Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-03-01

SOAuSHoeu iHlo very lew WORDS. IL con-
tains sense, wit, sarcasm and prophecy
| all combined. 1t was written by my
| friend, Hon Wallace ]. Davis, editor
of The Pike County Post and member
Of the Missouri legislature, and runs
as follows:
The American manufacturers Of fruit Jars met
| last week and agreed 20 advance prices on all
their products 25 per cent. This is another blow
| at the fellow who wants to eat It is tax on
| appetite. as the paper trust prices are tax on
intelligence. Bet s4 If the Republicans win an
other election there will be air trusts in every
state to put tax on raw breath.
If anything terser or more compre-
hensive has been said recently on any
political or philosophical question, IT
has escaped my attention
Apropos of that l will say that the
great prosperity which has come to the
average citizen by reason of the trusts
is clearly illustrated by the following
| sample items:
| Battleax tobacco, that sold for 121h
cents per pound before the trust got
hold of the big plants, has gone up to
36 cents per pound. Prosperity for the
tobacco chewer.
The trust has made prices jump all
along the line in rubber goods. A pair
Of rubbers which cost 65 cents last
winter now cost a big Bland dollar, an
advance of 80 cents, an indubitable eY-
idenee of prosperity to the buyer.
Canned goods which were formerly
sold two for a quarter are now "15
straight" a little rise caused by the
trusts and for the sole benefit and be-
hoof of the trusts, which reduces the
quantity of food consumed in thou
sands of homes
Throwing OF the Mask.
The G. o. P. is gradually throwing
off the mask and feeling its way to
taking an out and out English stand,
don't you know. The -Pauncefote
| treaty is a disgrace to America-a
shameful surrender of our rights, our
historic position and our honor.
do not believe that it will ever be
ratified Certainly one-third of the
senators have some spark Of Ameri-
canism left. If so, it will go to the
wastebasket
By the Clayton-Bulwer treaty the
United States and England were to
| build or dig the isthmian canal joint
ly, own it jointly. pay for it jointly.
That was bad enough and was never
cordially accepted by our people
Blaine declared it null and void when
he was secretary Of state, and the peo-
pie applauded him for so doing. Blaine,
whatever else he was or was not, was
an intense American. proud Of his
country, jealous of her honor
By the Hay-Pauneefote treaty Eng
land graciously permits us to build the
canal ourselves and foot all the bills, re-
serving to herself the same use of it
that we have, provided we pledge our
selves never to fortify it! Could any
thing be more humiliating? BY Eng
lands permission, Ell? And in the
western hemisphere? Wonder what
old James Monroe would think of that?
Spend $f00,0O0,000 or $200,0O0,0OO TO
make worlds highway which we are
not to fortify and which an ingenious
and industrious enemy of our country
could by use of a little dynamite and
in few minutes render useless to US
for year or two! A lovely kettle Of
fish, surely!
| 1t is whispered about that Mr.. Sec
retary Hay wrote every word OF that
treaty and that ambassador Paunce-
fote's whole part in it was to sign it,
/ which he is said to have done without
crossing ''t' or dotting an 81" No
doubt he signed it with astonishment,
pride and pleasure -astonishment that
we are so blind. pride that his country
was gaining so much, pleasure that he
was crowning his long diplomatic ca
reer with a treaty which contained a
complete abandonment of the Monroe
doctrine and which entities him to an
earldom, if not a dukedom, in the Brit
ish peerage.
| If this treaty can be ratified, then
| the administration can go the whole
hog in its alliance with England, for
its ratification will demonstrate that
we have little. if any, national spirit
left-the spirit of 1776.
The Macrum Matter.
! OF course all the thick and thin,
whole hog administration men will
solemnly swear by Mark Hanna's
Doodle chest that no understanding,
written or verbal. clearly stated or i'm
piled, exists with the oppressors of the
Beers. Unfortunately for these politi-
cal supplejacks there is a young man
in this country named Maerum pos
sessed of valuable Information on this
no manner of means loath to impart
| to a candid and startled world. He
was lately and until recently Ameri-
can consul to Pretoria. The tale he
tells is the history of the most dis
graceful and humiliating chapter In
American history, worse even than Ly-
man j. Cages correspondence and
dealings with the New York National
City bank. Now, please remember
that Mr.. Macrum is not wicked Dem
ocrat or pestiferous Populist, but he
is an Ohio Republican. He declares
that the English authorities opened,
held up, censored and mutilated his
correspondence with our government,
whether written or telegraphic; that
his patriotism and self respect rebelled
against this, and he came home to in
form his government as to this out
rage and finds himself bounced for
his pains. Moreover, he claims to have
documentary evidence to prove his as
sertions. At first the state department
undertook to whistle his grave charges
| down the wind, but it is said now that
so many Republican senators and rep
resentatives have warned the admins
tration against this course that the
department is cooking up some sort
of explanation. If Macrum is telling
the truth, our government ought to
give England 4S hours within which
to make an abjeet apology and in
which to punish the perpetrators of
this monstrous outrage. If England
refuses. then give Lord PNuncefote his
passports and order Joseph Choate to
come home at once, thereby breaking
off diplomatic relations with Mr.. Bull
We are getting to be world power
with a vengeance, aren't we? How
long would Andrew Jackson have put
up with such conduct as that on the
part of England or of any other gov
ernment? In his day we were feeble
foIl, comma rod with what We are now