The independent., 1903-10-08
NEWS. OF THE WEEK.
4wsekiy ofthe Reany vital News the Ed'tor

manned for life. Capital not only de-
mands the earnings of the people, but
(, often times their lives also.
The Internal lying constantly in
dulged by the daily press has an ex-
ample in the stories persistently pub
lished for months asserting that the
steel trust had orders ahead for year
to the amount of the full possible out
put OF the mills. The Independent
was the only paper to denounce as
| false these stories. Now the steel
| trust is discharging thousands of men
and shutting down many plants be-
| cause, as they say, of overpr0duction,
and the impossibility OF selling their
Goods Still the dailies go lying In
| their old fashion without any let-up.
/ They seem to think that there is no
possibility of an overproduction Of
les.
The Colorado militia is still resist
ing the courts and defying arrest upon
warrants issued by the district judges.
The sheriff has been told that he could
not serve warrants for false impris-
onment. The courts have succumbed
to military rule. There seems to he
little of "the spirit OF '76" out In that
region. This is the defiance that
General Bell a militia general issued
to the courts: II will say right now
that neither the sheriff of the county
of Teller or any other county nor any
constable or any number of them will
be allowed to serve any civil process
from any court in the state upon any
officer Of this gnard while on duty"
On with the dance!
The mine owners who brought on
the Boer war are suffering the re-
venges of outraged justice. The off,
cial report from johannesburg an
nonnces that there is shortage of
115O00 laborers In the country and no
prospects of any more coming. Half
the mines are idle.
Morgan has not only lost hfs prest-
ige in Europe, but good many Of
the eastern papers are polying fun at
him. The following are some of the
expressions they use: "Sfc transit
gloria mundi. We read in the papers,
now. that it requires yacht races to
get Mr.. Morgan's name into the pa
pers-he who, a few short months ago.
|overshadowed the earth. So passes
the glory of this world. Solomon, or
whoever wrote Ecclesiastss, would
have enjoyed the history Of Mr. Nor
gan. All is vanity" His name has
lost its magic" San exploded proph-
et," etc.
The street car magnates OF Toledo
bought up the city council and had
the pegs all set to pass an ordinance
to suit them. That is the town Golden
Rule Jones rules over. The night that
the ordinance was to be passed, half
the male population Of the city turned
cut, packed the council room, the halls
and streets. The council did not pass
the ordinance. They thought that
they saw blood in the eyes of the
crowd. Would it not have been bet
ter for the people of that city long
ago to have adopted the referendum?
r. they had, they would not have had
to resort to a semi-riot to prevent q
rascally council fre selling them out.
The total Jewish population of the
United States is now 1,127 ,268, while
there are only 2i6,614 in the British
empire.
A railroad magnate sent his son
from the Pacific coast to a college on
the Atlantic coast. The boy travelled
in private car and had two chefs,
two porters, a valet and other SER
wants to attend to his comfort and be-
lcngings In tina magnificent way he
passed through the cattle districts of
Wyoming and Nebraska where thou
sands of farmers are facing bank
ruptcy on account of excessive freight
rates and the low price of cattle
farmers who vote to pay the taxes
that the railroads ought to pay and for
the judges end other state officers that
the railroads nominate. The reason
they vote that way is because they
don't know any better.
The attorney general, Knox Is his
name, always has an opinion ready
for any difficulty that arises from un-
dertaking to make an empire out of