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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT:; 3 jury Is tru"ealso with reference to a. court. Casta like the present are very likely lo arise, no doubt, when there is a Jury, and the publication may af fect their judgment. Judges, gener ally, perhaps' are less apprehensive that- publication impugning their own reasoning .or . motives, will interfere with their administration of the law. But if a court regards, as it may, a publication concerning a matter of law pending before it as tending to ward such an " interference, it may punish it as in the instance put.; When ' a case" is finished, courts - are subject -to -the same-criticism as other people, but the propriety and necessity of preventing interference with the courts of justice by premature state ment,. argument or. intimidation hardly can be denied. - . . . . In the complications""ofthe Patterson case the real significance of this dec laration by Justice Holmes has been overlooked. Instead of feeling blue over a threatened, assault uj'i the "freedom of the press", the editors may console themselves with the thought that they are free to criticise any court in the land to their heart's content, so long as they do- not dis turb the judges when they- ar. think ing. " MAKING A COSSTITUTIOX. -.Th constitutional convention of Oklahoma reassembles for the purpose of passing finally upon the document that has been submitted during the recess to a committee for editing and revision. If the work is found satis factory and no new propositions are successfully submitted by , delegates, the constitution will be signed and submitted to a popular vote on August C. As it stands it is the longest con stitution in the country, and for that reason the convention may decide not to give it any further bulk. It con tains about 100,000 words, against 6,000 in the constitution of the United States. The extra length is caused, of course, by the introduction of a large amount of matter that in other states is inserted in the statutes. - A curious experience of this conven tion, is that it has been enjoined by the Oklahoma supreme court, ana must do a part of its work over again or. disobey the injunction. Inasmuch as the convention comes directly irom the people, and its work must be submitted to the voters of the entire state for their approval, the members are inclined to believe that this reach ing out of the temporary government of the territory to influence the organic law nf the new state is somewhat out of place and that the order of the court can be evaded with impunity. CHKKR THE GOOD PI. AY. General Lee drew himself up in his saddle and closed his field glasses at Ihe battle of Gettysburg as he watched the broken fragments- of ...Pickett s; division break into shapeless rout be fore the stone wall on Cemetery ilill, with this exclamation: "Well, gentle men, we cannot always win victories." The commander .of the university of Nebraska debating st?uads might find consolation in General Lee's philosophy this spring. After an unbroken series of victories, hard fought and closely won, it seems their turn to take de feat. They ought to do it. with a smil ing face but more firmly fortified hearts. IiT all the imitation battles of the" present day whose object is the nerving of mind and muscle for the real conflicts of life the true principle is that the prize is not presented to the winner of first place but to all who participate. There is a special stimulus to the praise which goes with highest honors, but the real victory is the social victory which all enjoy. There is a need of deeper philosophy of defeat in life, A few years ago the university of Nebraska football team was winning every game. Its enthusi asts were heart broken and comfort less when it began to lose. And yet whatever of discipline and desirability there is in football has survived the defeats of the unfortunate seasons. If the game is well and honestly p!ny-il and disciplined for, it has done Its duty. If the debating squads and football teams of one university should win every contest how much of Inter fc.isj.iw .won ipmsv isoi aq pmow H from watching the pennant fluctuate, These observations have an applica tion to the opening of the baseball -season in L,in;uln. Every loyal Lincoln fan fondly hones that the team may win first place. But, after all. It is not necessary that Lincoln should win all the time in order to enjoy the game and support it with enthusiasm. The tail ender in the baseball circuit is just as essential to the sport as the pen nant winner. And if the tail ender last year should win this year can we not all rejoice? So, stand up for the. home team, but cheer the visitors when they make a good play. A RKMIMSCENXTB. When railroad managers weep over the ruin that is bound to follow the regulation of their business by the pub lic, the people will be excused if they look ovt past records and laugh be hind their palms over the things they rind. For example, when Jay Gould, the Harriman of the railroad world of the last generation, visited Lincoln twenty years ago today, he wns asked concerning the state of the transporta tion business generally. His answer is from the columns of The Journal of that date: "The railroad business is good," was the answer, "but the inter-state com merce law will have a bad effect. It will greatly injure the business of the roads." - "Do you think it will have a tendency to discourage railroad building?" "I most certainly do." The rest of the year 18S7 saw more railroad building than the country had ever experienced in a similar period. The activity was continued until it was checked automatically by the excessive building of new lines in unproductive FARMERS' ORGANIZATION TO SECURE DOLLAR WHEAT OMAHA, Neb., April ; J. A. Everitt, president of the American Society of Equity, is in the city and has arranged for a convention of the grain growers' department to meet for the organization in this city June 5, 6, 7. "The delegates will come principally from Ihe states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska. Kan sas and Oklahoma. A cordial invita tion from the Commercial club has been given. The American Society of Equity is a business organization of farmers with local societies in 2,700 of the 3,000 agri cultural counties in the United States. Its purpose is to carry on its organiza tion work through local societies, or ganized into state unions; but its busi ness side will be strongly developed along the lines of departments cover ing various farm products. Such departments already organized are those of fruit and produce and of tobacco. "--- " Now the grain growers' department is to be the third started under way. Tho purpose is to establish a central bureau to gather and disseminate In formation concerning supply and de mand to the farmers; to fix a minimum of prices below which the farmers aj?ree not to sell, and to handle ana Her Telegram. ' . Tit Bits: An excited young woman hurried into a telegraph office in the north of London recently, and said that she desired to send a telegram to her husband. "Very well," replied the clerk in at tendance; "there are some forms." "Oh, I know that," she replied, and then she wrote: "Dear George: I've something too dreadful to tell you, but please don't get excited, dear, for it can't be helped now, and baby and I are perfectly safe. I don't know, and cook says she don't know, and none of us can account for it, but the house caught Are last night and burnt to the ground. Just think of It! Did you ever hear of anything so dreadful in your life? I am half wild over it. But please keep calm, dear. Baby and I are safe, and most of the things are saved, and you mustn't think of any thing but how niuh worse It might have been. What If baby had been SHINN'S COPPER CABLE LIGHTNING RODS Thin la th (lenuine I'urt Soft Cppr Cable Can d utter, nvaiin of ttin twt rad of copper wtr po atbla to buy. Tbomanda of building hat t"n pro toctml with our avatam of Cal, each, on of which land a proof of tfcetr baolut iprotnrtloa. Thrt wWtora Fire Irauranca Co., of Lincoln, aaJ La National Mutual lira Inauranoa Co.. of Oaa&a. two ladtnj( toauranca companion, ara making a liberal d'.acount oa iDnuranee, wnera our caWa ta dead. THIS 15 EVIDENCE TO YOU OP TMH VALID OP OUR WORK. , Mora Daalara Wanted to Handla Our Qoodt. W. C. SHINU, Manufacturer FACTORY 322 S. 11TH ST.. LINCOLN. NCt. territory. That means that the inter state commerce act of 1887 that was abrut to "rain the railroads" in fact did not put a straw in the way of legit mate railroad development. The cry that is raised now. will lcok quite as silly in twenty years as Ja,y Gould1! de nunciation of the law twenty years ago. ME II IT IS THE POSTOFF1CK. President Roosevelt could win in his fight . to take the postotiices out of politics if he were not engaged in bigger work just now that makes it necessary for him to continue on amicable terms with congress. While his order to reappoint all postmasters w ho have made a clean record is eternally right, and will be the law some day, t is now being modified to meet the exigencies of politics. The members of congress have so long looked upon these places as theirs by right that they will not give way to the n.jw order without making a nasty disturbance. Having all the, trouble on his hands that the most strenuous man in the world could manage at once, the president naturally gives the matter a subsidiary place on his list of reforms for the present. The change in fact is one that ought to come '.up. from the peo ple and not . down from the . of fice of the chief executive. Do the people want their . postmasters re tained on merit alone, or do they want them changed without regard to cfflei ciency every time a new congressman is elected in the district and every time a new administration Is installed in Washington ? ... .If we' are to have the postoitice "department reaen the full limit of its effectiveness, it is time to think of these things. divert the grain from the source of supply to the points of demand as needed, not causing a glut of tho mar ket at any one point at any time. Mr. Everitt says: " "This means that the farmers this year will fix the minimum price of wheat in the six great wheat produc ing states at $1 per bushel. They may sell above this price, but not below, according to their agreement with the American Society of Equity. The far mers -of Minnesota .are keenly Inter ested; in North Dakota, they are en terprising, and at the meeting of the state union they were invited by the state bankers' association to appoint a committee to confer with a similar committee of bankers to arrange for carrying along the poor farmers who would otherwi.se be forced to sell be low the minimum. "In South Dakota, they are less en terprising as yet; in Nebraska, the work has grown wonderfully, being es pecially strong in the central part of the state; 'in Kansas, the farmers are thoroughly alive to the situation; and in Oklahoma, there is need of more awakening." Mr. Everitt leav:s this evening vo confer with O. B. Shafer, president of trw Nebraska union, at Hastings. burned! Oh, George, don't it make you shudder to think of it?. But the dear little darling is perfectly safe, and of course we went right straight to mamma's, and you can't think how frightened she was until she knew we were safe. And I know how shocked you'll be, you poor, dear boy; but as baby and I are safe, you oughtn't to mind anything else. I can't imagine how the fire started. Can you? Do you suppose someone set the house on fire? Oh. it's too dreadful to think of. Come immediately home. Mamie. "P. S. Remember that baby and I are safe. M." "There," nhe Said, an she handed the seven telegraph forms sh h.d filled to the clerk. "I suppose it might be condensed a little." "Yes. I think It might," he replied, as he took a fresh form and wrote: "Our house burned to the ground last night. All safe. Co mo home. Mamie." :. J ft' - TU't. . tl.ft 'turn" HEJCFEW ' " Wj - Hungry Hank Dey say de earth : gors round Fatigued Fran k Dat a untruth, . cause if it does l never got my share CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. J Two severe earthquake shocks were felt at Manila. The nattier Kansas was placed In commission. A now cabinet has b en formed In Montenegro. Regis H. Post was inaugurated gov ernor of Porto Rico. The Ancient Order of United Workmen waa ousted from Ohio. A snowstorm In Colorado reachod the proportions of a blizzard. Socretary Taft find his party sailed for home from San Juan, P. I. Snow fell Thursday In Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. Suspnnded students of Drury college apologized and were reinstated. Governor Warner of Michigan signed the 2-cent fare bill, which becomes ef fective In-September.. " The United States Steel corporation has fixed-the selling price of rails for the season of 1908 at $28 per ton. The proposed Issue of about twenty six million dollars of new. stock of the Now Haven Railroad company will ba deferred. - Alvey A, Adee, assistant secretary of the state department, was a passenger on the steamer La Svoie which Balled for Havre. A strike for 15 per , cpntJncreae.Jn wages has practically been declared by the machinists-of- the -Grand Trunk raiU way in Canada. Directors of the Amalgamated Copper company declared a quartely dividend of 1 1-2 per cent and an extra dividend of one-half of 1 per cent. Count von Schworin, former councillor of the German embassy at Vienna, haa been appointed German minister to the republics of Central America. Crowds of striking waiters paraded the boulevards of Paris endeavoring to call out non-union waiters. They did nnt mppt with mup.li ' success.- Brigadier General Alfred C. Markiey, recently promoted from colonel of the Thirteenth Infantrv. was d laced on the retired list of the army on account of age. - Directors of the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining company declared a quarterly dividend of J2 per share and an extra dividend of $10 per share. Miss Kthel Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Rocke feller, and Marcelus Hartley Dodge were married at the home of the bride's par ents in New York. The Chemung Copper company fih;d articles of Incorporation with the secre tary of state of Minnesota. The capital stock is 3,(K.O,0C. The company will have its head offices at Duluth. State Entomologist Smith has received reports from the peach-growing districts of Georgia, a summary of which shows that at leat 75 per . cent of the crop haa been killed by the recent cold weather. A FITTING PLACE. IL. Ill Shoe Oerk lists ffcst 13 fits perfectly. Old Madi (i trCa CJ y eoa
