Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-13

Hnnna's Political Ambition.
The truth is that Mark has no sort OF
interest in what happens to the Repub-
lican party past the end Of the nGxt
presidential term. for by that time be
will be nearly 10 years Of age, and If
be can pull Mckinley in once more the
chances are that his political ambition
will be satisfied and his political career
will be closed. There is no question but
what his career will close. practically.
with McKinley's 5, for the only way that
he ever achieved any high position in
politics was by using Mckinley as the
ladder by which to climb
OF course. even if Mckinley is de-
feated in 1900, as he probably Will be
if he is nominated, Mark wculd still
have four years of senatorial life ahead
of him. but under such changed condi-
tions he would not amount to very
much as senator. for all the promi-
nence he has in that body is due to two
cts-frst, that he is supposed to be
McKinley's especial mouthpieee in that
body. and. second, because he is chair
man Of the national Republican com
mittee. II is extremely doubtful in,
deed if Mark would care to retain the
position of chairman of the nationa,
committee when his chief ceases to be
president, so that if he can tide over
1900 by any hook or crook by any
species Of legerdemain or dodging, be
can then defiantly say, as did the great
French harlot, .'After US the deluge. +"
But should Hugh Hanna and his
gang compel Mark Hanna and his gang
to declare squarely in favor of retiring
the greenbacks Mark will feel that he
is going into the contest of 1900 with a
stout halter about his neck with mil
lions of willing hands pulling on the
other end of it. In that woeful frame
of mind he would be a coward from the
start. and we would beat them as easily
as falling of log. and a slippery log
at that
Feeling Against Trusts.
There is still another thing which
must give Mark the mullagrubs these
days, and that is the patent fact that
the independent press Of the country,
which is constantly growing in num-
ber. power and capacity, is gradually
lining up against trusts. / have fre-
quentIy in these letters hithertoreferred
to the Washington Post as the most
ably edited independent newspaper in
America. 1t can see as far into grind
stone as the next one. In recent edi-
torial it took the Philadelphia North
American, which is one of the great
organs of the trusts, to task in the fol-
lowing slashing manner
NOT AN UNLIMITED RIGHT.
A man and a number of men have perfect
right to combine to produce goods as cheaply
as possible and TO tx the price at which thes
shall be sold. Philadelphia North merican.
There are many rights, inalienable and 9th
ersxise, but that is not one Of them. "A man
and a number OF men have not a perfeeI
right to shut out competition and put up price:
at will. Such combination, if it abused its
power and oppressed consumers, could be in
dicted and, if convicted, punished for con
spiracy in restraint OF trade. Ii society had
not this power to protect ITSELF 1t would be at
the mercy of lnonopolists.
Happily this country Is so large and 1T
product & of the necessities Of life are so great
both IN dgTictlltlii a1to manufactures, that 1
is next TO impossible 10 get up grinding mo
nopoly in any commodity. And the public hsl
another protection in the self respect of soin'
capitalists and the discretion Of others. Mel
who have many millions at their disposal ar,
generally disinelned to prey on the neeessities
Of their fellow citizens. They desire to hold l
respectable place in society. Capitalists VIII,
are not restrained by fear know that if they
should get up corner in anything indispensa
BILE and work ii in a way 10 distress the people
they would be sure of punishment, if not By
the law, then by the mob. for there are wrong
that will not be endured.
4 Vigorous Remedy.
The closing sentence of the ahovs
quotation will cause Mark to have a
creepy sensation up and down his
spinal column if it ever falls under his
observation. which I have no doubt il
will Even wild eyed Populist editor
in the widest and woolliest corner OF
ssthe omnivorous west, as Mr.. Reed
was pleased to denominate that vast
section, could hardly have devised q
more vigorous remedy for trusts than
is suggested in the closing words of the
above editorial from The Post. The
chances are that because it is in The
Post it viii give Mark more worry than
if printed in every Populistic and Dem
ocratic newspaper in the land, for full
well he understands that The Post,
published at the seat of power, is not
likely to suggest taking the trusts into
Judge Lynch court unless the case bt
desperate. But with trusts being formed
all over the land, with honest indus
trious men being thrown out of EN-
ployment by thousands, the case is des-
perate, and every man who loses his
job through the organization of trust
will put in his enforced leisure not
only sscussing' Mark Hanna, per
formance about which Mark would care
very little, but what is great deal
more. and what will induce bad case
of insomnia for Mark. is the further
fact that these men who are thrown
out Of employment will get even at the
election. So that ON the whole, while
Mark affects a great deal of confidence
in Republican success and talks very
nippantly about ~hat he is going to do,
the chances are decidedly in favor Of
the proposition, if the truth could bt
ascertained, that his experience once
more illustrates the truth of the old
saying, Uneasy rests the head that
wears crown. Indeed, unless things
improve for Mark, the chances are much
in favor of the proposition that Marx
will ultimately find his crown to be a
crown of thorns
Anecdote of Senator Vest.
It is an unfortunate fact. too well
known by the public, that one result Of
the last election was that a great many
able Democrats 90 out of the United
States senate. One of the most brilliant
Democrats left in the senator. for
that matter, that ever were in the senate
lis George Graham Vest of Missouri.
He and General Joe Shelby. the famous
Confederate cavalry raider, were boys
together They were both famous story