The independent., 1903-03-12

ance. During the past Two Inoh'ho
the associate editor has been kept
busy in his spare moments-and some
not so "spare'-hunting up books,
pamphlets and papers for the benent
of persons who had agreed to enter
Joint debates on public questions and
who wished to study up and be ready.
These inquiries have come from all
parts of the United States.
Mr.. C. M. Clark of Lincoln has sug-
gested that number OF Lincoln peo-
pie might profitably spend few
nights discussing the following:
"Organized Labor and Organized
Capital, with strikes and lockouts, VS..
An Organized People, with conces-
sion, compromise and arbitration. An
attempt to draw a line between the
good and the evil Of unions and trusts
in industrial and commercial affairs,
of parties and factions in politics or
public affairs, of sects and churches
in religion and morals"
Has any reader of The Independent
suggestion to make along this line!
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Admiral Crowninshield has proved
that the estimates placed upon his
character by the people generally and
always held by The Independent were
correct. To the everlasting shame and
disgrace of the United States navy he
organized a clique among the officers
to disgrace one of the noblest and
bravest men in the service and the
Sampson-Schley difficulty was the re-
suit That CroWninshield was an up
start and martinez every one knew
who ever had the misfortune to come
in contact with him. He has now
asked to be placed on the retired list
because Dewey would not give him the
vessel that he wanted as flagship to
parade about the Mediterranean sea
in and show off his dignity and i'm
portance. His request was immediate
ly granted and the active force of the
navy is forever rid of one of the most
arrogant, inefficient, misunderstanding
men who ever held such rank. His
salary on the retired list will be
something over $1,000 year. The
country can well afford to pay that
much to get rid of him.
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1t is impossible for The Independent
to look upon the act of Sears and the
other republicans who voted with the
fusionists to tax railroad property the
same as other property is taxed as an
honorable and meritorious act. In do
ing so they voted against the wishes
of the men who furnished the funds
and secured their election. Instead of
being honorable it was base ingrati-
tude. If those gentlemen intended to
vote for the equal taxation of rail-
road property, and that was the ques-
tion before the people in the last elec- |
ton, they should not have connected
themselves with party that was OPP
posed to it and accepted of the aid |
that party gave them and then refused |
to carry out the known will of those
who elected them. There is nothing |
honorable in such course of action, |
but everything dishonorable.
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The dailies have been amusing the |
mullet heads with great deal of talk |
about an extra session of the United |
States senate, as if that were a Won
derful thing. Extra sessions of the |
senate are very common, there is al
ways one the next year after presi- |
dental election, principally for con-
firming the new members of the cabi- !
net. The extra session called by the |
president is nothing extraordinary at
ALL
The tricks that the republicans have
been trying are many and various.
Quay's trick to beat trust legislation
with the statehood bill, which The
Independent called attention to before
he had been playing it for week, |
was a sort of gold brick performance.
Another of the like was played by a
banker in the Chicago Record Herald.
He came out as an opponent of the
Aldrich bill and said bankers would
have none of it. Then he gave lot
of figures to show that there was
nothing in it for the banking frater-
nifty. He gave the rate of interest that
bankers would receive on deposits and
the reserves they would have to keep,
to show that they would be losers. In
his calculation he did not figure the
interest on the bonds deposited at all.
The poor republican dupes who read
his effusion no doubt came to the
conclusion that there was no special
priviIepe in that hill for hankerS