Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-06-07
SINGLE COPY FIVE GENTS
NUMBER IL

uuct OF the Democrats IN congress and
dissatisfied with the Republicans. The
defeat of Republican congressman for
denomination, taken In connection with
the results Of the spring elections, must
make many of them who have secured
denominations take gloomy view Of
the future.
Editors, Attention.
| wish to call the attention OF Amerf.
can editors, without regard to age,
sex or previous condition of seryitude''
to Mark Hanna. to the fact that this
Republican congress does not propose
to do anything to relieve them from
the heavy hand OF the wood pulp and
white paper trusts; nothing absolute
ly nothing. 1t could be broken up In
30 days by passing my bill introduced
at an early date into this congress TO
place white print paper and all the ma
terials and ingredients used In manu-
featuring the same upon the free list.
So far as was able to ascertain nearly
every paper in America indorsed the
proposition, though some OF them un-
dertook to steal from me the credit
and to confer it upon another congress-
man, who was himself trying to steal
the credit. But they indorsed the prin-
ciple.
Now be it remembered that favor
able report-at any rate a report OF
some kind-from a committee Is a sine
qua non to the passage of a bill.
Speaker Henderson promptly referred
my bill to the committee on ways and
means, where it has slept the sleep
that knows no waking ever since. I
received so much encouragement as TO
the bill from the public press, irre-
spectiye of party affiliations, that saw
Mr.. Serene E. Payne of New York,
chairman of the committee, and
Messrs. George w. Steele of Indiana
and John Dalzen OF Pennsylvania,
leading members of the committee, and
asked to be heard upon my bill. They
said | could be heard, but Mr.. Chair
man Payne, with a smile that was
childlike and bland, said, 'sYou may be
heard. but 1t is only fair to tell you
that there is no prospect whatever that
any action will be taken on that sub
ject," or words to that effect So that
editors, while cussing the paper trust
and wood pulp trust, should also pay
their compliments TO the party-the
Republican party-whlch makes trusts
possible If Republican editors are
honestly opposed to the wood pulp and
white paper trusts, their remedy It
clear. Help US kill the Republican
party. 1t is the mother of trusts.
BuncOmbe Law.
OF course this Republican congress
win pass some buncombe law, resolu-
ton or constitutional amendment pur-
porting to be antitrust, and they viii
no doubt put an antitrust plank into
the Philadelphia platform. No doubt:
but an editor who expects to purchase
his white paper cheaper on that ac-
count is a bigger fool than Thompson's
colt, which swan the Mississippi river
to get drink. No, messieurs, there is
but one remedy for you. and that is to
come out from the Republican Sodom
and Gomorrah and make common
cause with us against the whole brood
of trusts and their mother, the Repub-
lican party. The quicker you do it the
better. Do this or forever hold your
peace as to the extortions of the wood
pulp and white paper trusts. Repub-
lican papers please copy.
II Republican statesmen do not quit
deserting Mac and Mark. there win
soon be a clear majority Of the G. o. P.
in open revolt With Carl Schurz and
George s. Boutwell, bombarding the
freebooters in New York and with
Senator Eugene Hale and Senator
George L. Wellington ripping them up
the back in Washington Mark and his
presidential protege are. fguratively at
least, sweating blood !