The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-21

| iourned court. The question was whe-
ther Rogers should produce his letter
book.
Judge GrOsscup of Chicago delivered
an address in Chicago last Monday in
which he declared that there was urs-
ent need of new party that would
control the great corporations. lie
made the positive declaration, SO OF
ten made in the past by popullsts,
that the increase in wealth was not
| what the plutocrats claim, and said:
"The per capita wealth of the c0un-
try has increased only 10 per cent
over what it was 30 years ago." II
Judge GrOsscup will make study Of
populism he will find the very party
already in existence that he is caii-
ing for.
The form of Admiral TOgo's report
to the emperor of Japan is causlLg
many remarks in the daily press. re
attributes his success to mis- ma
jesty's glorious virtue and "heaven-
| ly assistance" That is an equal d.
vision between the royal forms OF
Europe where the ships are his ma
| iesty's" and the devout Christians OF
the republics of the world who believe
that God directs the slaughtering OF
men that occurs in great battles. lie
only thing about the report that COIL
mends the admiration of ALL Is that
the admiral makes no claims for him
| self. 1t was the emperor, heaven and
| the men behind the guns that did IT.
A frog is bird That's settled.
The customs house officers have de-
cided to class frogs legs, a good many
of which are imported as poultry.
OF all the platforms that were ever
written, Hills New York platform
takes the lead for platltudes. There
is not principle enunciated or a
policy indicated. 1t is worse than an
interrogation point. 1t is a vacuum
| with the space extracted.
The Russians have thrown bomb
into the laws of war by announcing
that any correspondent found using
wireless telegraphy will be considered
spy and when found, will be triea
by court-martial, and ii convicted
hung. The London Times has ha,
steamers equipped with wireless
telegraph apparatus sailing aroune
Port Arthur and it is supposed tina
the order was aimed at this boat. TIT
Times denounces the order and say
! that Russia has no dominion over tn
seas outside of the three-league limit
] A protest has also been filed agains
y the order with the state department
at washington, but nothing will b
!, done until some concrete case arises
!. Admiral Togo has used wireless tel
egraphy in moving his ships. 1t ha
also been adopted by our own nav
department.
), The Japanese were the first Of a.
I nations to complete and install thei
, exhibition at st. Louis. It is sal
4 that everything has moved along ther
It with as little friction as in the ia
panese army and navy. The Russia
: government abandoned the space a.
lotted to it and it has been assigne
to other parties.
Now that Dave Hill has absolut
control of the machinery OF the den
ocratic party in New York, what wi
" the Bryan democrats of that state &c
20 There are thousands of them. Wi
they be democrats-still?
n There was a heavy fall of snow r.
ported in northern New York and Il
New England states on April !
% Forty years ago on the same date II
9o thermometer fell to zero in Illino
pr and the states of the west.
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