Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-03-22

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rich In the House an Outrage.
Fleeing From wrath to Come.
Especial Washington letter.
The cats of Kilkenny were in a heay-
enly frame of mind beside that of our
Republican friends. The cats did not
claw half as much hair and hide off
each other as these warning, snarling,
Republicans are clawing
off each other. 1t is awful-yes, aw-
ful-the reckless manner in which they
hurl such pet epithets as traitor at
each others head. They ought to be
arrested for indecent exposure. When
Senator Beyeridge made his great
speech-the only great speech delivered
since the confusion of tongues at Ba-
belize insinuated that certain grave
and reverend senators were response
BILE for the death of our soldiers in the
Philippines and intimated that he
would assert that they were traitors if
he were speaking in a different forum.
He based his foul insinuation on the
fact that their speeches had been re-
printed by the Filipinos and circulated
broadcast over the islands. | com
mend to the exuberant and self COM
placent young senator these immortal
lines from Lord Byron:
But time at last sets all things even,
And If we do but watch the hour
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiyen,
The patient search and vigil long
OF him who treasures up a wrong
Or, if he prefers a briefer statement
of the case, ! commend to his pro-
foundest consideration the old saw,
1.-THE whirligig of time brings its own
revenges," the truth of which he must
feel in all its force when he peruses
the following excerpt from Pious John
Wanamaker's Philadelphia North
American, a rampant Republican or
gan. Now, be it remembered that
Brother Wanamaker not only runs the
biggest Sunday school and the largest
bargain counter in America, but that
he is also one of the chief priests in the
tasspao. of ReEssal &c Is isss q e 5s=:s !
'eSa taas4ss1If. re fE WAS
who was made postmaster general in
1889 because in 1888 he fried $400, 900
in fat out of the Philadelphia manufac-
turers in 48 hours in order to help puri-
fly politics. SO Pious Johns Republic
an credentials are unimpeachable, for
he paid hard cash for them. When
John speaks, a waiting and expectant
world stands on tiptoe and cranes its
neck to hear his chunks of wisdom. If
he hasn't a right to speak for Repub-
lieans, 1 beg leave to rise to a question
of information and ask, '.Who has?"
Pious John has spoken. He hops on to
Brother Beveridge rudely, roughly,
ruthlessly. The iron must enter the
soul of the great Hoosier when he
reads Pious Johns excoriation. John
says:
IS BEyERIDGE A TRAITOR?
Senator Beyeridge is embarrassed In his not
able speech he accused Mr.. Hoar and other anti
imperialists of having encouraged the Filipinos to
continue their war upon the dag. He pointed out
that antiexpansion speeches had been reprinted in
Spanish and distributed among the insurgents
Therefore the deliverers of these speeches were
responsible for all the bloodshed in the islands
Mr.. Beveridge did not exactly denounce Mr.
Hoar and Mr. Mason and his Democratic coll
leagues as traitors, but he made it tolerably
clear that only his respect for parliamentary
forms restrained him from doing so.
Now the news comes from Manila that Senator
Beveridges speech has been translated into
Spanish and is being circulated among the ma
tives to nerve them to persistence in rebellion.
His description Of the natural resources OF the
Philippines and his argument that we ought to
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will bring to being cited by the Filipinos
as proof that american promises of good gov
ernment are merely mask for commercial
ploitation of the Philippines"
Hence it follows that if Mr., Hoar and the other
anti-imperialists are traitors because they en-
courage the Filipinos to fight, so is Senator Bev-
eridge himself.
Let US hope that the lesson the eloquent young
gentleman from Indiana and Others Will derive
from this enlightening experience is that free
speech cannot and ought not to be suppressed in
the United States II free speech has its disad-
vantages-and that is undeniable-we must keep
in mind that it also has advantages which
not be surrendered without the sacrifice OF Amer
lean liberty. When we go to war, we do with
a full understanding Of the conditions under
which it must be waged. One of these condi-
tions is the freedom of debate in congress and
the privilege of the citizen to dissent verbally
from what his government is doing The crime
of leze majesty is unknown to our system.
Now, am sorry to say that l have
not the honor and pleasure of per
sonal acquaintance with Senator Bev-
eridge. l never gazed upon his glowing
visage but once, and that was at long
range, at Gridiron dinner. l have
been compelled to admire his towering
genius and oratorical gyrations at a
distance. Consequently | do not know
precisely how and where he learned all
those things -wondrous and innumer
able things = which he knows and
which have made him the envy of all
the other senators, to say nothing OF
800 representatives and delegates in
the more numerous branch of the ma
tional legislature. But | take it for
granted that, like the rest of US west
ern fellows, he learned how to spell
out of Webster's old blue backed spell
ing book. If he will withdraw his mind
from foreign conquest for a few mo-
ments and turn TO the anecdotes in the
rear portion of that immortal work, he
will find tale to the effect that much
depends on whose OK is gored. He can
also realize the force of the philosophy
of the shoe being on t'other foot.
AS Senator Beyeridge ponders the
caustic words of Brother Wanamaker,
he may recall, if he is up in Shakes
peare, Cardinal Wolsey's lament:
Mark hut my fall and that that ruined me;
Cromwell, charge thee fling away ambition