The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-02-25

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to be gained by prolonging the agony.
While the greatest railroad owner
in the world is enjoying the embraces
of another mans wife, il is announced
that 10000 freight cars are blocking
the tracks around Buffalo. That
means another "car famine" out in
Nebraska and Kansas as long as the
price of wheat and corn stays up. 1t
is giving Armour and others The
greatest opportunity or the century
to corner the market and preventing
the farmers from shipping .heir grain
while the price is up. Put still an
other niger on The safety valve.
The dilletante dailies and magazines
are talking about the want of literary
successes during the last year. That
shows that they are all away off"
The greatest literary successes that
ever occurred in the history of the
world happened last year. What au-
thors ever before received so many
millions for their work as those who
wrote the prospectuses or what pub
fishers ever accumulated such for
tunes as those who put this literature
In the hands of the people?
A--4
Governor Odell got nipped for $685.
900 in the shipbuilding trust. Now
some criminal prosecutions have been
begun. AS long as it was only the
common people who had been robbed,
no criminal prosecutions were even
ilinted at. The Gay the prosecutions
were begun, Schwab started for Eu-
role He bought his ticket aboard the
snip and no one knew that he was
going until he was far out at sea.
Some Of the Wall street bankers
say that Secretary Shaw is several
times liar and they are red hot.
The cause of their anger is that they
bought government Is at ITO and
hypothicated them with the secretary
to get government deposits. Now the
bonds have gone down to nearly par
AID Shaw has called for the deposits
pay the French for the Panama
Canal. These bankers (they were not
ia .he Rockefeller ring) have to sell
L..eir Is at about 103 to get the money.
They stand to lose some heavy sums.
Meantime Rocky will gobble up the
It and get currency for them for his
little banks by issuing more bank
AGGes. These bankers say they don't
care a continental whether the lid
1iOws off or not.
Secretary Shaw Is learning that
Wall street gratitude consists of
thanks for favors ito be received"
and has no connection with favors
already bestowed. The withdrawal of
deposits Is attended only with curses,
and the sweet smiles with which they
were received have all vanished. Some
of the bankers who bought Is at Ito
to put up for deposits and which
upon Shaw's demand must now be re-
turned, Swear worse than our troop
ers in Flanders" All Cf which will
have a tendency to make DR.. Hall,
cashier of the Columbia National bank
OF Lincoln, wear pensive smile for
several days. The roundup that was
held in the editorial rooms of The
Independent the day that government
Is went up TO ITO will not soon be
forgotten. Shortly after the votes are
counted next November there will be
some fool western bankers who will
find that the thing has busted, the
niggers, safety valves and all have
gone sky high and the old ship leak
ing faster than Church Howe ever
dreamed of.
The sycophants of capitalism are
going wild in Their praise of Secretary
Hay because he sent a note to the
powers asking for an agreement that
the war between Japan and Russia
should be localized and that the in
tegrity OF the Chinese empire should
be preserved. As 1t was the German
minister who requested Hay to send
the note, where Hays great skill in
diplomacy exists Is one of those things
that no pop can find oJt.
One of the bankers who lost heavily
on government Is which he bought
to get government deposits says:
There Ia nothing to do but pocket