Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-22


No Democrat who cares ANYTHING for
his party or who is generally opposed to
protection for projections sake can afford
to throw any obstacle In the way of the
Republican program or delay by ever so
little the moment when the people will be
able to see for themselves what a fraud
has been practised on them in the name OF
prosperity. 1t is good party policy for the
Democr s in both Houses to stand aside
and allow the Republicans 10 make their
tariff bill law. There would be some de-
lay in the Senate, but it should not be
charged to the Democrats The ingenuity
of man cannot invent a better Democratic
campaign document than the measure will
prove to be-" Atlantic Constitution.
If the people can be made prosperous by
increased taxation; if the Home Market is
sufficient for our famers and manufactur
ers; if giving special privileges to the few
will bring about genera prosperity il
trusts are public benefactions, the Demo-
crrts are as much interested in the Repub-
lican policy as Republicans, and should
welcome it. Let's give it a fair trial now
Jerry Simpson, the lank Kansas Pop
ulist who has declared war upon Speaker
Reed aud is proving a thorn in the super
abundant flesh of that rotund official, ex-
plains his plan of campaign as fOllows:-
My aim is to force the Republicans to
show their hand on the monetary question
A great plot has been Matched, and Speaker
Reeds refusal to appoint committees is a
part of it, The appointment by the Pres
ldent of the three none airy commissioners
is another part. The Republicans intend
to send this commission abroad after Con-
gress has a journed 1t will work as well
as it can, but it will not be until after the
holidays that a committee will be ap-
pointed which can consider the report the
commission makes. That committee will
not be able to report until late in the Sum-
mer, Just before the first regular session
adiourns The Republican party thus goes
into the election of 1898 saying to the
friends of silver: !" See the Republican
party. 1t is moving in the great monetary
question slowly and cautiously but surely
You must give as time" They can thus
delude the people. and the friends OF silver
will again be beaten. This is their little
plot. am going to oppose it and expose
it if l can. am doing all that is possible
with tyrant in the Speakers chair. l
will keep at it until the Republicans yield
or the extra session ends.
A despatch from Pittsburg, dated :he
10th inst, thus portrays the condition Of
free American labor that is making the
Republican coal Kings -
.The Legislative investigating committee
visited number of mines to-day. At the
pits of Morgan, Moore & Balm, at Banning,
the committee was Mortified. The miners
there, it was stated, average 90 cents per
day when they work. The company houses
are simply shanties There is one long
one-story shanty, leaky and unstable, which
is built on stills over pool of stagnant
water. Fourteen men and one woman live
there. The tent is 6 per month. A miner
named James Fox lives in room six feet
by eight feet. and his furniture consists Of
a bench and stove, nothing else. He pays
So per month rent. The shanty could be
built for SIS.
"The committee said the entire town is
a mockery on civilization"
The employers of these 20 cents a day
wretches are no doubt protectionists they
undoubtedly advocate higher tariff on
coal; they have probably already told
Congress that unless the tariff on coal is
increased the foreign pauper miners will
underselI them in the Home Markets, and |
all the rest of the twaddle with which the
people are familiar. Yet, they are coal
Kings just the same. and contribute liber-
ally to elect Congressman Of the Mckinley
school Of protection.
And every intelligent man who is not
partisan blind. knows that the Protection
scheme these men advocate. but Yields new
chains to find the white slaves of Pennsyl-
gania to their mines and novels