Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-05
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nno we're stin IN doubt.
II these lines should ever reach you, and you'd
write US where you be.
You'd confer a good sized favor on your friends.
the G. o. p
Colonel Hepburn's Dilemma.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty hangs
over house Republicans as pail and
is interfering with the. passage of Colo
mel Hepburn's Nicaragua canal bill,
which is the apple of the coloners eye,
for if he can get his bill through and
have the canal dug he thinks, perhaps
not incorrectly, that he viii not only be
doing his country vast service, but
will be laying hold of imperishable re-
nown for Colonel William Peters Hep
burn. This is a laudable ambition If it
can be realized, but there is the rub,
and the colonel knows 1t full well. He
can see as far into a grindstone as the
next one, and he knows that the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, unless withdrawn
or defeated, will lose him many votes
for his canal bill, perchance enough to
beat it. Consequently the colonel Is
not in a beatitic frame of mind and Is
likely to heat the chilly spring atmos
phere to a high degree If he is baked
in his ambition. Republicans are &C
quainted with the colonePs powers and
endurance as a fighter and would be
glad to placate him, but the chances
are that the administration is so en-
tangled with Mr.. Bull that 1t cannot
recede and will endeavor to force the
ratification of the treaty. If it does,
there will be music in the air and lots
Of fur and bits Of cuticle. "On with
the danceI Let Joy be uncon1ned"
while Republicans wool each other.
They can render the country more
service that way than at anything they
have undertaken lately.
l am somewhat In the dumps myself;
not by reason of any political mishap,
for things political are going on swim
mingly, but because the mournful news
comes that Andrew Carnegie and Hen
ry Clay Prick have fallen on each 9th
er's neck and made it up. l was antic-
ipating much undiluted pleasure by
reason of the disclosures which they
would have made in their great law
suit had it not been smothered a-born-
in. They have not only made up, but
have formed new corporation capt.
talized at $300,000,000. Now, If they
made $42,000,000 annual profit off Of
$25, 900, 900 capital, as Carnegie estimat-
ed it, it makes one dizzy to contemplate
the profits of the new concern. They
are enacting before our eyes and under
our very noses a scene which double
discounts the widest dreams of the al
chemists.
Louisiana Purchase Centennial.
The best nonpolitical thing bruited
in congress now is the worlds exposi-
ton at st. Louis in 1903 to celebrate
the centennial of the Louisiana pur-
chase, the greatest achievement Of
finance and craftsmanship ever per-
formed by any one man. My friend
Professor T. Berry Smith of Central
college, Missouri, has set forth his
views of the great exposition in the
following verses:
IN DE CITY OBJ ST. LOUIS IN 1908
Ole 'oman listen to me-now de chilluns all in
bed
jess listen whiles tells yo' what heah de parson
said,
What be tole US at de meetin OBJ de '6cial board
tonight,
For de parsou reads de papers while he tens de
gospel light.
Oars gwine to be circus-dat egzacly amt de
name
What de parson toIe de bredren. but It means
about the same
Oars gwine to be circus, an he say it's gwine
to be
In de city OBJ ST. Louis in 1903
Twill be de bigges' circus dat de worl' has eber
had,
An it's gwine to be circus whar dar won't be
notbin bad
De pasture an his people widOut breadn OBJ de
rules
Kin go to see de circus as well as the animules
All sexes OBJ religion-de gentle de Jew,
De Baptis'. de Methods. an de 'Piscopalians
All sexes OBJ religion he say. was gwine to see
De circus in st. Louis in 1908.
Oars gwine to be percessions. an de bans am
gwine tc play,
An de tents will cubber acres-dat's what de
An when 20 gifts yo ticket-'twill cos 20 fifty
cents
Dey'n let yo' in for nothin to go through all dem
tents.
Dar'n be jess scads of COOLERS an de pinkes' lem
onade.
Dar'n be fried pies an do'nuts. de bestes' ever
made,
An dey'n let 20 in at mornin to stay all day an
Dat circus In St Louis in 1903.
Ole oman, 20 ought to bin dar to heard him
spaciate
About his country's glory on providence an fate;
He say de Lord was in it when Jef'son took de
To purchase Loozzannie from Bonypart OBJ France,
An dat de Lord intended from far creations birth
To manifest his glory to all de tribes OBJ yearth
In de Miss ssippi yalley-de time an place to be
In de city OBJ St. Louis in 1908.
To help de Lord to show US de glory dat awaits
De parson say de congress OBJ these United States
Would glib five million dolahs to help de cause
along.
An den, de whites de choir was singin OBJ song.
De states an corporations would march up to de
table
An plank desc money down as much as de- is
able;
No doubt at all about it--dat circus gwine to be
In de city OBJ St. Louis in 1908.
Ole oman, we mus see 1t. we sho'ly can't afford
TO miss dis chance OBJ seein de glory OBJ de Lord;
Although we's bin good Methods, we might
backslide and fall
An not git into heaven to see de Lord at all.
So we mus take de chances dis side de pearly
gates
De parson say de railroads will glib ezcurzion
rates
An yo' an me, ole oman, mus sholy 90 to see
Dat circus in ST. Louis in 1908.
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