The independent., 1904-03-31
states is where the divorce mills grind
fastest and finest.

states is where the divorce mills grind
fastest and finest.
DR.. William Anderson, director OF
the Yale gymnasium, says that OF the
20 United States soldiers who had
been detailed to submit themselves 10
! special diet at Yale, two had de-
serted and the other 18 were sick. lie
also said that % per cent of the fresh
men of the university were suffering
from Indigestion.
DR.. Smith has made an exhaustive
study of the fecundity of the grad
yates of Yale and Harvard for the last
two hundred years. One of his start
ling statements is that not single
class Of either university has repro
duced itself since 1870 He calls at
tention, however, to the wrong eai-
mates that have been made of the
fecundity of the earlier classes. The
statistics have been based altogether
on men instead of women. While
many men of the earlier classes had
from ten to twelve children, they also
had from one to five wives. The wife
Of the earlier college graduate "spun,
wove, knitted, sewed, baked brewed,
washed and ironed, and, in mary
cases, made the butter and chees for
the family" and in consequence OF
the hardships endured died early.
Then the husband married again. II
the man had twelve children and was
married five times, that was only two
children to the couple, which was
about the average now OF college
graduates.
| Andrew Carnegie recently gave out
an interview in which he said:
favor government ownership of pub
lie utilities, though | don't think 1t
advisable at present in the United
States, but have little doubt that the
time when government and municipal
ownership of the railroads, telegraphs
, and telephones and all such things
will be universal"
; The readers Of The Independent Will
remember how often 1t has pointed tc
, the fact tina. the great criminals-the
I traitors to a free gOvernment-the
) men who accumulate fortunes and de-
vote stolen millions to bribing the
|officers whom the people have trusted
! and elected to high official positions
, are given the best seats in The
churches and often held up by the
J ministry as models for youth. Sucf
things are now being said elsewhere
: When the thing could have beer
f stopped, The Independent stood alone
and was like the voice of one crying
o in the wilderness with no one to hear
At a recent meeting in Trinity church
. Denver, to protest against the traitors
who have destroyed free goyernmen
there, one of the speakers said: "Th'
. people who have done this have halo
around their heads; they are re
!, specte6 in the churches" That il
l where the evil gets its most effectiv'
support. Commercialism in th
church is more destructive than com
4 mercialism in politics.
5 In looking over the newspapers fo
: the last week it seems that the tw'
II things that most commend man TO
J democratic support are as follows
: Never express an opinion on publ.
d proposition for 20 years. That i
= Judge Parker. Advocate with vehem
I ence imperialism, big standing arm
| and big navy. That is Hearst.
| There was roundup Of the liberia
, democrats In New York the other da
| and the situation looked over. Th
| conclusion arrived at was that Juig
| Parker had no record on any publ
question and that Dave Hill. who
Parkers hacker, has q record, bu
| would like TO have IL burned
i The Brooklyn Eagle indorses wha
| The Independent said about the s
| Louis hotels and the exposition.
remarks that est. Louis Ia doing I'll
usual and suicidal thing In raising II
hotel rates 20 prohlbitory prices
four times the present amounts--th
new schedule to go into effect as 500
! as the fair opens"
/ Senator Dietrich wouldn't 20 10 trla
but plead that although the acts con
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