The independent., 1903-10-08
matte relations with foreign nations
of its own account? M

matte relations with foreign nations
OF its own account?
7 Will there be another Homestead
riot? The steel trust has posted no
| tees of of rsarct:c. cf wages there?
The steel trust first induced its en-
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
lam j. Bryan, was married last Sat-
urday, on her eighteenth birthday, to
| William Homer Ieavitt, an artict of
! Newport, r. I. 1t ls said that New
port will be the future residence of
1 the happy couple. Mr.. Leavitt is a
widower thirty-two years of age. He
came to Lincoln last spring to ~ :, {
portrait of Mr.. Brvan to be exhibited
at the st. Louis fair.
| 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 these
| bicycle priests. The victims offered
up to Molock and Mammon are more
| numerous these days than at any time
in all history. :
| The feeling against the acceptance
Of Rockefeller's proposition to get a
hold on the staff university bv donat-
ing S660 to construct a building to
be used for religious purposes provid-
| ed that the citizens would give the
remainder of 500 600 is growing all
the time. In the excitement that fol-
lowed the offer about $4,000 was s"b-
! srribed and there subsrrintious
STONED. The Lincoln Evaning News
remarks: "If it were not for the
precedent which Mr.. Rockefeller has
established of raising the price of
kerosene after everv donation tn Chi
cago university, the citizens of Me-
hrasFa might not be so suspicious of
the dicinterestedness Of Rockefeller
benevoIence. The price Of kerosene
ner gallon Is of more imrnrtance to
the whole number OF Nehraeha com
sinners than the comparative1v small
sum which the heir of the billiora'ro
has offered to cOrrMpt the judgement
end confuse the vision of the people
Of this state"
The steel trust has been skinning its
Unrly q G vvro1 oc vh<
bought it's stocks. The bosses in the
works have been making the men nay
them rake-off for giving them work.
These great combinations are meet
iLg new difficulties every day. A con-
Germ with an income almost as great
as that of the largest states. whose
p'ants are scattered all over the Gown
Try. must expect such things The
losses stand in very much the same
relation as officeholders and thav are
no better sort Of men. They will take
fase-off whenever thew can get it.
How can the head officers located In
New York know what is going on in
PENNSYLVANIA. Michigan, and Wiscon-
s'n? The trust theory is rotten to. the
very core.
The sort Of "spielers" that the re-
publican party sends to govern orr
Subjects" in Porto Rico may be gath
cred from the fact that those chaps
down in Porto Rico have been using
the franking privilege in such way
that the steamers were encnmbnred
With the Foods and chattels sent back
home through the use of the mails.
To cut off the graft. Attorney General
Knox. decided that thev were not off,
GERS of the United States and not en-
titled to the franEing privilege. II
the "civilizers" at so near point as
Porto Rico do such things. what do |
you suppose they do In the Philippines
10000 miles away?
Three thousand business men and
citizens of Victor. Colo. sent petit
tion to the republican governor of the
state asking for the recall of the
militia, as the militia was sent there
In the first place against the protest
o. the civil authorities. This modern
American shah simply replied: "The |
militia viii stay there"
The pnId democrats have connnJoto- |