Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-10-18

WOuAu hotd Cuba Regardless of Our
Promise and the Desires OF That
country--ConEressm Jett ON Ar
my Abuses - Oacers Promoted to
Give Them Higher saIaries--A Cen
eraI For One Day-McKinIey Loses
a supporter-aTisIeadin the People.
Especial Washington letter.
The consensus of public opinion even
among the Republicans appears to be
that when Mark Hanna opened his
mouth in Chicago he put his foot in it.
More and worse than this, great
many people assert that the handling
Of much Doodle hath made Mark mad.
or in plain everyday American be Is
''dotty." Governor Mount of Indiana
hoped on to him with both feet ana
talked about him IN as vicious d man
ner as any anarchist could DO. While
am neither the legal, political nor spir-
itual adviser of Mark, I advise him to
consider the wisdom of the old saying,
Let the shoemaker stick to his last
which being interpreted In this in
stance means that Mark should stick
to his barrel. Before he delivered his
great historical oration at Chicago he
should have remembered the Rev. Mr..
Burchard and been warned by his ex-
ample. When the votes are In and it is
ascertained that Bryan is elected,
Mark viii be the most thoroughly exc
Grated man in America. Now he is
king, emperor, czar. tycoon. sultan and
everything else that is high ana
mighty; then there will be none so poor
as to do him reverence.
The Cat Out of the Bag.
Senator Beveridge let the cat out of
the bag In his Chicago speech. That
effort is imperialism pure and simple
The young senator from the Wabash
contends that only one mistake has
been made by us in all this Spanish
Cuban-Philippine business. and that
was the resolution solemnly passed by
congress and solemnly signed by the
president procIaiming to the world that
tthe CuDans are and of right ought to-
be free and Independent" and deciar-
Ing that we were not interfering ID the
Spanish Cuban imbroglio for purposes
of land grabbing or territorial aggfan-
dizement. He asseverates that we
ought to hold Cuba forever, noiens yos
lens. l wonder If he thinks that CON
gress passed that resolution aud the
president signed it just for amuse-
ment? Or was 1t done to accomplish
some great purpose? The latter is the
truth. 1t was passed for two reasons,
both good and sufficient first. to satis-
fy our own conseiences; second. to set
ourselves right III the eyes Of ether ma
tions, to secure their good opinion. to
allay their fears, to remove the suspi-
cion that we were starting on career
Of universal conquest. And that sol
emn resolution accomplished all those
ends. We never Gid wiser thing. and
no resolution of congress ever wrought
more good to this great republic. Now,
if Senator Beveridge and men ef his illS
had their way we would repudiate that
resolution, act with Punic faith toward
the world IN general, the Cubans in
particular, and write ourselves down in
history as q set of constituencies liars.
Senator Beveridge appears to be inca
pabIc of recognizing the fact that any
body has any conscience. He advocat-
ed in his speech in the senate line of
policy in the Philippines which is prop
erly denominated as wholesale grand
larceny. When the Republican CAM
paign committee burned 100000 copies
OF that speech because it was afraid to
send them out, he ought to have learn
ed that there are still people in this
country who possess and cherish a
sense of right. That was a severe jolt
and would have taught valuable les
son to almost anybody except Beyar-
idge. Like Ephraim of old he appears
to be Joined to his idols and is abso-
Iutely incorrigible.
A Brainy Democrat.