The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK



league, the Referendum league, etc.
Every one of these reforms can be
secured when the peoples party comes
into power or becomes the balance OF
power Would it not be more sensi-
BILE for these people to unite in the
one organization called the peoples
party, than to send out these various
skirmishing parties to assault the ser
led ranks of plutocracy. The Postal
Progress league is circulating some
good literature. The following is
sample: Transport rates on glass
from Antwerp, Belgium, to Minneap-
oils, are rs cents hundred cheaper
than from Pittsburg to Minneapolis;
q cents less from Antwerp to st.
Louis than from Pittsburg to st.
Louis; IA cents less from Antwerp to
Chicago than from Pittsburg to Chi
cago."
Recent cases in the federal courts in
Alabama show that large numbers of
poor whites are held in peonage slav-
cry as well as blacks. These slaves
are not only worked hard, but they
are half fed, all showing by their ap-
pearance that they have been nearly
starved.
The low rate son grain granted by
the Canadian railroads and canals has
reused up even the sleepy Philadel-
phians and meeting of exporters and
representatives of steamship lines that
run from that port, Baltimore and
Boston, was held in that city during
the week to see what could be done
about it. Protests were also made
about the shipments to the gulf ports.
They are getting it in the neck all
along the Atlantic coast "The mills
of the gods grind slow, but they grind
exceeding fine"
A labor leader in New York by the
name of Parks has been found guilty
of soliciting and accepting brides for
calling off or preventing strikes. There
is something about that trial as re-
ported in the papers that makes one
feel that the arrest and Imprisonment
of this man was not honest and fair,
but an effort to discredit labor organ
iZatiOnS.
The commission to settle the boun-
dairy line of Alaska has just met in
: London. The claim made by Canada
to portion of Alaska which for de-
cades was conceded to belong to the
United States, is one of the most au-
dacious bluffs ever attempted by any
nation. The Canadians claim that the
boundary line specified in the treaty
? with Russia which was to run so many
leagues from the shore must be run
from one headland to another, which
would give to the United States a good
: deal of the open ocean and all the
: land bays and inlets to the Canad-
: ians. There was never a more prepos-
2 ferrous claim set up in any court on
E earth. The partial recognition of the
: claim by John Hay in agreeing to a
modus vivendi was a trucking to Eng
land that no self-respecting statesman
D would ever have permitted.
e In several European cablegrams
r coming from different points an(
I written by different persons, it il
o stated that the new pope has become
e pale and haggard and that he is {
: prey to melancholy. He has every
a symptom of nostalgia 1t seems tina
e the fiction that the pope is prisoner
It CT the vatican and that his claim t.
e temporal authority would be in som,
# manner vitiated If he left the place
: making it impossible for him eve
n again to visit his beloved Venice, il
breaking down his mind and health
He has tainted several times since hi
= occupation of the papal chair. Las
II week he had two fainting spells, on
is CT very serious nature, when tn
re Venetian pilgrims paid him a visit
III 1t seems to The Independent that tn
le Wisest thing that the cardinals can d
Of is to get together and formally re
" rounce the fiction of "the prisoner Q
The vatican"
r. King Edward, the emperor of Aus
ne triaHungary and the kaiser are t
e. meet in Vienna this week. 1t Is SUI
ID missed that an effort will be made t
So come to some agreement about tn