Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-11
NUMBER 49

mlttee. 1t is certainly pitiful conclu-
sion of the whole matter, so far as Hon.
Charles Foster is concerned. And SO
he talked of s1ocal imperialism" No
wonder Hanna has practically disposed
of three Ohio statesmen who have
dreamed glorious dreams Of life in the
White House-John Sherman, Joseph
Benson Foraker and Charles Foster.
AS killer of Ohio presidential hopes
Mark is bowling success.
Gall.
Once upon a time the cashier OF a
bank in a frontier county in Kansas
stole all the money in the bank and
blew it in on No. wheat. The robbed
depositors took the law into their own
hands, dragged the defaulting cashier
to tree and were proceeding to string
him up when he made a sign indicating
that he wanted to address the multi
tude. They gave him chance to
speak, when he said: Gentlemen,
have no money, but / do not want to
die the ignominious death of being
hanged. So | have this proposition to
make: Cut me up and each man take
the piece that suits him best" where
upon one old chap sang out, "You fell
lows can take what you want; but, as
for me, give me that fellows gall!''
/ feel that way about the Ohio Re-
pubIicans who lately met in convention
and formulated platform. Inter ALA
they declare that the Republican party
by its glorious achievements made this
country a world power. A greater lie
has not been told on this earth since
Ananias and Sapphira had their Ill
starred land transaction. These hila-
rious. palpitating and mendacious pa
triots are precisely 90 years behind
the times. This country became
world power before any Republican
was born. The date of its becoming
world power is April 80. 1903. when
| that immortal Democrat, Thomas JEFF
ferson, purchased from Napoleon for
song "the Louisiana territory" the
most colossal and stupendous transac-
ton in real estate proposed on earth
since the devil took the Saviour to the
| top of high mountain and offered him
| the dominion of the world to fall down
and worship him. That's the truth of
history. One cannot read even at this
| late day without a thrill of patriotic
pride Jefferson's fateful sentence, THE
Mississippi must flow unvexed and I'M
| fettered to the sea-" That was the
| pregnant prophecy of the glorious fact
that all creation must take US into con-
sideration henceforth and forever.
world without end. Amen! And none
knows this better than the political
| fakirs who constructed the Ohio Re-
publican platform.
A Trust Antidote.
Recently Travelled over large por-
ton of Kansas while on a lecturing
tour. While in the Sunfower State
| learned something which, If general
| ly adopted, will bust the trusts Now.
Kansas comes as near being purely
agricultural state as any in the Union.
1t produces some salt, lead, zinc and
coal, but agriculture is far and away
the chief industry. So the farmers
grew weary of the extortions of the
binder twine trust, and to help them
/ out a binder twine factory has been
| started in the penitentiary. The re-
suit is highly satisfactory, as the state
furnishes the twine to the consumers
at about one-half what the trust has
been furnishing it at. | introduced
into congress a bill to put binding
twine and the materials out of which
! it is made upon the free list. but the
! Republican leaders would not even per-
NIT the committee on ways and means
to consider it. guess the action Of
these Kansans will utterly disgust
Brother Payne and his coadjutors.