The independent., 1903-07-02

n. w. McGlNNIS, General
on the Columbia river, but 5 per cent
of the voters could not be induced to
sign a petition for a referendum al
though some OF the corporations hired
men by the day to go out and get sig
natures to refer the state railroad act
back to the people. The fact that a
referendum exists seems to be effec-
tive in preventing Doodle legislation
without sending any act back TO the
people.
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The movement among many differ
ent denominations to secure endow-
ments Is an announcement to the
world that the present membership
have lost all their faith. 1t is to say
that they do not believe that future
generations will contribute for the
support of the Christian religion and
if that form of worship Is to contin-
ue, it must be supported by the MAX
ing of investments by this generation
which will return an income for the
future without relying on the contri-
buttons of the church members then
living. AS far as the observation OF
The Independent goes, the endowed
ity in which it exists. 1t inculcates
pauperism and selfishness.
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Every university and every library
building erected by the contribution
of trust magnates and tariff grafters
is an agency Of degeneration In the
community where it exists. Every
s9oung man and woman who looks at
them sees there commemorated the
robbery of the poor. They are monu-
nsents built to extol the genius of men
who were cunning enough to gather
to themselves the wealth created by
the wage-Workers. The friends of
Rockefeller will erect such a monu-
ment to him on the campus of the
University of Nebraska
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There are all sorts of gratis for
good republican bankers, enough of
them to make them hold solid to the
republican party. The United States
treasurer has sent over $7,000,000
abroad every year to pay our foreign
ministers, their attaches and other
expenses Of that sort. Instead OF au-
thorizing it's fiscal agent in London
to draw drafts on the treasury for the
payment of these expenses, the treas
ury department deposits the $1,000
900 in bank in New York and drafts
are drawn on 1t. Meantime the bank
loans 1t out and gets interest on it.
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The president has issued an order
to 60 to the bottom of the postoffice
frauds and authorized the employ
ment of additional attorneys to help
in the work of prosecution. The trou-
BILE with postoffice authorities is that
they have failed to go to the top"
That nest of thieves in the United
States senate who are really at the
top of the whole business should be
looked into as well as the great off,
GERS OF the department. Without the
aid and assistance of these parties the
frauds could never have occurred.
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The state committee publishes the
official call for the populist state con-
yention in this issue and say that it
is for the purpose of nominating one
candidate for supreme Judge and two
regents of the university. If this ed
tor had written that document he
would have said that the purpose of
the convention was to nominate one
candidate for supreme Judge aud
heave two regents over the transon,,
after which 1t would nominate candi-
dates for regents whose acts woul |
not make the university the seat of
rabid republican politics.
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Two men who have been prom;-
nently before the public during tho
last year, Mitchell of the mine work
ers' union, and Prosecuting Attorney
Folk, seem to be able to stand
the severest test and are firmly estab-
lished in the confidence of the people.
Plutocracy knows that sure and safe
way to destroy the influence Of anv
man is to get him under any pretext
to accept a gift from them. The gift
may be in money, in property or in
position. 1t matters rot which, but
If 1t is accepted. from that time on
the influence of the man in public af.