Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-09-12

the bidding Of anybody, not even of
so great a parsonage as Mr. Serene e.
Payne. whose ukase is that there must
be and shall be no tariff tinlzering. The
following dispatch is rather long to
quote here, but its Importance justifies
the space, for it shows that certain
New England interests are demanding
little tinkering on hides. When the
western brethren hear of that, they
will be in decidedly bad humor, and
the row will be on. Here is the dis
patch:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-ofHcers Of the customs
service look with favor the movement organ
ized the Free Hides league to secure from con-
gress next winter the repeal of the present duty
Of Is per cent all hides Of cattle coming into
the United States. The answer that has been
given by friends OF the tax when its effects on
the export trade in shoes urged is that the
law grants drawback OF 90 per cent in all such
cases. While this is theoretically true it is said
that the difficulty for the manufacturer in prov
ing his claim to the drawback is very great
Some idea of the detail involved may be CLEANED
from a letter addressed by Assistant Secretary
Taylor to the collector of customs at Boston.
A manufacturing company in Massachusetts, de-
sired to secure the drawback expectation OF
mems shoes, in which the outer soles, the coun-
ters, the heels and the top lifts were made from
sole leather produced from imported hides. Mr.
Taylors instructions were that the entry under
which the merchandise is to be inspected and
laden must show, separately, the marks and num-
bers OF the shipping and the contents of
each case described in the export invoice
n1hn al L. 10 -, I
of there must be tabulated statement showing
the number and style of each kind Of shoe con.
tained in the shipping and the number and
description OF the parts on which drawback is
claimed
The entry must further show that the exported
merchandise was manufactured of the material
and in the manner set forth in the manufacturer
sworn statement copy of which will be already
in the collectors hands, As part of the draw
back entry and prerequisite to liquidation the
manufacturers must file certified copy of the
tannery record covering the sole leather used in
| the shoes included in the drawback entry and
the certificate of the manufacture of such leather
for purposes of Identification.
| The New England congressman will press the
measure for repeal Of the tax hides, and with
the help of the treasury officials it is believed
| they may succeed.
Matters In Hawaii.
~AeA " etAA DS'ho AAON peAlI anu pulCCl VI
/ this great republic, it goes without say
ing that all good Americans, without
| regard to politics or religion, wish that
| our new fellow citizens out there would
! deport themselves in such proper man.
ner as to demonstrate their worthiness
for the high vocation to which they
are called. On the contrary, however,
| they appear to be determined to prove
| their utter unworthiness and to show
that we made wonderfully bad bar
gain when we with unseemly haste
| took them to our palpitating bosom.
| With chronic row ON between Gov
| ernor Dole and his mongrel legislature,
with an avowed monarchist as delegate
in congress, with the bar association
| of Honolulu filing and urging all sorts
| of charges in the department of JUS
| tice against Judge Humphreys, with
the sugar barons clamoring for free
Chinese cody immigration, it cannot
/ be truthfully stated that the Hawai-
ians are illustrating the virtues most
desirable in citizens of the most pus-
SAINT republic on the face of the earth
History Repeats Itself.
The great truth conveyed in the ques-
ton, ''Can the leopard change his spots
or the Ethiopian his skiny" finds an
other illustration in the odious fact
that England has turned the black saw
ages of South Africa loose upon the
Beers, who are making the most he
roic fight for freedom in the entire an
nails of the human race. In this matter
history is only repeating itself, for
during our Revolutionary war and again
during the war Of 1872 England hired
the red savages of North America to
scalp and tomahawk helpless white
women and children. Yet Christian
America, not yet too old for her mem
ory to go back to those evil days,
stands stolidly by and sees England
repeat this cruel barbarity President
| William Mckinley sends message of
coincidence every time a royal person
age dies, but his sympathy ceases when
such Il ,heble Christian woman as Paul
Kruger's wife dies. Shamel Shamel
/ Shame!
| - scientific Discovery.
Every time the Republican leaders,
especially in states where elections are
held this year, think of the strike
against the steel trust it causes the
cold chills to chase each other up and
down their spinal columns, for they
have melancholy recollection of the
Homestead riots of 1892, which Gener-
al Charles Henry Grosvenor of Ohio
| once declared on the floor of the house
| brought about the overwhelming de-
feat of General Benjamin Harrison
Speaking of General Grosvenor re-
calls the fact that he has been making
his annual trip to England. This time
he has made a personal inspection of
the grocery stores and. to his surprise,
| has discovered, according to his own
evidence, that the bloody Britishers
eat the same things that we eat, which
is certainlya scientific discovery worthy
of note. If the good gray general had
in his youth turned his luminous mind
to the inductive philosophy instead of
gquandering his energies in politics
and law he might have taken rank with
Sir Isaac Newton and Lord Bacon.
Senator Joseph Benson Foraker gives
it as his private opinion, publicly ex'
| pressed, that Historian Maclay ought
to be uneeremoniously kicked out OF
the public service. Senator Joseph
Benson is candidate for reelection tc
| the house of the conscript fathers
"hence these tears"
1t may not be improper to call the at
tention of those wise persons who arc
constantly asserting that William Jen
nings Bryan is dead to the fact that
| 10000 stalwart Missourians paid the
! other day to hear him speak at the
Platte City fair. AS he usually gets
| half the gate receipts for his lectures
it may be confidently asserted that his
| is a pleasant way of dying. 1t may not
be inapropos to say to his detractors
go thou and do likewise" Sam Jones
--he of Georgia-is author of the mot
that "a free show draws better than a
pay show" When any of those who
are joyously preaching Bryan's funeral
can draw an audience of 10000 at q
pay show, it will be conceded that he
is licensed to hold q postmortem on the
great Nebraskan. The chances are that
not one of them could draw an audi
ence of half of 10000 even at O free
show