Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-10-11

Judge Brewer on Government by
Force-MarIS Hanna's Recent State
ment About Trusts-some Pertinent
Questions Anent the subiect-The
Republican Boss Fnl1y Answered.
Especial Washington letter.
So the soulful and yoluble Beveridge
has had his comb cuti The Republic
an campaign managers may not have
any conscience themselves, but they
occasionally demonstrate that they
fear those who have eonsciences.
When Senator Beveridge delivered
himself of his maiden speech" in the
senate, which he had been incubating
for months. which was in type in every
daily newspaper office in America
weeks before it was spoken, about the
exploitation of which Beyeridge spent
sleepless nights and for delivering
which the veteran senators gave the
young Hoosier the marble heart, some
simple folk thought it would be a
great campaign document, an open scs-
anne to the American heart. Beveridge
thought so himself. The Republican
campaign committee also thought so,
for it had it printed in large, very
large, quantities and started IN to sow
it broadcast over the land, and that's
precisely the point at which the Re-
publican campaign committee dropped
its watermelon. Beyerldge's speech is
an eloquent Grafton in favor Of grand
larceny on a mammoth scale. Gonse-
quently it suited the Republican man
ayers to ''r,'' but "there are others
men who have eonsciences. WHO do not
believe in highway robbery, who re-
yolted at the idea of taking away from
feeble people their lands simply be-
cause the lands are said to be rich In
gold There are such old fashioned
people left in this country, thank God!
and some Of them are Republicans,
and from these the Republican man
ayers began to hear in such numbers
and In such vigorous protests concern
ing the immortality of Beyeridge's
speech that gooseflesh covered the Gu
ticles of the Republican managers
aforesaid They hastily laid their
heads together and concluded that If
Bovorid9o's proposition to fIespoil the
Filipinos Of their lands because they
are aurfferous, argentiferous and car
boniferous was circulated any more
Mckinley was a gone fawnskin So
they sorrowfully committed to the
flames remaining copies of Beyeridge's
maiden effort" There never was but
one place fit to circulate that speech
In and that is the penitentiary. But,
since l come to think OF it, it ought
not to be circulated even there, for
the pen may have certain inmates who
are making an honest effort to reform
and to walk in newness of life. and
Beveridges proposition to plunder TO-
100000 people of their homes might
demoralize the conyicts.
Then and Now.
A change has come over the dream
of the Republicans a strange change,
a vast change. When the Atlantic
money bill was under discussion in
the house, heard at least a score of
Republican statesmen rejoice and
boast that at last. after 81 years of
ceaseless endeavor, they were about
to establish the single gold standard,
and TO put it beyond the power of a
wicked president, such as Bryan, for
instance, to interfere with the gold
standard basis until the president, sen
ate and house We're all three stimuli
taneousiy in favor of the bfnetallie
standard so that d new law fayoring
bimetallism could be passed. Repub-
lican leaders so asserted over and over
and over again, and they asserted the
truth, for president, whether Bryan
or some other man, would have no
more power, without a house and SEN
ate in harmony with him, to change
the present financial status than would
the man In the moon or the ahkoond
of Swat Every intelligent man,
whether Democrat or Republican,
knows that statement TO be the truth.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding, Ly-
man ]. Gage, McKinley's secretary of
the treasury, lately issued pronun-
eiamento to the effect that if Bryan
is elected he can, by simple execu-
tive order, place the country on a sill
yer basis. Lyman's interview is pre-
posterous, and nobody Knows it better
than Mr.. Gage himself. Why, then,
did he Issue it? Simply to scare the
national bankers into coming down
with the dust-that is, to contribute to
Mark Hanna's campaign fund. If the
national bankers are simple enough to
be scared by such q silly cock and bull
story as that, they are bigger fools
than Thompson's addle pated colt,
which swan the Mississippi river tC
get drink. The Republican campaign
managers must be in 4 bad row OF
ftumps when they resort to such trans
parent tricks to raise money with
which to corrupt the voters.
A Great Jurist's Logic.
/ would not think of quoting the evi
dence or opinions of Democrat IN or
der to convince or convert Republic
an. / know too much of human pref
udice and human perversity for that
but certainly Republican ought to be
lIeve Republican. Therefore, as this
is a campaign Of education, | hereby
set forth certain excerpts on imperial
ism from an address delivered by Mr.
Justice David J. Brewer of the su
prenae court Of the United States, deliv
cred before the Liberal club of Buffalo
III my Judgment, 1t would be d good ex
ercise In patriotism and intellectual de
yelopment for every citizen of the re
public, Democrat, Republican or Pop
ulist, to commit to memory these pun
| gent, terse, classic, wise and patriots
words of the great jurist. They eonsti
tute rare piece of logic aud Of rhet
oric. As some of my Republican read
ers may not know who Judge Brewc
/ is, viii tell them. He is one Of TIL
ablest lawyers and most distinguished
| Republicans In the land. For years h
was on the bench Of the supreme cour
Of Kansas, he served d loug time O
the bench Of the United States cireui
court, he has for about q decade beel
a member Of the highest judicial til
buiss ii the worId nnd he IS universal