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

THE NEBRASKA
the divorce trials in the republican
dailies and weeklies will be caught
just as they were in '93.
The CHICAGO Tribune. in discussing
the Alaskan boundary decision, says
in one column: 1T has been accom-
plished by the deciding vote OF Lord
Alverstone, chief justice of England.
No one will question his honesty In
giving Judgment against his own peo-
ple." And in another column: "As to
the Alaskan boundary dispute, our
Canadian cousins will remember that
we assured them In the beginning that
they hadn't even totem pole to hang
their claims on" If the latter state
ment is true, upon what grounds you'd
any one question the honesty of the
decision?" And again, If the Cana
dams had no grounds for their claim.
how could an honest decision give
them fine harbor and a naval base
on shore that did not belong to
them?
William Fetzer, secretary of the
McSherry Manufacturing company OF
MiddletOwn, O., charges that the steel
trust charges higher prices in the
United States than 1t does in Canada,
thus enabling the Canadian manufac-
turer to undersell his American COM
petitor The steel trust acknowledges
that the charge is true.
Thomas F. Woodlock, editor of the
Wall Street Journal, was in Denver
the other day along with the bankers
on the way to California He said in
an interview that affairs in Wall street
were unprecedented. TN one year we
| have lost the advance that was at
! tanned during the seven years prev
ious. The consequence has been a
| frost in business which has not yet
reached the maximum of it's infiu-
| ence, but is still spreading
The money power is the same every
where heartless, pitiless. knowing no
country, no law. In England today
| every expression of sympathy with
| the bleeding and dying Christians in
Macedonia is suppressed, because such
expressions might depresg the price
of Turkish bonds. The same crew,
with the same murderous instincts,
controls the daily press Of this coun-
| try.
The failure of two trust companies
in Baltimore and loan and building
association in New York were fea-
lures of the financial situation made
| public on Tuesday morning Defalca-
| tons of large amounts by bank clerks
are continually reported. Many brok-
erage houses have shut up shop and
that is the way the thing goes on.
The directors of the Independent
Packing. company, which has been or
ganized with $5,000,000 capital to fight
the trust, held meeting in Denver
last Monday and elected officers, with
the exception Of president, which Of
flee was left vacant until the meeting
of the directors with the National
Live Stock association at Portland,
Ore, January IL, 1904. Remember
what The Independent has said about
this movement, which, although it has
sufficient capital and competent men
at it's head, can never succeed until
the railroads are owned by the gov
eminent. The railroads and the meat
trust are one and the same thing and
no Independent concern can hope to
compete with them.
| In Washington the deep significance
of the Ohio election is recognized by
the leaders of all arties and the pa
pers there print frequent letters de-
scribing the progress of a campaign
spoken of as the most bitter and hot
" contested known since the civil
war.
A Washington dispatch to the Pitts.
burg Leader seems to indicate that
Roosevelt is much concerned about the
situation in Ohio. About the 9th Of
August Secretary Shaw wrote the
! president asking permission to entel
the Ohio campaign and four days latel
the president permitted. The Leader!
correspondent naievely says: ''Mr
Shaw Is looked upon as recruit O
! great strength for Ohio The Situa