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

cut representing Roosevelt and cap
italist fleeing for their lives while a
working man was just touching off a
big dynamite boom. Another had a
working man standing at headsman's
block with an axe in his hand. Both
of them were very suggestive as to
what the people might expect II social
| ism ever became triumphant
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The way the wage slaves are fed in
the eastern states is shown by report
of the Indiana state board of health
which gives the following actual break
fast in a workingmans family in In
dianapolis: Fried sausages (this sau-
sage, like the greater portion of the
sausage on the market. was colored
with analine red and was adulterated
with about ten per cent of faxed corn
grits); apple butter colored with ana
line red and loaded with glucose; but
ter colored with azo-dye and adulter-
ated with water; cohee glazed with
glazing mixture composed of dextrine
and starch. colored with brown ana
line dye; bread. cheap bakers bread,
soggy and not sufficiently baked and
containing glucose and malt extract;
potatoes, which were normal; gravy
made of -four and drip from the col
ored adulterated sausage.
There will be no difference in this
| treatment of the poor as long as they
continue to support the two old parties
with their votes. That sort of thing has
come about under republican rule and
it is the result Of the System" The
System" will never be changed while
the republican party stays in power.
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| Four or five years ago The INDIE
pendent began to point out the pro
vincialism of New York, that is, gov
erned by ideas, local, not broad and
comprehensive, but confined to a cir
cumscribede area. Some of the cyclists
down by the sea at first were sarcas-
| tic, or tried to be, over the application
of the word "provincialism" to them,
1 then they grew insulting and boorish
as all provincials are. But the term as
applied to them is now being used by
/ literary men every where. The Spring
| field Republican in a-note concerning
Brooklyn, SAYS 'But the great COM
munityl ccross the bridge continues to
live its life quite regardless of Man
haitian provincialism."
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The newspaper boys say that as soon
as he heard that shoemaker in favor
of reciprocity with Canada was elected
governor, Senator Lodge rushed for A
copy of the state constitution to see
| if there was not something in that in
strument that could be construed SO to
prevent the plebian from taking the
Office.
About the silliest thing that has yet
been set afoat by the correspondents is
the story that the English will never
let the Russian fleet reach the Yellow
sea. John Bull was never known to
do any fighting when there was others
ready to do it for him.
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General Kuroki has at last been in
duced to say that "the honorable cor
respondents exaggerated when they an
nounced his death"
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Thu reciprocity fellows who elected
the shoemaker Douglas governor of
Massachusetts should adopt as their
motto: "The last shall be first"
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Not less than $4,000 democrats voted
for Roosevelt in Missouri and nearly
the same number of popuhsts in Ne
braska, did the same thing. The most
curious thing about the election was
that every so-called, free silver, Bryan
democrat in Nebraska, when the test
came, proved to be Parker gold
standard democrat.
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For fifty years the democratic party
has been trying to lick the republicans
The last time it tried it. it could not
put up enough of fight to make the
contest interesting. Has it got sense