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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-07-06
WHEN REVOLUTIONS SUCCEED


Why the and autocrat of all the Russians meky
asks for peace least clear the world Not Japanese
tories by land and but the red Of revolution hom
brought the tyrant to his knees
The mutny of the aboard the Knaz Potemkn battle
ship Of the Russian Black Sea feet of the picturesque
events history It reveals by lightning flash the cond
tons in Russia Whether the flaming flag of revolution the
black eagles of imperial despoism shall finally wave triumph
above the rbous cities of Warsaw, LODI and ODESSA
impossible doubt that the Russian people have decided for evo
ton. for liberty or for death
When the people Of any nation find conditions inoeabe
that they prefer death m then revolt will be successful What
though the commanding general Warsaw threaten lombard
the unless the citizens refrain from attacking the troops what
though machine guns be posted every what
though Cossac armed with magazine rifles bar the of hungry
and desperate workngmen what though all the scientific engne
of destruction be employed STAY and it will avail the
weak little auocrat his babarous Of royal reprobae
The dead piled high in the streets of LODI and Odessa
but what of hat There terrible at ST. Petersburg
last winter and the people crushed but what of that The
French revolution not the work of day week grew
into being by slow Light percolated through the inter
ses Of ancient ignorance and oppression flash by FASH until the
heavens Of France all agow with the vision Of liberty Then
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the blow struck and it failed Again and again the
people struck for their liberty and finally the blows told
It is that the people dealing with government much
weaker armed defenders than the of Russia today
1t that single shell in 1906 could not kill
and children yddite shell kill today but it is also
true that revolt navy quite effective against
Nicholas the Weak the Twentieth century against
Louis the Placid in the Eighteenth That the kind Of blow that
tells against tyranny and that the kind Of blow that has been
struck and will continue be struck Russia until the mailed
fist of absois eekng with carnage beaten down the dust
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-07-06

VIGILANCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
The Jmkin BILL Of which APP
pear another page of this became law July While the
law does deal with all abuses and determinations pacced by
railways and it will be- nevertheless powerful weapon
the hands Of the people, should stand the constitutional
The provisions against rebate giving and rebateakng
strong and the penalties Inadequate joint stock company
violating the law relating rebates be drive, from the state
and any of its property which has been the violation
law be conscaed The penalties which be imposed
the railway companies and their officers agents and representatives
should have deterrent effect especially if the people awake to
their interests and seeking the enforcement of this
and other antitrust laws
One strongest Of the bill any aggrieved
person who may have the necessary evidence upon which hinge
the preliminary proceedings will have the right institute
ton The people should lose sight Of the fact that the attorney
general granted permission demand that such
under the provisions Of the shall be given precedence other
litigation the of public Importance
The office Of attorney general becoming Of constantly
increasing power Neglect and maadmnistraton that Office
should be carefully watched and promptly condemned Il is possible
for attorney general the people great relief BY the
cenous exercise of his progaves and it equally possible for
him. being seve tool the corporations
those laws which be welded with mighty effect to check dis
elimination.
The people should interested selecting attorney
general who free from corporation control they interested
in selecting governor who will be responsive their will and
to the will of the corporations The corporations neglect
opportunity place the Office Of attorney general who will
perform his work render ineffective all laws designed
restrict the illegal operations of the and railways
It is deeply be regretted that the last legislature did
pass law prevent passenger well freight determinations
Recent people the look upon
the members Of the last legislature traitorou the obligations
imposed upon them at the polls The campaign fought
great extent the free pass ISSUE but the legislature not only
failed any law dealing with the evil but treated the question
disdanfu Since the legislature adjourned these unfaihfu
wants of the people have been made feel the weight of public
dipleaur Instead Of killing the ISSUE they had hoped
planned do these legislators by their fragrant neglect Of duty
made it the important issue with which the people
called upon to deal.
The has torpedo boat manned by volunteers
sink the rebel baeshp There still enough loyal Russia
to torpedo boat
Thirsix people killed and 1877 wounded July
4 in the United States. Manchuria close second
Secretary Taft buried Mr. Wallace under avalanche Of
words but the engineer dug his way out ceverly.
Rockefeller has decided to gain controlling interest educa
ton well as in oil and copper
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66s Nebraska Independent
July s. 1905

July g. 1905 ,.aStitl ia tNtt w. N0OA oesN 2
these companies by indirect methods Of such as were
used with such success in Kansas
It reported that the steel has purchased the Lake
Pitburg railroad Of between
O., and Pbug The plan Of the corporation handle the
majority of its and finished product between Ptbug and the
lakes road The deal suggests another dis
elimination which has become avoe among the great Of
the country
The corporation which owns small road of its own is in
position to exact concessions from the trunk line railways from
steamship companies through made from the point
which the freight originates the point of destination Although
the line owned by the corporation only onewene long
the trunk the trust will demand its share the freight charges
oneeenth onetenh By this itself what
in effect is rebate The trunk line submits to the odup because
if refuses to do competitor will the An
other leverage which the trust yields dictate the
portalon OF supplies Any road that dees the will be
allowed ship the supplies required by the its factories
manufacturing plants The usual result is that all the
agree to the trust terms and divide the business
This system of evadng the law has been placed under the ban
in Illinois by decision against which
the unearned portion the freight charges exced
by the trust neither less than rebate In the light
OF this ruling the buying Of spur lines by the trusts may become
less popular
That the Standard Oil company advantage
Of rebates of such determinations in effect rebates
evidenced few days ago complaint filed by oil refining
company Port Arthur. The Illinois Central Louisville Nash
vile and other roads have made Of Al per hundred
weight from New Orleans Chicago 80 cents to Cincinnati and
IS cents Louisville The Independent company ships its oil
these points, whereas the Standard ships oil the
points Port Arthur and given such low that it able
to the business Of the Independent company New Orleans
and that vicinity The Standard pays the Of only %
from Chicago 22 from Cincinnati and 18 from
vile to New Orleans
1t is apparent that the railways temptations
offered by the Rockefeller trust and the national and govern
men should take adjust that Standard Oil shall
not continue to dominate railway traffic
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-19
SPLENDID STREETCAR SERVICE FOR STATE FAIR THL

State-fair crowds will be given bet
ter streetcar service this year than
ever before. It is stated today, at the
office of the company, that every ef-
fort will be made to handle the crowds
even during the rush hours without
crowding or delay. At the new Smell
ing avenue works a temporary substa-
ton will be in operation and a 5000
horsepower rotary transformer will dis
tribute additional power in the inter-
urban district. ~.
Last year the company completed
it's state-fair yards, where cars could
be stored on sidetracks, but had some
trouble with its power. The heavy
strain, so far from the main stations
in Minneapolis and st. Paul was al
most more than the line could handle.
By the installation Of the rotary at
Smelling and University avenues, where
the new shops are in process of cree
ton, this cause of delay and trouble
will be removed. The rotary will re-
ceive power at high pressure from the
main station. In addition the compa-
ny will have it's Smelling avenue cross
town line in operation and the old in
terurban line will draw a part of the
traffic from the Como interurban.
Work on the new Midway plant is
being pushed rapidly. All sand taken
from the excavations for the nine large
buildings that are going in now is used
in the manufacture Of concrete blocks
and sand bricks to be used in the walls
of the buildings. In this way the COM
pany secures fine building material at
a slight expense by utilizing what
would ordinarily be waste.
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given it an individuality, a style and a
vlgor hitherto unknown. The finely
chiseled but strong features, framed in
the silver white of hair and beard,
with which we had become familiar in
the photographs one sees Of him in
pitably. But no mere photograph could
give one any notion of the merry eyes
that beamed on us two Americans with
such kindly humor.
"Ah, it is the polite you come to
ask me OFF, he said in his quaint Eng
fish, as he led us into the parlor. He
colored serge, with trousers and long
skirted coat precisely creased, and this
was later supplemented with soft felt
hat of the cream color that Horace
Greeley was wont to wear.
And so we sat down and fell to talk
ing Of the crisis, how it came about and
what would be it's issue. Bjornson is
the idealist, the reformer, and his poet g
ina gination leads him into rosy dreams
Of how things should be. For years
he has been the preacher and the teach
er of the liberals. AS he says himself,
he can plan reforms, but he has not the
practical genius to execute them. He
has set many reforms on foot in Nor
way that have come to full fruition un-
der the management Of less imaginative
but more practical men. He has preach
ed separation from Sweden along with
universal suffrage and a republican
form of government for years. And
now by fate g strange irony, when sepa-
ration has at last been achieved, the
great reformer finds himself unable to
approve of the way in which it was ac-
complished. His voice is one Of the
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It was charming picture Of domestic
ity, in which good cheer and love
seemed to radiate from the face of the
poet and to shine by reflection in all
the faces about him:
There were many other sketches
signed by famous names, presented to
him on birthday anniversaries and these
hung in his workshop, a bright, sunny
room overlooking the valley with the
heavy gold Nobel medal presented to
him for his achievements in literature.
The Bjornson Home.
The Bjornson home is an old peas
ant IS house which has been made over
into a large and comfortable structure,
where the family parties in which he
delights may be held. Here he stays in
summer, but the winters are too rigor-
GUS for his 70 years and so he spends
them with his wife in Italy. Rome, es
pecially, he loves. But Aulestad is
redolent everywhere Of his personality
it is Bjornson expressed in a home.
When we had seen and wondered at
his many treasures, he called "Caro-
lne,' the name by which he always
speaks to his wife, and soon we We're
presented to the sweet-faced, silver
haired woman who has been the life
long companion OF the poet, the woman
who has been of such inestimable serv-
ice to him in all his trials and labors.
She is rather deaf and speaks only Ger
man and Norwegian, so converse was
not possible, but she smiled welcome
and led us out onto the shaded veranda,
where we sat in contemplation of the
matchless panorama SO characteristic
ally Norwegian. 49,
The Poets Swimming Pool.
The Astounding hospitality Of Bjorn-
son soon led him to ask me if I would
not like a bath! Nothing loath, I con-
sented and he led me down a woodland
path to what he triumphantly called
g. the finest bath in the world.' It,
was crystal pool formed by damming
a strenuous little brook that tumbles
down the hill on his farm. 1t is shaded
by trees and a bathhouse stands con-
veniently near, while small wooden
fume brings down thunderous shower
bath on platform. Whew, but that
water was cold! It makes me shiver
to think of it. And the shower pounded
my back till it was red. But it was
a most refreshing bath had in the
poet IS pool
With boyish Impotence Bjornson
waited for dinner to be announced. IT
am so hungry he said naively, and
went out to see what the prospects
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church it cannot fulfill it's true mission
in the world. That IS it; we must have
the men who frequent theaters taking
the same personal interest in them as
they do in their churches. Blame me
as a non-c onformist for this attitude,
but cast aside your petty fancies, your
half-thought-o prejudices, and I am
sure you will come to my way of think
ing. The fault with playgoers as I see
them is that they are stage hardened.
They do rot seem to be able to stand
back and look at the stage as I, the
tyro, the novice with his mind all open
for impressions, am enabled to do. Some
how or other we must get rid of the
vast multitude Of simply pleasureseek
ing theatergoers, and save the stage for
those elect who love it for it's abound
ing inherent beauty, for the power for
good which j? in it for the direct r and
to all the public.
"Where are we now?-down in the
black pit where dances that internal
doll Of Mr.. Pinero, whom I have been
told is the greatest living English
dramatist. It was when 1 went to see
Mr.. Pinero's EThe Wife without a
Smile that I caught a glimpse of the
deepest. blacklist depths. My heart
sank within me when later [ pondered
thought that not only I, but the whole
audience, had foolishly, wickedly
laughed at the insinuating capers of that
fendish invention. What kind Of a
theater is this that it Endorses Mr.. Pin
ero as it's premier playwright when he
dares to perpetrate a destestable affair
like this doll, hooking the most sacred
relations of husband and wife" Am [
to understand that Mr.. Pinero stands
as the symbol of all that is great and en-
viable in the way Of playwriting in the
English-spealxing world? | hope not; [
pray not. That play, that doll, nause-
ated me, and you cannot imagine what
Joy I felt when Mr.. Pinero and this
imp of his were given short shrift in
America. That wabbling doll, that
licentious creation, never got further
than New York, and, best of all, during
it's short soiourn there, not once was it
made to 20 thru the suggestive ;vibra-
tions that in the end shocked thinking
persons here.
"We want faith first, and then organ
ization. Just think Of 1.-THE Salvation
Army in this country raised $4,000 in
it's week of self-denial Why cannot we
do something like that for the theater
"Give us national theater in Eng
land and national theater in the
United States. like the movement
that is on foot in America for the build.
ing Of a really national theater. KeeI
on with it; that is q step in the right
direction. Raise edifces to Shakspere-
| the common heritage of the English
speaking world. Shakespeare speak
! the name with veneration. I am thank.
full that have lived to see his plays
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very few in Norway that have been
raised in protest against the radical
measures Of the Nicholson ministry and
the storthing.
Approves Result but Not Method.
"No,' he said sadly, 81 cannot
quite approve of the manner of the
rupture, completely as I approve of it's
object. 1t was not my program they
followed. It would have been better
to have waited until the next election
in September, 1906, and then to have
had a vote Of the people on the sepa-
ration from Sweden. So nearly unani-
nous would that vote have been and
so imperative the mandate, that Swe-
den would have been forced to sub
NIT peaceably to the dissolution. The
king would never have dared oppose
the people 8 will thus expressed.
"But now there is such hate against
us in Sweden that fear it will never
die out. [ am a man Of peace. I hate
hate. No one knows how long it will
noble people, the swedes. We need
their friendship. These two peoples
should stand together. Yes, yes. It
should be so. But now and Bjorn-
son shook his head sadly.
A Greater Scandinavia.
tEIt puts off the day of the great
union of all Scandinavia SO much far
ther," he went on. <'Destiny intends
that all the three Scandinavian coun-
tries shall one day be united into one
great democracy. There are eleven
millions of us and we must stand to-
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golden mission. Instead of all this
tiam6oyant display, instead Of these
frivolous tendencies, these paradirg of
choruses for the mere sake of stirring
the grosser senses, these vain protru-
slons of stars. or the directing of the
stage as a commercial asset, give me a
theater intellectual, morally sound, fit
dread of feshly corruption.
"To be candid, 1 am nothing more or
less than a tyro sitting in Judgment,
but I have this advantage, that I an.
proach the subject with fresh ideas. L
am not grounded in prejudices in any
direction, formed thru lifelong &C
quaintance with plays and players.
Now, here is the first big thought that
struck me. The newspaper is the great
is the real-theater of this genera
ton. Our editors are our theatrical
managers. and sometimes, as in the case
of myself, they fill the double role of
out a press when Shakspere lived. Be-
fore the sixteen century ram to an end
there were 200 licensed playhouses in
London, and then the city had popu-
lation only Of about 1S0,OU0. Against
this we find that London today has
around 100000 Inhabitants, while
there are only fifty theaters and music
halls, or one place OF amusement for
every 10000 persons, against one for
every 900 in the time of Elizabeth.
"What we want in England and
America is theater that will not serve
merely as means of trifing away idle
hours, but Of elevating us in our spare
moments. I insist it is possible to find
improvements for ourselves in our en-
tertainments. [ cannot do other than
emphasize again. that thought of the
theater becoming an educator. It seems
to me at times that this whole problem
of the stage, no matter how it may be
thresned out, always inevitably tends
back to the same issue of it's being a
great silent teacher.
Hree now come to one of the
points which /, as a tyro, am most anx-
lous to make. Until the. theater places
itself upon the same footing as the
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STEAD'S TERRIFIC ONSL AUGHT
ON THE STAGE OF TODA Y
He Has Caught the Ear of England by His Attack
tious Plays-He Advocates National 7heater
and Shaksperian Plays
Correspondence New York Press.

Correspondence New York Press.
London.-ln recent interview W..
T. Stead says:
II have now been visiting the thea
ters for nine months. At times I've
felt as if l were in hell, but not once
have I felt as if were in heaven
W. #. Stead is a man of impulses
ever stopping to weigh the conse-
quences. He avows he is always seek
ing the truth. There is no convention
about Stead. He filings himself into
every problem with the impetuosity
and enthusiasm Of youth. He does not
care whose toes he tramples upon. He
is being struck with ideas every hour
of the day, and he seizes them and
works them out to his satisfaction
without fear or favor. He has caught
England by the ears by his terrific on
slaughts on the stage. He went into
the fight single-handed and without
gloves. 1t is almost impossible to
measure the man; to get in sympathy
with his views and his acts we first
must see him as an irrepressible hustler,
as man who wastes no time in pre-
Eminaries, but goes with fdgety ener-
gy direct to the point at issue. Stead
is the one Englishman with the Amer
lean reporters hardness Of plunging
headlong into a story instead Of saw
ing the vital paragraphs for the last
few lines. ..
eyes, thought I found myself in
hell, and I am not sure that the pure
air of God yet has blown all the con-
tamination off me. A marvellous oppOr-
,tunity unfolds itself before the thea
ter, but the theater is the most lamen-
tably neglected institution I know Of
Mind you, I am not sparing myself a
scolding in this connection. It causes
me profound regret that I never stood
in theater until the eve of life. What
an incongruity! Here I was mingling
in the activities of all the world, yet
of the most important features in our
civilization.
eff only the stage would become an
educator. To me it seems that is its
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Looks Like His Pictures.

The telephone two days before had
the servant took our cards, but a few
moments elapsed before the great Biorn-
stjerne Bjornson himself appeared to
give us welcome. 1t was he, indeed
unmistakably the man who had re-
created the literature of Norway and
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were. "a moment,'' was the report,
and as the minutes sped he heaved a
sigh. " TITS as / feared,N he said,
THAT is a long moment. -
At last we were seated about the
board-the poet and his wife at the
head. At his side sat Mrs. Chamber
lain, whose vis-a-vis was Sigurd Ibsen,
son of Henrik Ibsen and husband Of
BJornson 8 daughter--a polished gentle
man and diplomat who unites the fami-
lies of the two famous literary men.
His wife was not well and did not ap-
pear. Erling Bjornson, the youngest
son, who runs the farm and who is com
ing to America next fall to read from
his fathers works, had gone up to the
'.saeter,' or mountain pasture forty
nine miles away, and taken with him
his brother, Bjorn Bjornson, who is a
famous actor and director Of the Ma
tional theater. At the table also were
DR.. Carl Anderson, famous educator
Of Christiania, and his wife, Miss Mel
sen, a friend Of the family, and the two
tow-headed little girls of Erling.
A Real Norwegian Dinner.
1t was a typical Norwegian dinner
the ODanInO fish cOTrSa fo11Ovua6 hxy
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performed. They have been wonder
his plays, but I didn't half know
them. / wonder if [ know them yet.
You cannot see them in their varied
beauty as a student.
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A Real Norwegian Dinner.

It was typical Norwegian dinner
the opening fish course followed by