The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-10-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK


SumerS IN Nebraska with q Slight adj
i ditional charge to those In other states
1t includes 81 articles running from
sugar (21 pounds for $1,000 to stove
polish. Everything is first class of its
kind and the firm being absolutely re-
liable that amount of goods for the
price will astonish every household
that receives them, both on account OF
the quantity and quality. The editor
OF The Independent is under no nhliga-
/ tons to this firm, but he is to the
farmers and workers in Nebraska, and
he considers it a duty to tell them
about this opportunity.
Some of the papers in Colorado de-
clare that the situation in Cripple
Creek was brought about by the So
cialists who have captured the labor
organizations there. The political So
cialist holds that all measures except
the full one are but palliative and I'M
| desirable, and that the greater the
| misery and priyation to which the
population is subjected the sooner will
come the earthly paradise they paint
in such heavenly colors. That being
the sentiment, no effort has been made
to relieve the condition existing, but
every effort was made to increase the
evils from which the miners suffered
It is not at all astonishing that in
the state of Quay and Baer, the peni-
Tertiary should be turned into den
Of cOunterfeiters and only to be ex-
pected that other crimes should be
discovered there. Several of the en-
ployes have been stealing lead pipe,
plumbing fixtures and a whole lot Of
other things, sending them out in the
wagons that brought them in and at
forwards selling the same articles over
again to the state. Several of them
have accumulated considerable for
tunes in that way. And Quay and
Baer still rule.
The proposition of Secretary Shaw
t. call in and pay off the IS of 1894 is
somewhat of an "aStOnisher." 1t is
simply gift to the holders of the
bonds of 100000. Those bonds be-
come due April /, 1904, and can then
be redeemed at their face value. Shaw
proposes to offer premium and pay
them now with interest in full up to
date. Such deals as that with bond
holders have been SO common during
the last thirty years we suppose no
protest will be made. In any other
nation on earth such a proposition
would produce condition that no set
OF politicians would dare face.
Henry Gannett of the geographical
survey, who took the recent census in
the Philippines, does not substantiate
the stories concerning that people
printed in the imperialist papers. 1t
does not show that the Filipinos were
the "Apaches Of Asia" On the con-
trary, Mr.. Gannett says: "The work
Of enumeration was all done by the ma
tives, and they rendered highly salts
factory service. AS a class I never
saw more intelligent, faithful or capa-
tie enumerators than those we got in |
the Philippines. We employed more
than 5000 of them, paying at the rate
of 81 day. Some finished up their |
assignments in week, while others |
were engaged for month or more"
The effort being made to force the
people to pay extortionate prices for
coal during the coming winter is one
o. the most damnable conspiracies
against the public welfare ever perpe-
trated since the dark ages, and the |
government does nothing to stop it. |
The Lehigh Valley has closed down
twenty of its colleries, the Susquehan-
ma sixteen, while the Wilksbarre col
leries will run but four hours a day, |
and the Delaware & Western will run
on three-quarters time. All this is
done to prevent a fall in prices after
they have been raised $1.50 per ton.
There is great distress among the
Filipinos of Batangas, Negroes. Taya-
bas and Cebu, the result of failure of
the crops. owing to the ravages of To-
Gusts. The government is now dis
tributing $3.50, 900 worth of rice among
the afflicted districts, which is to be
paid for in work. How much foreign
trade do the imperialists think that
they can develop among a people of
that kind by holding them in subjec-
ton?
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