p OCTOBER 22, 1903. The Alaskan boundary has at last been settled by an arbitration board In London after years of waiting and hundreds of thousands of dollars of expense. Some years ago the editor of The Independent made some inves tigations while in Washington con cerning this dispute. The conclusion that forced itself upon him after ex amining the treaties, the maps and looking into the transfer of this por tion of the continent to the American government by Russia, was that Can ada did not have and could not make out even a shadow of a just claim to any portion, of the disputed territory. There could be no question at all about it But the British government wanted a portion of the gold fields and an outlet to the sea. The line de scribed in that treaty was so clearly defined that any dispute over it was simply ridiculous. In other cases af fecting it, even some of the British arbitrators had long ago taken exact ly the same position that our govern ment has all the time held. The ar guments of these British arbitrators were presented at the trial and there was no denying them. The result is that the British have been given the head of what , is called the Portland canal and a magnificent harbor to which they were not entitled and lo which they had not a shadow of right ful claim. That outlet to the sea is what the British government started out to get and it has been turned over to them. Nevertheless the plutocratic papers will continue to shout: "Great Is John Hay!" Miss Anna B. Davidson, who has gpent much time in Porto Rico, de clares that 80 per cent of the inhabit ants are illiterate and 70 per cent are ' of illegitimate birth. If the American laws of inheritance are enforced down there, there will be a condition that will delight the hearts of socialists. There they will find a "propertyless" class sure enough and a "proletariat" will be ready at hand. All over the interior of Kansas and Nebraska coal is selling now, before the cold weather has begun, at $11 a ton, which used to sell at $9, with an almost sure prospect that it will go up to $13 before the first of Jan uary. Still the coal trust is unmo lested and the anti-trust at with its provisions for the criminal prosecu tion of the trusts remains on the stat x lite books. The report of the International com mission to Europe, which was com posed of H. H. Hanna, Charles A. Co nant and the traitor economist, Jere miah Jenks, has not yet been made . public, but it seems a favored few have been given inside information. That is proved by the course that the price of silver has taken. They went over there, so they said, to "fix the price of silver," "to fix a par of ex change," and that sort of thing, all of which, to put in good, plain English, simply means to establish bimetallism at the ratio of 32 to 1, instead of 16 to 1. The price of silver has ranged above 60 cents an ounce for several days. These same chap3. were the ones who in 1896 and 1900 were among 1 the most vociferous in declaring "ybu can't i establish bimetallism, you can't fit the price of silver." The Independent warned its readers some time ago that they had better wait for a while before they formed their judgment about determination of the government to punish the post office thieves as not one of them had yet been convicted. Last week the first of these trials came off and the jury disagreed. The statement still stands. Not one of them has yet been punished.' The "Wall street gang are keeping Grover Cleveland before the people. He is evidently their "favorite son." During a good many years Cleveland remained at home or went fishing. Last week his corpulency was brought to Chicago, where he uttered a few ponderous sentences which the dailies have ever since been , trying to make the people believe contained stores of statesmanship; but which the editors have' hard time in trying to make them mean anything. The net earnings of the Pullman company last year were $9,417,687. and it still insists that the public shall pay its porters. The patient public goes on paying and makes no protest. If. as asserted by one of the vice presidents of the American federation of labor, the labor unions of the coun try have $300,000,000 of union funds on deposit in, the bamrs, and if, as threat ened, these deposits should be with' drawn and locked up In safe-deposit vault3 by way of response to the dam' age suits being brought against the unions here and there, it would be a serious matter. The taking of such a sum of money abruptly from circula tion would cause a most disastrous contraction. Secretary Shaw and 200 other re publican speakers, drawn from every part of the country, are in Ohio all trying to save Mark Hanna. There must be something going on in the old Buckeye State of which the Asso ciated press tells us nothing. Ministers wait with "more than the patience of Job for a proper occasion to' say something from the pulpit about the universal corruption brought about by the bribing corporations in the cities and towns of the country. However, one of them, Rev. Maurice O'Connor of Harrison, N. J., found an occasion last Sunday and this is what he said; "Half a dozen unscrupulous men have given away their town and are building Chinese walls about it. They are 'grafters' who have sold their souls and bartered away your rights and the rights of your chil dren's children forever for a few thou sand dollars. What is the remedy? It is not in hanging the aldermen out of the windows with robes; that is mob rule. It is the ballot you vote. Vote an honest, straight ballot, not a scavenger ballot. My God, people, why don't you rouse yourself up and show that you are men, and wrest the control .of the town from the hands of these unscrupulous men who have it in' their jgrasp?" As steel stock goes down, Jupiter Morgan himself continues to reach a newiow record" each day. Murat Halstead regards William Randolph Hearst as the logical and coming democratic presidential candi date, and is prepared to demonstrate his prediction with all the resources of a veteran observer in politics. A little while ago Murat was "a rip roar ing" .republican and a great admirer of the "strenuous one." Down in New York city, which is the breeding farm of millionaires, there are 87,000 children who cannot go to school because there are not enough school Jiouses to give them seats. That has been the condition for years and years. Carnegie lives there and he is giving away millions for li braries while thousands of children in his own city are growing up who can not even read, because there are no school houses and no one in tea oh 1 them.' ,y Madness still reigns at Washington. Secretar Moody will demand $102, 866,440 for the navy this year. We are to go on spending millions build ing these old steel tubs that cost thou sands of dollars a year to maintain and keep in repair ' and which in a few years will be 'Sold for old junk. Young Mickey, whom his father ap pointed to an office to keep all the money possible in the family, recently made a visit to the cattle section of this state and says that the cattle men are trying to get out of the busi ness. The truth is that the sheriff will put a good many of them out of the business whether they want td get out or not. The meat trust Is after them and it has the sheriffs to enforce its orders. The Independent regrets that Mickey and his son are not also in the cattle business. But they deal nniv in first mortgages on Nebraska farms. The Standafd Oil company an nounces another raise in the price of oil the third in ten days. No wonder Mr. Rockefeller wants to hire a hall and. tell the world what religion has done for him. Nearly every shoulder-strapped gen tleman who went down to Cripple Creek in Colorado to "utterly destroy" the labor unions has been ordered to appear before a court-martial. Among 1he charges to be investigated are padded pay rolls; the employment of "perfluous generals and colonels, who draw the salary of their rank, but 'vho perform sergeants' duties; general xtravaeance in the purchase of sup plies for the commissary department; the charge that certain officers have been securing a rake-off from contrac- 3 4 i-rftf -rlJ1 . 100-piece dinner et of finest English Pemi-porcelain on the celebrated Victor shape as cut, handsomely embossed, guaranteed against crazege, plain white and as thin and pretty as French China. Dinner set consuls of following: 100-piece Set Assortment 12 dinner plates, 12 tea plates, 12 pie plates, 12 sauce plates, 12 individual but ters, 12 . teacups and saucers, 1 oblong vegetable dish, 1 round vegetable dish, 1 covered vegetable dish, 1 cake plate, 2 platters, 1 svgar, 1 covered butter dish, 1 sauce boat, 1 pickle, 1 bowl, and 1 cream pitcher. 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If there is no agent in your town write direct to the company tors; the issuance by wholesale of transportation between Cripple' Creek and Denver to officers and enlisted men, their families and friends, and charging same to the state; the charge that the bookkeeping of the camp is kept in such a way -as to admit of 'grafting;' the surreptitious raising of men with a 'pull' from non-commissioned officers to captains, majors and colonels; the erection of quarters for each colonel, thus involving the state in a heavy, but practically needless expense; the purchase of spoiled beef for the enlisted men at sky-hfgh prices; carelessness and recklessness in the handling of finances that is said to be appalling. James H. Tillman was acquited by the Jury that tried him for the murder of Gonzales. To most of the readers of the northern dailies that will be a great surprise. Those dailies never printed a word of the evidence of the defense. The Independent does not defend Tillman, but as soon as it saw a portion of the evidence printed in a local South Carolina paper, it came to the conclusion that he would be ac- 1 V
