The independent., 1903-07-09

in any of the southern states the great
dailies of the north would have had
columns of editorial denunciation and
comment. The way that 1t has been
treated by them shows how unsafe it
is to rely upon tn plutocratic press
for information. There seems tc be a
determination on the part of the white
people in the southern part of Ind
lana to drive the negroes out without
mercy and without any regard to life
or property. The militia has been
called out and there have been sew
eral skirmishes, in one of which it is
reported that seven of the white mob
we're killed and twenty wounded.
What will be the end of this no man
can tell. The Independent has very
firm convictions concerning what
brought it about The contempt OF
human rights began with the inaug-
uration of imperialism and discard
ing the Declaration of Independence,
and has been further stimulated by
lynchings which have been permitted
in all the states, north and south,
without any serious attempt to pun
ish the guilty parties. The more lynch
iIgs there are, the more crime will
increase. If we do not wish for blood
shed all over the land, we must insist
that there shall be a return to law
and order even If the severest punish
ment must be meeted out to lynchers.
Heretofore the monarchs and kings
of the old world have never recog-
pized the rulers of republics as their
equals. They have arrogated to them
selves the divine right to rule and
however great a republic might be,
even if it had large armies and ma
yies, millions of subjects and an en-
ormous commerce, any little one-horse
king reigning over a country less in
rumber of inhabitants and extent of
territory than county in the United
States, would have more hOnOrs con-
ferred upon him than the elected ruler
of scores of millions. The king was
held to be of different blood (and to
that The Independent agrees, for most
of them are undersiZed degenerates,
inheriting the loathsome diseases from
vile ancestors) and no ruler OF re-
public could rank anywhere near them.
That sort of thing has become too
rank for the world longer to endure
it The English people and the royal
house gave President Loubet OF the
French republic the same sort of a re-
ception that has heretofore been ac-
corded to a. monarch of the "royal
blood" when he visited the tight lit
tie island last week. "The world do
move"
The number Of fools in this world is
astonishingly large. The latest ac-
counting of the st. Louis horce racing,
eet-rich-quick concerns. shows that
12.251 fools sent their money to those
men to the amount of S3,25O,00 At
ter everything is scraped together of
any value belonging to the concerns
and distributed, the fools will lose
something over $3,000,000. It was
about the swiftest way for the fool
and his money to part company ever
discovered.
About the time Teddy's protest con-
cerning the Kishineff affair reaches
Russia, If things Keep moving in the
same direction as they have for the
last month or two. the cZar will be in
& splendid condition to return a
friendly note about the massaeres in
Delaware. Indiana and other portions
of the United States. The. United
States government under the imperial
rule Of the republican party viii have
some difficulty in setting itself as a
monitor of morals for the rest of the
world.
The illness Of Pope Leo XIII. brings
tc the attention of the whole Of civ
| i!iged mankind the career OF one OF
the most remarkable men of the last
two or three centuries. He was born
March 2, 1916. and was elected pope
February 20. 1878. While he was of
frail constitution he has outlived all
the cardinals who elected him pope ex-
cept one. The temporal affairs we're In
bad condition when LIE came into
power. and the vatican was at outs
| with most of the governments of Eu-
rome. Under his wise and conciliatory
policy all the old difficulties have been
arranged. The same sort of wisdom
| has kuide5 his government of the