Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-25

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ers in America. This being the case,
1t is eminently meet and proper that
his attention should be called to the
recent reprehensible conduct of that
other eminent civil service reformer,
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. 1t seems
that the Junior senator from Massa-
chusetts has fallen from grace and has
become one of the most robust and per-
sistent spoilsmen in the land. If the
spirits of the mighty dead take any in
terest in the affairs of this mundane
sphere, then the Hon. William L. Mar
cy must be in a pleasant frame of mind
these days, for the Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge of Nahant appears to have TAX
en- for his motto Governor Marcy's cell
ebrated mot, ''To the victors belong the
spoils of the enemy" At any rate, Sen
ator Lodge is despoiling the enemy
with might and main and, sad to re-
late, has dragged to his assistance the
Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, sometimes
called the cherubic, and who has posed
for, TO- these many years as one of the
apostles of purity and sweetness Jo-
siah Quincy III must extract q great
deal of pleasure from the situation. No
such fall as Senator Lodges has been
seen since the devil tumbled from the
battlements of heaven or since Mr.. Nc
Ginty went to the bottom of the sea.
1t may not be improper to remark to
the other civil service reformers in the
language of Holy Writ, 'Take heed lest
ye fall"
In Mr.. McGinty.
In his capacity as presidential candi-
date Mr.. Vice President Roosevelt ap-
pears to have fallen to the bottom of
the sea la Mr.. McGinty. Only lit
tie year ago the colonel governor did
bestride this narrow world like colos-
sus. Now he is not counted in the run
ming by the practical politicians of
New York. When Colonel Roosevelt
reads the interviews of Congressman
Sherman and O'Grady, sent out from
Washington, in which it is declared
that Governor Odell has lead pipe
cinch on the nomination and in which
the hero of San Juan is not even men
toned, be must recall Whittier's lines:
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest these: 1t might have been.
Since Jonah's gourd vine nothing has
withered so suddenly and completely
as Colonel Roosevelt's presidential
boom.
A boomerang.
If General Charles Henry Grosvenor
of Ohio, mouthpiece for the admins
tration, patronizes clipping press bu-
reau, he knows by this time that his
wonderful Winfield speech is acting in
the nature of q boomerang. Whatever
else the Kansas City Star may be. it is
not Democratic. In a long and able
editorial The Star says inter ALA:
Even the spokesman of the administration, while
pretending to oppose trusts and while pointing to
the declaration against them in the last two Re-
| publican platforms, still realize that the party
and the administration need defense Thus Con-
| gresham Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio who de-
livered address at Winfield yesterday, took it
| upon himself to defend the cause of the great
| trust magnates. insisting that fine distinctions
| should be made between combinations that injure
| and combinations that benefit. His defense was a
| poor indeed The substance OF his argument
/ was that when combinations preserve wages and
| the number of wage earner5 and do not increase
| the cost of products there should be no com
plant, and that when the reverse is true the or
| ganizations thus imposing the people 'will be
| wiped of the face of the earth by one of two
| processes either by law or by the more sure and
| certain process of competition"
| Discussing the fact that American goods are
sometimes sold abroad for less than they are sold
| at home, Mr. Grosyenor declared that this was
| sometimes done at loss and for the purpose of
"subjugating foreign markets." Now, If monopo-
lies or quasi monopoies afford to go into for
| eign lands, pay the freight their goods and
still undersell local competitors, what is to be-
! come OF the American manufacturer who tries to
| check their abuses through the medium OF compe-
| tition, the medium that Mr.. Grosyenor declares
| is the ''nost and certainf There Is nothing
| in the Ohioan's explanation OF trusts to modify
| the sentiment against them.
Two Republican Views.
Mr.. Babcock is likely to make as
much political capital out of reintro-
ducing certain bills to reduce the tariff
or remove it altogether-which bills
| had already been introduced by Mr..
Richardson of Tennessee and myself
as David Wilmot made out of his cele-
| brated proviso, not one word of which
he wrote himself. The merry war in
| the Republican party as to Babcockery
still goes on. 1t Is a decidedly interest
| ing shindy. Here are two divergent
| opinions expressed by two rampant Re-
| publican papers. The Philadelphia
Press says:
| Ex-Secretary Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama has
come out in strong advocacy Of the proposed Bab-
cock bill. Why not2 When the Mckinley bill
L.e- NJ. al1-
Of the house, and he denounced the measure as "a
bill of ahominations," '.monstrosity," and pre-
| dicted that it would ruin the country" OF the
| protective tariff in general he said that at was
| the parent Of the trust and the tramp" Mr.. Her
bert, like all of the other discredted free traders
is for the Babcock bill, and they ought to be, as
it is in line with all their false prophecies the
| subject of the tariff.
Now, there is nothing equiyocaI about
that. 1t is redhot and right OFF the grid
| die. Evidently that particular pig does
noL propose TO pc cnOked or coaxeQ oI
dragged away from the swill trough Il
1t can help itself, but it is not the only
| pebble on the beach, for the st. Pau
| Pioneer Press, also Republican, says:
! The attack on the tariff is being made on 81
sides. There is, first and most important, the I'm
| mense body Of voters who demand the repeal o.
| the duties on trust made goods that no Longer
| need protection. Then there is large and indu
| entail body of manufacturers and export merchant
| who need protection and who see that they
have nothing to lose by sacrificing duties that arr
| no longer useful and have much to gain by thu
| conciation of foreign opinion. Combined, thes'
various elements likely to carry their point.
As to Tom Johnson.
When was child, one of the favor
| lite copies set by the old aeld school
| masters was, Many men of many
! minds" The idea therein contained
applies to our views Of public men as
well as to other things. For instance,
both in these letters and otherwise
! have in the last few months discussed
Tom L. johnson, mayor of Cleveland,
more or less extensively and always in
a kindly manner, for Tom is one of my
| prime favorites. For so doing my
/ esteemed contemporary, the Washing
| ton Post, has taken me to task in two
or three good natured squibs. The last
| runs in this wise: '4The next time he
| tackles the Tom L. johnson proposi-
| ton the Hon. Champ Clark should try
| the other end Of the megaphone."
| am not clear as to what is meant there
by and therein. Supposedly it means
| that if desire to speak favorably of
| Tom should do it so that nobody will
/ baor U.be Doc% L.