The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-08

4 weekly really BY the gator


They recently built new hotel in
New York, costing millions OF dol
lars. 1t was opened for guests last
Monday. The hotel Is eighteen stories
high and SO are the prices. The first
day 1t had only two patrons-Mr. and
Mrs. Trasch. who thought the Waldorf
Astoria was not exclusive enough for
them. This hotel was built expressly
for the exclusive and the millionaires,
but times are so hard in New York
that the Investment is likely to prove
q loss. The extravaganceS of Louis
XIV have been doubly discounted by
many millionaires of New York, but
the darkening outlook ~cOmpels many
of them to curtail expenses, SO the
st. Regis may prove failure.
The army of the unemployed in the
eastern states receives thousands into
its ranks every week A large por-
tion OF the factories of the eastern
states are shut down. The textile
works lead the list
Vermont went $4,000 republican and
Arkansas went $4,000 democratic at
the state elections last Tuesday
Whoopee! Hurrah Whooplo! Wall
street is in it this time The vote in
Vermont.proves that Roosevelt is to
be elected and the vote in Arkansas
proves that Parker is to be elected. 1t
don't make any difference which. Tn
der either or both of them the policy
of this government will not be
changed.
The men who call themselves the
peoples democratic party in New .Jer-
sey, through their chairman, Geo. A.
fHonnecker, have called a convention
to meet at Atlantic City on Saturday,
September 10. That convention will
put a full peoples party state ticket
in the field headed with Watson and
sTibbles electors. Populists are as
assaultin9 the trusts in their very
stronghold and place of their birth.
The effort to keep Parker before the
people while the committee keeps its
mouth shut is watched with much
amusement by spectators ~-of all par
ties Last week the reporters were
driven, after exhausting every other
resource, to write about Parkers dog,
Teddy. The Associated! Press loaded
down the wires with a long story
about how Teddy got into a fight with
skunk, how they bathed the dog
in the Hudson river, how they poured
a bottle of cologne over him, how he
Ch11f nf hnu ho
scratched at the door and Mrs Parker
would not let him in. All this, no
doubt, has a great bearing on the des-
TIMES Of S0000000 Of people, the dis
tress in the great cities the hun
dreds OF thousands OF men and women |
out of employment, the recent rise in |
the price OF Baer's coal, the independ- |
ence OF the Philippines, the estab-
lishment Of bank trust through |
branch banking, forming OF moneyed
aristOcracy such as the world never
saw, the increase of the navy and ar
my, and the constantly increasing de-
ficit in the government revenues, but |
ordinary people can't see how. To |
them the dog and the skunk only ty-
pity the awful odor that rises unto
heaven from the Parker Hill Belmont |
combination. Perhaps those reporters
sent to watch Parker. to describe his
morning baths, what he eats, when
he goes to bed, when he gets up, how
long he sleeps the names of his oxen
and his dog, have played another
trick on our distinguished friend. Mel
vim M Stone. the head of the Asso-
ciated Press and avenged themselves
in that way for setting them at such
silly work. They wanted to say: Dog
gon Parker and this whole Dave Hill
business and they adopted this dog
story as the best way to do it,
Tom Patterson is writing editorials |
about the Iron law of wages" quot
Ing CARLYLE who said modern libort, |