The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15

wounded which have fallen into their
hands have recovered What nation
ever made such a record as that be-
fore?
The hundreds of millions of dOllars-I
squandered by the republicans on the
Philippine islands is all irretrieyably
lost. We might endure that, but it
is to go on year after year indefinitely
Be sure that you put in big wheat
crop this fall SO that you will be able
to pay your share OF it, for Roosevelt
says that he is going to continue that
policy unchanged.
There seems to always be some wOm-
an who is q great power in the govern
ments of the world. A short time
ago it was Queen Victoria. Now itEis
Isl An, empress of China. At present
she Yields absolute power over more
than twice as many people as the car
of Russia, and the fate of nations rests
upon her. as much or more, than upon
any other ruler Her late conversion to
modern ideas attracts attention from
all the world. She is 70 years old and
when she dies no one can tell what
will happen.
Several factories that have been shut
down for months are now opening up.
They are all in places where the pluto
Gratis need votes.
While down on Wall street last win
| ter, the editor of The Independent was
surprised at the frequent allusion to
| the possibility of maintaining order in
great cities. When there to attend the
notification meeting at Cooper Union,
/ he noticed the extraordinary precau-
tons taken to guard the president as
he crossed the city. some 250 police
being detailed for that duty. Tuesday S
dispatches from New York say: Muir
ders, highway robberies, burglaries and
crimes OF violence in New York make
such an appalling record that news
papers and committees of citizens are
making frantic appeals to the author
tiles for better protection. The fire.
quency OF such crimes was not real
lIcu tHLlt JilC ACW opopCio OC6dn "
compile and publish lists of such
length that the city is alarmed" Al
though the strike has been declared of
for several days at Chicago, there was
the largest riot near the stock yards
there last Monday that has occurred
since the strike was first called. There
is a cause for all this and The In
dependent has been calling attention t6
it for the last four or five years.
A thing happened last week that, il
it had not been for the wars in prog
ress, and the political campaign, woul6
doubtless have occupied large space
! in the news columns Of the daily press
j The fact, astonishing as it was, wa:
only given about three inches of space
wireless telegraphy was established be
tween ST. Louis and Chicago, the frs
! message sent being over three hun
! dred words which was read withou
the least difficulty. 1t is claimed alSt
that messages were sent simultaneous
ly to Seattle, Wash. and the Philip
. pine islands The system employed il
the invention of DR.. Lee De Forest. |
, may be that the Western Union com
, pany had something to do with tn
small notice given it. Ii the system i
what is claimed for it, that grabbin
corporation will perhaps in the nea
' future receive its just deserts, whic
i will consist of being wiped out of ex
n istence
il The government at Toxic has sen
. out an official statement Of the losse
q OF the Japanese in the fighting aroun
q Lao Yang. The killed and wounde
. amounted To 1883, which substantiate
4 what The Independent has said, name
i ly. that just In proportion that arm
y and high explosives have improve,
. the casualties in war have decreases
IA There has been no news of lmpor
n ance from the seat Of war during u
. week. The Russians have eyacuate
"A Mukden and are hiking for the mort
The Japanese are pressing slowly G
after them. while by means OF the raj
n road from New Chwang. rc-enforc
a ments are coming up In large number