Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-21
lers, Scotty Briggs, Senator Dillworthy,
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
The Unkindest Cut of All.

upon himself a worse calamity than
the treason of Harrison and Clemens.
The former is a resident of Indiana
and might be shunted out of the way
as political has been" The latter is
a citizen of Connecticut and might be
got rid of by being denounced as a
Joker" but while millions of eyes
were glued to the pages of The North
American Review, reading the effu-
sions of General Harrison and Mark
Twain, fierce fire from the rear was
poured into Marks grand army of i'm
perialists by an Ohio statesman-an
Ohio statesman still in harness, and a
Republican Ohio statesman at that
Hon. Seth W. Brown, representing the
district containing the sacred tomb of
Rutherford B. Hayes, who committed
the monumental theft of all the ages
by stealing from Samuel j. Tilden the
presidency of the United States.
That was the most unkindest cut Of all
Then you and and all of us fell down,
While bloody treason fourished over u.s.
Since Seth Thomas invented his clock
no man named Seth has accomplished
so great work as Seth Brown will ac-
complish if he succeeds by hook or
crook, finesse or main strength, in Sc
curing the passage of the resolution
which he has introduced into the house
and which runs in these words:
Resolved by the senate and house Of repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, That it is the purpose of the
United States in retaining possession of the Phil
ippine Islands to aid their inhabitants when they
submit to the authority of the United States, in
establishing capable and stable free govern
ment, and when this purpose shall be fully accom-
plished the United States under such reservations
ard conditions as may be wise and just will re-
hnquish sovereignty in those islands.
Seth Brown of Ohio.
If Brother Brown gets that through.
in history he will be known as The
Brown. Tom Brown of Rugby, old
John Brown of Osawatomie, Brown
Sequard Che of the goat lymph and all
the rest of the Browns will not be COM
parable to Seth Brown, Ohioan, Repub-
lican, statesman When Mark heard of
Browns treason, he must have felt as
did imperial Caesar on a celebrated and
lamentable occasion when in agony of
both soul and flesh he exclaimed "Et
tu, Brute" 1t was bad enough for
General Harrison and Mark Twain to
hamstring Marks imperial charges,
but they are only "outlanders, while
Brown is a member of the household
troops. He is Buckeye, belongs to
the elect and. being an Ohioan, was
born to hold office as naturally as the
sparks fly upward. That Brown should
introduce the foregoing iconOclastic
resolution must be rated as among the
most astounding and mystifying phe-
nomena of our times. He not only did
that, but he made a speech, and it was
tiptop speech at that Among other
things he said:
A colonial policy will be liable to lead US into
entangling alliances and very likely to involve us
in foreign wars. colonial policy will impair, ii
not destroy, the doctrine under which we have
defended the little states Of the world against
encroachments from the old world. II we insist
on right to hold colonies in the eastern hemi-
sphere, by what right will We demand that for
eign powers shall not hold colonies in the western
! hemisphere?
Government without Consent.
A colonial policy will require us 10 govern
without the consent OF the governed. colonial
policy once permanently established for America,
wouid open our future career to consequences
which no man can foresee measure with any
degree Of accuracy in the unsubstantial realm Of
speculation.
Congress has never yet announced to the Fill
pinos what the national purpose is with respect
to them. If this body will tell them now-teli
them explicitly and solemnly that it is the fixed
determination of this nation to establish its ar-
thority in their country and that when this end
shall be reached they shall have chance to be-
come in due time free citizens of a free govern
mcnt-if congress will say this to them, and say
it now, it will say this for peace.
1t may be answered that this is about what we
really intend to do, but we have not said this to
the Filpinos We have carefully and studiously
refused to say this to them.
Why, bless my soul! That was spo-
ken like Democrat and a patriot. 1t
reads like the speeches we Democrats
made a year and two years ago. Evi-
IDENTIFY Mr.. Brown has been perusing
them to some purpose. He was little
late in waking up, but better late than
! never. Clearly Brown will have to be
hanged for treason. Nothing else will
do.
RiOtous Totals.
When the Fifty-flrst congress was re-
proachfully denominated '.the billion
| dollar congress- Hon. Thomas Brack-
EFT Reed sneeringly said, "Well. this is
| a billion dollar country" as though
that settled it. Republican freebooters
everywhere hugged themselves with
delight and rapturously exclaimed,
big Tom is awfully cutew So they,
deeming his epigram a sufficient de-
fense for all sorts of raids upon the
public treasury, have gone on from one
| outrage to another until conservative
Republicans are beginning to be alarm
ed "Uncle Joe" Cannon is a watch
dog of the treasury in spots and under
takes spasmodically and sporadically to
choke off the looters, but he is evident
ly in the wrong pew to play the role
of economist successfully. A wise man
once said to me, There is just one
thing the Republicans can't do, and
that is to economize." Consequently
Notwithstanding Uncle Joe's" occa
sional attempts at retrenchment, the
appropriations have grown in riotous
totals until the expenditures of the
Fifty-sixth congress will exceed the
enormous and incomprehensible sum Of
billion and half of dollars!
The poet Campbell says:
watch the wheels of natures may plan
And Judge the future from the past of man.
Applying that rule, If Mr.. Reed lives
| five years he will be compelled to still
| further revise his sneer so as to read
'Well, this is a two billion dollar coun
tryr' provided the Republicans are moi
| kicked out by an indignant people
Piling Pelion upon Ossa was holiday
performance beside the piling of ap
preparation upon appropriation by the
Republicans. alps on Alps arise
Senator Vest in the conclusion of his
great speech against the colossal shiI
subsidy bill declared that the Repub
licans, drunk with victory, will do any
thing. He was right. They squandel
millions of dollars with as little cere
mony as the average citizen takes {
drink of water. 1t is wicked an(
wanton waste. They are so utterly
reckless that even Senator Hale 0,
Maine felt compelled the other day Il
warn his Republican brethren agains
the day of wrath-the dies irR. HI
was as one crying in the wilderness.
/ Thomas Jefferson placed 'econom,