Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-26

1t IS generally taken and accepted in
and about Washington that Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,
occupies about the same place in Pres
ident Roosevelt's affections that Sena-
tor Marcus A. Hanna occupied in Pres
ident Mckinley's. Roosevelt and Lodge
are leaders in literary political circles,
and both believe in the strenuous life.
1t is rather remarkable that two men
so young should dominate things so
completely. They are both of the
blond style of beauty. are good dress
ers and fully up to the latest literary
fads.
Second Class Mail Matter.
1t seems that some things can't be
settled in this world. For many years
now many great and good men have
spent vast deal of energy and time
trying to shut out of the mails as sec
ond class matter the bogus magazines
and reprints Of old books, which brins
the government into debt. It Ests. n q
ways been contended that the law Is
ample to accomplish the purpose Some
two months ago it was given out that
Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith, an old and eminent newspaper
man, had actually formulated a plan
which would work all right, but there
appears to be hitch about it some
way. True, the deficit is not as large
now as it was several years ago, but
it is too large still There is no reason
why the postof1ice department should
not be self supporting-tha is, no valid
reason. Free rural mail delivery will
become universal in few years. and
penny postage is almost in sight. Our
postofice department is the largest
business concern on earth and has been
vast blessing to our people.
Stamping Out Anarchy.
A little common sense and vigorous
action opportunely taken are sometimes
worth ever so much of high flown theo-
rizing. The people of Cleveland ap
pear to have dropped on to a practical
plan for doing the anarchists. While
General Shattuc of Cincinnati and
other distinguished statesmen were pes
tering their heads, inducing insomnia,
to devise statutes to stamp out the
reds few hard headed American citi
zens of Cleveland, without laying any
claims to even the rudimentary prin-
ciples of craftsmanship, appear to have
hit the bulls eye precisely in the cen
ter, as the following dispatch shows:
CLEVELAND, o., Dec. s.-Public sentiment and
the police today combined and succeeded 10
breaking up meeting of the Liberty association
the Cleveland organization under whose auspices
Emma Goldman, 'the queen of the reds,' deliv
cred the lecture which is said to have fred the
brain OF President McKinley's assassin, Leon Czol
gosz The first meeting of the association since
the death of President Mckinley was held week
ago today, and arrangements made at that
time for future meetings, rent money being paid
to the proprietor of the hall in advance. Joseph
E. Miller the proprietor of the hall, rented the
hall and permitted the first meeting to be held,
not realizing that the association the one
which has long been spreading the dangerous doc
trine of anarchy. During the week he notified
Of the character of the association, and when the
members assembled at the hall today and opened
their meeting he offered the president of the as
sociation, Walter Behlan, to return the rent
ey and told him to leave the hall. Behlan and
other members refused to go, and the police
called. Under the threats of arrest the members
of the association finally left the meeting place.
That's the way it should be done.
Let the coppers throttle every ''red"
in the land, and they will soon see the
folly of their course. Nothing succeeds
like success. There is no room in this
country for the reds. They will keep
on frothing and cayorting about until
they will be strung up some fine night
by preconcerted arrangement i'll ev-
cry city and town in America. They
are lot of pestiferous idiots and ought
to be thoroughly stamped out of every
nook and corner of the republic.