Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-29

roles in Office and drawing two salaries
right along.
One of Lord Byron's most famous po-
ems is THE Prisoner of Chillon." The
story in brief is that the prisoner was
clapped in the prison and, apparently
forgotten by everybody, staid there in
definitely. AS everybody remembers,
that great poem opens as follows:
My hair is gray, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night,
AS mems have grown from sudden fears;
My limbs are how'd, though not with toll,
But rusted with vile repose.
And it winds up as follows:
My very chains and grew friends,
So much long communion tends
To make what we are. Even |
Regained my freedom with sigh.
It is hardly probable that Mr.. Neely,
the colossal Indiana thief who plum
dered the postal revenues of Cuba, will
ever have a poem written about him
and his Imprisonment, and yet from
present appearances he is liable to stay
in prison as long as the prisoner of
Chillon. At the present writing there
Is ilOl tuG ledSt SlSu luuL lS WILL SNSA
be tried. 1t is said that $4,000 has
been spent In preparing the case for
trial. and yet they are afraid to try
him. Ii he is innocent, he ought to be
cleared and turned loose; If he is guilty,
he ought to be convicted and transfer
red from the Jail to the penitentiary.
At any rate, he ought to be tried. Pos
lii Il. - a. fe hot
Neely knows too much, and his supe-
| riors are afraid he will tell what he
knows If they undertake to try him.
| The Neely scandal is liable to grow
into the proportions Of the whisky ring
scandal and the star route scandal and
the other numerous scandals in the
days of General Grant. If we only had
a Democratic house Of representatives
to make real investigation. we might
| possibly find out a good deal that
would lessen the appropriation bills
and purify the political atmosphere,
| but there never will be an investigation
that investigates until the Democrats
have the power Of investigation.
Senator Vests New Platform.
Divers and sundry Democrats of
more or less prominence are giving ut
| terance to their views as to what the
next Democratic platform should con-
tain. Recently Senator George Graham
| Vest of Missouri spoke as follows:
| If could write the platform without the inter.
| vention of any new issue, would declare:
F1rst.-For graduated income tax, which is
sne 'a"es' anu must equa, sys.en u .aAe'lon 'l
taxation in the shape OF internal revenue and
tariff duties makes the poor man pay the ex-
niIinroro who eons,,rnes ne+her heer nor Who.
| b. and i,.nor,o roth;nr fror, l7uroro evnont
! ciotb;nr naps nothing
Rrt in tba ovent of var tbo moor man fgbts
Gov Tho n;Il;oroiro dollars beIongipo 70 tho l,,+o
crat who s now exemnt from toxation
/ saoond II wonld mako tho nr;ncna1 iss,,a NJ
+be camraign If 1904 steyn and pnvieldins onnosi
| tior IN tbe tr,,sts and svndicatos which are now
cr,shin, tho individual eptarnrise NJ tho country
Ten years ago vounp man with s15OO0 or
| soo ooo con;tol could start in some legitimate
| business with fair chance of success but now he
hoe no more ohance aeoinst tbe trusts than nm
/ ;nfan+ ag.inst tho cbamn;on nrizeerbtar of the
world
| voc +oI5 rsoentlv hv n nroripent brokar of
| New York citv. a very earnest Republican. that
nina mon in New York citv forr Of whom arr !
| piornor+ Moroap f,eoroa Could Jobn n Rocln-
| foIler and lance I Hill control the finances Of
/ tba I1nited states and as he exnressed II no
ono oold 90 into ney enternrisa or ranain IN
| on IA one without tbo consent of tboeo n,no
49,,
Th;rd r ,vo,la deo,are ogsinst ;mney;aI;sn
ana the colonial system. ,fn for awnne tins issue
rho O. o,T;s r1o,eo nor7ooro+ oor
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nonepoay seems 70 naSe oeen Gireulatis queer
this country I.ere il The Mexican Herald. for
example, saying that 'the absorption of Mexico
by the United States would be an injury to both
MT; ne ,,a ~ - Il nrt - ~ oe e
homogeneous people" Moreover that paper says,
the American capitalists who have money invested
IN Mexico wii some Gay De glaa tnat tnelr
~ auS Sonsrp pde ga ~ a rot 's bv the new
communism
Our Mexican contemporary is astray There has
oeen no 'aiN IN .ne o'sea sD4pe 4p 9antat
danger Of the .'new communism doing any in.
Jury to capitalists or property rights in the Unit
ed States The United states is on terms o. '1e e
desires 70 continue this condition. The trade Of
the two countries with each other is increasing
year by year. The social ties between them are
peis % ,oatad ~ Maico ta
has been obtained by that country from any other
nation This, too, is steadily on the increase,
1t has not been three months since