Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-14
CHAMP CLARK ) LETTER
Sweetening a Most Nau-
seous Dose.
HAY-PAUNCEF0TE TREATY.
Significance of Placing American
Name First.
RoosEVELT's COMING MESSAGE.

British ambassador, a most affable.
estimable old gentleman, has just re-
turned to our shores with brand new
edition of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
Wonder how it happens that the title
to a treaty inimical to American rights
always begins with the name of the
American who helps negotiate it? Is it
an accident that Clayton's name pre-
cedeS Rulwer'S in the title of that un-
necessary national humiliation to us,
against the ratification of which Ste
phen A. Douglas led losing fight? But
the speech of the Little Giant against
it was one of the greatest ever deliver
ed in the senate. Now it is the Hay
Pauncefote treaty! Why not Paunce-
fote-Hay treaty? Because by placing
Mr.. Secretary of State in the lead, ap-
parently conceding to him the mastery
in negotiation, it is hoped that this
nauseous dose will be so sweetened
that the American palate will tolerate
it; but, II it is not almost wholly un-
like the old and infamous Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty, it will also fail of ratifica-
tAOh ul4 w III i1NLiJ uSoSl { " ldiI w e
want an American canal, built, owned,
operated, controlled and fortified by
Americans and we will have it or have
none at all.
Roosevelt's Message.
Many scribes with many minds, writ
ing for many papers, are guessing and
philosophizing as to what the presi-
dents message will and will not con-
tain. The only real thing anybody can
guess or predict about it with an ap-
Proclamation to truth is that it will be
Roosevelt's message and that of no
body else. Colonel Roosevelt can rem
der the country positive service by
cutting 1t down to paper of such
1ength that people will read It. Whexh-
er people liked it or did not like it
Grover Cleveland in December, 1887,
sent to congress the most interesting
message within the memory of men
now living. True, it beat Grover for
reelection, but it was interesting new
ertheless and made statesmen and poll
ticians jump Jim Crow from the st.
La ShCC " lnC III 1OltuStlS anu
from Cape Cod to the Aleutian islands.
1t was the substance of Growers mes
sage and not the plan of it which did
the work for him. The plan was most
admirable-that was to take a subject
of interest and write terse, compact,
luminous essay upon it of such length
that people would read it. President
Roosevelt has two or three such sub
jects on which he might try his prem
tice hand-reciprocity for instance, or
trusts or Imperialism.
Prophecy at Long Range.
Judging from various Ohio papers,
General David Bremner Henderson,
speaker of the last house and no doubt
predestined speaker of the present one,
has turned presidential prophet at this
early date and has sidetracked Sena-
tor Fairbanks chances till 1908 in ia
yor of President Roosevelt. That may
suit the latter, but when Fairbanks
reads of it he will be in the frame of
mind of that celebrated governor Of
North Carolina who said to the cele-
brated governor of South Carolina,
"It's long time between drinksw Sen
ator Fairbanks knows-no man better
that Indiana is normally a Democratic
state and that his prestige grows large
ly out of the fact that he was the first
Hoosier senatorial fruit of the pOliti-
eal revolution which swept the land
from sea to sea in 1893 and the follow
ing years, one of whose results was
that Fairbanks crowded Daniel w.
Voorhees,, the Tall Sycamore of the
Wabash, off his senatorial stool, and Il
little later the soulful Beveridge did
the same thing for David Turpie-while
all the world wondered Fairbanks at
once set to work to secure the presi-
Dental nomination so soon as McKin-
ley should be through with it, but the
murder of the latter elevated Colonel
Roosevelt into a most important if not
the dominant factor in the making of
a president in 1904; hence General Hen
derson's prediction.
A Great Man Redeemed.
A great name is a great treasure not
only to the particular man who possess
es it. but also to the entire nation to
which be belongs and even to the whole
world.
In about two hours on a May morn
ing in 1898 George Dewey wrote his
name high up in the temple of fame,
where it seemed that it would shine
with steady and peculiar luster forever,
but subsequent events not necessary to
recall dimmed its luster and caused the
American people to chill toward their
hero.
All lovers of the American navy will
be glad to note that whatever result
may come of the Schley court of In
quiry Dewey has restored the luster OF
his own name The st. Louis Post Dis
patch truthfully says:
"Some Of Admiral Dewey's best
traits are brought out in the Schley in
quiry.
AS judge the victor of Manila Bay
is simple, direct and intelligent. The
qualities which enabled him to thrash
the dons are equally serviceable in con
Quoting a naval inquiry. He gets at
the truth pretty much as he got at the
dons.
Admiral Dewey has no use, as the
saying goes, for what is not useful
OF what use is the question: In what
way does it help us to the essential
fact?' These are the questions which
seem to be uppermost in his mind as he
listens to the examinations of the wit
nesses. He keeps the judge advocate
and counsel in order without putting
them out of humor. He permits nei
ther to wander from the point, sup
presses every irrelevancy as it appears
and guides the Inquiry quietly toward