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i '1 PAGE 10 &?e Nebraska. Independent DECEMBER 1, 1901 ) i tt t 1 ? all 5 J t : 5 Peril to Civilization ; The London Eng.) Spectator In a long article commenting on the great increase of crime in the United States in the. last twenty years, regards thl situation as a grave menace to civili sation and appeals to the American nunnla tn imnnso rniWonl reform In a-rjr-- - jr- - " - the administration of lav before na tional calamity comes. : "We venture to say that it the Amer ican judges had the standing and pres tige which belong to our judges," sayS the Spectator, "the rich men who now use their money to corrupt public of ficials and public bodies would find themselvse in jail, either tor contempt of court or some open breach of the law.-- ; ... " I In England judges are not appointed from the. ranks of great corporation and railroad lawyers. They do not ride on passes, and if a corporation should offer one of them a "courtesy" the man who offered it would be sen tenced to a long term of imprisonment at hard labor. - When he l ot to prison he would do the "hard labor" the same as any other convict for in English prisons there is no favoritism. The increase in crime in this country which eminent men all over the world agree is" a threat to civilization, is. largely due to -the character of thf judges. The people generally, while .they' render obedience to the decrees "of the courts hold the judges in constant contempt. Last year while going down to Omaha . there sat in the seats immediately in fiont one federal and two state judges. When the conductor came around all three of them presented annual passes. Ever .since that time the editor of The Independent has been trying to'formi -late a sentence that would express his supreme contempt for them, but has - never been able to construct-one thr.t would do justice to such a sight - ..v ..,,' ' - ' - Senile Senators end Pure Food It is the old, corporation plutocrats in the United States senate that, com pel the American people to come tail ing along behind all civihzationVcheek by jowf with the pig-tailed Chinese, not only in the government ownership of railroads, but in many other things. This is the only government on earth that allows merchants to sell adulter ated and poisonous food for the money that is, in the business. Oi. Wiley the government chemist, sas that the prevalence of dyspepsia in this coun try; to an extent known in no other, comes from adulterated food and drinks. A few old corpora lion senators have long prevented the passage of a pure food bill because of the crimi nal business interests that put them where they are, do not want such . a law enacted. , The house has passed such a bill several times, but itis al ways chucked; into the waste basket by these grizzled, senile corrupt old senators, who spend the, most of the time while they are in Washington in the senate cloak rooms telling nasty stories, but whom a criminal press holds, up to tne people as great. states men Any newspaper man who has spent a year or two in Washington knows what a lot of disreputables they are. There are decent men among them, but not enough to have appre ciable influence upon the big lot of corporation tools who run things un der the direction of their masters. Many of them have not had senr s enough to make the corporations pay iem for their services and have only the "honor." of their poistion and the salary attached to it as a recompense, for all their dirty work. What" one of them in tne last ten years nas maae a speech that showed even an ordinary intellectual ability? They are a bad lot. , The scientists and doctors may pile, up the proof as high as a moun tain, but the senate will never pass a pure food bill until , the corporations engaged in the business of adulterating food order their senators to vote for one, and they will never do that until some irate community wreaks ven ceance upon them. ' , ft r 2 s . .... ' . uBSl telle! in of iii Men's il Bop ODD Best because biggestbecause made by expert workmen because made from newest and most trust worthy fabrics. 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Great mobs of starviug men have been assembling in the parks and oth er vacant places in London during the last, week. The situation "there is be. coming dangerous. Every one declares that there has been no such suffering known in the last twenty years. The steamships arriving in New York bring such loads of emigrants that , the au thorities at Ellis island have been overwhelmed. Some of the great steamers have had to He at anchor, under guard, for 24 hours before they could find a place on the island to land their cargoes "of steerage passengers." The depression seems general all over Europe. If the people there are starv ing, they certainly can't buy Ameri can goods and. our foreign trade must fall off. That has always preceeded a depression in business in the United States. It is the same old endless Chain. , : ;. . . ;.: . ;