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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1903)
JL THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT OCTOBER 22, 1903. 12 quitted. It is probable that any north ern editor who printed such articles concerning a public man aa. appeared in Gonzales' paper would have met ence in newspaper work this writer never saw such outrageous writing as appeared from day to day for nearly a year from the pen of Gonzales. There are 700 students less at Rocke feller's Chicago university this year than last. Several explanations have teen given of this great falling off. in patronage. One is that the . price of coal oil has risen so much during the year along with other things tljat en ter into the cost of living, that some parents can't afford to send their chil dren. Another is that the institution was Rtarted as a coeducational uni versity and last year President Harper undertook to segregate the sexes dur ing the first two years of college life ' which led many to believe that the co-educational feature would soon be dropped altogether and It would be' a school for young men only. So the girls concluded they would go to Northwestern or some other, which did not make that threat. Others have said that some young men demur to attaching themselves to a univer sity that is simply a tail to a rich ' man's kite. the divorce trials in the republican dailies and weeklies will be caught just as they were in '93. Tho c.himurn TiHhmift. in discussing the Alaskan boundary decision, says n one column: "It has been accom plished by 4he deciding vote of Lord Alverstone, chief Justice of England. No one will Question his honesty in giving judgment against his own peo ple." And in another column: "As to the Alaskan boundary dispute, our Canadian cousins will remember that we assured them in the beginning that they hadn't even a totem pole to hang their claims on." If the latter state ment is true, upon what grounds would any one question the ' honesty or tne decision?" And again, if the Cana dians had no grounds for their claim, how could an "honest decision give them a fine harbor and a naval base -on a shore that did not belong to them? t Morgan owns the New York Sun and ,that paper is an astonishment to gods and men. It is filled with editorials which the word "frantic" does not by any means fully describe. Those ar ticles must be read to be appreciated. The fall in steel common has caused the hired writers to try to force the English language to express the rage of a millionaire when he. sees his watered stock reaching . a new "low record" every day in the week. But It does not lie within the possibilities of words to do it. The Sun says that it was Roosevelt who caused the dis The report of Charles J. Bonaparte and Holmes-Conrad, two special at torneys employed by the president to investigate the postoffice scandals, has been in the hands of the cabinet for some time. Some of the Washington correspondents declare that there have . been hot times in the cabinet over it, as it hits several republicans well nigh at the head of the machine. This re port calls for the removal of Robert J. Tracewell, comptroller of the treas ury and one of the auditors. Both z Secretary Shaw and Secretary Payne are hot about the charges made against their departments. Every day evi dence accumulates to substantiate the charges that The Independent long since made, which were to the effect that the whole thing was rotten at Washington, Well posted and conservative author ities estimate that before the close of the year the big employing con cerns of the country will , have dis charged nearly 1,000,000 men, most of them laborers and general utility ' .workers. Of this number the railroads are - expected to drop from employ ment 200,000 men, the mine operators 50,000, the machine shops and iron, steel, and tin plants 250,000, and the building trades more than 40,000. Ev ery old reader of The Independent .knows what effect that will have upon the business of the country. Such men will be prepared for the coming financial storm and for every dollar they have spent for subscription to The Independent they will have a hundred. Those who have read only the tales of crimes, the scandals and G. W. Campbell. ! Real Estate ) "27 0 St., Lincoln, Neb. 6 FARMS RANCHES AND CITY .... x . Farms 4 to 12 miles from Lincoln $30 to $75 per acre. Good farm In Ne maha county. Good8-'0 acres near Red Cloud, nd near Kearney, one with 175 acrei of fine alfalia. Good ranch In southern part of Blaln Co. 2.600 under fence on onth side ot river: all land not deeded leased In this pasture; about 1,120 itcrer deed ed. 2,000 acres on north side of river, government forest res rve, practi cally under fence: corn land 65 acres; oats 25 acres: cut from 300 to 500 tons of hay. Ranch, 87,000; or will sell ranch and stock. G. W. CAMPBELL 1127 O Street ..... Lincoln, Nebraska. William Fetzer, secretary of the McSherry Manufacturing company of Middletown, O., charges that the steel trust charges higher prices in the United-States than it does In Canada, thus enabling the Canadian manufac turer to undersell his American com petitor. The steel trust acknowledges that the charge is true. Thomas F. Woodlock, editor of the. Wall Street Journal, was in Denver he other day. along with the bankers on the way to California. He said in an interview that affairs in Wall street were unprecedented. 'In one year we have lost the advance that was at tained- during the seven years prev-r ious. The consequence has been a frost in business which has not yet reached the maximum of 'its influ ence, but Is still spreading.'' The money power is the same every where heartless, pitiless, knowing no country, no law. In England today every expression of sympathy with the bleeding and dying Christians In Macedonia is suppressed, because such expressions might depress the price of Turkish bonds. The same crew, with the same murderous Instincts, controls the daily press of this coun try. . The failure of two trust companies in Baltimore and a loan and building association in New York were fea tures of the financial situation made public on Tuesday morning. Defalca tions of large amounts by bank clerks are continually reported. Many brok erage houses have shut up shop and that is the way the thing goes on. The directors of the Independent Packing, company, which has been or ganized with $5,000,0.00 capital to fight the trust, held a meeting in Denver last Monday and elected officers, with the exception of president, which of fice was left vacant until the meeting of the directors with the National Live Stock association at Portland, Ore., January 12, 1904. Remember what The Independent has said about tbis movement, which, although it has sufficient capital and competent men at Its head, can never succeed until the railroads are owned, by the gov ernment. The railroads and the meat trust are one and the same thing and no independent concern can hope to compete with them. In Washington the deep significance oi the Ohio election, is recognized by the leaders of all rarties and the pa pers there print frequent letters de scribing the progress of a campaign spoken of as the most bitter and hot ly contested known since the civil war. . .." ' " - mate industry but they were merely whistling through the graveyard. Once started on the , toboggan of lower prices, everything will go to the bot tom: Secretary Shaw, hasn't cash enough in the treasury to stop the Bieu. The Federal National bank of Pitts burg, Pa., closed Its doors Wednesday morning. Usual excuses: "Temporary embarrassment; depositors will be paid In full," etc. The failure Is said to be due to a "persistent bear raid," causing the bank's stock to drop from 115 on Monday to 80 Tuesday. Bank was "capitalized" at two millions, and chartered November 16, 1901. Its last report (September 9) showed over five millions in loans and discounts how good, no outsider knows. Individual deposits, fl.932,107; due to banks and bankers, $2,375,522; and $100,000 bills payable, show the liabilities to others than its" own stockholders. It held then $675,652 In cash and "cash items',' and had due from banks and bankers $1,130,592. The Exchange bank of Lockport, 111., closed Wednesday and the citizens are greatly, excited. , The Federal National -failure . is at tributed to its heavy losses in the Eastern Tube company of Zanesville, O., and rumored losses in connection with the Reese-Hammond and Bolivar (Pa.) National bank failures not long since. The house of cards Is beginning to tumble. Smaller bank failures will doubtless follow this, as the Federal was reserve agent for numerous, na tional banks. Samuel E. Morss, owner of the Ind ianapolis Sentinel, fell out of a third story window Wednesday morning and received injuries from which he died soon afterward. He was one of a gang of gold-bug democrats who - defeated Bryan in Indiana, and had been con sul to Paris under Cleveland. " than anything The Independent has read of a preacher telling a New York congregation in many, a day. Here are some of his scathing sentences: "New York is a hell-hole:tNot-Kewj York, but New Gomorrah. Strong hold of satanut Cesspool of the world. J New York ministers .are sniveling hypocrites, protected by the cloth of Christ New York and its putrid press. & Put a tent over it and it is cne seething brothel. & Its best famll? ies are the most Immoral. Where a premium is placed on licentiousness. 5tThe foulness of the earth has cen tered in New York." i Farm For Sale 70 acres, located one mile from cen ter of Beatrice; lays well; is of su perior quality. Six-room cottage, fine lawn, large barn, young orchard, etc. Price, $6,000; part on time if desired. Would trade for larger farm. Must be of go 31- quality, improved and well located. Call on or address M. F. Reynolds, Beatrice, Neb. The Portland Oregonlan says the government has unearthed a stupen dous "land graft" ring on the Pacific slope, which has gobbled up about everything loose in the way of timber lands. It might not be a bad idea to ask Binger Herman what he knows about it. A Washington dispatch to the Pitts burg Leader seems to indicate that Roosevelt Is much concerned about the situation in Ohio. About the 27th of August Secretary , Shaw wrote the president asking permission to enter the Ohio campaign and four days later the president permitted. The Leader's correspondent naievely says: "Mr. Shaw is looked upon as a recruit of great strength for Ohio. The situa tion in that state is far from satisfac tory to President Roosevelt and other republican leaders. Senator Hanna has not made a good campaign, and it is feared that the democrats may win the state." Thirtv-five hundred men, out of a total of . 30.000 employed, have been dischareed at the Iron mines in the Lake Superior reelon. Most of them will be Idle all winter If they cannot find employment In other lines. This In connection with -the policv of re trenchment Inauenrated bv the New YorV Central and other railroads, and in other lines of Industry, presntres a bad winter for the waee-workers Plutocratic newspapers have been In sistent in saying that the stock gam biers' panic would not affect legiti "Elijah" Dowie is having a merry time In New Ydrk. He is telling the Gothamites , some unpleasant truths about themselves and they resent his audacity. His attacks on J. Pierpont Morgan, Rev. Henson and Rev. Park Tiurst, called forth an open letter from the latter. The Rev. Charles was more shocked at Dowie's "coarse invective" than he was at what he heard in the good old days when he went slum ming in the tenderloin district But, after all, Dowie's "coarse in vective" sounds more like gospel truth mm Buys a Ticket AND Sleeping-Car Berth ' VIA , ..Union Pacific, TO JSALIFORNIA OR OREGOfl. 0 DETOURS. 0 CHANGE OF CARS. 0 CHANGE OF ROADS. "The Overland Route" all the way. PICT0 Full Information cheerfully furnished on application to , e. B. SLOSSON, Gen'! Agent, Lincoln, Neb. . 1044 O Street. O Homeseekers' Excursion. o O O o o o o o o o o Round trip rate ONE FARE PLUS $2.00. On sale Oct. 6 and 20, Nov. 3 and 17. Return Eimit2i Days. The low rate will enable you to inspect the rich and fer tile land in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Da kota, the Canadian Northwest. Also many points in Nebraska. Address t O O o o o o o o o R. W. McGinrtis, g ri i rw.u.i... r 00OOOOOOOOOOSOOO000000000 $25.00 -TO TIIE PACIFIC COAST DM LY Sept Nth to Nov. 30th. Helena, Butte, Salt Lake and Ogden, $20.Q0. Spokane and Ellensburg, $22.50. ' Nearly all California, Wash ington and Oregon points $25. jlllilli(.Ljlilr City Ticket Offics Cor. 10th and O Street Telephone No. 235. Burlington Depot .7th Si, bet. P and Q Tel. Burlington 1290 'IS
