Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-11-29

Ject, 1t would have been removed by
McKinley's election, for it is absolutely
safe to assert that any Republican who
runs counter to any of Mark Hannas
plans win be divorced from the pie
copnter instanter and sans ceremonie.
The only reason they didn't pass it at
the long session was because they were
afraid to. This is an outrageous waste
of public money and is a superduous
largess to lot of Republican hangers
on whose patriotism is measured ex-
actly by the number of dollars they
can squeeze out of the government
The Hon. John Dalzen of Pennsylya-
mia, one of the Republican chieftains
! of the ways and means committee, in
forms a startled world that there viii
be no tariff tinkering at this session
The Hon. John might just as well have
saved his breath, for there is not a soul
in the United States outside of a luna
| tic asylum who ever dreamed that
there would be any tariff tinkering un-
less to tinker the rates still higher to
/ further fleece the people for the bene-
fit of the tariff barons. Brother Dal-
zell might just as well have announced
that congress would not undertake to
| suspend the law of graYitation, for
there is just as much prospect of that
law being suspended as that the tariff
law will be cut down by it. They will
not even cut down the tariff on wood
pulp or anything that goes into white
paper. although a large majority Of edi-
| tors in the United States, without re-
spect to party affiliations, would like
| remarkably well to see the paper trust
knocked on the head. But sapient Re
| publican editors who are seeking relief
from that monopoly should remember
that the continued existence of the
/ trusts depends upon their all standing
! together, and they can rest assured
that the only way in which they can
hope for relief from this particular
trust which is crushing them is to join
hands with those who are fighting all
the trusts. In this way, and in this
way alone. can they emancipate them
selves from the monster that is crush
! ing out their lives.
Concerning Wood Pulp.
| Last spring | went personally to Mr..
| Chairman Payne and to Governor
/ Steele of Indiana and to Mr.. Dalzell,
leading members of the ways and
means COMMITTEE and asked them if
| the committee would give me hearing
on my bill to put wood pulp ON the free
list. a measure intended to kill the pa
/ per trust. They said they would give
me the hearing. but that it was only
fair to inform me in advance that no
action would be taken upon that bill or
any other bill of Kindred nature. As
! it is utter nonsense to do futile and su
! perfiuous things | declined to do any,
thing so preposterons. and so the mat
/ ter rests that way.
| These Republican editors who are
against the wood pulp and paper trust
might just as well make up their minds
that that trust is going to ride them
/ like the Old Man of the Sea until they
come to their senses and help elect
Democratic president The truth is
that the paper trust IS not whit worse
| than other trusts. but the reason Why
I the Republican papers howl alsentssEs@--
/ paper trust Is because their particular
OK is being gored For instance. il IS
no worse than the salt trust which has
Just put salt up to $3.50 per barrel 1t
| must make Il Republican farmer who
voted for Mckinley and Roosevelt real
ize what fools these mortals be- when
he comes to pay this additional tribute
to the salt trust. for which there is less
excuse than for any other trust
TarfG On Salt.
When God created the world. he
made salt nearly as plentiful as the
water we drink and the air we breathe.
/ Neither man nor beast can live without
it. 1t is a prime necessity of animal
life. 1t is a crime 10 place an undue
price on salt. Thomas e. Benton. the
great Missourian, fought for 20 years
to place salt on the free list. and when
he succeeded he said in his pompous
way that he imagined he could bear
the fiocks and herds Oh a thousand hills
believing out their love and gratitude
to him. 1t was 4 splendid conception.
though somewhat whimsical and fan
tastieaIly expressed. a farmer who
will vote for Il party that will enable
the salt trust to thus rob the people
ought to be taken out and tapped for
the simples No remedy less heroic
will do him any good
The wire and steel trust put up barb
ed wire 20 almost triple its former
price, an article that has been great
boon 10 farmers. especially those living
in a prairie country \ farmer who
votes for the party that enables that
party to fleece him ought to be conf
PEELED TO sit on coil of barbed wire
the rest of his life
An UnseISed Mystery.
In this country We are confronted
with and conraunded by this enigmat-
ieal anomaly: Everybody worthy Of
citizenship takes an interest ia politics,
more or less intense, owing 10 temnefa-
ment and environment which is alto.
sether laudable. A majority of voters
would not object to office, large mi
nority desire office, small minority
seek office, an inflnitesimal minority Sc
cure office, and yet nearly everybody
abuses the politicians and ascribes to
them divers and sundry sins of oInis-
sion and commission of which they are
as innocent as newborn babes. 1t
would have puzzled even King Solo
mon with his wondrous headpiece to
have solved this mystery. can under
stand all of it except the abuse. When
| was attending the Cincinnati Law
school, | heard George H. Pendleton,
"Gentleman George, as he was popu-
larly named, then in the prime of his
splendid powers and in the full bloom
of his manly beauty, declare in the
Grand Opera House that "the sweetest
incense that ever greeted the nostrils
Of public man is The applause of the
people, and Gentleman George was
correct Deny it If he viii, disguise it
if he can, it still remains true. that the
average American Graves the good opin-
ion of his fellows. and he believes
with all his heart that the most feasl-
Bile plan for his fellows to manifest
that good opinion is by voting for him.
Love of fame is the master passion of
the human mind 1t ennobles and glori-
fes our race. 1t is desire for fame
more than greed for money which in
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