Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-05-11
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS
NUMBER 40

py. Not So however. IL appears t.Ias
they are not prosperous and are far
from happy. In order TO make them
prosperous at the expense of every home
builder in the land they are to be abso-
lutely relieved of all competition, as the
following dispatch shows:
TORONTO, April ia special to The Globe
from Ottawa says: If, az private wire from
Washington states, the Mckinley cabinet ia
seriously considering the advisability of the
granting of the demands of the Michigan lum-
bermen that Canadian lumber be excluded
from the United States, and if it decides upon
taking such step, the consequence, so far as
the Canadian administration is concerned, will
be the immediate imposition Of an export duty
on nickel ore and matte, as the mass nickel.
copper, cobalt, etc, produced by roasting, are
called.
AIger's Lumber Scheme.
''The Mckinley cabinet is seriously
considering the advisability of granting
the demands of the Michigan lumber
men that Canadian lumber be excluded
from the United States is it? Lumber
users may take it into their pates to in
quire when .'the Mckinley cabinet is
going TO consider the advisability of
granting their demands for lumber at
fair price They may put two and
two together and conclude that the re-
suit is four. and. reasoning ON that prin-
ciple, they may be able to figure it ont
that General Russell A. Alger is a bell
wether among the Michigan lumber
men. and that be is a member of the
Mckinley eabinet-being the same IL
lustrious statesman who is charged by
Hen. John Sherman in his book with
having bought Johns southern negro
delegates away from him at the Chicago
Republican national convention of 1888,
the Hon. John being simple enough to
believe that Republican political moral
ity demands that when a southern ne
gro delegate is bought once he ought to
stay bought-a thing altogether incred-
ible.
The users of lumber, after a due sea-
son of cogitation and rumination, may
possibly read between the lines of the
above dispatch and actually cipher out
the conclusion horrible, rebellious and
unpatriotic-that the beloved Alger as
a member of the Mckinley cabinet is
devising scheme for turning an hon
est penny by putting up the price of
his lumber by excluding Canadian
lumber from the United States, which
may be, to borrow an utterance of Mr.
Sut Lovinggood. 1.-THE making of the
pup, but hard on dad And as the
consumers of lumber go down into their
weasel skins to produce the where
withal to make the rich Mr.. Alger
richer, they can console themselves
with the Seriptural quotation, Render
unto Caesar the things which are Ca-
| sar - unless they are afraid to quote
the Bible, for fear Of being prosecuted
for leze majesty. These poor benighted
lumber users may even have the pre-
sumption to doubt the genuineness of
the sunburst Of prosperity in which we
are assured by Republican editorial
postmasters that we are now luxuriat-
ing. They may even have the pighead-
/ edness to 90 to the polls and vote
! against the chief of the Mckinley cabi-
net, unless, forsooth, some federal judge
should enioin them from SO doing. I'm
| less Republican leaders really are SO
| Blind as to believe that American
voters are fond of kissing the hand that
smites them, they had better nip this
Algerian prosperity in the bud or they
are likely to bear something .drap-
A prophecy of the greater prosperity
which is in store for the American peo-
pie may be read in the press dispatches
announcing Mr. Reed retirement from
the speakership and from congress,
coupled with the further announcement
that Marcus A. Hanna is to take hand
in electing Speaker Reed s successor, in
order to have man in the chair friend
" to his ship canal subsidy That
ought to make the taxpayers yell them
selves hoarse, believing, Prosperity,
prosperity, prosperity