The independent., 1903-07-02

which expires in 1917. The plan is to
issue street car certificates, the prin-
cipal and interest of which will be a
lien on the receipts of the street car
lines until paid. In this way pop
ulism goes marching on.
There was a time, and a good many
OF us can remember it very well. when
! Rlaine was more the popular idol than
Roosevelt is at the present time. but
he was not elected president. Wall
street didn't want him.
That town where the Jews were
massacred in Russia has more Eam IS
than any other town on the face OF
the earth. A glance at the New York,
Washington and Chicago dailies shows
that it has at least the following:
Kischineff, Kisheney, XII Ilnev. Kish-
inev, and severa! core.
The people in arious parts of the
United States seem to have lad enough
of corporation rule, although that does
not to apply to Nebraska where the
| farmers still insist that the railroads
shall run the state government, while
| they, the farmers, pay the taxes The
| Chicago Tribune declares that the
corporations in that city have been
J teaching anarchy by example for years
and that the telephone company has
been making clear profit of mil
lion year ont of the citizens. 1t
winds up by saying: 'If there ev-r
t,f
municipal ownership this is one"
The cotton corner is still playing
| havoc with the manufacturing inter-
ests and textile wage-workers OF the
whole land. 1t is said that Brown AMI
his partners have 100000 bales of cot
| ton on hand Some mills have shut
| down and all the rest of them threaten
to do SO. No manufacturer is buying
| any cotton. All the sales reported on
Wall street are speculative. After 4
while perhaps the people of this coun-
try may take a hand in such a way
that it will be impossible for a few
Wall street gamblers to stop one Of
| the great industries of this country
| and bring suffering and death upon
hundreds of thousands Of people,
Great pressure is being brought to
bear on the magnates east of the Mis-
scuri to grant one-cent rate for har-
vest hands. If the grain rots in the
field for want Of hands to gather the
| crops the railroads will not get to
haul it to mar ct next fall and winter.
That rate now prevail; west of the
| Missouri.
The district CO 't of Lancaster coun-
ty Nebraska, has decided that the
extention of the time of legislatures
and the raise in pay is unco -lstitu
tional. Lawyers say that it will not
invalidate acts passed after the con-
stitutional limit forty days, but that
the legislators will be liable for the
overpay they have received. Win the
State Journal begin to demand that
they put it back?"
Three men have been fined 81 900
each for holding negroes in involun-
tary servitude in Alabama under the
'peonage' system. That system con
oi0to III SCtLlu5 iSLol dHL ucSlOGS COH-
victed of small misdemeanors and
then sending them to convict camps
where they are worE d as the old
slaves were worked under the whip.
| It is the same thing that is practice
by the 'Elkins crowd upon white men
in West Virginia. The democrats do
these things in one place and the re-
publicans in anoth IF. Let us have a.
populist party that is composed for
the most part of those who work and
then we will have no poems and no
multi-millionaires.
The members Of the legislature, ac-
cording to the recent court decision,
have drawn $215,46 whic', they were
not entitled to, and they Eve the state
that much money. There are 1,179 OF
these gentlemen. How many of them
will put it back?"
The discovery of radium is making,
scientifically, the whole world over
again. Radium raises the tempera-
ture of objects a. oun it by several
degrees; it gives light enough to read
by; it will burn deep sore in human
flesh just by being held near it. 1t