Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-12-13

viii twinkle and his fat sides shake
with uncontrolled and uncomfortable
merriment! He will have a right to
laugh. lie told them so.
During the recent campaign Demo
Gratis charged the administration with
an undue friendIiness to England and
that secret understanding existed be-
tween London and Washington. Re
publican statesmen. particularly Mr..
Secretary Hay, denied these charges
4 as bitterly as Peter denied his Lord
and Master. They asseyerated savage
1 ly that the charges grew out of the
malice and recklessness Of their ac-
cusers. They viii hardly accuse Hon.
John II. Heaton, member of parlia-
ment for Canterbury, with unfriendli-
ness to them. | hereby quote touch
ing his utterances a London dispatch.
headlines and all:
CLOSER TIES WITH AMERICA.
MENsER or PAelaNEsT SUGGESTS i REAL UsIos CT
THE Two CouSTaEs
| London, Dec 2-Nr. John II. Heaton. raemter
/ OF parliament for Canterbury, has conmaaoed a
series Of articles in The Observer On Anglo Auaeri-
can relations, in which he pleads for union of
/ the two countries as Z combination of moral and
material forces that no power in the world could
overcome. He explains that BY union be means
such identity Of interests and policy as unites
England and her colonies He asserts thai an un-
signed alliance already exists in the form Of an in
stitution Of mutual attraction Of two kindred
people, one unassaiable on land and tic other on
sea, which, lie says, accounts for the happy issue
OF more than one crisis in recent years and rep-e
sents the fairest hope Of humanity
Now, reading that dispatch rejecting
on Colonel Hays celebrated statement
to Colonel Dick and the indignant de-
niais of Republican statesmen, one is
naturally puzzled TO conclude what the
truth is, or, rather. would be puzzled
/ We're it not for certain other Develop
ments, for alas and alaek. peradious
Albion has been at her old sly trieksi
Posing as our best friend, asseveratfng
that the treaty of Paris was negotiated
by US under the protection of her guns,
inveigling our state department into
negotiating the Hay -Pauncefote treaty,
in which England gets everything and
We. get nothing, she has been negotiat-
ing unbeknown to Us, a treaty Of her
own with Nicaragua which is hostile to
/ our interests in Central America. par
fiegiaalS II he N - - Z IN
canal. SO the truth seems to lie that
our diplomacy has been q dismal fail
ure: that the understanding referred to
in the foregoing dispatch is a jug han
died affair. England understanding ev-
erything and Uncle Samuel being COM
/ pletely Hoodwinked. And all the time
Mr. Bull has been doing us, pulling
/ the wool over our eyes, negotiating
with us a treaty very favorable to HIM
/ self and one with Nicaragua entirely
against us. In the language of the
snipe hunters, we are left with the bag
/ to hold In contemplating Johns COM
bined gall and duplicity we are forced
to exclaim with Cicero: 20 tempora!
I O mores!s The sooner our government
declares the Cfaytan-Bulwer treaty alb
rogated, rejects the Hay -Pauneefote
treaty and proceeds to build the 18th
nian canal the better we will be of.
MeKinIey's Message.
In his message the president appears
to have settled incidentally. offhand
and in IN ex cathedra sort of way
question which has vexed divers and
sundry philosophers and scientists for
some time past, and that is whether
this is the last year of the nineteenth
or the first Of the twentieth century.
Mr. Mckinley declares for the last Of
the nineteenth. fer he opens up by say
ing. AT the outgoing Of the old and
| the incoming of the new century
That seems clear. concise. sensible.
Let us hope that that viii be final. for
there never was any sense in counting
1900 as the beginning of the twentieth
| century. But those who contend for
the opposite theory may held that the
presidents utterance is obiter dictum
so to speak, and so go on propounding
their erroneous and preposterous the
ory to the end of time 81 any rate,
when he finally retires from his high
office, in contemplating his presilen
tiaI career from the vantage ground Of
private life Mr.. Mckinley win have
rne satisfaction of knowing that he
was right on at least one questionable
end of the century problem, which, let
Us hope. will prove substantial and
abiding solaee to him in his declining
years.
We will be fortunate indeed if this
glowing sentence. addressed to congress
by the president turns out TO be true:
your countrymen viii join with you
in felicitation that American liberty is
more firmly established than ever be-
fore and that love for it and the deter
mnation to preserve it are more uni
versal than at any former period of
ouf history. All good citizens, ire
speetive Of party affiliations, pray hum
bly, and feryently that in that gorgeous
declaration the president IS correct and
that he is not blinded to many things
| which many men rs patriotic rs he Is
deem danger signals.
The opening paragraphs Of the mes
/ sage demonstrate that the president IS
a most accomplished rhetericialA He
is deft in the use of language and states
his thoughts in periods as delightful to
the ear as the murmur OF purling
streams.
Many Things In Doubt.
one OF his statements sets US to
guessing where we are at" In set
/ ting forth our growth he says inter
alia: ssThen (1S00l our territory con-
sisted Of aa0e5o square miles. 1t IS
! now .3,S46, $50 square miles
Now. on their face those figures tell
d tale Of wondrous growth; but, con-
templating them. | am forced to ex-
claim, in wonderment. With the queen
OF SheDa. when heholding for the first
time the glories of King solomon s
temple, The half hath not been toldf'
why, oh, why did Mr.. Mckinley
leave out of his arithmetic Porto Rico,
Guam, the Philippines and any other
outlying islands archipelago Of priil-
/ cipalities ne now possess2 II they be-
long 10 us. they ought to have been IN
Guided ID his estimate, and i would
have increased his showing Of geo
graphical growth very much
/ On the other hand, Il they do net be-
long to Us Mr. AfciSinlex owes It to 4