Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-07

glory of the country. They shall sing of industry
rather than waste, OF social equity rather than
war, Of self government rather than arbitrary
power.
A Noble PcrOratiOn.
The peroration is as follows:
Sir, this new policy is advocated by men
because, as they contend, we need the discipline
Of war. / deny it. affirm, on the contrary, and
/ appeal in confirmation of my statement to all
past and present history, that war in and of it.
self is an awful and unmatched calamity and in
no respect more SO than in its effect the char
acter and morals OF men. Mere slaughter is never
glorious. Only the justice OF the cause for which
men have fought when liberty has been at stake
has redeemed the horror of it. The noble senti-
ment aroused by such cause has glorifed even
the awful means by which it has thus far been
found necessary to support and defend it. Those
means have always been deplored by humane and
just men who have been compelled to use them.
How true this is may be seen in every single case
where is waged for greed or power and when
the soldiers engaged in it not sustained and
animated by lofty enthusiasm or generous sentl-
ment They will either shun the service or they
will become s'subdued to what they work in, like
the dyer's hand. WAR" declares vereschagin,
who painted it so truly that Won AIoltke COM
manded his soldiers not to look upon the artists
canvases war is the opposite of humanity"
'tWar," said General Sherman, sis HE'LL All its
repulsive features are magniied by an ignoble
cause. Writing from the unbessed fields of the
South African campaign, British officer has said:
Zone of the greatest calamities of war, espe-
cally prolonged war. is the moral degcneracy
that sets in among the eombatants. and l fear
that this is sometimes marked among
the yictors than among the vanquished, for flush
ed with triumph, they believe they have right
to trample to any extent on PROSTATE enemy.
Years of civilization and peace teach men to re-
months of war seem TO scrape off this veneer of
virtue and return them to their primitive saw
agery.'
This is profoundly true, and when we read in
the accounts of our operations in the Philippines
how the American soldiers customarily speak of
their pursuit Of the enemy hunting niggers,"
how upon one occasion company hcnmed in go
Fiiipinos at a bend OF the Pasig river and shot
them to death in spite Of their prayers for quarter
Nend have talked with man who saw i) or
another another sssseaI troops sur
was being celebrated set the building on fire and
then shot the escaping guests of both sexes, ] say
when we read or hear of such ineffably tragic
things these, is it possible We can still prate
about our ''misson of friendship our .'bcnevo-
lent intentions Christian duty or of the
glory of such deeds of arms?
Out, out upon it for infamous deIusion God
speed the day when the American people, whose
annals blaze with records of unequaled Ieroisn,
and who again and always, if some great cause
demand it, would freely pay with life itself the
price Of its defense, shall have the moral courage
to do their civic duty--a rarcr thing than TO
face, undaunted, the cannon's mouth--and with
their sovereign voice declare that this unhoy war
for greed and empire shall be stopped and that
no soldier of the United States shall again in
all our history be sent TO other lands TO war on
people fighting for their liberty.
Ct, tI,a I,.t;a1 l...1J
willingly cease TO dream Of a twentieth century
devoted to the demonstration the first and only
one in history, that government of the people,
for the people and by the people need not per
ish from the carth.'' There is an inspiration in
the thought that to our beloved country may be
reserved the eliminating glory of the ages in
crowning with success the long experiment of
righteous self government.
Gallery Applauded.
| During the delivery of this peroration
the applause in the galleries was so vo-
ciferous that the Hon. William p Frye,
president of the senate, threatened TO
have them cleared | have no doubt
that he would have liked TO clear out
| Towne with the galleries. | heard
about half an hour of Towne's speech
myself, and one of the things that
struck me was the awfully bored OK
| preston on the face of Senator Frye.
| If some senator had been making as
strong a speech on the other side as
I Towne was making on his side. the
genial face of the senator from Maine
would have glistened like new moon.
| The Honorable "Gas" Addicks
Macaulay says that at the close Of
the Seven Years war all Europe in
arms could not wrest Silesia from the
| iron grasp of Frederick the Great, and
while it is far cry from that mighty
monarch to the Hon. Gas Addicks it
is nevertheless true that it seems utter.
ly impossible for all the good people in
Delaware to wrest that tiny common
wealth from the grip of the greasy
hand of Doodle. Addicks, like Alexan-
| der Selkirk, seems to be monarch of all
he surveys. Addicks is playing the
star engagement as dog in the manger
| Twice he has produced deadlock
/ which for two years at each time has
caused Delaware to have only one SEN
ator. 1t would be strange indeed if fol
! two years he should produce dead
lock that would prevent Delaware
from having any senator at all, vel
that seems precisely what is going te
happen. Out in Nebraska the conflict
ing ambitions of Colonel Edward Rose
water, Assistant Secretary of Wal
Meiklejohn, Hon. David Mercer, Mr.
/ Thompson, Mr.. Manner and an unnum
i bered throng of lesser statesmen ap
pear quite likely to leave Nebraska
without any senator. These two case:
are sufficient arguments in favor Of
! electing United States senators by di
rect popular vote, even if there were NJ
| other reasons. This reform is absolute
| ly imperative for the best interests oi
the republican form of government.
A Man of Parts.
Senator Turner of the state Of Wash
ington, who, by the way, is Missouri
an, is rapidly developing into one of TIL
strongest debaters in the senate. He il
tall, handsome man of the brunette
style Of beauty, with large, capaciou'
head chuck full of information on th'
leading questions of the day. Notwith
standing he is man of affairs who haI
spent several years on the frontier
where competition in all lines is pitt
less, Senator Turner has found time t
dip into the best literature and know
how to use it effectively in debate.
have always regarded Lord Gives dec
laration as to his own moderation il
taking money from the East Indians al
one of the most remarkable that eve
fell from human lips. In his speecl
against the subsidy bill Senator Turne
thus deftly uses that celebrated decla
ration of the great English soldier:
So We are grayely proceeding to vote ont Of II