The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-24

The Old South church in Boston has
been equipped with fire extinguishers.
Have the Unitarians begun to preach
fire and birthstone" after having BAN
ished it for SO many years. and in such
plentitude as to demand fire extin-
guishers?'
About the silliest thing that was ever
said by a prominent man, was said by
Senator Fairbanks when in speech
upon the departure OF the liberty bell
from ST. Louis back to Philadelphia.
he declared: "A million men would
shoulder muskets, if necessary, and
fight to preserve this precious relic TO
posterity" What silly thing to con-
ceive A million men fighting and dy-
ing to preserve a bell! There was
never a Chinese or Hindoo supersti-
ton that ecualled that. # he had said
that million men would turn out to
fight for tie principles contained in
the Declaration Of Independence which
the ringing of that bell announced,
there would have been something SEN
sible in the remar.. Bat Fairbanks
belongs to that crowd Of demagogues,
who cry who will haul down the
fag?" and at the same time trample
the constitution beneath their feet.
Lady Henry Somerset. in writing
about the present conditions in Russia.
says There is little doubt, although
news is difficult to obtain. that in the
interior OF Russia riots are causing
the greatest uneasiness, and RESPONSE
Bile people fear that they will soon
| be faced with trouble within their
own borders as grave as anything that
| has occurred outside. When the re-
seryists' train passed through the town
of Bitefsk 400 men left the cars, plum
dering the town, burning by the way
and causing the greatest panic. The
refreshment buffets at the stations
were stripped bare, and when the at
tendants ventured to protest they
We're beaten. In the province OF Kief
priest has been stoned to death, a-d
the police officials who endeayored to
stay the outrage were beaten and
thrown to the ground"
| The Federation Of Labor, in session
at San Francisco, sat down, good and
hard, on the socialists. One of the
propositions proposed by the socialist,
Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, was to
give the unionists arms SO they could
shoot back at the militia. The Fed
GRAFTON would have nothing to do with
any such traitorist program The ex-
Ihibition of socialism in Colorado,
which has produced fierce class con-
scious hatreds, ending in anarchy on
the part of both contestants, is as
| much as the people of this country
want of it.
Some of the socialists at San Fran
cisco distributed slips accusing Com
pers and Mitchell with dining with
President Eliot of Harvard college.
They seemed to be as much wrou 5ht
up over that as were some OF the
|southerners over Roosevelt dining with
Booker T. Washington.
| Americans will learn with amaze
L menu tndL AOlt~I1S 1ilctCsSi AieA' -~cON-A
published about the conference IN the
Russian newspapers. The remarkable
memorial that is arousing so much in
terest and speculation in the western
lworld has no. seen the light OF day In
Russia Not a sentence from 1T. not
the most general summary OF it, nor
any account of the gathering has been
printed, 1t is impossible for the Amer
lean to comprehend Russia. 1t IS
, doubtful if Russia comprehends itself.
From reports from Boston it seems
that Lawson has struck oil and it IS
spouter. He has bored through the
| scar hide of old Rockefeller
Pension Commissioner Ware ought
to be happy, as he will set into heaven
) four years sooner than ne would have
) done had he not held that office. He
r SAYS: 1.-TWO years in the pension office
) is equivalent to four years in purga-
, tory