The independent., 1903-07-09


of the news which occupied consider
able space. 1t was the dryest reading
matter that ever got into print. 1t
consisted of the mere statement OF
fact without explanation or comment.
Five or six years ago The Independent
undertook TO Inahe summary CT
news and give such e. PLANTATION and
comment as would make 1t entertain
ing reading, and it was printed under
the head of News of the Week" The
big eastern, high-priced weeklies soon
stole the heading and began to try to
initiate the style and manner OF The
Independent. One after another fell
in behind The Independent until It's
manner of relating the news has
spread all over the country, and the
old State Journal in its Sunday edition
has man trying to put column or
two in imitation of The Independent.
One of the readers of this paper. who
takes a good many others, said he read
such a column in another paper each
week. but it was a sort of labor to do
IL However when he got to that feat
ure In The Independent he struck
treat, in fact said he: 1T is like cold
water running out of jug when one
reaches the end of a long round in
the harvest field on hot day."
The imperialists at Washington gave
uD the idea of grabbing the Isle OF
Pines from Cuba and the recent treaty
leaves 1t in the Cuban republic. The
two naval stations Of the United States
will be located at Bahia Honda on
the northeast coast and Guantanamo
on the southwest coast of Cuba. With
this arrangement Cuba Is perfectly
satisfied and our flag is still venerated
there.
Every effort is being made by the
English press to induce the United
States to form a coalition with the
British and Japan against Russia and
the tendency of Rooseveltian diplom-
acy seems to urge us on in that direc-
ton. The English say that all that
is necessary is for the United States
to call the Russian bluff and Russia
will get out of Manchuria in hurry.
Let the English call the bluff If they
want to. Roosevelt and John Hay
dare not thrust this country into
foreign war. Such an event as that
would scorch them with the Kisses and
curses of the American people. The
republican imperialism of this govern
mert has left it no ground on which
to stand wher it undertakes to make
a protest against the imperialism OF
Russia One of the Russian papers
says after discussing the Manchurian
matter: eve need here only mention
the conduct of the Americans after
the Spanish war, but particularly
their action in the Philippines. How
quickly the civilizing emancipators de-
generated into an open policy of rob-
berry and conquest" That republican
Philippine business is a damning blot
on the heretofore unblemished escutch-
con of American honor.
Rev. Reginald j. J. Campbell, who
took the City Temple in london when
DR.. Parker died, is in this country. He
seems to be very observing fellow.
He remarked to a Chicago reporter:
Zone thing puzzles me in looking over
your neWSpdpefS-Wne W Hifu tho
mind of the editor expressed, as We
find it every day in London. Do you
have such a thing here?" After he
has been here little longer he will
learn that editors of the big dailies
have no minds of their own. They
simply write what the corporations
which own the papers tell them to
write.
There was another international au-
tomobile race last week. 1t took place
In Ireland, no one was killed and only
two were seriously wounded. The
Germans won over the French. and
the United States with its light ma
chimes was not in it. The machines
made over a mile minute for nearly
400 miles.
The statistics of the interstate COM
merce commission show that the rail-
roads have doubled their earnings dur
ing the last five years, but they are
still too poor to pay the same rate ot
taxation as the rest Of the people
especially here in Nebraska.
The American cable between the
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