The independent., 1903-06-25

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say: Officials of the foreign office.
Indian Office, treasury department,
and colonial Office have promised to
recommend that the British govern
ment give support to the principle of
the introduction of the gold standard
into silver-using countries on the
basis of silver coin of unlimited legal
tender and nower but with fixed gold
value" So they are going to have a
gold standard with silver an unlim-
tied legal tender! There is nothing
too ridiculous for gold standard ad-
vocate to proclaim.
The latest news from Russia is to
the effect that the car has issuei
through his ministers an ukase re-
moving many of the disabilities here
tofore imposed on the Jews. They
lave been confined to cities and GER
tain parts of cities set apart for them.
Hereafter they are to be permitted to
engage in farming and as a further
concession it has been declared that
the ikon prohibiting Jews from living
within fifty miles of the frontier
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permitted to live in any portion of the
country.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
Postmaster General Payne has abso-
lutte proof that ring existed in New
York which was engaged in selling
appointments and promotions. A large
number of New York officials and
prominent politicians are involved.
The same dispatch says: There will
be no prosecutions. It takes some-
thing more than the absolute proof
of guilt" to get Postmaster General
Payne to prosecute a republican poll
tician
While the southern democrats are
devoting all their time to the negro
question, the Yankees are preparing to
make them pay heavy tribute to
northern capitalists Tor very many
y ears to come. The Atlanta Gas COM
pany and electric railway companies
have consolidated and are now owned
by Atkinson and his associates The
same work is going on all over the
south and after while the. people
down there will wake up to the fact
that while they have been downing
the negro, the northern sharpers have
doWned them.
One attempt at suicide has already
been reported as the result of the Chi
cago derby. Most of the suffering re-
sulting from it will never be known.
According to the latest reports the
civil service commission is about as
rotten as any other thing connected
with the postoffice department Hun
dreds of good republicans" have been
placed in the civil service without an
examination.
The steamship trust is another of
Morgans combines that has failed to
pay dividends on it's watered stock.
The Cunard line, while not in the
trust, made an arrangement with it
concerning rates and days of sailing.
Now it has withdrawn from the
agreement "Capitalizing prosperity"
don't seem to work out as the under
writing syndicates promised
The labor question IS taking on a
rev phase all over the United States
and columns are devoted to its dis
cussion in all the great dailies Can
labor unions, voluntary associations.
be sued or their funds attached for
violation of contracts with employers
All the lawyers hold tnat any con-
tract in which the employer is bound
Lot to employ non-union men is void
and of no effect, but as to the other
contracts they seem to De of the opin-
ion that the members of the unions
must be sued separately If at all
There will no doubt be several suits
brought and carried up to the highest
courts to test this question and after
that we will have lot of new laws
on the question. The Tafr-Vale case
in England is relied upon more than
any other. In that case the union
was held liable for damages and the
funds of the union were seized. There
are very serious things confronting
organized labor. If the courts can at
any time tie up their funds, they will
be helpless. Nearly all the labor lead
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