Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-06
NUMBER 35

this Is a billion dollar country. At the
present rate Of piling up the appropria-
tions the brilliant speaker will soon be
compelled to change his famous bon
mot so as to read, This is a two bill
lion dollar country.
The entire volume Of money of all
sorts in this country = gold, silver,
nickel, copper and paper = has been
generally estimated at about 81, 800,-
900, 000, and here comes the Fifty fifth
congress and votes nearly that entire
sum in two years.
Colossal Extrayaganee.
Still another way cf expressing this
colossal piece of extrayagance-M Missouri
is the richest and most populous state
west Of the Mississippi, yet all her
property is assessed at a little over
$500, 600, 900, about two-thirds Of the
sum appropriated by the Fifty-6fth
congress, which sum is equal to about
twice the assessed valuation of Kansas,
the great and growing commonwealth
where we have met tonight At this
rate in 30 years congress win have
voted away the entire assessed value of
the richest and most puissant republic
the sun ever shone upon since the day
when God said, ssLet there be light. :,
The scope of the appropriations of
the Fifty fifth congress was as wide as
that Of the old missionary hymn which
begins. ''From Greenland's icy noun
tains to India's coral strand, . for cur
Republican statesmen voted the peoples
money for every purpose nnder heaven,
from buying reindeer in Lapland to
purchasing Malays under the equator
at 50 per head or at about 4 cents per
pound
Republicans will not practice econ
omy in the public expense. for they
care not how heavily labor is burdened.
No people ON the face of the earth
can long stand this awful drain upon
their resources, their energies and their
toll, and as sure as grass grows or wa
ter runs they will when they clearly
realize the situation, drive from power
the party which so shamelessIy squan-
ders their substance and abuses their
confidence.
make up their minds TO the stubborn
fact that there can be no reform in this
prodigality SO long as the Republicans
hold possession Of the government All
history demonstrates that proposition
to be true.
Under Republican rule ii is almost
impossible to abolish an old Office or to
reduce a salary. bat it is no trouble
whatsoever to c-eate new one or to
raise a salary. These latter performances
come as natural to them as falling off a
log, and a slippery log at that.
Herbert NJ. Lord
There is a class of persons in the pub
lie service who do vast deal of valu-
able work of which little is generally
known. They are clerks Of the great
committees of house and senate. For
instance, there is Herbert NJ Lord, for
years clerk of the house committee on
ways and means He was Governor
Dingley's right hand Lord is an inde-
fatigable worker in the very prime OF
his powers and perhaps knows more of
the details Of tariff legislation than any
. 5ssying man. He Is an unfailing reser
voir Of information ON that subject
have been informed that be is a
candidate to succeed Governor Dingley.
While am neither the legal nor the
spiritual adviser of Maine Republicans
l feel sure that they can do nothing bet
ter than TO elect Lord except TO elect a
Democrat, which latter performance. I
fear, is not within the range of posi-
bilities, certainly not within the range
of probabilities / have no doubt that
Speaker Reed would at once appoint
Lord member Of the ways and means
committee, which would put him upon
the broad and easy highway to emf
nence in the house.