Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-12
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valley.
I honestly believe that one county in
my district produces year by year more
food for man and beast than the entire
state of Rhode Island could be made to
produce by any sort of farming and
any quantity or quality of fertilizer. 1t
contains an area little larger than the
average county west Of the Mississippi
and that small area mostly water" as
one humorously inclined Rhode Island
er told me. They manufacture every
thing in New England, but even for
that business they are inconveniently
located, being compelled to bring in
nearly all their raw materials. includ-
ing fuel, from the south or west. Why
don't the southerners and westerners
do their own manufacturing? / could
not help trying to imagine what pop
ulous and wealthy region the Missis-
sippi valley will be when to the won
drous richness of the soil Is added the
incalculable wealth which manufacture
ing institutions win bring. On the
whole, after a hasty personal ocular In
spection, my solemn conviction is that
the present New England Is the most
amazing monument ever erected to hui
man energy, intelligence, industry and
ambition.
First and last, I have now been In 26
states of the Union. in two territories
and the District of Columbia. The
more see of our country the more I
thank and praise Almighty God for
giving US such home, and the more
heartily sing,
Ny country, It's Of thee.
Sweet land Of liberty,
OF thee / sing.
The strangest and most pleasant bit
of political information / picked up on
this trip is the fact that the Rhode Is
land Democrats are as fond Of William
]. Bryan as we are out west.
OutraEes In Idaho.
The investigation which the military
affairs committee of the house is MAX
ing into the outrages committed under
martial law in Idaho Is bound to help
the Democrats a great deal in the fmz
pending election. Great credit IS due
to the Democrats on that committee
for holding on with bulldog tenaeity
until they get at the truth. John J.
Lentz of Ohio and William Sulzer OF
New York are taking the leading part
in prodding the Republicans Both are
good lawyers, and they can't be bull
dozed, browbeaten, terrorized or chok-
ed off till they ascertain the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
out of the outrageous, un-American
and brutal capers cut out there by GER
tain persons dressed in little brief
authority. When fully told, the tale
of the Idaho Dull pen'' win rival In
ghastly horrors the story of the black
hole of Calcutta, which Macaulay has
made immortal.
Things were done in Idaho under
Republican misruIe in the closing days
of the nineteenth century which rival
in damnableness any Of the acts per-
formed in the dark ages. Little by lit
tie, inch by inch, the Democrats Of the
committee on military affairs are drag
ging the truth to the light of day.
When it is published. it win make the
American people from ocean to ooee2
gasp in astoHishment and I'LL them
with honest indignation and wrath
against the men who have either caus-
ed or conniyed at such atrocities. The
popular account against the Republic
an party is already a long one. but It
grows day by day, and there win be an
accurate and stern settlement of it on
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in next November. Perhaps It
win be a final settlement with the Re
publican party. for. having abandoned
every principle for which it originally
stood, it has no raison d'etre-no rea-
son for being.