The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-06

Jectionable as its application to gov
eminent. Both labor unions and en-
ployers must learn that natural JUS
tice must rule and not force" The
trouble in the building trades in New
York and Pittsburg still continues.
The labor unions seem to think that
they are SO well organized and SO
numerous that they can force" Their
demands, and the employers have the
same notion. The ultimate result will
be that If the unions by superior force
are able to gain their ends, when
economic conditions change and the
employers have superior force and
proceed to rob labor, the unions will
have no cause of complaint If they
make their fight on the ground of JUS
tice they will be in an impregnable
position at all times. In the ultimate
analysis force is the very weakest
thing in all the world, either in gov
eminent or economics.
The dailies last week printed fake
story about an incipient rebellion in
Cuba The United States minister at
Havana declares that the story had
no foundation in fact at all. It is
another exemplification of the unre-
liability of the Great plutocratic dali
les. The advice of The Independent
to the readers of such papers is to be-
lieve none of their fake, scare-head
articles at all. For the most part
those papers do not intend to give
reliable information. Their object is
to continually deceive the people in
stead Of furnishing them with in
formation.
1t is said that socialism is making
great Roadway in China. The almond
eyed celestials take to the common
ownership of property with avidity
and loudly declare that they believe in
'class consciousness" surplus val
ue," exploitation, "proletariat,
"propertyless class" and all the rest
of it with all their hearts, souls, minds
and strength.
Some reformers in Turkey under
took to kidnap the sultan and place
some other man on the throne who
would be more liberal. The result of
it was that 800 of them were hacked
to pieces and their dead bodies hauled
away from the vicinity of the sui
tan's palace in carts.
The corner in cotton still holds and
manufacturers everywhere are clos
ing their mills. At meeting held In
Boston last week it was resolved to
shut down mills, in addition to those
heretofore reported, operating 2,000,-
900 spindles. That means the throw
ing out of work of many thousands of
people, and because these operatives
receive small wages, it also means
much hunger and want among many
thousand people. The men who run
the yilest criminals in the whole
land Their operations produce as
much suffering as an ordinary war.
The lying in the plutocratic papers
often becomes ridiculous. 1t has been
constantly announced that iron and
steel has been contracted for to the
full output of all the mills for a year
ahead, but when we look at the mar
ket reports we find that still further
cut has been made in the price of iron
and steel of from 81 to $3.50 per ton.
Every man Of common sense knows
that if the mills could not supply the
demand and that contracts had been
made for year ahead there would be
no fall in prices.
Some of the papers are saying that
Carnegie has given away great
amount of money, much of it most
foolishly and much for self-advertis-
ing purposes. The fact will finally
dawn upon the people that the way
to fame is not to accumulate millions
Ivy tariff grating and underpayment
of wage workers and then giving away
a part of the loot
From several articles that have re-
Gently been printed it appears that
"old soldiers" are not so enthusiastic
IN their admiration of Roosevelt as the