The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-20

l ICT IHdL purpose anu 10 give 10 TIE
writer's jurisdiction over proofreaders.
That proofreaders ought to have some
thing done to them every writer will
agree.
We are continually receiving the
| punishment that was sure to follow
| Imperialism. 1t comes in many ways
tut it continues to come. The Orien-
tai diseases that afflicted the whole
country for two years after the war
and which still linger around in spots
was one of them. Every now and
tLen is a report received of the insan-
ity of some soldier who served in the
hilippines and has long beer dis
charged. At other times nearly whole
shiploads of them are brought home
st once, the account of their landing
| being hidden away in some obscure
corner OF a great daily and printed in
! the finest type in use. Last week a
| returned Philippine soldier went in
sane at Wichita, Kas., killed seven
persons and wounded thirty more,
four Of whom will probably die So
it goes on all the time.
Stephen M. Griswold president Of
the New York State Bankers associa-
ton, says that organization will take
action at its meeting at Saratoga, Sep
tember 10. to have the government dis
continue its pestoffiee order business
ard turn it over to the bankers. There
has been scheme On foot for long
time to accomplish that as every OBJ
serving man knew who read the fire.
quent assertion of the bankers that
they did not want that business at all.
What the government will do con-
terning disseminating the service we
will have to wait to see. No officer of
the department ever made any pro-
test against Loud's plan to turn the
hole pOstOffice business over to pri-
vate corporations.
Slugging is one of the best paying
businesses in the United States. JEFF
les got $32,728.50 and Corbett $10,-
909.50 as their respective shares of
the gate money at the recent prize
Eight in California. Jeffries made over
$1,000 a minute for the time ne was
engaged in smuggling Corbett. One
thing that made it pay was that every
plutocratic daily in the United States
gave the show scores Ct columns of
Tree advertising and kept it Up for
weeks. Without this free advertising
the smuggling mat h would have been a
failure.
Kaiser William had Tolstois book.
Thou Shalt Not KILL" suppressed in
all his dominions on account Of the
following passage: What must be
going on in the head of William of
Germany, a man of limited under
standing, little educated and with a
great deal Of ambition; who. ideals
are like German yunkers when any
silly or horrid thing he says is always
net with an enthusiastic 'Hu~lah!'
and commented on, as if it were some
thing very important, by the press of
the world. He says soldiers should
be prepared to kill their own fathers
in obedience to his command and
there is another hurrah. When ne says
the gospels must be introduced with |
the iron fist the people shout 'Hur- |
rah!' He says the army must not |
take any prisoners in China, but kill |
all and he is not placed in lunatic
asylum, but they cry 'Hurrah! and
sail to China to execute his orders"
A man in Cleveland is asking fran
elise for street car lines on the condi-
ton of Scent fares, universal trans
fers and ten tickets for Is cents. In |
hfcago the plItocratic dai1ies advo-
cate scent fare and 1 cent of that to
be turned over to the city to reduce
taxation. That is as vile a scheme as |
was ever invented. It is to tax the |
'sage-workers who ride on the street
cars for the benefit of the meE who /
own the sky-scrapers, banks and 9TH
er great aggregations of wealth If Il
they collect the taxes from those who
tide on the street cars, of course to
that extent property will be exempt.
Notwithstanding Ro ,kefeller's gifts A
OF many millions to the Chicago uni
versity, President Harper announces
that it runs behind expenses $780,
GOO year. 1t seems to have been
financed on the watered stock plan.
The Chicago dailies have been max
ing great deal of speech recently
delivered by Judge Grcsscup. The