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X5ht Nebrasktv Indopondcnt PAGE 8 APRIL 13, 1905 Cbt Utbraska Jndependeni Lincoln, nebraska. LIBERTY BUILDING. 1328 0 STREET centered ccordiii to Act of Congress of Mart: j, 1879, at the Postoflice t Lincoln, Nebraska, M fecond-clM mail mtiter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. SIXTEENTH YEAR $1. 00 PER YEAR When making remittance 4o not leart Boney with nw agencies, postmasters, etc to be forwarded by them. They frequently forget cr remit a different amount than wa left with them, and the subscriber fails to gtt propel ereuli. AddreM (21 us tortious, aad malts ail drafts, mocc- o.-ders, etft, payable to the tltbrasha Independent, Lincoln, ft6. Anonymous comm jications will tot W BOticed. Rejected manuscripU will net U returned. T. H. TIBBLES, Editor. C. Q. DE FRANCE, Associate Editor. F. D. EAGER, Business iuaiiager. The epidemic of cerebro-splnal men ingitis that has been so fatal in New Fork has reached Chicago. Several deaths resulted from the disease last week. '. It makes an old pop feel good to think that he has lived to see Chicago go populist by 25,000 majority even if they do call it by another namel The business man opposes the gov ernment ownership of railroads be cause it tends to the centralization of government and stops his rebates. For .twenty years some of. us have been , doing , tho ; endless, ' thankless tasks ;WijLhout which1 a cause dies. jNo.'oift os-are), sorry; y. ; ; ,' ' The: New York World says the "de mocracy1 is disorganized, divided and incapable." It is the opinion pf The Independent that that is a very trut.h- ful statement. ' 1 - . . ' "" . The foreign missionary and tract so cieties are largely financed by the graveyards. It is bequests and con science money from the big thieves that furnish most of the funds. The transformation of the world lies in' a correct answer to this question: Is thought a form of energy? If it is, after men haarh how to properly use that energy, what may not be accom plished? : . . The patent medicine concerns are one of the great blessings of the land. If It were not for the advertising that they pay for in the newspapers, the subscription rate of most papers would have to be doubled. Russia is still having trouble getting a loan floated. If she will agree to pay $500,000,000 indemnity to Japan and abstain from fighting Japan for 25 nmnnnt within 9.i hours In and around Judge Dunne, who swept Chicago with nearly 25,000 ma jority on a populist platform, there are any amount of political possibil ities. There has - been an : impetus given to public ownership that will ef fect the whole; United States. That congressman who introduced the resolution should instead have asked for an appropriation to buy a few copies of Miss Tarbell's ' book. Copies of all the official documents, court decisions and description of the .acts of piracy and robbery can be found there. The career of Rocke feller can be accurately made up from official documents, the authenticity of which no one denies. Why Harlan Was Defeated The result of the municipal election in Chicago has not caused any surprise among populists. When we predicted four weeks ago that Judge Dunne would undoubtedly defeat John M. Harlan on a simple platform demand ing immediate public ownership of public utilities in the city, we met Just what the people did last Tuesday. In the first place the republicans made a mistake made an ass of them selves by evading the paramount issue and making up faces at Alderman Kenna. It seems that when republi cans were short of material in reply to their opponent, Mr. Kenna. was made a target for attack and criticism. The result of this personal attack on Kenna plainly shows that Kenna has been re-elected alderman by one of the largest majorities ever given an alder man in Chicago. The result further shows that republicans had no influ ence whatever. Their ciriticism and personal attacks did not in any way take a single vote from Kenna. .When the question of honesty is brought before the people in a munic ipal contest, they know that republi cans will not in any way give them immediate municipal ownership; they also know that the republican party under the direct control and leadership of corporations will in nine times out of ten dance to the music of the ring and lobby. While there are many city republi cans who feel sore politically over the result of the municipal contest, we venture to say that they see the mis take made in attempting to make Al derman Kenna the issue. This class of republicans are naturally simple and lacking in the mental make-up. , Judge Dunnp's election is another victory for municipal ownership aii indication that populism is vindicated. In every municipal contest public own ership of public utilities has received considerable attention, and ., it is ap parent, that the people will in the near future rise up and drive the corpora tion classes out of the political arena. The attempt to evade the i5araafouht issue and make personalities a ''side issue," practically defeated Harlan, On the Wrong Track 1 The way to get rid of any evil is to destroy the thing that it feeds upon. The trusts can be destroyed, not by Sherman laws and repressive legisla tion of that kind, but by enacting leg islation that; will prevent rebates, tar iff grafts and special privileges. The way to destroy the lobby is not by en acting laws "specifically making it a crime or driving lobbyists from the State-houses and the national capital, but by electing men to office whom the lobyists know to be of such standing and character that it would be no use to approach them. If you did hot have criminal legislators you would have no criminal v lobby. ' This universal denunciation of lobbyists that the plutocratic papers have been indulging in of late, will produce no effect at all and that is the reason that they engage in it. If one half the space was given to denouncing crimi nal legislators, the work would soon end in success and we would know the lobbyist no more forever. Let reform papers everywhere turn their attention away from the lobbyists and denounce the, criminal members of legislatures. They are the men to attack. Get on the right tracks. With honest men in the legislaturesand in congress there would be no lobbyists. Raising Up Straw Men The fact that the municipal owner ship ticket in St. Louis received only 3,300 votes last Tuesday does not in any way make municipal ownership impractical. 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The principal point made by the World was to the effect that the honest .corporations in the Mound City had been cheated and swindled by boodlers and grafter? who are now serving their time in the Missouri penitentiary. The editorial further states that under municipal ownership, there would be more op portunity for the henchman, the graft er and the boodler. Here is the brilliant republican logic told in a few words which shows the inability of . republican editors and of ficeseekers to meet the issue. Fur thermore it not only shows the inabil ity to discuss the subject; but it plain ly shows that the republican editors are a vain lot of ignoramuses defend ing and portecting the system that breeds grafters, boodlers and hench men. When the World declared that under municipal ownership there would be more opportunity for the grafter, he simply pulled his breeches down to demonstrate the fact that he had oundoubtedly .been thinking of an entirely new subject. Any sane man knows that under municipal ownership there would be no opportunity for the grafter or the henchman! Only in cities where private inter ests own and manipulate the city af fairs breeds the grafter and the hench man. No better illustration of this fact can be found than the one found in St. Louis; Philadelphia and other cities. When the editor of the World de clared that the voters in St. Louis did their duty in voting against the mu nicipal ownership ticket he put him self in line with the corruptlpnists, grafters and political demagogues. He showed that the Mound City needed no reform and begged other cities to follow St. Louis breeding graft, brib ery and anarchy making it criminal for people to speak against the dia bolical system which is protected by the arm- of so-called - republican jour nalists. - It must have been taxing -for the editor of the World to work all day in attem pting to prepare material against municipal ownership and found nothing but the vote in St. 1 Louis. . A Return to Torture The independent has often called at tention to the .sweatbox methods of the police in the cities, and the cru elties and tortures they employ in at tempting to force suspected persons to confess that they are guilty. There is .no better evidence of degeneracy than the permitting by judges of these un constitutional methods. The judge that. permits it is more vile than the brutal police under whose supervision these cruelties are carried out. The men who laid the foundations of this government supposed that they had abolished torture. They did abolish it until the day of the keen 'and crimi nal lawyer arrived, who after prac ticing his deviltries in the interest of the trusts and corporations for a while is elevated to the bench and then we call him "judge," : while the plutocratic press endeavors to impress upon the minds of the people that the "judge" is infallible. - The San Fran cisco police have been engaged in their usual method of torturing. The report of their work is as follows: San Francisco, April 11. As a re sult of the torture to which she was subjected Mrs. Rosa Torturici, wife of tho suspected murderer of Biagio Wil- i i - i.ii i i. jfirao is menumy ana nnysicanv nros- trate and is under the care of a phyfi cian. In .'an attempt to force a con fession from her Mrs. Torturici was temporarily deprived of her infant and thrust into the autopsy room at tho morgue, where lay the mangled re mains of Villardo. She refused to look at the body, threw herself on the floor and became hysterical. Then the blood-stained cleaver with which the crime was committed and the blood stained blanket and shawl in which the dismembered trunk was wrapped were suddenly, produced with the re