The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-03-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK


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President Smith of the Mormon
church testified that he had five wives
and AZ children. 81 boys and Il girls.
He is going brigham Young several
better.
1t turns out that 161 congressman
and senators have violated the stat
utes in procuring appropriations for
clerks in local pOstoffices above what
the law allowed, and three own post
Office buildings. Among the members
of congress who are thus criminaily
liable is our own dear Meiklejohn of
precious memory. The members who
have succeeded in getting postoffices
located in their buildings are j. w.
WadswOrth of New York, J. d. Bow
ersOck of Kansas, and George l..
Lilly of Connecticut. Will any of
these 161 republican congressman be
prosecuted? Well, hardy. If all of
The republican congressman who have
been grating were prosecuted there
would not be enough of them left to
form a quorum of the ways and means
committee.
Senator Hughes is trying to get an
anti-pass bill through the Iowa legis-
lature and he finds it rough shedding.
His bill was sent to committee and
the committee won't report it back TO
the house. MI. Hughes expressed a
view Of the potency of passes in Sc
curing legislation which will be sus-
tanned by every man in Nebraska who
ever fought railroad. The senator
said that in his opinion more can be
done toward influencing legislation
with pocketful of railway passes
than with big roll of $1,000 bills,
as the average man who would rebel
at accepting cash bride would think
1T perfectly harmless to accept a pass
which must inevitably affect his sym
pathy.
Let it ever be remembered that the
man who buys q high tariff from a
coterie of United States senators, the
lawyer who for a fee brides legis-
lature, the small politician who for
pass on railroad watches and works
a whole year to control delegation
in the interest of the railroad that
gives the pass, and thousands of 9TH
ers of like character. are each and all
not only scoundrels and thieves, but
traitors to their country, more de-
spicable and contemplate traitors
than Benedict Arnold was. When
every honest man gets the courage
to Sell such men to their faces that
they are traitors, there will be hope
OF better government. These re-
marks are made because man in
Lincoln who prides himself upon be-
ins. honorable and upright, in discuss
ing these traitors in this state, SAID
that the use of such words in rela-
ton to them was ill-advised. As long
as such ccrruptOrs of manhood and
youth as John ID. Rockefeller are
spoken OF in terms of respect, corrup-
ton in every branch of government
from city council to Washington. will
thrive and increase. Speak the plain
truth to these men and treat them
just as you would treat any traitor TO
his country or any thief and robber.
Fopulists everywhere are first for
law and order. That is so prominent
in their teachings that even down on
Wall street where some of the pirates
fear trouble in the future they con-
fidently believe that in any event the
populists Will be for law and order
The Independent has denounced
lynching in Mississippi. The report
was made. not by any northern man,
but was printed in the vicksburg
Herald. A white man and a negro
got into quarrel and in the ex-
change Of shots the white man was.
killed. A mob seized the negro and
his wife. What followed Ii told By
southern man In q southern paper.
The Herald says: When the two
negroes we're captured they were tied
20 trees and while the funeral pyrcs
wtEe being prepared thsy were forced
10 suffer the most ncndish fortunes.
The blacks were forced 10 hold out
their hands whllN one finger al