The independent., 1903-04-16

uiAl, IL pOoolDic, III IHc CouNCuliou,
and if not in the convention, at the
polls. The official Wall street candi-
date has already been selected on the
democratic side"
The Sun has taken the lead in op-
position to the president and has TAX
en- much pains to inform the country
of the solid merits of Judge Parker.
According to the New York Herald
some wagers have already been mado
respecting Judge Parker. Judge Park
er seems to be the man with whom
Wall street expects to beat Roosevelt
if they cannot beat him in the repub-
lican convention. Anybody who is in
love with Wall street, no matter to
which party he belongs, will answer.
In love with Wall street includes love
for the trusts also.
The only difference between the sill
yer dollars in the United States and
the silver dollars in Mexico is that
one of them will pay debts, taxes and
buy property in the United States and
the other will do the same thing in
Mexico. Neither government will ex-
change gold dollars for silver dollars,
both will exchange paper money for
silver. If railroads go into the hands
of receivers and the stockholders lose
all they put in it is what has been
done scores of times in this country.
Ex.rk a V,cf h
cred the scientists to give a reason
why it took the moon longer to go
down from full to change than it did
from change to full. The moon re-
Wolves around the earth and they both
revolve around the sun. When they
are both going one way 1t takes longer
for the moon to gain half circuit
than it does when one is going one
way and the other the other way.
So the old moon sticks by us longer
than rhe new moon.
Lincoln may be counted a wide
open city" for the next two years and
the republican party will be entitled
to all the credit. The license fee has
been reduced one-third, but undoubt-
edly all the gates that lead to drunk
enness, gambling and prostitution
will be opened wider. More saloons
and drug stores will be licensed. Gam
bling and all kinds OF fraud and crime
will naturally follow, the 'lowland'
district will be extended to 0 and
Eleventh streets. The bad smell from
hog pens cannot be detected, the 9TH
er bad smells will be SO much worse.
Look at the difference! New York
state has just added half to their
saloon license fee and Lincoln has re-
duced hers third. We have good rea-
son to believe that it will result in
prohibition next spring. All-night,
Sunday saloons filled with games,
gambling, he and she prostitutes, will
work a change no doubt.
The demands of strikers seem to in
crease. In one case the increase of
wages, shortening of days, discharge
of all non-union men and no union
man to be discharged without consenr
of the unions, are the demands.
The sixty-six and two-thirds thou
sands offered by Rockefeller will just
about offset the two cents a gallon on
Oil in Nebraska for one year. We
hope the terms will be met and the
university building built, but it would
be more pleasing if the oil man would
furnish all the money.
Philadelphia seems inclined to rid
herself OF all public utilities. A few
years ago she rented her gas plant for
thirty years. She next granted tele-
phone and street railway franchises
free for which she was offered mill
lion. She is now on the point of SELL
ing her waterworkg.
The city of Lincoln voted bonds
for putting in an electric street light
ing plant. They voted bonds once
before, but the corporations seemed
to own the city dads and nothing was
done; SO it will come out the same
way again undoubtedly.
H. w. HARDY.
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