Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-02


as one of the great historic orations of
the world-as an epoch maker and a
presidential breaker When Mr.. Nc
Kinley reads it, he is likely to say to
Mark in the words Of mighty Julius.
Et tn, Bruteh The difference is that
Brutus Junius stabbed Caesar inten-
tionally and Marcus smote William un-
der the fifth rib as the Irishnan wanted
the doctor to give him the whisky
unbeknownst to himself If John r
Mclean had written Mark 5 speech, he
could not have prepared one better cal,
culated to boost his gubernatoriai boom
Much success has evidently made Mark
mad, and he has come to the conclusion
erroneous conclusion, as he will find
it to be that the American people viii
endure all things That they are lone
suffering and kind we all know, or they
would not have stood the outrages in
ficted upon them 50 long, but their ire
can be aroused, as Mark will discover
to his sorrow, and when aroused it is
terrible and irresistible Marks speech
will prove in all human probability to
be the straw to break the camel's back.
and his idol, President Mckinley, will
have to travel on foot instead of camel
back
Platform OF Pretense.
At the time of the Ohio state conven-
tion pointed out in these letters that
the antitrust plank in that platform
was mere pretense. make believe. a
trick to catch gudgeons. Republican
organs jumped on me and called me all
sorts of hard names for making that
declaration, but now comes Mark and
by his astounding burst of eIoquence
demonstrates that | was correct in my
statement I repeat here now that the
trusts have nothing to fear from the
Republicans, for it is written. Remem-
Der now thy Creator, and the trusts
created this administration
Mark exordium is courageous but
unwise, defiant but full of peril He
says; The Democrats say 1 am afraid
to talk about trusts That settles it.
I'm going to talk about them And
he did in way Republicans will regret
but once, and that will be till Gabriel
blows his horn. The heroic bull tried
to butt the engine off the track, which
also settled something to wit. the
bull, Now, I am neither Marks legal
nor spiritual adviser, but I make bold
to suggest to him that the spirit he ex-
hibits in that brief and emphatic exor-
dunn is the silly but adventurous spirit
of the foolish boy who twill not take a
dare. l can give Mark some valuable
experience in that line of conduct
When I was boy, my father used te
hire me out to work for farmer named
CLARK Montgomery, who was an old
brute in human form and who richly
deserved hanging Montgomery had a
bound boy named Nix, six years older
than / was and mean as Montgomery
himself Montgomery would wallop
Nix, which would FIJI the latter heart
with rage and desire for revenge
The worst Of it was that he took his re-
venge ont on me. guiltless Of all effense,
instead Of Montgomery. who had given
him the hiding His modus operandi
was this As soon as We would get out
of sight Of Montgomery after he had
operated on Nix the latter would make
mark ON the ground and dare me to
cross it. Like Mark in his Cleveland
speech, | would recklessly cross the
dead line and Nix would drub me un-
mercifully. I calculate that in eight
years Nix thrashed me 500 times at the
least In taking retrospect of the
days of my youth | am persuaded that
/ would have done better to have dis
regarded Nix's dare and to have re-
manned ON my own side Of the line. /
have no doubt that after the melan-
| choly days of November Mark will take
a similar view of his Cleveland exor-
dunn
A Few Questions.
After delivering himself of his sui
cidal exordium Mark blurts out this
statement ''This combination of cap
ital for one purpose or another is not
political at all It is a business ques-
| tion and ought not to have been brought
into politics at all Indeed That's it,
is it? Now. Marcus, philosopher, presi-
dent maker and conscience keeper of
| the Republican party | would like to
ask you few leading questions; 1.
Don't you know that politics is busi-
ness, and business of the most serious
/ import to every man, woman and child
in the republic? 2 Don't you know
that the tariff question is a great bust
ness question, affecting directly the
price of every article used, consumed,
bought or sold by an American citizen,
including even the price of votes, line
of merchandise in which you are the
leading wholesale dealer7 8. Don't you
know that Mr.. Hayemeyer, sugar trust
magnate the largest contributor to
your huge corruption fund of 1896, de-
clares under oath that the protective
tariff is the mother of trusts, which
proves he ought to know, and you
are precluded from impeaching him,
your own witness that if the trust
question is a business matter which
ought to be kept out of politics the
tariff, motner of trusts, is also bust
ness matter that ought to be kept out
of politics? 4. Don't you know that
the money question is business mat
ter. and would You keep that out OF
politics toog s. What is your idea ot
what politics is anyway except the buy
ing and selling of votes and offices2
Republican Evolution.
The more one reads Marks great
Cleveland oration the more it grows
upon one. After some general remarks
he blurts out the sentence indicative Of
what he really thinks and of what Re
publicans really think on the trust ques-
tion. This formation of combines is
simply an evolution of business meth
ods There you are. It's evolution
/ Republican evolution, inevitable evo-
luton and we cant escape the trust
Juggernaut. Mark says, and Mark
knows Then Mark proceeds to say
Should railways own their own steam
ship lines there would be a marked
change in rates. All this requires eapi-
tai and such tremendous amount that
no ordinary corporation could stand
| it, +" And from those premises MARI
concludes that trusts are necessary.
Silas Wegg, when he desired to be
especially impressive, was wont to droI
into poetry. Mark, as a clinch for his
/ evolution theory of trusts dips into his.
tory and remarks The so called trusts
are not new. They have been found IN