Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-10-05


If an ordinary citizen cannot find the
wherewitllaI to pay his taxes when
due. his roof can be sold from over
his head and his bed from under his
sick wife or dying child, but when the
gamblers of Wall street get into trou-
BILE the McHanna secretary of the
| treasury rushes to the rescue proapt-
| ly, enthusiastically and brazeDly.
/ ] make bold TO jot down these
thoughts, as General Otis has not yet
extended his press censorship to the
| States and Republican congress has
not yet created the crime of leze majes-
ty and provided pains and penalties for
the same not yet. No telling how soon
these new marks of McHanna Pros
perity, spelled with big, big Z, W
come upon US, so / seize the day and
speak my mind while / may
Republicans Defend Trusts.
Gradually the Republicans are throw
ing off the mask on the trust question
and feeling their way carefully to the
support of the trusts When Bryan
left the army and jumped ON the
trusts, the storm broke upon the Re
publicans with such surprising sut&len-
ness and with such astounding fury
| that they took to cover, and many of
them pretended to be against them,
but they are beginning cautiously to
| hamstring all who are opposing them.
Attorney General Griggs, a resident of
New Jersey. and Governor Voorhees, of
/ f,r esXa .. 8.
fend them, but the recent utterances
of The Globe Democrat and other lead
ing Republican papers, together with
Mark Hanna's interview, j. r. Bur
toms speech at California, Mo-, dur
ing the campaign in the Eighth dis
| trict, Governor Shaw's speech at ST.
Louis and the vapid moutllings of that
believing blatherskite, Bourke Cock
ran, at Chicago. all go to show that
the whole pack, Blanche, Tray and
| Sweetheart will soon be in full cry in
favor of the trusts. OF course every
| body knows that Bourke Cochran was
hired by the trusts to go to Chicago
and, while pretending to fight the
| trusts, to really do all he could to
shield and protect them just as he was
hired in 1896 to make goldbug speech
es. / never think of him that / do
not think of that irascible statesman,
Joseph Henry Walker of Massachu-
setts, who declared once on the floor
of the house that Cochran possesses
more physical eloquence than any man
ever knew. His whole oratorical
stock in trade consists in believing
loud and humping his desk" and Jo-
seph Henry made a correct diagnosis
of his case.
| The gubernatorial antitrust confer
ence at st. Louis, called by Governor
Joseph D. Sayers of Texas, has pass
ed into history. The Globe Democrat,
which. take it, truly represents Re
publican sentiment as to trusts, is
tickled half to death because the at
tendance was so small. That great pa
per would lead us to believe that Gov
ernor Shaw of Iowa was the only man
present who achieved any distinction
am not conducting the Democratic
teampaign in the Hawkeye State, but if
were / should see TO it that the govern
or'S ST. Louis speech was sent broad
cast over the state and put into the
hands of every voter as a Democratic
campaign document. If that is done.
| in my opinion Leslie NJ. Shaw will be
private citizen after Jan. l. and
Fred White will be governor. If he
does not prove himself the friend of
trusts in that speech, the English Ian
guage has no significance and he is
fool, but nobody ever accused him of
being fool OF course he did not come
out in a fiat footed. honest manly
way and say, Il am for the trusts
but beneath a veil of sarcasm, and a
very thin veil at that he stabs those
who are fighting trusts.
A Dig at the Farmers.
Here is a delicious paragraph from
the speech which The GID. exploits SO
much
1T must permit the southern planter
and the northern wheat grower to COM
bine to limit the output of cotton and
of wheat, for we all believe in such
organizations so far as they can be
made effective. but the bill must pro
| hibit combinations by manufacturers of
cotton goods and of -four for the pur-
pose of limiting the output of their
1 plants, for none of us believes therein
The ''it'' that he is talking about is a
law to knock out the trusts In the
| first sentence quoted above he gives
the farmers of the north and the plant
ers of the south dig under the fifth
rib. Governor Shaw knows for all
men admit his acumen and informa-
| ton, that such combinations as he
speaks of among the wheat raisers of
the north and the cotton raisers of the
south have no existence whatever and.
what is more that they are imprac-
ticable. indeed impossible He used
| them as a blind. in order to be able to
defend trusts while declaring against
| theln The more voters that read the
governors speech the larger viii be
the majority against him in November.
governor Sayers of Texas and Gov
ernor Stephens of Missouri had made
speeches attacking the trust evil and
suggesting remedies, whereupon the
astute and sarcastic governor of Iowa
remarked:
"The remedy suggested by implica-
tion in the two speeches of the fore
noon session that of the repeal of all
tariff provisions and through the free
coinage of siIyer-would, in my opin-
ion. effectually break the back of ev-
cry trust in the United States"
Now, to a plain, blunt man it would
appear that if the repeal of all tariff
provisions and ..the free coinage of
silver would efTectually break the
back of every trust in the United
States and if the Iowa governor is
really in favor of killing the trusts he
would he In favor of ''the repeal of all
tariff provisions and in favor of s'the
free coinage of silver Not so, how
ever for in the next sentences of his
speech he says:
at would accomplish this much in
the same way that fire in wheat
field temporarily destroys Canada this
ties, but | have learned ffom observa-
tion that these pests will spring up
again as soon as conditions are IA
yorable to the growth OF another crop
of wheat. / had hoped that this con-
ference would evolve some method Of
effectively dealing with the evil with