Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-18
CHAMP QARK'S LETTER

Gen. Grosvenor's Fourth
of July Speech.
A REMARKABLE PRODUCTION
Illiteracy Not Menace to Good
Government.
so SAYS THE BUCKEYE STATESMAN
Reasons That Intelligence Tends to
Make Traitors - Contends That
Trusts Are Public Benefactors-An
Amazing Gush of TOmmyrot-Hy-
pocrisy of Ohio RepubIicans-South
African Atrocitics--More Prosper
ity For Drumners-Senat Bur-
rows Ill Advised Statement-PhiI-
fppine Matters.
Especial Washington Letter.
The most remarkable speech deliv-
cred ON this mundane sphere on the
glorious Fourth was that Of General
Charles Henry Grosvenor of Ohio de-
livered at Winfield, Kan. If the main
contention of the venerable and pro-
phetic Buckeye is correct, then the
American people are the most eyre
gious set of asses that the sun ever look
ed down upon, for he seriously argues
that illiteracy is not menace to good
government What an idiot was Henry
Lord Brougham, with his grandilo-
quent gush about the schoolmaster be-
ing abroad! What q consummate idiot
was Thomas Jefferson when he found
ed the University of Virginia and be-
came the father of the public school
system! According to the general, ig-
norance is blessing. He proves it
conclusively by lambasting the New
Englanders who sat in the Hartford
convention. They were intelligent
men; they plotted treason. Ergo intel
ligence tends toward the faith of Bene-
dict Arnold. Fine logic that! A great
headpiece does General Grosvenor car
ry about on his shoulders. The intense
heat must have excited his cerebrum,
cerebellum and medulla oblongata. One
thing dead sure, General Grosvenor
cannot get away from his wonderful
Winfield speech by laying it on the re-
porter, as he did his third term inter-
view. He wrote or dictated the speech
and had it sent out by the Associated
Press.
The general also complacently re-
marks, "Shortsighted persons complain
that some Of our products are sold in
Europe at lower figure than they are
sold in the United States" OF course
a poor fool American is shortsighted
because he objects to being held by the
throat by the federal government while
the trusts go through his pockets. Cen
eral Grosvenor's advice to the great
body of Americans, stated bluntly and
without any circumlocution, is, "You
bowling, kicking idiots, dry up and
humbly kiss the hand that smites you"
That sort of doctrine might be all right
in India, where benighted mothers
throw their babies into the Ganges -
propitiate their god, but it will not prove
palatable to the intelligent people of
America. 1t may be seriously doubted
if the generals patriotic and well be-
loved illiterates will swallow such
transparent tommyrot as that. 1t may
be pleasant to the Republican farmer
in Kansas to know that his rival wheat
raiser in foreign countries can purchase
an American binder for tWO-thirds the
price he is compelled to pay for it. He
may have been sulking hitherto about
the extortions of the trusts, but he will
be happy as a clam at high tide now
that General Grosvenor has caused him
to see the light. The best thing the
Ohio Democratic state committee can
do is to print General Grosvenors
speech by the hundred thousand and
circulate it as campaign literature.
Rank Hypocrisy.
Wonder if the platform carpenters
who constructed the latest Ohio Repub-
lican platform ever read Mark Twain's
"Gilded Age?" If so, did they confne
their thoughts upon that book to Colo
mel Sellers, or did they sometimes
study Senator Dillworthy, whose heart
was always bleeding for the poor
negro? Surely Dillworthy was their
prototype. In their platform they sol
emnly demand that representation in
congress and in the electoral college
shall be based on the actual voting pop
ulation as provided in the constitution,
poportionate reduction being made for
any state in which the right of suf-
frage is denied except for crime" A
ranker piece of hypocrisy has not been
witnessed on earth since the Saviour
rebuked the Pharisees of his day.
How many negro delegates there were
in the convention which put that cheap
and demagogical tommyrot in its
platform is not disclosed, but that
there are thousands and thousands of
negroes in Ohio is known of all men.
If the Buckeye Republicans are such
vociferous friends to the poor negro,
why did they not put at least one OF
their state ticket? Why don't they
send one occasionally to congress?
Why don't they prove their faith by
their workss The aforesaid taffy for
the negro was intended to hold the
colored voters in line this fall; that's
all. ITS good enough Morgan until
after the election"
Not War, but Murder and Cruelty.
1t may be that Tacitus, Sismondi or
Macaulay has written something more
scathing than the following excerpt
from Frederic Harrison, who de-
scribes himself as neither Little
England nor pro-Boer' nor 'cosmopol-
itan crank but patriotic English
man who does not think his country's
greatness needs to be eked out with
more Klondikes and Ugandas and re-
fuses to applaud every folly and crime
into which demagogues in office may
contrive to delude the nation" Bu.
if they did do the scathing act more
perfectly their performance has per