Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-17

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that's the very same identical, historic
charge they brought nearly century
ago against a certain redheaded Vir-
ginian named Thomas jefferson, who
loved to play the fiddle and farm and
philosophize. "Oh. damn himp' the
prodigals of that day cried. 'sHe spends
his own money like thoroughbred but
he's regular skinfiint when it comes
to the public money. He's a queer
duck. !" And SO after nearly 100 years
Alexander Monroe Dockery of Missouri,
an unwashed Democrat. actually fol-
lows in Jefferson's footsteps and tries
to save the public money, which dis
gusted Mr.. Tongue exceedingly.
But If Tongue had looked ten feet
from where he was standing and had
let his eye rest on Governor Nelson
Dingley of Maine he would have been
so astonished that he would have been
dumb though his name is Tongue, for
while he couldn't get nickel for Ore
gon $3.50, 900 was appropriated right off
the reel for a little port called Roekland
up in Governor Dingley's district The
governor asseyerated solemnly with his
hand on his heart that he never asked
for that sum or any other, and for fear
this amazing statement would not be
swallowed he brought as compurgators
Uncle Joe Cannon and Hon. William
A. Stone of Pennsylvania, manipulation
of "the hog combine and candidate for
governor Of the keystone State When
they were through compurgating, Jerry
Simpson, who has sink in his head
where the bump of reverence ought to
be, phrenologioally speaking, hoped up
and declared that the appropriations
committee had to run after Governor
Dingley, catch him vi ct armis, throw
him down and ram the money into his
pocket. But the fact remains that the
governors little port was we'll provided
for, and Mr.. Tongue wagged his tongue
In vain and got no pap. Wherefore? For
three reasons-frst, Governor Dingley
is chairman of the ways and means
committee; second, he has been in con-
gress nearly 20 years; third, he lives in
Maine. Now, if Mr.. Tongue will dupli-
cate these persuasive environments he
will stand a much better chance to COB
BILE fat appropriation.
"The Loud Bill.v
Signs of disintegration in the Repub-
lican party in congress multiply. By
three days of hard hand to hand fight
ing we killed the notorious Loud bill. "
It was done by an almost solid vote of
Democrats, Populists and Silver Repub-
licans, together with few Republicans
who, living in rural districts, could not
be whipped into the support of this op-
pressive measure, which in its effect
was deleterious to free press. 1t was a
distinctively anti-Republican victory,
but could not have been won save for
the weakening of Republican discipline.
The truth is certain Republican con-
gressmen are beginning to bolt the lead
ers and heed the people. On our side
Moon and Richardson of Tennessee, Bell
of Colorado, Lenz of Ohio, Simpson of
Kansas, Cochran and Lloyd of Missouri
deserve special mention. took hand
myself. said inter ALA:
The Main Objection.
The great objection to this bill is that
it is detrimental to newspapers and di-
minishes the diffusion of information,
and / repeat now what / said before
that Democrats are in fa- Or of the wild
est possible diffusion Of knowledge 1
have such implicit faith in the PROPOSE
tion that truth is mighty and will pre-
vail that were ] as rich as John D.
Rockefeller would publish popular
edition of jefferson 8 works and put a
copy into the hands Of every voter in
the United States, absolutely certain
that it would make the country Demo
cratic for all time to come.
One of the most eminent of American
preachers said, "We must educate, we
must educate, or we must perish.
Thomas Jefferson, the modern Solo
mon, declared that he would rather live
in country with newspapers but with
out a governments than in country
with a government but without news
papers.
Newspapers are great disseminators of
information.
The mammoth metropolitan papers
have vast circulations and are splendid
educators, but after all perhaps ten
persons read country weekly where
one reads a metropolitan paper.
The Country Editor.
Having once been country editor
myself, | entertain most kindly feel
ing for my old confreres. / am willing
to make affidavit that the months l
spent editing rural journal were the
most beneficial Of my life to myself and
perhaps to others. am proud to have
belonged to the editorial guild. am
unalterably opposed to anything that
will injure the country editor, eurtail
his profits, circumscribe his usefulness
or place an additional thorn in his path
way.
The rural er1itor-God bless him-is
the most persistent of teachers. Like
charity, as described by st. Paul in the
thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians,
he ''suffe long and is kind, !" which
oannot be said of the men who got up
this bill. He "envieth not, - in which
he does not resemble some people over
on this side of the house. He "vaunteth
not himself, - in which be is unlike the
leaders on the other side of the big
aisle. He sis not puffed up in which
he does not resemble good many of us.
He ''does not behave himself unseemly,
seeketh not his own, is not easily pro-
voked" In this last respect he does not
at all resemble my friend from Cali
fornia Mr.. Loud).
He ''thinketh no evil in which he
is vastly superior to a great mGly of us,
'rejoiceth not in iniquity, +" in which
he is totally unlike the Republicans,
shut rejoiceth in the truth, which
proves that he is cousin german to the
Democrats. He ''beareth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things, .
and in that respect is very much in the
predicament of the minority on this side
of the house under the Reed rules.
He is the pack horse of every COM
munity, the promoter of every laudable
enterprise, the worst underpaid laborer
in the vineyard
Counting his space as his capital, he
gives more to charity, his means con
J sidered, than any other member Of So
ciety.
/ He is a power in politics, pillar OF
the church. leader in the crusade fol
better morals.
He is pre-eminently the friend Of
humanity. Line upon line, paragraph