Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-05-10
Q wad some power the giftie gle US
To see ourselves as ithers see usl

ocrats.o
wad some power the giftie gle US
To see ourselves as ithers see usi
If some New England transcenden-
talist win write an essay on Sweet
ness, Purity and Good Manners as IL
lustrated by this biilingsgate contest
OF Uncle Joe and Colonel Pete. 1 will
cheerfully agree to incorporate It in
these letters for the delectation Of NV
hundreds of thousands of readers. AS
matters stand | think Colonel Hepburn
got a little the best of Uncle Joe. but
the latter, like Major Joe Bagstock. is
"sly, sir, deyilish sly; tough, sir, devil
ish tough" and he viii bide his time.
The quarrelsome spirit seems to have
entered into all Republicans.
| Down in Tennessee, where they have
only Republicans enough to elect two
congressman, tive factions, one headed
by Pension Commissioner Colonel ii.
Clay Evans and the other by Congress
men Brownlow and Gibson, are wag-
ing against each other a war of exter-
| mlnation. On with the dancei
Even the ex-soldiers are becoming
disgruntled as to the way things are
being run by this administration, as is
shown by the following letter. which
explains itself.
WASHINGTON, April %.
Dear Sir-There is proposition in congress 10
give to the present adjutant general Of the United
States army-against whom of course wa have
nothing personal-the rank Of major general. The
Union Veterans union, which I have the honor to
command respectfully. but most earnestly. pro-
tests against this
In every possible manner attempts are being
made by individuals and branches Of the public
service to get something more out Of the colossal
revenues which are being collected and for which
the people are being heavily taxed The ex-
penditures for the department are already
swollen to an enormous extent Most urgent
pleas by patriotic citizens in and out OF congress
are being made for retrenchment in the public
expenditures II there be plethora from the i'm
nense revenues. let taxation be lowered instead
Of giving the peoples money away; but, under
extrayagance, even these revenues do not seem to
suffice, and in consequences thereof and perhaps
OF wretched little in which we are engaged
and which costs more than the entire pension roll
every obstruction is said to be put in the way OF
| the applicant for a pension in order to save "a
money If this be true it may be remarked that
trenchment. Retrenehment does not consist in
avoidance Of payment Of Just debts any more than
| It consists in presenting the public money to
shoulder strapped other individuals and un-
necessarily increasing salaries.
In addition to the fact that it appears inYidous
to increase the rank OF the adutant general with
out increasing the rank Of the heads OF the other
staff officers Of the war department and to the
fact that increasing the rank of the adjutant gem
eral is reflection upon the efficiency Of the ad-
lutant generals Office of the civil war, when we
had army of more than 1900, ,0Oo men and the
rank Of the adjutant general that Of brigadier
general. it would seem to be untimely and par
ticularly wrong to give him increased rank and
thus increase the cost of his Office, while and
! ly because we are involved in increased even il
unavoidable, expense This, especially when the
duties and responsibilities Of the adjutant gem
erals Office at present nothing compared
with the duties and responsibilities Of the adj
iutant generals office during our civil war, when,
as above said, the rank of the adiutsnt general
was that of brigadier general. Very respectfully,
R. G. DYREsFoRTH,
Commander In Chief, q. V. q.
Case of Dog Eat Dog.
Colonel John w. Gates has rtrently
given the country a startling object
lesson in operating trusts and in ieec-
ing the lambs of Wall street. He NOV
ed on Gotham, shut down several wire
mills in order to influence value of
stocks, ruthlessly threw out Of employ
ment thousands of innocent, industri-
Gus 1aborers and cleaned up million
or two. Now the Wall street gang.are
/ talking of indicting him as a common
cheat and swindler. With the result
of the controversy between Gates and
| the Wall street outfit / am in no way
| interested 1t was a clear case of dog
eat dog, and the more they eat each
other the better the world will be off,
no doubt So let the merry war go on.
But my guess is that it will not go on.
Perhaps Colonel Gates ought to be in
the pen. | am not expressing any
opinion on that point. Perhaps the
Wall street gamblers whom he skinned
ought also to be wearing the stripes
of a convict And perhaps if they in
dict Gates he will follow suit and do
the same thing to them. Stranger
far stranger-things have happened.
They are as deep in the mud as Gates
is in the mire. He beat them at their
own game.
But there is a much more serious
question connected with the matter
than the circus between Gates and his
| Wall street victims, and that is that
Gates or any other man shall be per-
mitted, for gambling purposes, to shut
| down mills and throw out of employ
ment thousands of honest, industrious
men who are anxious to earn their
| own bread and the bread of their wives
and little children in the sweat of their
faces. That concerns the public well
fare. Gates could have cut no such
brutal caper had he not been the head
Of the steel wire trust, which is no
worse and no better than scores of 9th
er trusts. A man who steals loaf Of
bread is thief and is sent to jail or to
the penitentiary. but man who rakes
in a cool $1.000,0O0 or 100000 by
/ taking the bread out of the mouths of
| thousands of men, women and chill
dren is a financier and hero. with aspi-
rations for seat in the senate of the
United States. 0 .Moresl @ Tempora!
Senator Hoar's Plea For Justice.
Here is a paragraph from Senator
Hoar's great speech, than which few,
very few, finer ever fell from human
lips. I commend it to the boys of the
land as a thing to be treasured up and
committed to memory:
| Mr. President-our friends who take another
view Of this question like to tell US Of the mis-
takes of great men of other days, who have vain
ly protested against acquisition Of territory. One
| worthy and most exuberant gentleman in another
place points out to his hearers the folly of Web
and contrasts them with the wisdom OF jefferson
and Tyler and Polk Mr.. jefferson declared that
the acquisition. Of Louisiana was unconstitutional
and wanted a constitutional amendment to justify
/ it. l think the general sense of the American
people is that in that particular Mr. Jefferson was
| in error and that power to admit new states
clearly involves the power to acquire territory
| from which new states to be made. wonder
| however, if there be any alive who now
| holds or who ever did or will hold seat IN
either house Of congress willing to say that hay-
ing taken an oath to support the constitution he
| would, for any purpose Of public advantage for
swear himself for the sake of a real or fancied
good to his country. / hope and believe that the
| spirit of Fletcher of Satoun, who said be would
| die to serve Scotland but he would not do base
thing to save her. is still the spirit OF American
| craftsmanship. That exuberant gentleman con
| trasts the craftsmanship of Polk and Tyler with
| that Of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay and
/ Charles Sumner. Somehow or other the names Of
| Webster and Clay and Sumner live In the hearts
| and on the lips OF their countrymeR, while the
men who brought on the Mexican war in the in