The independent., 1903-12-10

been discharged in the last lew weeks
have been making threats to join the
tariff reformers and are bringing to
public attention the great difference
in the cost of steel and iron to Ameri-
can citizens and English consumers
They say that If the price was re-
duced In the United States to that
which foreigners can buy steel and
iron, that building would go on and
there would be work for all.
1t is too bad that such difference
should be made in the treatment OF
Nebraska's heavenly twins. One Of
them is down at Washington where
he is left to peaceably suck his bottle
Of pap while the other is harried with
grand juries and prosecuting attor-
neys.
The president of the American cot
ton yarn exchange says: The con-
ditions confronting the industry are
the worst in many years. The mills
will not manufacture at loss. They
must, therefore, curtail production and
reduce wages. This will result, un-
doubtedly, in great suffering
AS the times grow harder and the
charity societies have more to do. the
people in the east are beginning to
think little-a very little. Too much
thinking to start with would likely
land them all in the insane asylums.
they have figured out to begin with
that Morgan is the highly respected
and most to be esteemed of the swim
dlers and robbers of the age and that
Schwab as a public plunderel has
never had an equal. They have as yet
not formed an opinion as to whether
such characters should be suppressed
or whether everybody should UNDER
take to become Morgans and Schwabs.
1t Is a good thing, however, for the
masses inhabiting the provinces along
the Atlantic coast to even try to think.
When the Nebraska citizen takes up
his morning paper and fails to find
that some republican official has not
been indicted during the preceding "a
hours he feels very certain that the
wires were down. 10 Johnson used
to say that there was but one bad ap-
pie in the barrel when The Indepen-
dent attacked the republican state
thieves. The Independent then in
sisted that the whole barreIful was
rotten, and events indicate that it was
right.
The special session of congress
closed and in a few seconds thereafter
the regular session began. During
those few seconds the president made
1853 army appointments, including that
of General Wood, and twelve civilian
appointments, including that of DR..
Crum, the colored man, as collector of
the port at Charleston, S. G.. This ac-
ton will enable the appointees to take
advantage of the law in regard to
recess appointments and secure to all
parties salaries and allowances of the
rank to which they have been ap-
pointed or advanced AS there is some
doubt about the legality of this sort
of Strenuosity case will be imme-
diately brought to test it.
The case against Adjutant General
Colby grows out of the disappearance
of some 700 blankets that belonged TO
the United States government which
were in charge of the militia author
tiles of the state. Upon an order is
sued by acting Governor Savage. these
blankets were given 10 the peniten-
tiary at the time of the fire. IL is
said that they disappeared from the
accounts by the entry lost in action
but that the legislature appropriated
s2.S50 TO pay for the blankets and
that that amount got lost somewhere
In the corridors Of the capltoi after
being drawn from the state treasury.
The grand jury al Omaha IL trying 70
lind out what became Of N.
IL seems that strenuosity strikes the
president by spells and when he has
spell NO one can tell what he will do
lie was attacked with bad spell az
II about the time the Panama seces-
sion movement took place and the
ships and gunhoas were hustled about
In a manner that made the comman-
derA think that war was ON hand and
lotx OF promotions ahead. New that
the new government of san Domingo
Ia asking for recoRnitlon. the ktrenn-