The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-13


no more would be heard of 1t, two
diametricaliy opposite results. We
shall have to wait to see which is
right.
1t is said that the president is al
ready at work on his next message.
He will be forced to say something
about the postal frauds and how to
word it will be difficult thing. The
Independent advises the president to
turn the writing of that part of the
message over to Senator Allison. The
whole world will recognize the fitness
cf the senator for work like that.
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III less than three years Dir. Leon
ard Wood has been advanced from the
medical rank of captain to that of
major general in the regular army.
Such rapid promotion has never before
been heard of in the military service
Of the United States, not even in the
case of the most brilliant military
achievements, showing marvellous
strategy and mastery handling of
large armies engaged in active cam
raigns. 1t is doubtful if parallel to
this rapid promotion can be found in
the history of any nation of modern
times. While General Wood has done
some excellent service in fighting Ind
ians on the plains, the only active SER
vice in a military way that he has
performed upon which these promo
lions were based, was two engage
ments in Cuba SO small that during
the civil war they would not have Sc
cured three paragraphs in the news
papers. In fact there were scores of
engagements between 81 and IS far
more sanguinary and showing just as
much skill and bravery that were new
er mentioned at all and no promotions
We're thought of by the officers en-
gagged in them. These are very
strange times.
Hon. John Connell of New Bedford,
Mass, called on the editor of The In
dependent on his way to attend the
reunion of the Grant Army of the Re-
public, and we had very interesting
talk. He had some difficulty in get
ting lay-off over one train as the
road did not allow any, but he man.
aged it. He says George Fred Will
Jams is all right and he has worked
with him for many years. Things are
not SO prosperous down east as they
sre in the west, and the people there
the beginning to study economic ques-
lions as they never did before
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Seventeen trusts have passed divi-
dends or gone into receivers hands |
during the last year. Six of them, |
after squeezing the water out, have
reorganized and are trying it again.
That is the result of trying to "capi- |
taliZe prosperity" a fad which The |
Independent denounced from the first. |
In these wrecks are buried the ac-
of thousands of families. |
If the sufferers had been readers of |
The Independent and obeyed it's
warnings they would not now be
paupers.
Why is it that boys and girls raised
IN the country are leaders of man
kind all over the world? 1t is because
as Chancellor Andrews says: "Coun-
try people forever have before them
our adorable Mother Earth, with her
infinite and ever-shifting species of
loneliness surfeits of eye
beauty in landscape, waterfall, frost
play, lightning. sunshine, sky AMI
rainbow; surfeits of ear beauty in the
wind, the rush of brooks and rivers,
r the thunder's diapason, and in the
,horuses of inimitable bird-music
waking them morning by morning.
All these are moral influences, which 1
s one great reason why country folk
average to be morally superior 70 city
ok"
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The cardinals, with all the windows
vailed up and thousands of troops
stationed around to protect them, did
'ot have any more success in preserv-
ng the secrecy of their meeting than
he United States senate does when
{ goes into executive session. The
text morning a verbatim report of
he business done in executive session
# the senate always appears in the
newspapers.