Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-19

upon witty Democratic editor in his
district perpetrated the following:
Congressman George W. Steele has
been invited to Ohio to make cam
paign speeches. Knowing George as
we do, we would advise him to give
them the absent treatment Good!
Futile Suggestions.
Mr.. Solicitor General Richards has
leaped into sudden notoriety by max
ing an after dinner speech containing
two suggestions, one of which had
been made SO often before he "originat-
ed' it that it had become threadbare-
to wit, that ian attempt on the life of
chief executive is blow at the safe
ty of goyernment'-and the other of
which-that anarchists may be exclud-
ed under the immigration laws-is ab-
solutely futile, as is proved by the fact
that the assasSinS of Lincoln, Garfield
and Mckinley were all natives of
America. Will the brilliant solicitor
general please inform an eager and ex-
pectant public just how those three
idiotic or insane murderers or an
archists could have been shut out
by immigration laws? Truth to tell,
the applause elected by after dinner
speeches delivered betwixt the walnuts
and the wine is not always or even
generally certain index to their wis
dom or practicability.
Secretary Hays Sonorous Dctum.
1t is a pleasure to know that we have
a secretary of state who possesses the
rare gift of great literary ability not
withstanding the fact that we may not
always agree with him in politics. In
deed Colonel Hay is what old John Ad-
ans pronounced Thomas Jefferson, the
first secretary Of state to bel. e., Gun
ming with his pen"
In his speech before the New York
chamber of commerce Mr.. Secretary of
State Hay defines our foreign policy in
the following sonorous and fetching
dictum:
No wantonness of strength will ever induce us
to drive hard bargain with another nation be-
cause it is weak, will any fear OF ignoble crit
icism tempt US to insult or defy great power
because it is strong or because it is friendless.
That is magnificents sentence both
in essence ndsin rhetoric, but it may
be wondered as to what the F;lipinos
will think when they read it. We had
a bargain. implied if not expressed,
with them that if they would help us
wallop the Spaniards as they should be
free. and then as soon as we and they
did wallop the dons we coolly informed
them that they and their land and their
children and possessions belonged to
us and our heirs forever. and because
they kicked we have been killing them
and ravaging their lands ever since,
all Of which Is contrary to Colonel
Hays delightful dictum
He delivered himself of another SEN
tence of Miltonie resonance which will
cause the Filipinos to prick up their
ears when they read it and will cause
all the rest of creation to smile a sar-
donic grin. In speaking of our modus
operandi in matters diplomatic he said,
'"The briefest expression of our rule of
conduct is perhaps the Monroe doc
trine and the Golden Rule" And he
adds naively, with this simple chart
we can hardly go far wrong" But
what Is the Golden Rule? do unto
others as you would have them do unto
you," or, as Confucius wrote it thou
sands of years before Christ, What
soever ye would that men do not unto
you do ye not unto them" Are we
practicing that rule toward the Fill
pinos?
The Evanescence of Fame.
How soon are we forgotten! Truly
did Horace Greeley say, "Fame is va
porp' That was sage and suggestive
remark made by Hamlet. the melan-
choly prince Of Denmark. when on a
celebrated occasion he declared that
perchance a great mans reputation
might survive him six months. 1t seems
from the antics of Republican leaders
that President McKinley's influence
has not survived him six weeks, to say
nothing of six months, for they are
now cavorting around fighting and de-
nouncing reciprocity, the cause for
which he spoke almost with his dying
breath in his memorable speech at Buff
falo, which has come to be known as
his farewell address. Serene e. Payne,
John Dalzell and Charles Henry Gros-
venor are all capering about trampling
under foot the very propositions for
which Mckinley spoke and labored.
If he had lived, they would have been
his most obsequious servitors.
But how can the Republican chief
tains abandon reciprocity with any
consistency? But what care they about
consistency? Several years ago Colo
nels George W. Anderson and William
F. Switzler were running against each
other in the district which now repre-
sent. They met in joint discussion.
Colonel Switzler spent two mortal
hours to prove that Colonel Anderson
was not consistent. The only answer
that Colonel Anderson deigned to make
to that accusation was, Consistency
be d-d!" So with the Republican
leaders. They don't care baubee that
reciprocity-free trade In spots-was
invented by James G. Blaine and Will
liam Mckinley. They simply smile
when reminded of the fact that in the
platform of 1892 they pointed with
pride to "the Republican policy of reci-
procity" and deno6nsed the Democrats
for the ''bitter opposition of the Demo
cratic party to this practical business
measure" They merely grin when
told that their platform of 1896 la
ments the overthrow of reciprocity by
Democrats as national calamity and
says that protection and reciprocity
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