Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-28

made. We warned Mr. Gage 1f this. secfe-
tary Gage has seen fit to listen 10 the so called
experts in the treasury department and decided
against the Russian sugar growers last Thursday
NJ. dc Wittes measures have already been made
known, and the interests involved are even greater
than we at first thought.
Does anybody believe that these Chi
cago implement manufacturers will
lose that $20000.00O: If he so believes,
he is an idiot No such thing will hap
pen. They will simply charge the
American farmer that much morei
They will mark UP the price OF imple-
ments, while Lyman enables the sugar
trust to mark up the price of sugar.
and the American farmers are to be |
caught going and coming-to be ground |
DeJN1Ai +tiiC uIpI,yI and ti.c-r.ys iscr mill
stone. It's a fine game the American
farmer bucks against. He has but one
remedy. and that is to cast the Repub-
lican freebooters into that outer dark
ness where there will be weeping. wall
ing and gnashing of teeth. The farmer
has the game in his own hands. if he
will only play it. If he does not rise
in his might and hurl those who are i
despoiling him from power. he has HIM
self to blame
Republican Logic.
Since the good day when Gutenberg
invented movable types no such argu-
ment was ever printed in favor of any
subject whatsoever as that of the Phil |
adelphia Inquirer in justification of the
wanton and wicked waste of the pres
ent congress. 1t says:
We wonder if Senator Hale and the other gen
tleinen who have been making speeches and warn
ing congress that the people are becoming alarm |
ed over the immense appropriations would really
like to turn back to the days when appropriations
were small We rather think that if they had to
go to Europe in slow moving wooden vessels de-
pendent upon the wind their trips would he few
and far between, nor DO we believe that they |
would enjoy iourneying TO and from the capital
in stagecoaches in the earlier passenger
coaches of the first railroads. stagecoach costs
a few dollars Pullman car costs into the thou
sands. We wonder what graudfathers would
have thought of s., 900 ocean greyhound?
What difference does it make as to
what our grandfathers would have
thought of 100000 greyhound?
That's not the question. The matter
at Issue is whether or not the appro
priations of congress in recent years
have been larger than they should be. !
Senator Eugene Hale is not a Demo
crat or a Pooulist. He does not come
from the south or from the wild and
woolly west He is n New England
Republican, and things Republican
must be extremely bad when he lifts
up his voice in protest The Philadel-
phia Inquirer thinks it necessary TO
read him a lecture for joining the re-
formers and economists even temporal
rily.
Republican Extravagance.
The other day Hon. Charles Fremont
Cochran of Missouri made some vigor
Gus remarks in the house as to Repub-
lican extravaganza. during which .he
quoted from The Inquirer's most hat
ed rival, the Philadelphia North Amer
ican, Wanamaker organ. OF course
that was adding insult to injury in the
estimation of The Inquirer. and it'll
jumped on Cochran with both feet and
danced a war jig upon him. After de-
nouncing him as "a behind the times
congressman it proceeds as follows:
And right here we would like to ask Mr.. Cocl-
ran question. When be draws a check, he pays
2 cent tax. That goes to the government. Can
he tell in what other manner he contributes to
the income of the government? He helps in an
indirect way doubt, but does he know it when
he does so? Is he ground down with taxation to
help support the government? He may pay--we
hope that he is prosperous enough to do so-taxes
to his city and state. 1t is this local tax that he
and the taxpayer feel. not he governmental fax.
A billion dollars a year would not depIete Mr..
Cochran's pocketbook, but it would build ships,
open up rivers and harbors, irrigate desert land
lay the foundations for a vastly increased general
trade and put tens of thousands Of men at work
That is what billion dollar congress would mean,
and it would frighten except few con-
gressmen and others who arc not up to date who
delye in the figures Of the musty past and discover
that spending more money now than VIC
ever have done in the past and arc therefore
plunging beadlong into ruin
Why, Just listen to Mr.. Cochran when he says
that we are actually appropriating more money
now than did in 1854, Let US see, how many
years ago that? Something like 81. is it
not? And we are actually requiring more money
in the year 1901 than we expended in the wear
1854. What kind of an argument is that to use to
frighten people with?
OF course. after receiving such a
nitneTinS reDhihe as lIidt tnefe IS Dul
one thing for poor. ignorant Cochran
to do, and that it to resign. Cochran
doesn't pay any federal taxes except
when he tllaws check. doesn't he? /
suppose The Inquirer thinks Cochran
goes stark naked and neither eats nor
drinks, for if he wears any clothing
whatsoever he pays tribute not only to
the United States government, but also
to some bloated beneficiary of the tar
if system, for under that ingenious
and complicated system of robbery ey-