The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-07-07

contest. Unless the supreme court
reverses itself, which is a thing that
it has no hesitancy in doing whenever
occasion requires, Mr.. Rice may get
Rockefeller this time.
In the bill of complaint it is charged
that the Standard Oil company is an
Illegal concern, and that it exists in
violation of the antitrust laws of the
United States and of the decision of
the courts of New Jersey and the
whole action is based upon the recent
decision Of the supreme court in the
merger case The law as laid down in
that case is directly applicable to the
Standard Oil trust.
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The lawyers of Colorado. are as
great towards as the judges. Frank
}. Hanks is member of the Bar as
ISOLATION of that state Mr. Hanks
has earned by his ability and faith
fulness the respect OF the bench and
bar OF his district. but when the Peo-
body anarchists seized him and
clapped him into the bull pen, be-
cause he was the attorney of the min
ers, not lawyer in the state had
sand enough in his gizzard' to make
an effective protest Perhaps they
thought that they might miss some
corporation fees if they did. With
the bar out there it is the dollar first,
and the man in prison, and they don't
care what becomes of the man SO they
get the dollar. They are as disreputa-
BILE lot OF shysters as ever disgraced
civilization. 1t is about time that the
people stopped sending such cattle
to the legislature and to congress.
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Some OF these city dudes can show
more disgusting ill-breeding in five
minutes than a whole township of
farmers would display in ten years A
city chap, dressed to kill, with
gaudy ring on his finger and his pants
pressed to rigid crease in front and
rear, came into one of the best res
taurants in this city and after mincing
over his food for while, took the
corner of his napkin, wet it, wrung it
out in his glass Of drinking water
and wiped his mouth and fingers with
1t. The performance was enough to
turn a decent mans stomach. An
alienist sitting by would have re-
marked that it was the instinct in
herited from not very far off ances-
tors who gnawed bones and smeared
their faces all over with grease in do
ing it, making the washing of it a
necessity that made him do it.
The students IN DR.. Ross summer
class in sociology are men and women
OF mature minds, and able to take in
and assimilate his scholarly dis
courses. DR.. Ross is doing a work
that will have a wonderful influence
upon the whole people of this state.
One of the charming things about
the lectures is that DIR. Ross always
says exactly what he believes without
any hedging, while it seems Joy to
him to have student disagree with
his statements. While exercising
freedom of speech for himself, he is
glad to grant even fuller freedom
to all who listen to him. Like some
of the Harvard professors, the stu
dent who disagrees and ably defends
his position is liable to get the high
est marks. Sociology is the most in
teresting science of all the "olCgies"
taught in the university.
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The La Toilette forces are laying
plans for the greatest campaign ever
fought in any state against the cor
porations. There are men engaged in
it that know all the tricks of politics
and there are other men engaged in
it who can put up the necessary funds
to pay expenses without any incon-
venience to themselves. The turning
down of La Toilette by the national
convention in such summary man
ner at the request OF Spooner and
Quarles will rather aid than hinder
the La Toilette fight Before the ma
tional convention had adjourned docu-
ments were sent TO 100000 voters In
the state, and they will be followed
by tons more OF the same sort of lit
erature. while more than a score of
speakers will take the field and keep
at II until the voting begins.
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Think OF a military mob turning