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10 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT OCTOBER 8. 1903, . matlc relations with foreign nations of its own account? ' 5 (i o i NEWS OF THE. WEEK 8 ...... . . 8 A Week ty Resume of the Really Vital News by the Editor w Postmaster General Payne keeps on Indicting Beavers. Two-or three more indictments were filed during the week. Payne seems determined to keep It up until all the blank indictments are used up. The trial of James H. Tillman for scooting editor N. T. Gonzales has continued through the week. The In ' dependent has no sympathy with any of the men who engage in these south ern shooting affrays, and none what ever with Tillman, but it wishes to register a protest against the way the northern dailies are reporting that trial. They give but one side of the case. One whole day was taken s up with reading the denunciations and slanders contained in the editorials nrintedln Gonzales naner durintr one year. While Tillman has been de nounced continuously by the editors of northern papers, they cut out all ref erence to the matter In these Gonzales editorials which was sent to them by the Associated pres. The nature of these attacks on Tillman by Gonzales can be seen from the following sam ple and there were scores of th'un 11 e ! Gonzales, in spea1 ing of Tillman, says: "He is a proven liar, defaulter, gambler and drunkard, a character that has never before essayed to offer himself for the chief executive of a proud - commonwealth. A man who has not accounted for the monev en trusted to him to build a confederate monument, though repeatedly called upon to do so." Most men will won der why the shooting was not done long before it was. The literary bureau cf the republican party located in the census office at Washington is about to issue a bulle tin denying that the cost of living has Increased 27 per cent -and declaring that wages have advanced as much as the most of living. That is the kind of work that the bureau was expected to do when it was made a permanent thing. Let any housewife look over her accounts for the last three years and then ask her' whether the cost -of living has advanced 27 per cent or not. The-Madden, raids on this offtce in tended to1" suppress -or .curtail the cir culation of The Independent have at tracted a good deal of attention throughout the United States. The autocracy out in Colorado have adopt ed a more speedy and effectual meth od of suppressing papers to which it Is opposed. The mil'tarv raided the office of the Victor Record. The raid was made because in a recent issue the paper called a member of the na tional guard an ex-coniot. Some hoTirs after the "editorial and mechanical force of the Record had been arrested and placed in the military jail, called the bull pen. the aggrieved soldier was sent to make a formal complaint against the prironers. The arrests thus were aecompHhed before the complaint were filed, and included printers and other person who wpre not in any wav responsible for the matter published in the paper. Not withstanding all that, the wife of ODe of the emploves. after barricadine all the doors and windows, went to work on a linotvpe machine, set the matter, made up the forms, smugeled a press man in. got out the paper on time and although the soldiers were still guard ing the buiMing, opened the doors and let the newsboys in who went out and tried to sen papers to the guards. But the soldiers are still there mak ing arrests accordine.to their whims and notions. The "sappers and miners of liberty" of which Lincoln warned us are at, work, in every part of the country. Y, maimed for life. Capital not only de mands the earnings of the people, but often times their lives also. The infernal lying constantly in dulged by the daily press has an ex ample in the stories persistently pub lished for month3 asserting that the steel trust had orders ahead for a year to the amount of the full possible out put was the only paper to denounce as false these stories.. Now the stel Will there be another Homestead riot? The steel' trust has posted no tices cf & reduction cf ages there? The steel trust first induced its em ployes to Invest all the money they had saved in its stock and now it pro poses to reduce wages, trusting to win because the workers have nothing saved up to live on during a strike. Miss Ruth Bryan, daughter of Will iam J. Bryan, was married last Sat urday, on her eighteenth birthday, to Wiliam Homer I eavitt, an artw of Newport, R. I. It. is said that New- of the mill3. The Independent iUn i i- T i. i i nr iiiiiiiiv in iiiir in ii. v in ir widower thirty -two years of age. He , came to Lincoln last spring tn '- fee in his place. All that Miles sail about that bill is. comtngtruevr ,r Senator Hanna is making about as big a fool of himself in his speeches as any ward politician .eyerdidr He Is, accusing Tom Johnson of being indi rectly responsible for ther murder cf McKinley, becaus3 Johnson advocates some things which Hanna calls so cialism, and the socialists caused the death of McKinley, he says George Fred TVilliams refused even to attend the Massachusetts demo cratic state convention. The Boston papers speak of his absence in the fol- lowing way: "The session of today lacked the exciting features of former year. There was missing the plctur tfsqueness and fire lent by George Frd Williams and his train of moral .t-fffSS Vr lm i Portrait of Mr. Brvan to be exhibited j Bacchants who formed the Massachus- and shutting down many plants be cause, as they say, of overproduction, md the Impossibility of selling their "roods. Still the dailies go lying in their old fashion without any let-up. They seem to think that, there is no possibility of an overproduction of lies. ' at the St. Louis fair. The Colorado militia is still resist ing the courts and defying arrest pon warrants issued by the district judees The sheriff has been told that he cold not serve warrants for false Imprls- to' military rule. There seems to he L J!i5..ag!L c.cPl!?cf little of "the spirit of 76" out in that "T So many persons are killed on grade crossings in Chicago, the Catholic priests keep bicycles standing ready at their doors so that they can in stantly mount and hasten away to ad minister to the dying. Some of the Chicago dailies publish cuts of lhse bicycle priests. The victims offered up to Molock and Mammon are more numerous these days than at any time in all history. setts corps of the army of Bryanism.' The Massachusetts democracy h.as been so thoroughly captured bv the gold democrats that the nomination of Osston, the greatest corporation man In the state, for governor wa3 made by acclamation. There was not one pro testing voice in the whole convention. So thoroughly plutocratic was the whole affair that th convention in drleed in insulting flings at the peo ple's party in Its platform. Tn 1 and 1900 the Massachusetts delation to the national democrauc convention was a Brvan delegation, with that brilliant orator end honest, patriot, George Fred .Williams, at . its head. What hope any man can have of the Kansas Citv democrats controlllnc the next democratic " national convention Is past comprehension. The "pathway of . capital Is strewn" with the. blood of the' ponle. Dnririg the month of RentemW fiftv-four per sons were killed. In CMraeq on street car and rnllroad crossings, besides a large number wounded and some region. This is the defiance General Bell, a militia general, issued to the courts: "I will say right now that neither the sheriff of the county of Teller or any other countv nor any constable or any number of them will be allowed to serve any civil process from any court in the state upon any officer of this guard while on duty." On with the dance! The mine owners who broueht on the Boer war are suffering the re venges of outraged justice. The offi cial report from Johannesburg an nounces that there is a shortage of 115.000 laborers in the country and ro prospects of anv more coming. Half the mines are idlo. The czar of Russia and the emperor of Austria have been holding a con sultation over the horrible state of af fairs in Macedonia. It appears that the settlement of the trouble there have, by the other powers, been dele gated to them. Some sharp orders ere sent to the sultan through the Rusian and Austrian ministers at Constantinople. The sultan is accused of needless and barbarous cruelties and the two governments say that it is their duty to come to the assistance of the victims. We may therefore look for something to be done. The agents a , j. VII B LULL IIUIVCIOILV U V lllfriai Wiai I j tee AAA a & -a i n.i: x 1 nf tha ffori Prnco aav Vi n t (liAncanila et Ills, .thi.W IU iVHfiniCl a tllII1IIIK lO vv .u Viuuo Mini mviuiuuu vvi Morgan has not only lost his prest ige In Europe, but a good many of the eastern papers are poking fun at him. The following are some of the expressions they use: "Sic transit gloria mundl - We read in the papers, now, that It requires yacht races to get Mr. Morgan's name into the pa pershe who, a few short months aeo, overshadowed the earth. So passes the glory of this world. Solomon, or whoever wrote Ecclesiastcs, would have enloyed the history of Mr. Mor gan. All is vanity." "Hts name has lost its magic." "An exploded proph et," etc. - The street car magnates of Toledo bought up the city council and had the pegs all set to pass an ordinance to suit them. That is the town Golden Rule Jones rules oyer. The night that the ordinance was to be passed, half the male population of the city turned cut, packed the council room, the halls and streets. The council did not pass the ordinance. They thought that they saw blood in the eyes of the crowd. Would it not have been bet ter for the people of that city long ago to have adopted the referendum? If they had, they would not have had to resort to a semi-riot to prevent a rascally council frc selling them out The total Jewish population ofthe United States is now 1,127,268, while there are only 26,614; in the British empire. ' ' - - be used for relleious purposes provid ed tht the citizen?? would give the remainder of $100,000. is growing all the time. In the excitement that fol lowed the offer about $10,000 was b STibed and thue subscrmtious souned. The Lincoln Evening News rmari's: "If it were not for the precedent which Mr. Rockefeller has established of raising the price of kerosene sftr everv donation to "M caero university, the citizens of Ne braska ml eht not be so SusoiMo" of the diclnterestdues3 of Rocei'er benevolence. ' The price of vprosepe per .goPnn is of more importance to the whole number of Nraeva rr,n. smners than the comparative small R"m wich the h'r of the'bfwnn! has offered to corrupt the iudmueut and ronfse the vision of the people of this state." women and children are starving to death in the mountains and many hun dreds cf wounded have no medical at tention whatever. - Fifteen new indictments have been handed in during the week of past office officials at Washington. That Ilanna-Heath business demoralized the whole department.: A railroad magnate sent his son from the. Pacific coast to a college on the Atlantic coast The boy traveled in a private car and had two chefs, two porters, a valet and other ser vants to attend to his comfort and be longings. In tha1. magnificent way he passed through the cattle districts of Wyoming and Nebraska where thou sands of farmers are facing bank ruptcy on account of excessive freight rates and the low price of cattle farmers who vote to pay the taxes that the railroads ought to pay and for the judges rnd other state officers that the railroads nominate. The reason they vote that way is because they don't know any better. - The attorney general, Knox , is his name, , always has an opinion ready for any difficulty that arises from un dertaking to make .an empire out of this republic. Last week he decided that the officials of Porto Rfco, al though servics the United. States and appointed by; the president, are not officials of the United States and not entitled to the , franking privilege. Some of these days some foreign com plication will arise with these officials. What will their status be then? Wilt they be simply officials of Porto Rico and will Porto Rico enter into dlplo- The steel trust has been skinning its workmen as well as those pople who bought its stocks. ; The bosses in the works have been making the men pay them a rake-off for giving them work. TLese great combinations ae meAt it.g new difficulties every day. A con cern with an income almost as pieat as that of the largest states, whose p'ants are scattered all over the coun try, roust expect such thincs The tosses stand in very much the same relation as officeholders and thev are no better sort of men. They will tae a rake-off whenever thev can get it. TTow can the head officers located in New York know what is poin? on in pftnnsrlvania, Michigan, and Wiscon sin? The trust theory is rotten to, the very core. ' - A' lot of scoundrels demanded $50. 000 from the Northern Pacific road, setting a time for Its payment and threatening that if it were not paid tc blow up the trains and bridges with dynamite. Of course the money was. not paid, and one day after, the time set these scoundrels actually did place dynamite on the track eight miles west of Helena, Mont. The front part of the engine was destroyed, but no lives were lost That road owes a duty to the public to hunt the wretches 'down, if it costs $100,000. As a business pro- -position for the road, the : expend t?i re , of that much or even more would be ; a good investment The sort of "spielers" that the re publican party sends to govern our "subjects" in Porto Rico may be gath ered from the fact that those chans down in Porto Rico have been using the franking privilege in such a way that the. steamers were encumbered the roods and chattels sent back home through the use of "the mails. To cut off the graft. Attorney General Knox, decided that thev were not offi cers of the United States and not en titled to the franking privilege. If the "civilizers" at so near a point as Porto Rico do such things, what do you suppose thev do In the Philippines 10,000 miles away? Three, thousand .business men and citizens of Victor. Colo., sent a -petition to the republican governor of the state asking for the recall of the militia, as the militia was sent there id the first place against the protect o the civil authorities This modern American shah simply replied:' "The militia will stay there." The gold democrats hare complete ly captured the organization in Mas sachusetts. It is now announced that they will not. for thev cannot, make anv state campaign. They, have no Is sues differing sufflcientlv from the re publican party upon which to make a campaign. To attempt to make a speech or write an article upon the thesis, "We Want the Offices, don't seem to be an 'inviting task. ..The reorganization of the army has created such continual disturbances at the war department such prolong Kilkpnny cat fights that it has ben found necessary to transfer General Corbln to the command of the depart ment of the east and put General Chaf- Two of the "civillzers" that we sent, to the Philippines, George Forman, chief inspector, and C. J.. Johnston, constabulary supply officer, being1 . charged with boodl ing, robbed a safe of $6,000, captured a ship and fled. Finding that their ship needed coal, tbey pirated a native vessel and took what coal they needed from it Where -they have gone to nobody knows. The war. department has now an offi cial censor in the person of Col. Henry Alexander Greene. . Colonel Greene forpierlv performed 'the ame duties in the Philippines. , Imperialism con tinues to. advance step by step. Vote v 'er straight. . . ' . The shrinkage In the value of steel stock, from the price it. sold at last year to, the present time is $402,438. 768. or just about 50 per cent Or negie holds a first mortgage on the whole concern of $301,059,000. which is probablv all that it is really worth. Carnegie don't care a fig whether steel stock goes up or ,goes , down. ... Mor gan is the man who walks the jBoor. Your Troubles Readers of The Independent who have, troubles physical troubles Ill ness of any kind or character, should write to Drs. Searles and .Searles of this , city giving a full -description of the trouble. It is follyto suffer from a disease that continues-to weaken the system, sap the energy and event ually claims, your life when you can E,et treatment from specialists who will cure you in a short time. Many cases can be successfully treated by ioall. These doctors conduct all their own correspondence and preserve it strictly private and confidential All rrivate letters they answer personal ly with a pen and thus avoid the pos sibility of Information getting out through the carelessness of a confi dential stenographer. Tell your trou bles to Drs. Searles and Searles. P. O. box 224, Lincoln. Neb.,' and you will never have occasion to Tegret it. P Farmers, Attention! Do. you wish to sell your farm?. If so, send full description, lowest price and best terms. . Or; if you . wish . to buy a farm, ranch or Lincoln home, write to or call on Williams & Bratt. 1105 O st. Lincoln,, Neb. ....