Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-03-01
CHAMP QARK'S LETTER
Senator Hoar and the
Philippines.
CAN'T AGREE WITH PARTY.
"In Gold We Trust" Say the
New York Bankers.
A NEW HUMoRIsT IN THE HOUSE.

OchcEhA OEObFehOE develops hAS
Heretofore Latent Talent In That
Directfon-Makes Fun of the Beers.
The Prosperity That the Trusts
Have Brought-The Hay Treaty a
Disgrace to the Country-The Ma
crum Disclosures.
Alas and alack! The goldbug bank
ers of New York, who claim to have
more than Solomon's wisdom and who
deem all other denizens of this repub-
lie fools, have run up against Uncle
Sam at last-for counterfeiting. Think
of that awful catastrophe, o We silver
idiots! Here is the way the Associated
Press tells the astounding tale:
Members OF the State Bankers association, at
their annual dinner in the Waldorf Astoria hotel
next Tuesday night, were to have eaten their
ices out of receptaces indicative of the bankers
loyalty to the gold standard. The ices were to
have been inelosed in pasteboard boxes made in
imitation of pile of eight huge gold coins with
milled edges. The top coin represented the re-
verse of the SO goldpiece, much enlarged. and
bearing the imprint OF the San Francisco mint.
The ordinary motto, "In God We Trust had
been changed to read 'In Gold We Trust" The
size of the imitation coin was about two-thirds
larger than double eagle.
The order was placed with a New York firm,
who prepared a plaster cast OF the cover Of the
box and made a model, which was submitted to a
representative Of the government for his opinion
regarding its validity. He at once declared it a
violation OF chapter l27 OF the laws of 1901,
which prohibits any person from making "any
token, device, print impression, whether Of
metal or its compounds or of any other sub
stance, in likeness similitude as to design, color
or the inscription thereon of any of the coins of
the United States.''
Chief Hazen was notified, and be seized the cast
and model.
"In Gold We Trust" instead Of ''In
God We Trust" the legend prepared by
the fathers of the republic! Are we
not progressing after the manner of
the crab-backward-at a rapid rate?
Massachusetts Republicans.
Amid the din and dust of the con-
f1ict in congress and in the country
touching the status of the Philippines
students of our political history will
wonder. indeed they must, what will
be the outcome so far as Senator
George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts
Is concerned. He is a venerable man,
a scholar of great attainments, an ora
tor of rare force, a historic parsonage
who has cut a wide swath In the
house and in the senate; he is
at loggerheads and cross purposes with
his party on this farreaching question.
His colleague, Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, is rampant jingo. just as his
grandfather, George Cabot, was "a
high flying Federalist," to borrow one
Of Thomas Jefferson's pet phrases. At
this distance it appears that Senator
Lodge rather than Senator Hoar repre-
sents the sentiments of the Massachu-
sets Republicans. But this appear
ance iaay be deceptive, for it must not
be forgotten that Congressman Nc
Call Of that state kicked over the
traces on the Porto Rican matter,
which may be a straw to show which
way the wind Is blowing in the Old
Bay State. The question which forces
itself upon the minds of students Of
history in this connection is this: VIII
Massachusetts stand by Hoar, who is
her chief mental Iuminary in Wash
ington, or will she condemn him and
treat him with contumely, as she did
Roger Williams, Daniel Webster and
Charles Sumner? She has lately re-
fused to expunge or reverse the de-
cree which banished Roger Williams
action which injured not the immortal
Baptist preacher who has been with
the saints for more than 200 years,
but which is a blot upon the escutch-
con of Massachusetts. Hoar as a mar
tyr will be in good company with VIII
liams, Webster and Sumner.
General Grosvenor's Humor.
l have frequently herein expressed
Henry Grosvenor's mental capacity
Until recently | had no idea that he
was a humorist of the first water, but
such he is nevertheless. Not long since
Mr.. Shafroth of Colorado, a capable
honest, courageous man, made a mag
nifieent speech in the house urging
that our government should offer it's
services to both English and Beers as
pacificator, arbitrator or intervenor,
whereupon General Grosvenor burst
upon the house in role of humorist and
made all sorts of fun of sympathy for
the Beers, trying to make it appear
that it was simply demagogy. From
the manner in which the generals bit
ter humor was received by the Repub-
lican members it seems to be accepted
by them that any sympathy with
weak people fighting brayely for lib
erty is demagogy. Ny guess is that
General Grosvenor and his Republican
friends will rue that humor-that inhu-
man humor. The Washington Post
says editorially;
1t seems hardly wise on the part Of the admin
istration those pretending to speak for it to
poohpooh the various expressions Of American
sympathy for the Beers as mere ebullitions Of
the "Irish- American and German American"
elements and therefore unworthy of serious con
sideration. In the first place, this sympathy is
not confined to the classes mentioned. In the
second place, even If it were so confined that
fact would not entitle it to the contempt Of the
administration. The truth is that very large
majority Of the American people, including those
Of pure Anglo-Saxon descent, side with the Beers
In this struggle and devoutly hope that they will
preserve their liberties at last.
That the Irish hate England is natural enough.
The sentiment is thing of centuries. 1t is born
In Irishmen and is part Of their natures but that
feeling cannot be ascribed to the people Of Ger
man extraction nor to those of us whose fore
fathers were English. 1t is absurd to say that
these people have borrowed their preiudices from
Ireland. The fact is that thousands of them do
not share the Irish prejudices at all. This sym
pathy with the Beers is logical and legitimate
product Of the circumstances Of the case. We be-
lieye that the Beers have been badgered into this
war by the Vaccinations of clique Of greedy,
piratical pawnbrokeEs operating through Joseph
Chamberlain, their accomplice and this eonvic-
tion is fortified not by the statements of Irish
Americans German Americans, but by the ut
terances Of Englishmen in the British parliament
and the British press, by the utterances of such
men as Sir William Harcourt Sir Edward Clarke.
Sir Robert Reid, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman,
Lord Fftzsnaurice Mr.. James Bryce, Mr. Henry
Labouchere, Mr., Frederic Harrison, Mr.. Lecky.
the historian, and others too numerous to men
ton.
The chances are that General Gros-
venor and his hilarious friends will be
laughing on the other side of their
mouths in .'the melancholy days Of No
vember."
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