Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TFrom our Regular Correspondence
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IFrom our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 80, 1901.
While en- route to Maine, Senator Hanna
continued to reiterate at every stopping
point that his faith in Mr.. Roosevelt grew
stronger hour by hour. No doubt Mr..
Hanna still has his weather eye on the
Ship Subsidy bill.
Some of the planks of the New Jersey
Republican platform are SO thin that they
would pass for diaphanous.
The Senate Committee on Military
Affairs will soon begin in earnest an iDvestl-
CATION of the alleged hemp scandals in the
Philippines, involving o combine IN which
certain army officers are said to have been
illegitimately interested. Nothing will
retard the genuine pacification of the Fill
pinos more than sensational disclosures OF
dishonesty among the man who claims to
be filled with the high purpose of regenera-
ting the natives. The islanders may be
woefully ignorant, according to American
standards, but they are not imbeciles
and can as readily identify hypocrisy as the
Caucasian in uniform. Deceit once
practiced on them will lead them to believe
that the Americans are at heart lnslncere
and avaricious, and it will certainly prolong
their hostility to the new corners.
Admiral Dewey's refusal to receive coun-
sci representing Rear Admiral Sampson at
Court Of Inquiry was eminently proper.
While issues of the controversy are really
between Schley and Sampson, technically,
only the Navy Department and Rear
Admiral Schley are parties to the investiga-
ton now in progress. Sampson has no
right there unless he chooses to appear as a
witness.
Although numerous allegations against
the Democratic organization in New York
City have previously been made, few OF
them have succeeded in even temporarily
caging the tiger
The trust spirit is still unchecked. 1t
continues to ride rough-shod through the
avenues of business, crushing all opposition.
Next on the programme is patent-leather
combination, which proposes to have a
capital of nearly $100,000,000 BY the
time it has become thoroughly organized,
Mr.. Morgan may be expected to step for
ward and have a foot in it.
William J. Bryan's advice to Theodore
Roosevelt not to become candidate for a
second term was apparently delivered in
the most friendly spirit. There is certainly
deal of truth in the Nebraskan's assertion
| that, to build sufficient strength for re-
nomination, Mr.. Roosevelt must sacrifice
his independence and bring complications
into his administration. Nevertheless, it
is quite apparent that the new Chief Magis-
trate is too ambitious to abandon the hope
Of further clarifying himself by building
up an organization that will make him the
central figure of the next Republican Ma
| tional Convention.
| While organized labor lost fortune in
| its battle with the Steel Trust, Mr.. Morgan IS
combine has not suffered materially, if
reports from the headquarters of that con-
Germ are to be relied upon. 1t is semi
officially stated that the net earnings of the
United States Corporation during the past
six months have amounted to $54 ,000 600,
and that dividend will soon be declared
on both classes of stock issued by the COM
pany. When a trust has grown so power
| full that it can infiict an almost fatal blow
upon great branch of union labor and
make half hundred millions at the same
time, the situation has become serious and
Americans will appreciate the gravity of
the political problem involving this phase
of capitalize economy. Unless decisive
steps are taken to regulate the evil, the
octopus will have, within the next decade,
so involved the working classes in it's far
reaching tentacles that the feudal system
will seem veritable Elysium by COM
parison.
Thus far Mr.. Roosevelt is practically an
unknown quantity even among the leaders
of the party that placed him second to Mr..
Mckinley at the last Republican National
Convention. 1t is expected, however, that
within the coming two months the new
President will be compelled to declare
himself on the leading issues Of the hour.
/ Whether he will prove to be more subser-
Went than even Hanna had hoped for, is a
matter of interesting speculation at the
present time.
Earl Ii Hung Chang has once more re-
covered. Now that there is a growing
prospect of comparatively friendly relations
between China and the powers, he feels
almost convalescent. When matters looked
dark and threatening, the Earl was scarcely
expected to recover. Bret Harte knew his
individual when he wrote that sFor ways
INIT are dark and tricks that are vain, the
healhen Chinee is peculiar" Earl Lii is a
superb diplomat, but he has all the charac-
tegistics Of his race, nevertheless.
of late, Hawaii has had more than her
share of political turmoil and internal
brawlinp ,oNaRkr--e comes the report that
| 1e,overnvii sanford B. Dole has resigned,
and that the official notice Of his retirement
is en- route to Washington. There is a
strong opposition to the Gubernatorial in
cumbent in certain quarters, and effor S
| have repeatedly been made to smirch his
official character. 1t is not to be forgotten,
however, that the present Governor has
| accomplished great deal for his country.
| that he has been a reliable executive officer.
and that his successor, if Mr.. Dole has
resigned, is likely to be more or less of an
experiment as well as the representative of
faction that has stirred up affairs in the
Pacific islands repeatedly since they passed
into the control of the American Nation.