The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-10


labor unions in calling strikes and
demanding better pay. The great
dailies have come to their assistance
and announce in faring headlines
that labor unions are running the
country and thai capital has gone
into hiding
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One great point of advantage that
plutocracy has in giving away their
papers is that l. man is asked to
subscribe for a paper containing dis
oussions and news that would be of
value to him, h. can truthfully reply:
81 get more papers now than | can
read" Thus by filling American homes
with trash the people are prevented
from reading what would be useful.
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The Clarion steel works, one of the
subordinate plants of the steel trust,
closed down the other day. throwing
1000 men out of employment. The
reason given was, want of orders"
A little while ago the dailies were
saying that the steel trust had orders
for year ahead, and The Independent
called attention to the fact that the
price of pig iron was falling all the
time, which fact indicated that the
papers were lying, as usual. and it has
proved to be true.
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Fourteen royal commissions are at
work in Great Britain inquiring into
various phases of national inefficiency.
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British army at the beginning of the
Boer war was worse honey-combed
with dude cliques and general rotten
ress than the army of Napoleon Ill
when he started out to fight Bis
marck. 1t is. also said that the Eng
lish in their desperation applied to
tie German war Office for help after
the frSt series of disasters and that
the successful campaign of Lord Rob
.erts was mapped out in Berlin.
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The position of Judge Brewer that
mo appeal should be allowed in cases
where persons are charged with crime
is denounced by Chief Justice Lore of
Delaware as "monstrous.' To say,
where mans liberty or life is at
stake, that he shall haye no writ of
error or appeal. and that in every case
where dollars are concerned he should
be allowed one, . in perfect harmony
with modern commercialism and the
worship of Mammon. More dreadful
things will be evolved from the mod
ern tendency if it is not checked.
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There is a great deal said in the pa
rers about the frauds in the sale of
indian lands in the Indian territory
The same sort of thing is going on all
over the United States wherever there
is An Indian reservation. The reser-
vations in Nebraska are no excep-
tons. There has been land transferred
10 friends of the Winnebago saint and
Guardian of Indian rights at one
fourth of their true value. And be-
hind that Indian saint stand the
heavenly twins Dietrich and Millard.
An examination CT the price of beef
cattle and hides for the last few years
shows the astounding fact that very
often when cattle are the lowest, hides
are the highest The plea that a tariff
on hides was for the benefit of the
farmer is not proven by the results.
The result of the tariff on hides has
teen loss to the farmers. the work.
men in shoe factories and the manu-
facturers and of immense profit to the
rreat trust. The capital invested in
shoe manufacturing in Massachusetts,
has decreased over s6O00.000 since
1890 and the sum paid to wage-earn-
ers 13 per cent. The profits of the
II eat trust have been collected from
those who wear shoes. The meat trust
rever made particle of difference in
the price they paid for cattle on ac-
count of tariff ON hides.
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The Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association has spent much time
and money in finding out what it cost
ns in life limb and eyesight to cele-
brate the last Fourth of July. 1t has
returns from every state and territory
and it appears that the total number
o. persons hurt badly enough to re-
duire attention was 4,449. No less
than 50 eyes were lost, 10 persons were
perfectly blind, and 466 cases
terminated fatally. The most signif-
icant feature OF this CHASTITY exhibit is
that 400 deaths resulted from tetanus