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APRIL 13, 1905
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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. Our republican dreamer,
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, had
such a severe attack of brain fever
that the editor of the Cleveland World
must have caught the disease from
reading the editorial in the Globe-Dem
ocrat for he devotes nearly a column
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of his valuable space, in attempting to
show why the municipal ownership
ticket was defeated. 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-
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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
