Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-12

priyed Of the American right Of voting for city
council.
Against this wrong Democrats have at all times
protested. In both senate and house at the re-
cent session Of the general assembly they pre-
sented and voted for an amendment to the state
constitution comforting the right, but werg op-
posed and defeated by the solid Republican ma.
jority.
No reason exists for this disfranchisement IN
der the limited suffrage both Providence and
Pawtucket have higher rates of taxation and far
larger debts than are averaged by cities Of the
same size in other states.
Registry voters OF cities you going to con-
tinue year after year in political serfdom? Do
you intend to initiate the southern negroes who
supported the Confederate armies which were
fighting to keep them in slayery7 The Repub-
hcan machine which controls this state is wholly
responsible for your disfranehisement.
1t needs no prophet to predict that should you
by your votes render every city Democratic you
would obtain equal rights within three years.
Registry voters in cities whatever your ma
tional politics, why not in all state elections,
commencing now, cast your ballots for every
Democratic candidateg This is the sure and
speedy way to a full and just suffrage.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
For Political Purposes Only.
Another queer manifestation of Rhode
Island politics is that it is openly
charged and generally believed that
Senator Wetmore is citizen of Rhode
Island only for political purposes and
is really citizen of New York, the
paradise of multimillionaires. Still, by
reason of his big checks for campaign
purposes. he is likely to be returned to
the senate of the United States.
But even in Rhode Island all Repub-
licans cannot be induced to swallow
the nauseous dose now being prepared
for them at Washington. Both Rhode
Island senators and both Rhode Island
representatives voted for the Porto Ri
can tariff, but Governor Dyer of Rhode
Island, the outgoing Republican, thus
slaps them and the administration in
the face:
believe it is the duty Of every Republican to
stand up and with no uncertain sound condemn
any course of procedure by congress which brings
into question the honor of the American nation
toward those peoples who have come under
its protection. In the very beginning of the war
with Spain, when it uncertain what the re-
suit would be SO far added territory was con
cerned, the United States went to Porto Rico; It
made no excuse that the island had been rnisgoV-
erned by Spanish rule; it made no apologies; ii
said the island of Porto Rico is the gateway to
the Antilles. To treat these people now as if
they aliens, as il they had no rights at all,
to have gone over and taken possession OF their
island, to set up our own government and then
to impose duties upon them Just as we would
upon the people of Haiti or santo Domingo, is
one of the most outrageous transactions that could
be thought OF.
It is most encouraging that so many of the
men who mold public opinion have taken the
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tutional right; it is question of simple Justice
Nations have moral obligations resting upon them
as well individuals God forbid that any peo-
Piles should have to say that they preferred Span
ish rule and that they trusted more in Spanish
honor than they did in the honor Of the United
States. The Republican party has always been
loyal to the principles it has enunciated. l be-
Heve there is today sufficient manhood in the
party to stand up and not only protest against
but to refuse support to any men or any measures
not absolutely committed to the principles Of ma
tional justice and national honor. What a spec
tacle it will be to European nations that this
people. having been conquered by US and brought
into field, should be treated az strangers and
taxed without reason for bringing their products
into our ports. We might Just well tax the
people of Block island for the fish and farm
products they send to the mainland as to tax
these people Of Porto Rico for what they bring to
US. This question is one in which every Repub-
the time comes for the meeting of the national
convention in Philadelphia this question VIII be
settled and settled with justice and honor, not
only to ourselves, but to the people who by every
moral right should be part Of our nation.
Carrying Goals to Newcastle.
One thing l learned in Rhode Island
gave me pleasure, and that is that the
new statehouse is built out of Georgia
marble! This is carrying Goals to New
castle. For generations federal pub
lie buildings in the south and central
west have been constructed of New
England marble, New England granite
and New England stone, though such
material was abundant in most of the
states where the buildings were erect
ed. But the tide has turned at last,
and Rhode Island leads the way for
using southern and western marble
and stone.
From Rhode Island l made flying
trip to Boston. | visited Bunker Hill
monument, the Old South church, the
old statehouse, Boston Common, War
ren bridge, Faneuil hall and the place
where the immortal tea episode occur
red. l saw the statues of Colonel
Prescott, old Sam Adams, Daniel
Webster and other great worthless. 1t
does a patriot good to be amid such
scenes and to think of the men who
made them famous. Close to Bunker
Hill monument, in little park in which
there is a splendid monument to the
Massachusetts, soldiers who died in the
civil war, there are bronze tablets oF
plates bearing the names of the Ameri-
cans killed at Bunker Hill, and, strange
to say, the names of the priyates come
first upon that enduring scroll of fame.
After theirs come the names of the
officers, beginning with the immortal
sne Of Major General Warren.
Near the great monument itself, at
the laying Of whose cornerstone and at
whose dedication Daniel Webster de
liyered two of his most celebrated ora
tions. is monument to the memory of
Colonel Prescott, topped with his statue
of heroic size. As / approached it
three little girls were playing about it.
One OF them sat down on its base.
Another said: sect up. Aren't you
afraid of that old iron man at the top?"
NO." replied the sitting one; hes
dead" But nevertheless the memory
of what he and his brave companions
did on that spot on a certain 18th of
June in the long ago will never be for
gotten while the earth spins around on
its axis or slides down the ecliptic. /
picked up a little piece of stone at the
foot of the monument and broken
twig on the Common to take to my lit
tie boy, who was born on ST. Jaekson's
day, as keepsakes to remind him how
American blood once Redeemed those
spots of earth dear to the American
heart.
After doing the Hub in a hop and
skip sort of way went down to the
Southern Union depot. ate a dish of
genuine Boston baked beans and med
itated upon the virtues of the sacred
goldfish.
AS looked out upon the lean, rocky,
unproductiye fields of Massachusetts.
Rhode Island and Connecticut and
upon the clean, well built, busy, pros
porous, wealthy and almost innumera-
Bile cities and towns wondered how
the early settlers ever managed to
wiring a subsistence out Of such soil 1
confess it gave me a higher opinion