Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-05-23

ways and means, if they do not think
little tariff tinkering would be the
proper caper touching the J. Pierpont
Morgan billion dollar steel trust, which
has just marked up the price of steel
rails 50 per ton. OF course, with the
usual bad manners which characterize
the supporters of the trusts, they may
answer, if they deign to answer at all,
that it is none of my business, but in
that they would err, which is human,
for every man, woman and child in
America is interested in the price of
steel rails. The railroads still manage
to squeeze this 50 a ton rise in steel
rails out of travellers and shippers. The
shippers will exercise ingenuity enough
to squeeze it out of the consumer, and
at last the mass of the people ''pay the
freight" as in the last analysis they
foot all the bills. The Springfield
(Mass.) Republican says:
1t has been predicted CT the billion and half
steel trust that it would never make the mistake
of exercising its temporary power over the indus
try to lift up prices arbitrarily otherwise, but
would keep prices down and encourage the largest
possible consumption This would seem to be
good policy even for an all powerful monopoly,
but the big trust, like the others, cannot resist
the temptation, and steel rails accordingly are
marked up 81 ton, which the tariff protects the
trust in doing. The Iron Age scolds the trust and
says its action is in direct conflict with general
expectation in the trade that the trusts policy
would be ''better service, improved quality and
lower prices. But there was the protective tariff,
and here was the power, and what is trust for
anyway?
A year or so ago sycophantic pro-
fessor in the Chicago university out
Heroded Herod in supple hinges of the
knee business by comparing John d.
Rockefeller to Shakespeare. No doubt
he expected reward for his astound
ing ingenuity; but whatever else Rock
efeller may be, he certainly is not a
fool, and he does not propose to be rem
dered ridiculous even by an idiotie pro-
fessor in a university. So with rare
good sense, instead of praising and re-
warding the toad eater he inflicted up
on him a withering rebuke. Indeed lie
was so incensed that he issued ukase
forbidding the mention of his name by
any of the faculty.
What j. Pierpont Morgan will think
of it | don't know, but some writer in
the Chicago Record Dispatch has been
ransacking Shakespeare and collating
passages which he seems to think ap
ply to trusts and has printed them as
follows under the general head of
Shakespeare on J. Pierpont Morgan:
As great
As my trust was. which had indeed no limit.
-''The Tempest" Act l.
There's nothing situate under heavens eye
But hath his bound in earth, in sea, in sky.
COMEDY of Errors.' Act II.
Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman
-"Comedy of Errors" Act ".
will in the interim undertake one of Hercules
labors.
-''Much Ado About Nothing"
Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads.
Merchant of Venice Act |.
Why, then the worlds mine (oyster).
MERRY Wives OF Windsor Act II.
understand the business.
-'"rhe Winters Tale" Act Nv.
And tell me
What each OF them by the other lose
That they combine not there.
-"Coriolanus." Act III.
built
An absolute trust.
Macbeth" Act l.
ssThe Southern Bolt"
The Republican newspapers which
are endeavoring to magnify the per-
formances of Senator McLaurin of
South Carolina into a southern bolt"
of large proportions know about as
much about conditions down there as
a Choctaw Indian knows about He
brew or Sanskrit "The boilers" will be
confined to lot of soreheads who are
not enamored of Senator Benjamin r,
Tillman and another job lot of political
renegades who expect to receive polit-
ical pap from the hands of President
Mckinley and who would betray their
lord and master for office. The bolt
ers" will be all generals and no pri-
Yates. Truth to tell, if in rcconstrnc-
ton times the Republicans had acted
with wisdom and moderation. even
with humanity and common honesty.
in their dealings with the southern
ers. long before this there would have
been a Republican party down in Dixie
which would carry many congressional
districts and some states, but they
with a fatuousness that was amazing
pursued the course certain to drive re-
spectacle white people in II states
away from them forever McLaurin
and the would be bread and butter bri-
gade have no more prospect of Great
ing serious revolt among southern
Democrats than the heirs of the exiled
Stuart kings have of reascending the
throne of their ancestors.
Political Reputation Evanescent.
"Fame is yapor." said Horace Gree
ley In the last year of his life, after
all his great triumphs in the senate. at
the bar. in the field of diplomacy and
in every department of oratory. Daniel
Webster mournfully said: Il have Civ
en- my life TO law and politics. Law is
uncertain and politics utterly vain."
The evanescencc of political fame or
reputation is again demonstrated in
the case of j. Donald Cameron of
PENNSYLVANIA. For many years be did