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APRIL 13, 1905 PA02I vNobrasktx Indopondont cult almost of driving the terror striken woman insane. Her condition today was reported as serious. A Great Sea Fight It has been almost exactly a hun dred years since the battle of Trafal gar was fought." Since that time there has been no sea fight that anywhere approached it either in the number of vessels engaged of the stake that was fought for. In a few days there will be a sea battle of even greater im portance and the forces engaged far superior in number and much more powerful in equipment. Now, as then, the stake is the control of the sea. When Nelson met the French and Admiral Togo meets Rojestvensky the control of the sea is the thing that is fought for. If the Japanese are vic torious, Russia will be driven from the Pacific. If the Russians are voctor ious, Japan will not only loose a battle but all the battles she has fought since the war began. The tremendous secrifices at Port. Arthur, Lioa Yang and Mukden will have been in vain. It will be impossible for the Japanese to maintain an army in Manchuria if Rus sia has control of the sea. " ." When Nelson fought Villeneuve, Nel son's, ships were the best then afloat, although they, were fewer in number than those under the French com mander, but Nelson's men were aflame with patriotism. Practically the same condition exists in the two fleets soon to meet. Togo has fewer ships, but veterans crews, every - man believing that the greatest honor he can con fer upon himself and family Js to die for his country. The Russian com mander has more ships, but not in so good condition, while they are manned with raw crews, having no heart in the war. . , J Trouble Ahead " V ' 5 Every . Englishman that comes to this country expresses the utmost as tonishment at the stupid humility of the Americans who have allowed the trusts to grow up and submit to the exhorbitaht charges' made for every thing that goes towards sustaining life. Rider Haggard, the. novelist, Is in this country and the other day at Denver he said: . - I see nothing but revolution and ruin in this country if you do not curb youf gigantic trusts. Prices have been ele vated to the prohibitive point for all except the very rich, and this will cause trouble unless a remedy is quickly and thoroughly applied. Why, the bacon we eat here on the table costs more in Colorado, where it is made, than it does in England. Rider Haggard is one of the commis sioners of the Cecil Rhodes fund, left in the hands of the British govern ment to be administered in the inter est of education and general humani tarianism. Mr. Haggard has instantly recognized the truth of what The In dependent has .been saying. The trusts and tariff grafters are trying to take all the increase of wealth that comes from the advance in science, invention and education. Speaking of the con ditions here he said: . As wages advance the cost of living Increases all told. How long can this continue? Relief, must come or the foundations of society will be over: turned. The recent nonsensical strike on the subway in New York is still being discussed in the New York papers. Some new ideas are being evolved. The fact is brought' out that under the common law both the combina tions of capitalists and laborers were Illegal. They have been made legal by statutory enactment. It is now pro- nosed that arbitration shall be made mandatory and that obedience to a de cision of a board of arbitration could be secured by withdrawing the pro tection afforded to labor unions and capitalists secured by statutes author izing them to form combination when ever they refused, and leaving them liable to all the pains and penalties prescribed in the common law. Seth Low, ex-mayor of New York, has given in his adhesion to that' plan. Supreme Court Anarchists Iloldrege, Paul Morton and Schnei der were the ones who fixed up the appointments of the new supreme court commissioners. The supreme court has gone in to damning the con stitution with more vigor than the an archists in the legislature did. The court appointed Jackson on a commis sion who was a member of the legis lature who voted for the bill creating the office, for the appropriation for the payment of the salaries and who at the time of his appointment was hold ing another office. The Lincoln News remarks that "the. minor plums dis tributed in this connection have been kept in the families of the members of the commission and, the court. A son of Judge Barnes is to act as sten ographer for Commissioner Oldham, while the wife of Mr. Duffle is to act as his' stenographer. Some ten or more years ago it was the practice of su preme judges to name their wives as their stenographers, but it J was- "dis continued when public criticism - be came caustic." t The simple truth is ", that we have no constitutional government' at all in this state. We are subject to the whims of agents of the corporations who are under no constitutional re straints at all. It is not exaggeration to say that. It is the statement of fact. . . ' ... v ;. Dangerous Lawyers ; v Rockefeller, for the first time in his life, has been forced to attempt to defend himself. He ordered his chief attorney, S. C. T. Dodd to reply to the attacks that have been recently made upon Standard Oil and Rockefeller himself. In regard to that defense Rev. Washington Gladden "says: A big. lawyer may be the worst man in the country. Masking his practices under the respectability that his pro fession affords he. has the opportunity to become more dangerous than a man in any other profession. On Sunday I shall preach on "Lawyer Religion." It affords me 'an . opportunity to say' some thing about one Dodd. Until then I shall" make no further reply to Dodd's attack, "- t 'sJssssA " A Full Fledned Populist Judge Dunne, who carried Chicago by 25,000 majority, seems to be a full fledged populist. He was invited- to address the municipal ownership league in New York. - In his speech there he said: ; The movement in favor of munici pal ownership of all public utilities has taken deep root among the intel ligent people of this country. It is no passing sentiment. It is here to stay. Municipal ownership and operation of these utilities and governmental own ership of railways, telegraphs fcnd ex press transportation is a practical question upon which the people must pass within a short time, and the poli ticians and parties who ignore this sentiment must be prepared for a years of the past when he has been It has often seemed strange to the editor of The Independent during the boost socialism and thus draw votes advocating public ownership, that the wise men of the state looked upon him as "just a little off," while others thought he was dangerous to the wel fare of the people. He has often won dered why the doctrine was not in stantly and unanimously accepted. Now he can look forward with full faith that in the not distant future it will be unanimously accepted. There was a mistake in The Inde pendent last week, in the article- en titled "Wild-eyed Legislation." 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It will put some more money in the hands of the law yers and boodle legislators, and every thing will come out right. Just at present it is having trouble. A Very Strange Thing One of the funny things in the Chi- ' ' cago mayoralty campaign was the ef fort made by the republican dailies to boost socialism and thusd raw votes away from Judge Dunne. It did not succeed as the socialist vote fell off in stead, of increasing. Those big re publicans gave articles a column long describing the beauties of socialism r..'l ih( InvpHrtPsa of RnHalista ppn. erally. Judge Dunne resented strong ly, as every populist does, 'the charge : that there was any socialism in the public ownership of street cars, steam . cars, gas plants, electric lighting : . plants, and of anything that is a nat ural monopoly. The Chicago Tribune is really frightened at the prospect ahead. 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