The independent., 1903-04-16

Steel and John II. Mockett, represent
ing the alien combine and the repre-
sentatives of the home companies, es.
pecially of the Bankers Reserve Life
association. 1t was drawn by the at
torney of the latter company, accepted
by both the other gentlemen and Of
fered to the house insurance commit
tee by Speaker Mockett, who in the
presence of the committee promised
for the aliens TO support it,
However having been defeated on
the other bills and blaming the Bank
ers Reserve Life for organizing the
fraternals and the assessment compa
MES against his pet measure which
he had pulled out of the sitting COM
mittee, the speake" attempted to en-
graft it upon the measure he had
agreed to support, by a little parlia
mentary legerdemain he succeeded in
The senate refused to concur and the
National Life Insurance trust was
again foi!ed.
However having been defeated on
the bulldozed or entrapped into the
enactment of any life insurance law
which could be used as club to him
der the organization Or growth of Ne
braska life companies and the Bank
ers Reserve will continue to grow no.
withstanding the malice and slander
of alien life insurance solicitors
whether they are inside or outside OF
the legislature.
This seems to be an age of freak
magazines. The latest to reach the
editors desk is "Donham's Doings,'
"a monthly magazine published out IN
the wild woods of Wisconsin, free and
unhampered by the Whims of bigots,
fanatics and hypocrites," so Deacon
Donham & Sons, the publishers, say.
1t seems to be devoted to an attack
on blatant sky-pilots'' and several
other kinds Of hypocrites. One page
is devoted to full page cartoon by
Watson Heston, depicting an extreme
ly long-nosed individual in several at
titudes. smelling inside Of private
letters, nosing the mail bag, scenting
a Sunday game( Of basebalD, and
sniff at the Sunday fisherman" THIS
cartoon is particularly dedicated to
o. S. Strand, st. Peter, Mimi, Skin
ny Pelton, of Pender, Neb.," and two
others, "a quartet of busy-bodies hard
to beat as the Deacon affirms
Some of the democratic reorganizers
profess to believe that the south is
simply democratic" regardless Of
what the party platform may contain.
Doubtless there is some truth in this,
because of the negro question; but it
is a mistake to suppose the southern
people care everything for the name
democrat" and nothing for the prin-
ciples enunciated in the platform.
Here is what prominent Alabama
editor says in a letter to The Inde-
pendent: Il am known as a free
silver crank, as usually called by the
gold monometallists. | stand uncom-
promisingly for the Chicago and Kan
sas City platforms of the democratic
party. My lifelong convictions are
embodied in these platforms, and un-
der no consideration whatever will /
support a man or measure adverse to
them or the principles contained
therein"
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The Chicago Record-Herald is quite
correct when it says Of the report of
the anthracite coal commission that
Roosevelt praises so highly that "the
trust can certainly regard it with
great equanimity because the illegal
acts that are charged against it are
ignored, it's business methods are not
condemned, its treatment of it's en-
ployes receives practically no CEN
sure" The miners got raise in
wages and the only fellow who got
left is the householder who has to pay
an extra price for coal and thus is
made to foot all the bills including
the cost of the strike and the raise in
wages.
S>>$SSSS
The people of New Mexico resolved