Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-08-17


VIII Bring Them to Their senses
and Land Them In JaiI-Senators
Hoar and Chandler Prominent
Txickers Julius Caesar Burrows
Also a Traitor.
Especial Washington letter.
Prosperity with a big big z is upon
this. 1t is conclusively proved by the
strikes in Cleveland, by the strikes III
Brooklyn, by the strikes in Arkansas,
by the strikes in Kansas and by the
strikes in Missouri. If any evidence
were lacking. it would be found in the
following dispatch:
Chicago, July 29-More than $1,000 men viii be
thrown out Of employment Monday, and work
will be stopped every large building in the
city where brick made in nonunion yards is used
in its construction, if the business agents of the
Building Trades Council carry out their inten-
tion. At the headquarters Of the committee hay-
ing the strike in charge it said the manufac-
turers had failed to send representatives TO at
tend the conference, and, result, the strike
would be pushed vigorously forward from now on.
Today being half holiday, attempt was
made to stop work on any of the buildings; but,
beginning with Monday ii is said, every work
man viii be withdrawn from the buildings where
brick from nonunion yards is used
These are few of the innumerable
proofs which indicate that we are rid
ing on the top Of a great wave of
prosperity, but the trouble about it is
that the more we have of it the worse
we are off.
l am neither the legal nor the spir-
itual adviser of the Mckinley admin
istration; but, nevertheless, as a sort of
amicus euriae, | make bold to suggest
that the administration can have no
permanent peace of mind unless it rigs
up a statute creating the crime of leze
majesty and providing penalties there
for Press censorship in the Philip
pines will not do. 1t does very well
for the purpose intended so far as 1t
goes, but it does not go far enough.
1t simply prevents Americans in the
Philippine Islands from telling what
they know, but if the administration
does not want to go to the bowwows
it is painfully evident that some
scheme will have to be devised to pre-
vent Americans in America from talk
ing and telling what they know, espe-
cially Republican Americans. They
can't be reached by d press censorship
in the Philippines. and If they are such
idiots, copperheads or traitors as to
keep on differing with the administra-
ton the statute for leze majesty is
perhaps the only thing that will bring
them to their senses. 1t would land
very distinguished company behind
the bars, but as sure as water runs
down hill the administration viii lose
prestige very rapidly if it does not
stop their tongues from running.
Republican Copperheads.
There is Senator George Frisbie
Hoar of Massachusetts,. sometimes
fiippantly called ~the cherubic' by the
ungodly My recollection is that he
once boasted that he helped rock the
cradle of the Republican party and did
not want to follow it's hearse. 1t may
have been Charles Summer who said
that: but, anyway, Hoar looks old
enough to have rocked its cradle, and
from the present outlook he will not
have to live much longer to have a
chance to follow the hearse He has
become such a rantankerous antiex-
pansionist that the Washington Post
intimates. by a cartoon at least, that
the senator is likely to be a delegate
to the next Democratic convention.
Then there is the Hon. William E..
Chandler, senior senator from New
Hampshire, who, when not in training
for his pugilistic encounters with DR..
Gallinger, the junior senator from
New Hampshire, puts in most of his
time explaining to his Republican
. brethren that unless they declare bold
ly and at once for the free coinage of
silver the party will go to the deuce.
If these two illustrious New England
senators should both be clapped in Jail
at once on charge of leze majesty. it
would be absolutely necessary TO fur
nish them with separate compart-
ments, otherwise they would bite,
gouge, kick and wool each other gen
GIdIll O1 tllt IucSltOtl as " W ACtllCA
Grant actually packed the supreme
court to obtain the legal tender deci-
sion. Chandler affirms that he did,
while Senator Hoar is perhaps the on
ly living human being who does not
agree with Chandler on that PROPOSE
tion, but because Senator Hoar had a
brother, Judge lockwood Hoar, who
was Grants attorney general, Chan
dIers charge makes him furious. So
to prevent the diffusion of Mayfiower
blood recommend the administration
to put these illustrious prisoners in
different cells. especially as there
would be plenty of distinguished COM
pany for them when the prosecutions
for leze majesty begin.
For instance. there is the Hon. VIII
Cumback of Indiana, ex-lleutenant
governor of Hoosierdom and ex-sev-
eral other things. Not long since the
Hon. VIII took his pen in hand and in
formed startled world that unless
Mark and Mack changed their ways
suddenly and radically Mack would
be shamefully overwhelmed and de-
feated in 1900. thing that can't be
prevented, no matter what they do
now, but it Is too had that Governor
CumbaeK should be wagging his
tongue In any such way, as he has
gobbled great deal of Republican
pap in his time. but it may be that he
is merely fishing for another chance
at the trough. Ii will be absolutely
necessary either to give William an
other teat to suck or to clap hiff into
Jail for leze majesty. for If he goes
on talking ut the present rate he Will
make good many people believe he is
telling the truth.
sogme More Kfckers.
Then there is the soulful Thurston
eronl Nebraska, statesman, orator, law
yer and poet. He has recently warned
the powers that be that IL they pass
the financial bill which they have been
incubating at Atlantic City the great
middle west Is surely lost to the Re
publicans In 1000. Such treason as
this deserves long sentence under the
law for leze majesty New, If the adj
sministration does jug senator Thurs
ton have one great boon to ask Of It.
not in my own Interest. but for the
sake Of palpifating lovers every where
--that Is. that he be moi placed at hard