Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-27
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Which was awful conduct in such
scholarly persons as inhabit that delec-
table city. Nothing more melancholy
has happened since John Griffin Car
Isle was rotten egged at Coyington, KY,
by his neighbors and qnondam friends
and supporters because he had rated to
the goldbugs
It's lucky thing for these irreverent
Massachusetts, people who hissed the
name Of the president and his Philip
pine policy-whateve that may be-
and who belllowed Beef Beef Beef p
into the unwilling ears of Secretary Al
ger that no such thing is known to our
laws as a prosecution for Ieze majesty or
they would get dose they would not
forget SO long as the world shall stand
but we may come TO that before long at
the rapid pace we are travelling to-the
Lord only knows where The certainty
of a prosecution for Ieze majesty is about
the only thing that will force the Amer
iean people to swallow either Alger or
his embalmed beef.
Every man is said to possess an evil
genius. President Mckinley is unusual
ly unlucky IN this regard-he has three.
ThIy are Marcus A. Hanna, Russell A.
Alger and Lyman J. Gage If he would
only get rid of that trio, it would be
much better for the country, himself
and the people, all of whom wish him
well individually. In the meantime,
nothing can prevent the people from
kissing or bawling Beef when they
see fit so to do.
Webster's Ecomfum.
There is an old Latin saying. ssTem-
pora mutantur, ct nos mutamur in ills
Times change, and we change with
them), but il. these editorial utterances
are true certainly Republican Massa-
chusetts has taken a terrible header into
the abyss since, in his reply to Hayne,
one Of the greatest speeches ever deliv-
cred in this world, Daniel Webster said:
"Mr. President, shall enter on no
encomium upon Massachusetts; she
needs none. There she is Behold her
and judge for yourselves. There is her
history. The world knows it by heart.
The past at least is secure. There are
Boston and Concord and Lexington and
Bunker Hill, and there they will remain
forever. The bones of her sons, falling
in the great struggle for independence,
now lie mingled with the soil Of every
state from New England to Georgia,
and there they will lie forever. And,
sir, where American liberty raised its
first voice and where it's youth was nur-
tured and sustained there it still lives
in the strength of its manhood and full
of its original spirit If discord and dis
union shall wound it, if party strife
and blind ambition shall hawk at and
tear it, if folly and madness, if uneasi-
ness under salutary and necessary re-
straint. shall succeed in separating it
from the Union. by which alone its ex-
istence is made sure. it viii stand in
the end by the side of that cradle in
which its infancy was rocked; it viii
stretch forth its arm with whatever
vigor it may still retain over the friends
who gather round it. and it will fall at
last. if fall it must amid the proudest
monuments of its own glcry and on the
very spot of its origin.
If Republican Massachusetts grows
weary of reading Republican denuncia-
tion of her present course. she can CON
sole herself by Webster's encomium,
which, declaring he would not deliver.
be did nevertheless deliver.