Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-05-31


facts, are ornamented with classical
illusions and enlivened with humor.
Young, good looking, a close student,
he already has achieved a fine rank in
the house and is destined to rise higher
as his service lengthens.
Pneumatic Tube steal.
The pneumatic tube steal was knock
ed out in the senate. The lions share
of the credit is due to that great trib-
une of the people, Senator Benjamin
r. Tillman of South Carolina, who rode
into the ranks of the jobbers with his
pitchfork in rest and won notable
victory for honesty and economy.
The envoys of the South African re-
publics are here. They received the
marble heart at the state department
from Mr.. Secretary Hay, likewise at
the White House from President Nc
Kinley. The president and the secre-
tary were delighted (?) to see them as
private citizens, but as envoys-never!
The Republican senate laughed to
scorn Senator Aliens resolution ad-
mitting them 'to the privilege of the
floor" Speaker Henderson informed
Mr.. Sulzer privately that he wouldn't
| recognize him or anybody else to make
such motion in the house.
And this is the American republic
the land of the brave and the home
of the free the erstwhile asylum for
the oppressed of every landl Mean
time Mr.. Secretary of State Hay and
D..;+f +feT, 4.
have agreed to give the senate seven
months more in which to ratify the
Hay -Pauncefote treaty, to further dem
onstrate our subserviency to England.
People True to Principle.
But the vast outpouring Of the people
of Washington at the Grand Opera
House recently demonstrated beyond
all cayil that the great pulsing heart
of the nations capital is right, how
ever its official head may wag. 1t was
an audience which any orator might
well be proud to address.
From Martha's Vineyard to the
Golden Gate. from the st. Lawrence to
the Rio Grande, the great body Of the
people is still true to the eternal prin-
ciple of human liberty for which our
fathers fought VIGOROUSLY.
The fire which they kindIed upon
their affairs 125 years ago has sent its
bright and fructifying beams into the
uttermost ends of the earth and Is
lighting the pathway of all peoples
into the happiness of civil liberty.
The American people, without regard
to party affiliations, believe that all
men everywhere should be free, and
they do not intend that the government
of this puissant republic shall form
partnership, written or verbal, open or
covert, explicit or implied. with the
cruel murderer of liberty in the heroic
little republics of South Africa.
And they win find way of making
their wishes known.
Cannot Be MuxxIed.
Joseph Choate may gush at London
banquets, diplomats may hobnob ad
libitum, the London Times may give
| its readers all sorts of assurances of
the administration friendiiness to Jo-
seph Chamberlain and his jingo crew,
but the American people cannot be
muzzled, and they will send their sym
pathies across sea to the small aud di-
minishing band of liberty lovers aud
home defenders whose heroism has
filed the world with their acclaim.
In the humble homes of this broad
land linked with the names Of Wash
ington, Greene and Andrew Jackson
are those of Kruger, Joubert and Cron-
je, and in the geography of liberty
Spion Kop. the Modder River and Ma
juba Hill are places as conspicuous as
Bunker Hill, Kings Mountain, York
town and New Orleans.
If we stand idly by with folded hands
consenting to the monstrous butchery
of the men, women and children who
are battling for all the heart holds
dear, we become particeps eriminis in
the bloodiest and most inhuman out
rage recorded in the book of time.
Yet apparently this Mckinley admin
istration has fully made up its mind to
look calmly on while this devilish work
proceeds, because it is so English, don't
you know!
For Right and Justice.
1t is high time for US to throw the
weight of our name and prestige into
the balance in favor of right and truth
and justice.
To temporize longer is to forfeit the
respect of ourselves and of the world
We should speak in clear and un-
mistakable tone in favor of liberty and
representative government
BY long odds the most popular and
heroic performance of Grover Cleve-
lands career was his bold defiance of
England in the Venezuelan contro-
yersy On that momentous occasion he
had with him the hearts Of the Ameri-
can people, and John Bull. belligerent,
domineering and truculent though he
be, quailed before the righteous wrath
of 100000 freemen and, swearing he
would ne'er consent, consented that
the venezuelans should have their
rights.
Thank God. we did it, We did a
thing of which we may well be proud
and which challenged the admiration
of the world
And we did have our way. We did it.
At that moment we exhibited our
selves to the world in our best estate,
in our most heroic attitude
Far be it from me to recommend
Grover as a model for general and in
discriminate imitation; but, if l were
the spiritual or political adviser Of
President MeKinley-which regret to
say am not--I would urge him to
raise ''the Sage of Princeton" at his
own game in dealing with Mr.. Bull at
the present jnncture.
A bold, straightforward declaration
on his part that murder, rapine and
larceny in South Africa must cease
would put an end to the war in fort
night. multiply our fame thousand
fold, save the lives of thousands of
human beings. preserve the two tiny
South African republics as the seed of
representative government in the dark
continent and place the name of Will
liam Mckinley on the scanty list of the
immortals.
Decent Republicans Dfsgusted.
Republicans who support the admin
istration through good and through
evil report get into trouble at every
turn about the multiplying scandals
and are sorely worried thereby.
Recently Senator SDoouer Of WiScon-