FEBRUARY 2, 1905.
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X3ho Nebraska. Independent
NEWS OF THh Wh.HK
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A Veey Resume o the Really Vital News by the Editor
Roosevelt is making the same benev
olent protestations that the British did
when "simply taking control of the fi
nancial affairs" cf Egypt. The British
are in Egypt yet. As long as the re
publican party rules the UnUed States
will be' running that little" negro re
public. Aside from that, Roosevelt's
policy will .make us responsible for
more than 2,00q millions cf debts and
the keeping of order among 60 millions
people of mixed Spanish, Portuguese',
Indian and negro blood, divided up
among sixty little republics where a
revolution ia the ordinary way of get
ting the ins out, and outs in. With all
tlat tho senate does not seem to be
concerned, but it gets hot over infring
ing; one of its prerogatives. An Ameri
can Grand Duke of the senate is very
much like a Russian Grand Duke of the
imperial council. '
vince the great financial moguls that
they are true vassals. John Sharp
Williams is about the most complete
failure that ever appeared on the floor
of the house.
The ship subsidy bill is being pushed
forward in congress and will likely
become a law. Themullet heads have
had their objections overcome by
changing the word "subsidy" to the
word "subvention.'' So they go around
declaring that no ship subsidy bill will
bo. passed. Whatever appropriation the
bill carries will be a direct gift of
money taxed out of the people and
turned over to the steel trust. Ameri
cans cannot build ships because the
steel trust will sell the steel that goes
into an ordinary freight steamer to
foreign shipbuilders for $50,000 less
than it will sell it to an American ship
-WweiT The way to start up American
ship building is to take the tariff off
from steel, instead of passing subsidy
and subvention bills.
From recent reports there seem3 to
bo continuous and pretty heavy fight
ing in the Philippines, confined so far
to the provinces of Cavita and Batan
gas. United States troops garrison all
the towns and, the writ of habeas cor
pus has been suspended. The disaf
fection is laid to the ladrones and dis
satisfaction with the internal revenue
law. The indications are that the sit-
uation verges on a state of war. One
of these days, and not long hence, the
republican party will get very tired of
that Philippine business.
The Japanese have done another
thing that was never heard of before.
Aside from treating their tens of thous
ands of prisoners of war like honored
guests, they have established schools
at every prison and are teaching the ig
norant Russians how to read and write.
Whether so intended or not, that is
the worst bloAV that could be struck at
bureaucracy.
with reference to any further proceed
ings In this or any other anti-trust
case." ,As far as this decision is con
cerned, the beef trust stands just where
It did before. The only way to reach
it is by prosecution under the criminal
law, and there are no indications that
that will be done under the present administration.
The starving children of New York
city are again causing a few remarks
to be made in tho plutocratic press of
that city because it can't be avoided.
Hitherto the highest estimate has been
50,000. But now Robert Hunter, a
specialist in slum work, declares that
70,000 children go to school hungry
each day. Superintendent of Schools
Maxwell remarks that'Mr. Hunter has
had unusual opportunities for forming
a judgment in this matter, and I should
think that he would be more likely to
underestimate thanto overestimate the
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number. The sordid millionaires wno
can carelessly ride up and down Fifth
avenue in their $10,000 automobiles and
spend $5,000 on pet dogs with starving
children all around them, are as near
devils as are seen in this world. Think
Carnegie, giving away millions for
ibraries while within half a mile -of
his residence there are 10,000 starving
children! Carnegie never gave a cent
to the poor in his life.
The plutocratic press seems undecid
ed, as every one is, about the sincerity
of the president in pushing his reform
measures. The moment that the press
becomes satisfied that the president is
in earnest, he will be denounced as "a
dmagogue.'V'a dreamer," and "a dis
turber," just as every, man has been
who has tried to make'the common lot
of people better and happier. We will
have to wait for these denunciations
foefore any of us can become certain
about what Roosevelt will do. The
plutocrats will find it out first. Let
every man wait until he sees that sign
before he gives Roosevelt his confidence.
It seem3 that the Hepburn bill was
too transparent'a fraud to get through
congress and that the committee on
railroads will present another that will
give the commission power to fix rates.
It is not believed that such a bill can
ever be gotten through the senate but it
will pass the house with a yell. The
railroads think that just at present it
? ill be well to throw a tub to the
whale and have given orders according-
y to the men they have sent to con
gress. During tnis discussion they
have dropped the old ihrase "quasi-
public" and substituted for It another.
They now say that railroads are "semi-
public" property. If that is so The In
dependent hopes that th6 roads will
immediately turn over one-half of
their stocks arid -bonds to public treas-
ury. . ; .
In a private letter,' a gentleman who
U familiar with affairs at Washington
and New Xork declares that the whole
democratic party in congress, with the
exception of three or fom men, have
gone over to the republicans. They
will put up no sort of opposition at all,
and in facthe leaders, of the party, If
it can be said to have any leaders, are
at present the great laudators of the
republican president. Furthermore' he
says that there is not a newspaper cor
respondent in Washington that dare
write the facts as they exist. There is
nc longer any opposition" to plutocracy
iu either the senate, the house or the
press. When plutocracy captured the
St. Louis convention and not a leader
made a protest, but all remained "reg
ular," that ended" all" opposition until
some new party arises with leaders Jn
whom the people have confidence. '
Harrlman is making fast strides to
ward the coming dictatorship of poll
tics and government in these United
States. During the last few weeks he
lias picked up, without any trouble at
all, three or four United States senators
and got a decision from the United
States supreme court against Morgan
.and Hill that will give him control of
the Great Northern. Not a man in
either house of congress has had the
courage to say a word. Democrats and
republicans alike, are trying to con-
Mr. Steffens in his article in Mc-
Clure's magazine on the infamies of
Senator Aldrich's little bailiwick of
Rhode Island, reaches the same con
clusion concerning the clergy that The
Independent has so often expressed. He
says the clergy of Rhode Island have
been wanting in courage, and even
derelict in the performance of their
duty, in not attacking the bribery of
voters and other shameful practices.
If the clergy have any mission in this
world at all it is to preach righteous
ness and not t6 admit to the best seats
in the churches bribers, extortioners
and financial pirates, because they are
big contributors to the minister's sal
ary,, ... ...... ,
The legislature of Wisconsin did not
deem it necessary to ask LaFollette to
pledge himself . to stand for a regula
tion of rates on the railroads. That
hows the difference between Harri
man's Nebraska man Burkett and La
Fcllette. The Nebraska legislature
called on Burkett for a pledge, and
when Burkett' made the pledge, the
Nebraskans did 'not believe a word of
t.
Secretary Taft was before a con
gressional comimttee last week plead
ing for a reduction of the tariff between
the United States and our subjects in
the Philippines. The greatest objectors
fo such a policy are the tobacco grow
ers in Connecticut and the beat sugar
growers. As both of these interests
declared that if the reciprocity treaty
with Cuba was ratified "the industry
would be ruined." 'But as it was not
ruined at all, and has been prospering
niore than -ever, i t would seem that no
attention should be paid to their tariff
howling.
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Higher prices for shoes are prom
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which have prevailed, for pretty, much
everything else entering into the cost
of living., Some grades of shoes :were
marked up by manufacturers on Janu
ary 1, and the prospect is said to be
good for a general advance.: in the
spring amounting to some tu cents a
pair. There is where the beef trust
strikes the American people another
stiff dig. The supreme court decides
that the beef trust is engaged in inter
state commerce. But the trust is all
right and the 15 per cent tariff on hides
i3 all right, so walk up and pay the
additional fifty cents a pair on shoes
continue to "vote 'er straight" and
above all things, be "regular."
- Some of the dailies begin to remark
that the democratic devotion to Roose
velt exhibited in congress is getting to
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The supreme court handed down a
decision in the beef trust case and it
was headlined in the corporation press
as a complete knockout for the trust.
The synopsis of the opinion that fol
lowed the. next day does not "knock
out" anything. It simply declares that
live stock sent to Chicago," for in
stance, from other states, is interstate
commerce and the shipment of dressed
meats from Chicago to other states for
sale there, is also interstate commerce,
and fall under the prohibition of the
so-called anti-trust act. The dispatch
concludes with these words. "The at
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