The independent., 1903-06-11

gold.
The contest between the homestead,
ers acting under the law and the dig
cattlemen who are acting in direct
violation Of the law seems to increase
in violence. Three men were mur-
dered in Cheyenne county, Kansas,
and those who perpetrated the deed,
being threatened with a mob, the gov
ernor of Kansas ordered out the MI
litia. All The Independent has to say
is that the law ought to be enforced in
regard to fencing of public land ana
is against good public polio!
the law ought to be changed. Ii the
administration had given positive no
tiee that the law would be enforced.
no violence would have occurred.
When it comes to assessing eorpor-
ations, republican boards of equaliza-
tion are same everywhere. In Colo
rado the board has reduced the as
sessment of railroads and express
companies over $1,000,o00. When the
other taxpayers vote the republican
ticket, that is what tney vote for
They should not kick about it after
wards like Rosewater does.
w. E. Curtis is still booming Judge
Parker of New York for the demo
cratic nomination for president. As
Curtis is one of the most partisan AMI
prejudiced republicans in the United
States, the reason of his activity for
Judge Parker can be very easily sur
missed.
The colleges and universities all
over the land are publishing their
statistics summing up the year
work and comparing it with the re-
suits of former years. The testimony
of the authorities of all the universi-
ties is that for the last ten years the
women students have shown capac
ity for prosecuting the most advanced
and difficult work of the universities
and that carefully prepared statistics
show that the women have led the
men in higher scholarship by 10 per
cent. The presidents say that thav
do not think that the women have
superior minds, but the women are
more conscientious and diligent in
their studies. College men give to)
much time to athletics and other
things outside of their studies.
Every day there are announcements
Of more arrests and indictments oI
the postoifice thieves. 1t now appears
that every division of the postoffice
service is infected with thieves The
losses so far discovered amount to
more than $500,000. The thieving b.
ry,s4l :, 81
has continued ever since.
The famine in the province of Kwan
ST, China, is one Of the most terrible
ever known. The people are dying of
starvation by the thousands. Some
contributions have been sent from
this country, the Christian Herald
having sent $4,000 and others who
have learned of the awful suffering
there smaller sums. The heavy taxes
levied to meet the indemnity demand
ed by the rich Christian nations of
the earth are responsible for part Of
tie distress.
The explanation of the Russian chi4f
of police of the recent massacre of
Jews is a fine exhibition of Russian
diplomatic writing. He charges the
Jews with being the aggressors an |
winds up with this sentence: "Tae
Russian peasants when driven y
frenzy and excited by race and relig-
ious hatred, and under the influence
of alcohol, being worse than the
Americans who lynch negroes"
The Quakers of Pennsylvania ara
taking as firm a sand against child
slavery as they did against negro
lavery in the days when Wendell |
Philips and Garrison were welcomed |
to their meeting houses. At a recent
meeting Mrs. Florence Kelley, Sec
retary of the National Consumers
league, declared that child labor con-
ditions were worse in that state than
in any other place in the world, nor
excepting Russia. She showed that il
the state there are now $4,000 children |
between the ages of 13 and 16 en-
ployed at hard labor, greater num- |
Der than are employed in all the |
southern states put together. The re-
p1ih1inop of ~ of |