Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-08-02

Colonel Roosevelt and "NapoIeon
the LittIe"-Empire Is Not Peace,
but BIood--Money and the Balance
of Trade.
Especial Washington letter.
OF all the men who figured ia the
Kansas City convention the one who
made the most capital was Hon James
%. Richardson of Tennessee, the house
leader of Democrats.
Sydney Smith once said: 'sIn the
beginning God made round holes and
three cornered holes, and then he made
round people and three cornered peo-
pie to fit Ia them But the trouble is,
the round people have got into the
three cornered holes and the three cor
nered people into the round holes, and
nobody fits
Richardson was an exception to Sgd
ney's rule at Kansas City. He fitted the
great place assigned him by the na-
tional committee, was equal to its ex-
actions, delivered a splendid campaign
speech and presided with perfect tact
and the absolute impartiality of Chief
Justice Marshall. He made many
friends. AS d member of the house,
am proud of his performance, because
the only function permitted to a repre-
sentative in congress at Philadelphia
was when the senatorial eabal which
ran the Republican convention let Hon.
Serene E. Payne move to adjourn sine
die
Richardson added to his fame at
Kansas City both as an orator and a
presiding officer. He has more tact
than any man ever knew. and he
had an ample field on which to display
1t at Kansas City. and he so displayed
It as to please everybody. congratu-
late my Brother Richardson most
heartily.
The Man with the Hump.
There isn't d man in America who
says more good things than Alfred
Henry Lewis. editor of The Verdict. I
doubt IL man with finer or larger
vocabulary ever wrote for any newspa-
per published in our vernacular Not
long since he dished up the Mckinley
administration in the following jam up
fashion:
President Mckinley has occupied the White
House a little more than three years. For the
period Of time the government has been run
by the White House syndicate. The humpbacked
taxpayer-brother to the man with the koe-can
take stack ard ascertain his condition.
Three years Of McKinleyism have given this pa
tient man with hump government that costa
about $250,000 hour. nearly s6.000,000 a day,
more than $4O.0000 900 week. almost $l50. 600 900
a month, in the neighbersood OF s., ,Oo0 coo, coo a
year, and yet the patient man with syes like an
is not wholly satisfied
Reckless Expansion.
Jingoes say that we are opposed to
expansion and caN us little Americans.
The name is an insuA and the charge
that we are opposed to expansion is a
lie. There Is no use mincing words or
being mealy mouthed about the charge.
1t Is q lie made of whole cloth and
made wiIlfully, deliberately, premedi-
tatedly and with malice aforethOught.
I take it that all Americans are expan-
sionists provided the expansion is on
right lines, in the right direction and
will strengthen our institutions and
not weaken them.
But man does not have to be fool
necessarily in order to be an expan-
sionist Because he desires to see his
country grow In healthy manner he
does not have to be in favor of reach
ing out indiscrlminately in all direc-
tions and taking in all countries and
all peoples; because man eats wheat
bread is no reason why he should eat
arsenic; because beef does him good is
no reason why he should gorge himself
on rough on rats; because clear spring
water siakes his thirst is no reason
why he should fill up on aqua fortis.
Rational people want to expand on
rational lines Thomas Jefferson s
greatest act was in making the Louisi-
ana purchase. That was the most
profitable and stupendous transaction
In real estate proposed on this earth
since the devil took the Saviour to the
top of a high mountain and offered
him the dominion of the world to fall
down and worship him. That one act
alone would have placed Jefferson In
the ranks of the immortals even If he
had never written the Declaration of
independence or Yirginin's statute for
religious freedom or founded the Uni
yersity of Virginia.
l am this day in favor Of annexing
every foot OF the North American
British possession clear to the frozen
ocean. 1t is contiguous territory, in
habited by much the same sort of peo-
pie that we are and who would become
good citizens, but | am eternally OPP
posed to owning Asiatic territory
10000 miles away more thickiy in
habited than any state in the Union,
inhabited by people alien to US in color,
race, thought and habit | would keep
only such places in Asia as we need
for coaling and naval stations. l am
opposed to expanding our territory in
Asia because it is dangerous to our
institutions.
Louis Napoleon and Roosevelt.
The old proyerb, Great minds run in
the same channel" finds a new and
startling vindication in the sameness
of thought and language of famous
mot by Louis Napoleon and recent ut
| terance by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
When "the imperial nephew of his
unele,' or Napoleon the Little as
Victor Hugo eontemptuously dubbed
him, was endeayoring to Justify his
betrayal and murder of the second
French republic and his establishment
OF the secopd French empire. he sol
emnly aud falsely denied that the re-
stored empire meant war, but epigram-
matically and vehemently exclaimed,
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