The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-10-22

uepOSlJ III tue DdHlAS, anu III, DIS threat
ened, these deposits should be with
drawn and locked up in safe-deposit
vaults by way of response to the dam
| age suits being brought against the
unions here and there, it would be
serious matter. The taking of such
sum of money abruptly from circula-
| ton would cause a most disastrous
contraction.
Secretary Shaw and 200 other re-
publican speakers, drawn from every
part Of the country, are in Ohio all
trying to save Mark Hanna. There
must be something going on in the
old Buckeye State of which the Asso-
ciated press tells us nothing.
Ministers wait with more than the
patience of Job for proper occasion
t. say something from the pulpit
about the universal corruption brought
about by the bribing corporations in
the cities and towns of the country.
However, one Of them, Rev. Maurice
OConnor of Harrison, N. j., found an
occasion last Sunday and this is what
he said: Half dozen INSCRIPTIONS
men have given away their town and
are building Chinese walls about it.
They are grafters' who have sold
their souls and battered away your
rights and the rights of your chill
dren's children forever for few thou
sand dollars. What is the remedy?
1t is not in hanging the aldermen out
of the windows with robes; that is
mob rule 1t is the ballot you vote.
Vote an honest, straight ballot, not
| a scavenger ballot. My God, people,
why don't you rouse yourself up and
show that you are men. and wrest the
control of the town from the hands
of these INSCRIPTIONS men who have
1t in their grasp?"
AS steel stock goes down, Jupiter
Morgan himself continues to reach
new low record" each day.
Murat Halstead regards William
Randolph Hearst as the logical and
coming democratic presidential candi-
date, and is prepared to demonstrate
his prediction with all the resources
of veteran observer in politics. A
little while ago Murat was "a rip roar
ing republican and great admirer
of the strenuous one"
Down in New York city. which is
the breeding farm of millionaires,
there are $1,000 children who cannot
go to school because there are not
enough school houses to give them
seats. That has been the condition for
years and years Carnegie lives there
and he is giving away millions for IL
braries while thousands of children in
his own city are growing up who can
not even read, because there are no
school houses and no one to teach
them.
Madness still reigns at Washington.
Secretary Moody will demand $1O2,-
Se6,440 for the navy this year. We
are to go on spending millions build
ing these old steel tubs that cost thou
sands of dollars a year to maintain
and keep in repair and which in a |
few years will be sold for old junk.
Young Mickey, whom his father ap-
pointed to an Office to keep all the
money possible in the family, recently
made visit to the cattle section of
this state and says that the cattle
men are trying to get out of the bust |
ness. The truth is that the sheriff will
put good many of them out of the
business whether they want to get
out or not. The meat trust is after
them and it has the sheriffs to enforce
it's orders. The Independent regrets
that Mickey and his son are not also
IN the cattle business. But they deal
only in first mortgages on Nebraska |
farms.
The Standard Oil company an
nounces another raise in the price of |
oil-the third in ten days. No wonder
Mr.. Rockefeller wants to hire a hall |
and tell the world what religion has
done for him.
Nearly every shoulder-strapped gen.
tleman who went down to Cripple |
Creek in Colorado to utterly Destroy
the labor unions has been ordered to
appear before court-martial. Among
the charges to be investigated are
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