The independent., 1903-04-30

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The purchase of bar silver for Phil
ippine coinage in New York advanced
the price of silver to so cents an ounce
and The Independents prediction
stands fulfilled.
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The Anthracite coal trust is a far
more aggravated case of the viola
tion of the antitrust law and restraint
Of trade than that of the Northern
Securities company Will it be prose-
cuted?
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The two republican parties in
Omaha are telling more truth about
each other than has been made public
for many years Each wing declare
that the other is and has always been
a tool of the corporations and gam
blers and both tell the truth.
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There has already been presented
to the treasury $30,000000 bonds, 3's
of 1903 and As of 1907, for refund
ing under Secretary Shaw's scheme.
That means $30,O00,000 more of ma
tional bank notes to run for 80 years.
No doubt the whole $100,000,00 will
soon be turned over
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Organized labor leaders often assert
that it was labor organizations that
started the movement for the public
ownership of public utilities. 1t has
hitherto been conceded that the first
impetus given to that demand came
when the peoples party was organized
and it has been prominent plank in
all their platforms ever since.
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A lot of naval officers have been
arrested in Porto Rico for smuggling.
The grand jury has indicted them, and
Notwithstanding that the secretary of
the navy sent instructions to the
United States attorney to drop the
prosecution they are still held. With
rot enough officers to man the ships
and some of them in jail the navy de-
partment is having time of it.
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During the last year the people in
a large number of cities have revolted
against republican corruption and
prosecuted the boodlers as they have
never been prosecuted before. The
penitentiaries and jails that care for
the criminals of the cities of Minneap-
oils, st. Louis, Seattle and several
others of like stripe, must be pretty
well filled up with prominent repub-
lican politicians. Some day a wave
of revolt like this may strike Phila-
delphia and If it does, the jails will
have to be enlarged to accommodate
the republicans who have been oper-
lting there.
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The municipal elections in Illinois
last week resulted in the republicans
getting defeated in many places where
they had ruled supreme from ten to
eighteen years without a break. 1t
was sometimes accomplished by citi-
ZenS' tickets and sometimes by
straight democratic tickets. The cor
ruption of the republican party in Il
1inois had become unbearable. The
Tanner and Yates regimes are the
foulest that the state has ever known
and the corruption has penetrated the
cities and counties until general de-
mand arose to turn the rascals out"
The people of Omaha generally be-
came disgusted with the way the city
government has been carried on by
the republicans and revolted. Then
those who were opposed to it divided
themselves into at least four different
parties and are all going to vote for
separate candidates. That is the
queer way that the citizens of this
republic often act when they try to
reform the government of cities,
states and nation. That is the reason
that the rogues prosper and the ras-
calls are seldom turned out.