The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK


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ment than in any other organized body
in this country, or for that matter,
any other country.
Some of the correspondents say that
the situation in Warsaw, Poland, which
almost reaches stage of civil war, has
gained its impetus from the fact that
the police are practically on a strike
themselves. They get only Sc month
and have demanded $3.50, the same
that the police receive in st. Peters
burg. 1t was deemed by the govern
ment impossible to entertain the de-
mand that a conquered Polish subject
should receive the magnificent sum of
$3.50 month for acting as police
man. The police of st. Petersburg are
loyal Russians, the pick of the whole
empire, and for the Polish police to
demand the same pay was deemed i'm
pertinent. Then there was trouble.
Judge Gilbert in his testimony be-
fore an Illinois legislative committee,
said: "The members of the Chicago
bar are in the habit of sending judges
of the courts free railroad passes be-
fore trying cases and then go out and
prosecute some poor little jury briber."
But then pass is only courtesy"
you know.
Canada becomes nearer and nearer
to a free and independent nation as
the years go by. Not long ago she
told the mother country that she no
longer needed any British soldiers
within her dominions and the perma-
nent withdrawal of the British garri-
sons from the fortresses at Halifax
and Esquimalt has been accomplished
SO quietly that North America as a
whole has been scarcely conscious of
the fact. 1t means, however, that for
the first time in centuries the British
soldier has left our continent entirely
to its own military devices, and this
has a historical significance which
does not escape the attention of those
who have in mind the part the British
soldier has played in America. For
the first time since the English col
onists organized government here,
there is not British soldier on this
continent
The municipal convention of Chi
cago of the democratic party nominated
Judge Dunno unanimously for mayor
on platoon that demands that "the
people assert their rights and proceed
to bring about municipal ownership
and operation of gas plants, electric
light plants and telephone systems and
that the legislature give the city me-
cessary power to carry out this policy
The republican party can not claim
all the honor that comes from adopting
pOpulist principles even if half a dozen
republican legislatures were the first to
go over.
COmerford, the man expelled from
the Illinois legislature has returned to
Springfield with lot of evidence which
he wants to present to the grand jury
to prove his charges of boodling
against the members. He says he has
positive evidence that $6S,00O was sent
to Springfield for that purpose.
The price of meat at retail and cat
tie on the hoof, remains the same as
it was before the supreme court rem
dered it's decision against the meat
trust. 1t seems that injunctions, even
when ordered by the highest courts,
have no terrors for trusts. They were
intended for effective use only in labor
TROUBLES.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has brought in another indictment
against the Southern Pacific and Santa
Fe. 1t says that those roads have been
violating the law in regard to the ship
ment of California fruits. But those
roads are not in the least disturbed
They know that Morton is in the cabi
net and Elkins rs chairman of thu
railroad committee in the senate.