The independent., 1903-04-09

uccOluliOu LilS pCOpiC oublSNtSd
to starvation and want. 1t is an IL
lustration of what good and bad gov
ernment can do to make people hap
py and prosperous or reduce them to
beggary and want. Already enlist
ment for the Irish constabulary has
ceased and peace and confidence have
replaced want and the boycott.
The ideas of what kind of news 1T is
safe to furnish the people is shown in
the way that the Chicago dailies ham
die the presidents visit to that city.
Eighteen or twenty columns are de-
voted to the coming of the train and
hundreds of little incidents of no i'm
poI tance wnateverT-a good many OF
them made up by the reporters-the
comforting of degrees, the eating OF
lunches and dinners and not one
fourth of that amount Of space to the
gr, at question of government The
idea of the plutocratic press is to feed
the people on froth and excitement,
while the magnates continue to gather
all tie products of labor above bare
living for those whose muscles and
brains make the progress of the
world One paper gives much space
to describing the different sort OF
smiles that adorned the presidents
face at different portions of his route.
The following are phrases from those
descriptions: ''The president smiled =
"A different sort of smile The
same old familiar smile" "A smile
that showed pleasure" etc.
A suit has been brought to force the
Huntington executors to tell what be-
came of the $120,000000 that Hunt
rington. Hopkins, Stanford and Crock
er swindled the stockholders out OF by
their fake construction company Or
ganized to build the Central Pacific.
Quite large number of the most
prominent members of the Chicago
board of trade were indicted last week
for doing a bucket shop business. The
big bugs who gamble. in large amounts
ON the board were very indignant, but
if there is any difference, in the NOR
atty Of their transactions and that OF
betting in the bucket shops, it would
take ten-horse power microscope to
reveal it to the eye.
Another trust whose eXaction will
be sad drain on every householder
has been organized. After April 1O
prices of California citrus fruits are
to be arbitrarily fixed for Chicago as
well as all other large distributing
points by new combination known as
the California Orange Agency. The
combine is practically master of ths
situation, as it controls 81 per cent OF
the entire crop. Prices will be sharp
ly advanced at once, despite the fact
that the California crop is tremendous
and 10000 cars remain to be sold.
When the president first started out
on his perambulations through the
western states he talked as if all the
trusts were busted" and praised the
Elkins law to the skies. His declar-
ations as regards the tariff were to
the effect that it must not be touched,
but later he modified that to some ex-
tent. His first assertions in regard to
the tariff seemed to have been the
pOliCy dSl ecu upOA< UCLolC hO iS'
Washington, for Secretary Root went
to Boston and declared the infallibil-
ity of the tariff in the same strong
language that Roosevelt used in his
first speeches. 1t is very doubtful
whether the trip will have any effect
on the republican delegation to the
next national convention and it GER
tainly will have none on national leg
islation.
The gold-bug, Cleveland-appointed
Federal Judge Adams seems to have
heard something since he granted his
famous Injunction, which, although
not forbidding any individual man
from quitting work, had the effect Of
making an organized strike impossi-
BILE. He has dissolved his Injunction
and it is now said that an advance in
wages has been granted without a
strike. In the hearing to make the
injunction permanent, it was proved
beyond a doubt that all the allegations
sworn to by President Ramsey in his
bill were wholly and totally false.
The bragadacio republicans who are
fond of declaring that democrats can't