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." Of
course everyone knows that the su
preme judges hold their offices for six
years and that the term of only one
of them will be extended, under the bi
ennial election law. That little vari
ation from the facts does not at all
effect the statement that the legisla
tion was anarchistic.
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Extravagant Abuse
Some of the abuse poured out on
Rockefeller is extravagant. He took
over the Consolidated Gas company
and issued only $182,000,000 of stock
and bonds on a plant worth $30,000,000.
He might have made it $200,000,000
just as easy, and when we consider
totally depraved as some of those New
totally depraved as some o fthose New
Yorkers have been charging. The fact
that Rockefeller did not water the
stock up to $200,000,000 was brought
out in the investigation ,now going on
in New York city. The consolidation
of the , different companies into ' one
and the watering of the stock was
brought about by some legislation that
Rockefeller's attorneys got through
the legislature legalizing the merging
of manufacturing concerns. But the
lawyers fell down. An unseen and un
expected thing happened. The courts
held that making gas was manufactur
ing, but the distributing of gas was
transportation. As the main part of
the $30,000,000 actually invested was
in mains and pipes, Consolidated Gas
is up against a hard proposition. But
It will get out of it. 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. It says:
The farmers, who have been the con
servative force in this country here
tofore, will have a strong inducement
to throw their votes in the direction
of the ownership of railroads by the
federal government. What is going to
come out of it no man can tell, or '
even fully imagine. -
The Tribune has also come to the '.
conclusion that the men who are re
sponsible for this dangerous condi- '
tion of affairs are not the agitators,
but monopolists, like Morgan, Hill and
Harrlman. It is their unreasonable
extortion that has brought it all about.
