The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08


khe streets of New York AM other larg>
cfties, regardless of life aid limb, tiii,;
disregard TO speed limit and the num-
Ter that were overrun and killed or
manned, made the sight of one ab-
horent to man who had any feeling
for the common herd who bad to walk.
j The machines at first were all owned
n by the very rich who seemed to care
no more for the life of an ordinary
E poor person than they would that of
d dog, and not half as much, if the dog
were pet poodle
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4 In this day Of prosperity over two
4milliOn children, between the ages OF
310 and IA years are toiling in the coal
mines In Pennsylvania, dragging out
their lives in the glass factories Of
New Jersey, shaving in the cotton mills
4 of the south, working day and night
lin the sweatshops of New York AMI
other large cities and Will grow up n
Ignorance and deformity. All that IS
going on while the republicans and the
4 socialists are telling us that this coun-
TRY is producing more than 1t can con-
3sume and the only outcome is q for
eign market to prevent absolute star
walton among the mass of the PEG
/ pie.
The Bee published long statement
I from Senator Dietrich, purporting. to
| be a telegram from Washington, advo-
| eating the employment Of convict Ia
I Dor on the Panama canal and irrigation
] reservoirs Any man who ever had
/ Eve minutes conversation with Diet
rich would at once know that he never
delivered in a conversation or wrote
n line Of the docun emit But as Diet
rich is utterly discredited at Washing
ton and everywhere else md will leave
the senate on the fourth OF March, he
has been chosen as the medium to pre-
sent the project to the country. IT.
Is about the baldest newspaper fraud
ever perpetrated. Perhaps it may have
been printed in many other papers.
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Major McGregor, who accompanied
Tom Watson when he came to Lin
coin to open the campaign, says: eve
are reorganizing the peoples party all
over Georgia and by spring will have
It in good working order. Watson is
making speeches throughout this con-
gressional district this month"
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The Peoples Party Paper of Char
lotte, N. c., says: ''If there was any
democracy offered in the last campaign
for the people to stand for we failed
to even get a glimpse of it except what
Tom Watson and his followers offered.
II Parker, Davis e Co. and their plat
form was democracy old Tom Jeffer-
SON was a liar and bigger fool than
Smiths colt"
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The suppression of the Watson vote
and in many places. the refusal tol
count the votes that were cast for him,
has deeper meaning than appears on
the surface. Plutocracy Goes not fear
the violence of socialistic revolution.
It has the men and the guns to sup
press it. but it knows that it would
he powerless against strong convictions
and honest principles once presented
to the people. Against the possibility
Of that they put up every barrier
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The London Globe says that "in
Yorkshire generally and IN Sheffield in
particular, that wife selling is so gen.
eral and is still so firmly established
that it has little less force than local
law. In addition to those northern
counties many wife is sold today in
the east end of London" And the
English send missionaries to Japan