Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, , „ . ,. Frank Raguse, Expels Socialist a member of the Wisconsin Legislature from a Mil-waukee district, so greatly offended hiscolleagues by a disloyal speech that hewas expelled from office by an almostunanimous vote. Such action, altho veryunusual, is legal by the Wisconsin con-stitution, which provides that eitherhouse of the Legislature may by a two-thirds vote expel a member for con-tempt or disorderly behavior. Mr. Ra-guse, who is a German by birth, ac-cused the American Government ofhaving plotted the destruction of theMaine in order to bring about theSpanish-American War, and remarkedthat the same spirit was evident today,as patriotism can be created in onlytwo ways: you must destroy people oryou must destroy property. Later,when threatened with expulsion, Mr.Raguse explained that he spoke onlyof false or jingoistic patriotism and in-tended no slur on the real love of coun-try. But he refused to sign a preparedretraction disavowing any remarkswhich savored of disloyalty.
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A PROPHECY COME TRUEThis drawing of a torpedo-plane is reproduced from The Independent of Nov. 2, 1914, in which Mr. Benjamin first explained the flying-fish attack THE FISKE TORPEDO-PLANE BY PARK BENJAMIN L; ONDON, May 2.—The Admiral-ty announces that the British, steamer Gena of 2784 tons wassunk May 1, by a torpedo dis-charged from a German seaplane offAldeburgh (Suffolk, England). The foregoing despatch sets forththe first use by the Germans in thepresent war of the torpedo-plane in-vented by Rear-Admiral Bradley A.Fiske, U. S. N., and described in fullfor the first time by the present writerin The Independent of November 2,1914, with the illustration here repro-duced. A mobile torpedo, similar to thetorpedoes projected under water by sub-marines, is supported on an aeroplaneframe directly below the aviators seatand is so arranged that by pulling asingle lever it is freed and its pro-pelling engine started. The torpedo-plane, as Admiral Fiske calls it, islaunched either from the

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