The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-05
He Is for Russia

| Editor Independent: Will you
please publish the following:
| have been reader OF your paper
long time. / have always loved 1t
and consider it always the best re-
form paper in the country. While
The Independent never claimed to be
paper of general news it always
more than made up for 1t by giving
| the space of such news to something
a good deal more important, these
times, which is the discussion of po-
litical questions, 1t always seemed 10
me that it always shot straight no
matter what it would hit But since
| the Russo-Japanese war commenced l
have nearly in every number of The
Independent found quite bit written
under the heading of General News"
and such news was nothing more than
great Misrepresentation of facts in
regard to that war. You seem to laud
the Japanese to the skies and try 70;
discredit and misrepresent all about.
Russia. You may be copying that
garbled news from the lingo, pluto
cratic. subsidized, yellow journals
which news you at other times accept
with great caution. You may partly
do it through ignorance in regard to
the state of affairs in Russia, or your
mind became warped by Anglo-SaA0n
race prejudice. The latter seems to
me to be the most probable. You
seem to be very anxious to magnify
to the extreme the accomplishments
| of Japan since the war began. Being
fully equipped for war and being near
home and backed by powerful feet
of warships and by English-American
| jingoists who mainly worked up that
war through jealousy towards Rus
STA, and through an anxiety to find an
excuse to create great armies and ma
vies to be able to go into the assimi
lating business and also discount and
enhance securities, Japan suddenly
plunged into war and attacks Russia
unprepared. Weeks have passed and
what has Japan accomplished? With
her great feet and the assistance of
English-American spies, she captured
a few Russian supply steamers, dam
LACED about three Russian war vessels
of smaller calibre, and at night lays a
mine which blew up Russian war
ship with 700 men on board. Yes, the
Japs attacked Port Arthur a number
of times and got srepulsed every time.
In spite of their great war fleet they
are afraid to land troops So far that
is the size of Japan's great accom-
plishments. Shame on those English
American jingoes, who have been re-
porting battles and encounters that
never took place and also the number
of abandonments and captures of Port
Arthur and who play spies in order
to trip friendly nation. Race hatred
in this country ought to forever CEASE.
The American or United States nation
is by no means an Anglo-Saxon race.
1t is composed of all nationalities and
that makes it progressive and great.
Leaving all other elements out, the
English element here is only frac-
ton in comparison to the Irish eie-
ment here. Why boast of the friend
ship of nation that at every oppor-
tunity tried to disrupt and ruin us?
The common people of this country
have no fight to make on the common
4 people of England or those OF any
other country We all have jingocs
and parasites to contend with. We
fight battles for our oppressors, pay
the expenses, then fill their Golfers
and let them rule over us. Oh! what
fools mortals be!
H The English press always misrep-
resents everything. Russian and the
lingo plutocratic press which England
controls here keeps repeating it and
the mullet heads in this country keep
nodding, yep, that's So" That we
owe Russia a debt of great gratitude
in saving us from ruin is admitted by
the best reliable statesmen. scholars
and the best American element. The
Rt. Rev. Talmage, deceased. and 9th
|. ers of equal import. after visiting
Russia, all admitted that Russia Is a
country OF great future and through
jealousy Is always misrerresented by
England. Prof. Wright, only sncfi
time ago In the Review of Reviews
writes that Russia Is always misrep.
resented by her unfriendly neighbors
through jealousy and especially BY
England aud that we owe Russia q
great debt of gratitude and that our
sympathies ought 10 70 with Russia
UUm Dnaafa that far