Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-01

once said that the American people
dearly like to be humbugged and that
d new sucker is born every minute.
The success of the Republican party,
based on the claims of prosperity
which came of good crops in the Unit
ed States and bad crops elsewhere,
demonstrates beyond all cayil that the
great Snowman was right.
Lord Pauneefote, British ambassador
to the United States, is now on his ma
tive heath. Recently he gave out an
interview in which he declared that
they were now arranging a treaty
touching the Niearaguan canal bust
ness which would be acceptable to both
Great Britain and the United States.
Lord Pauncefote is in error in that
statement. He and Colonel John Hay,
secretary Of state, may possibly patch
up a treaty which will be satisfactory
to the English and satisfactory to this
proEnglish administration, but there
never will be n treaty patched up by
them which will be satisfactory to the
American people until they patch up
one in which it is declared that the
United States is to build the Nicara-
guam canal, is to own it, manage it,
conduct it, fortify it and defend it as
it pleases and that after it is built
England is to have exactly the same
rights in it, and no more, as all other
foreign nations are to have-that is,
precisely as much, and no more, as we
want them to have. That is the Amer
ican platform with reference to the
isthmian canal, and nothing short of it
will satisfy the American people.
Lord Pauncefote and Colonel Hay
and all the rest concerned may as well
write this proposition in their tablets
and be through with it. The Clayton
Bulwer treaty was disgrace to the
American people and has never been
satisfactory to them. 1t ought to be
abrogated at once, and we ought to
build the canal as soon as possible.
Dockery Hoodooed.
Hoodooed OF course everybody
from the gulf to the great lakes has
suffered dreadfully during the long
spell of excruciatingly hot weather.
One Missouri statesman, holding high
Office and coddling higher ambitions,
has had an extraordinary and peculiar
reason for suffering while the dog star
has been getting in its deadly work.
That statesman is Hon. Alexander
Monroe Dockery, governor of Missouri,
whom The Globe-Democrat once ex-
plotted as the most pulchritudinous
member Of the Missouri delegation in
congress" The governors personal
reason for suffering during the heated
spell is the fact that he has been hoo
dooed by the New York Sun. What
rosy dreams his excellency had been
dreaming of residing in the White
House is not given to us common NOR
satellites enjoying public pap by his
appointment and others who are hop
ing to get their snouts into the trough
in the same way had been gently
wbooping up Governor Deckery for
president-and. truth to tell, they were
making some headway-when, 10. as
suddenly, as unexpectedly, as fatally
as Il bolt out OF cloudless sky came
an editorial, elaborate and enthusias-
tic from the New York Sun advocat-
ing his excellency for president. That
was sufficient. The governors wise
friends were in CONSERVATION. They
knew the jig was up. for praise from
The Sun for Democrat has about the
same effect on him politically as a bad
case of the bHbonic plague would have
on him physically. 1t has killed off a
score of promising Democratic presi.
Dental possibilities by praising them,
while Democrats abused by it flourish
like tree planted by the rivers of
water. Some of the governors edito-
rial appointees. who do not know
enough to know that The Sun ceased
to be a Democratic paper years ago
and is now trying with the proverbial
zeal Of renegade to out Herod Herod
as Republican organ grinder. mad
vertently reprinted The Suns glowing
panegyric OH his excellency before he
could muzzle them. which only In
creased the CONSERVATION of the more
intelligent boomers of his excellency
for the presidency. Now they go about
in the sweltering weather with faces
like an undertaken. exelaiming: WOE
is me! Who will deliver US from the
body of this death?' The average
Democrat may be wrong in his belief
that any Democrat praised by the New
York Sun is q Democrat not fit to be
trusted in high places, but the average
Democrat entertains that belief never.
theless.
Tom johnson Again.
Frederick the Great once delivered
this terse and far resounding opinion Of
his famous ancestor the Great Elector:
''This man did great things" The
same verdict may be justly passed on
Tom Johnson, mayor Of Cleveland. He
has just induced the Cleveland board
Of equalization to raise Senator Marcus
A. Hanna's assessment from $627. .70S.-
73 to Sc, 233 800, a straight raise of $6,-
605,091.27. Great Caesars ghost! How
Mark must cuss when he thinks of
this indefatigable and persistent pur-
suer of the tax dodgers! Just to think,
he had to run off to Canton to take
shelter under the presidential wing to
escape appearing before the board and
testifying himself, for Tom had sub
pena issued for Marcus. Too bad.
Trusts blessing.
If the much vaunted Mckinley pros
perity is reality, how does it happen
that strikes are becoming the fashion
1900 workingmen striking in one
body? And if trusts are blessing, as
the assailants of Mr.. Babcock's belated
| reform movement claim, how does it
happen that those 1900 strikers give
as their reason for striking the exac-
tions of the billion dollar steel trust
am aware that my venerable friend,
General Charles Henry Grosvenor of
Ohio, once declared that strikes are the
result of prosperity and not of hard
times; consequently it is high time for
him to take his pencil and pad in hand
and explain to an eager world how the
present events come to eyentuate.
A Hard Blow.
1t may be that some Bryan paper has
said something harder about the ad-
ministration than the following from
the Washington Post. If so, however,
l have not seen it. The Post says ed
itorially:
According to the Boston Advertiser, it the