The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-03-17
News Of the Week.
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nese laborer may only work in the
mines. He is specifically forbidden to
engage in So occupations named in the
bill, including that of laundry work.
Should the Chinese refuse to work,
he is fined $125 or sent to prison for
two months. If the Chinese should
wander beyond the prescribed district,
they will be fined $50, or one month
in prison. In both cases when his
term of Imprisonment Is over. he is
to be returned to his employer and if
his employer cannot be found, he is
to be turned over to some other one.
Nowhere in this law is it provided that
any wages shall be paid to the China
man. The British plan is to make
South Africa a desolatIon outside Of
the gold mines, governed by gold and
peopled with Chinese slaves. That is
what British Imperialism has ended
in. What will be the end of our i'm
perialism?
We have lost 100000, 900 in money
and many thousand lives in the Phil
~ Les, but vastly more than both of
these combined in losing the proud
position that We once held before the
wccle world as believers in the doc
trine that "all governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed" The expenditure is to
go on and the disgrace also for a
time, but in the end they will both
stop and America will again assume
the lofty position from which the i'm
perialists drove us.
The board o. lady managers have
resolved to have "a hall OF fame for
women at the st. Louis fair. The re-
quirsment for the new hall will be
that every woman represented in it
shall be prominent member of the
ultra fashionable society in one OF the
representative American cities. Ev-
cry woman who has made the world
better by her life and work will be
excluded. Now let congress appro-
pirate a few more millions of the
taxpayers money to help on the show.
A correspondent in New York asks:
after all the iails and insane asylums
are full, when the judges are five years
behind their dockets, when there is
no place to confine the criminals and
no room to house the insane. what
will the plutocrats do then? That
day is not far distant If the present
rot a <,f N To- fIn -
insanesand- criminals continues. Wnen
The Independent said that present
conditions could not continue for Is
years, it was right"
The merger suit has been decided
five to four-againSt the Securities
company and the constitution atty OF
the Sherman act has been sustained.
AS far as the railroads are concerned
1t will have no effect at all. Justice
Holmes, in his dissenting opinion,
said that the logical result of the
opinion would be criminal charge
against the pal ties, but no such ac-
ton will be taken. Hill and Harri-
man have settled their quarrel and
there will be no more competition be-
tween the Great Northern, the North
ern Pacific and the Burlington than
If the decision had gone the other
way. The ruling may be of import
ance in the prosecution of other
trusts, ii any are ever prosecuted.
The democrats and republicans in
congress have been having a discus
sion about which party should get the
most glory out of the free rural de-
livery system. Neither one of them
are entitled to any glory IN connec-
ton with that. Tom Watson intro
duced and fought through the bin
that established the free rural dellv-
cry and If any glory attaches to it. it
belongs to Tom Watson and the Pop
ulists.
The true value of railroad property
In Omaha Is as follows: The Union
Pacific Railroad company. 1882 200:
the Chicago. 81. Paul. Minneapolis q
Omaha Railway company, $500, 600:
the Omaha n Southwestern Railroad
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