Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-05-02
CHAMP QARK'S LETTER
A Glance at the Philippine
Situation.
LARGE EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
Millions Must Be Spent to Help
Jobbers Grow Rich.
JOHN BULL BARS OUT OUR BEEF

JOHN BULL BARS OUT OUR BEEF
Hard Blow Delivered by Our Whi-
Iom British Friend-PO0r Requltal
For the COnniyance of Our Pro-
der of the South African Republics.
fragrant Violation of Neutrality
Laws = Senator Lodge Settles the
War Minority Representation.
Lentz still Alive.
Especial Washington Letter.l
General Aguinaldo having issued
proclamation to his followers advising
them to lay down their arms and to ac-
cept the sovereignty of the United
States, it is to be hoped that hostilities,
such as they are, will cease and that
our regular army will soon be reduced
to peace footing, a consummation de-
voutly to be wished, as to maintain
soldier in that faraway land costs at
least $1,000 per annum, to say nothing
of the prospect of paying him a pen
sion the rest of his natural life or pay
ing it to his wife or dependent rela-
tives the rest of their natural lives.
We will be in luck if some other Fill
pino chief does not take it into his head
to continue the war-an endless guer-
1il1 for
clude that Aguinaldo issued his pro-
nunciamento under duress and fail to
be persuaded thereby. Should they ac-
cept his advice in good faith we will
have large expense account to meet
annually in order that a few jobbers
may grow rich. That is the best view
of the situation. If they conclude to
continue the war, we are in for as ugly
job as any nation ever tackled.
Whys Oh, why.
OF course no right minded person
would desire to disturb the serenity OF
our anglomaniacs; but, considering the
fact that England has quarantined our
beef, this inquiry is pertinent: What
has become of that wondrous love
which we were vociferously assured
that John Bull bore us while he was
hoodwinking our pro-British admins
tration into conniving at the foul MUIR
der of two little republics in South At
rica?" A stronger word than ICON
nive" might not be improperly used in
that connection. If it will not too
much perturb the tranquility Of the
aforesaid ang1omaniacs. l would ven
ture to ask. Why, oh, why, has Mr.
Bull dealt us this cruel blow of shut
ting out our beef product?" True
they do not grew much beef or much
of anything else except tariff and
trusts in that portion of the United
States infested by the anglomaniacs,
but nevertheless there are millions of
persons in the beef raising districts of
the United States proper who would
John is beginning to act after his old
bad manner His love for us was
feeting as the rainbow's glory. He has
returned to his vomit and is himself
again. Only think of it, He gives us
this whacl1 on the solar plexus while q
supple and servile United States judge
at New Orleans is, in violation of all
laws of neutrality, making ruling in
New Orleans in re the American mule
which is as thoroughly proBritish as
If one of Johns own judges had rem
dered it. The dog that bites the hand
xx,1,i ioI Ie hoe fAt.
turies as the type of all that is migrate
full and base, and furnishing mules and
horses ad libitum to a belligerent is on
all fours with furnishing feed, for
mules and horses are as necessary as
bread and meat. 1t doesn't require a
Philadelphia lawyer or lawyer of any
sort to know that any person of ordi-
nary sense knows it.
Mr.. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
a most estimable gentleman. can't un-
derstand why John Bull should act in
this unseemly manner and has asked
Colonel John Hay, secretary of state,
to ask Mr.. Joseph III. Choate, American
ambassador to the court of st. James,
to ask John why he cutteth such fam
tastic caper at this particular juncture
John B. is likely to tell Mr.. Choate to
tell Colonel Hay to tell Mr.. Wilson to
go to the deuce. Having used US, John
Bull is, as usual, ready to throw us
away as sucked orange.
"I Won't. You Mustn't"
Press dispatches inform us that our
pro-British cabinet at Washington has
a bad case of mulligrubs because a
poor benighted South African Boer
went into court in New Orleans and
tried to break up the British purchase
of American mules, notoriously to be
used in subduing the heroic little re-
publics. Our Washington cabinet law
yers are rather of the opinion that an
action to enforce neutrality laws is an
administrative function and that the
poor benighted Boer aforesaid was
very naughty to invade those laws, but
here is the rub: If it is an admins
trative prerogative, why hasn't the adj
ministration asserted it? why, oh,
why?" President Mckinley was SOL
der and presumably knows the value
of mule in wartime, even If his cab
met does not. A more fragrant viola
ton of neutrality laws was never wit
messed on earth, yet the administra-
tion will not enforce them and will not
let anybody else do it. We are in a
lovely predicament, to be sure! That
poor benighted Boer ought to be yank-
ed up and tried for treason against the
United States because he is interfering
with John Bulls plans, for he must be
taught that Mr.. Bull has carte blanche
to do as he pleases here.
The cabinet lawyers are not cock
sure that the law .confining the initia-
tive in neutrality enforcement proceed
ings is as they desire it; consequently
Mr.. Attorney General Knox has been
requested to investigate and report. If
he finds that things are not as they de-
sire, congress will be asked to SO
amend the law that nobody but the ad-
ministration can invoke the aid of the
courts as to enforcing neutrality laws,
and, as In the Porto Rican tariff mat
ter it was demonstrated that the bread
and butter brigade runs the house, il
may be safely predicted, to the shame
of America and American manhood
that the administration will get all the
law it wants with which to coddle Mr..
Bull. How are the mighty fallen
When we were 100000 strong, we
thrashed Mr.. Bull. We performed the