Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
NUMBER 46

officio bellwether in chief of the
house Republicans. the Baltimore News
gets up a vigorous kick of its own
which is not calculated to increase
Brother Payne's equanimity. Speaking
of the tariff on works of art, The News
says:
The peculiar absurdity Of it resides in the fact
that practically all American artists of any repute
we do not mean only those of high rank-are
opposed to it.
Congress, however, looks at these things in its
own peculiar way and imposes penalty Of 20 per
cent upon any American citizen who desires TO in
troduce European art treasures into this country.
Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan seems to be particularly
ayerse to paying this penalty and has, therefore,
deposited in the South Kensington museum, Lon
don, the Mannheim collection of medieval works
of art which he has just purchased and which is
valued at about 50, 100000. 1t would be great
addition to the attractions of New York if Mr..
Morgan were to present this collection to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, as it is supposed he
naturally would do if he were not met by the un-
pleasant demand at the custom house. However
good natured may be- he does not like to
have his gift horse looked in the mouth still less
to pay a heavy fee for the examination. Perhaps
this exhibition a large scale of the nature and
working of foolish antiart tariff laws will tend
to open the eyes of congress.
Now, I am not setting up as either
the spiritual or political adviser of The
Economist or of Brother Payne. God
forbid! But / make free to suggest to
them that there is but one thing for
them to do if they would be saved, and
that is to take the editors of such
papers as the Washington Post and
the Baltimore News out and shoot
them as unceremoniously as General
Diaz would shoot Mexican guerrilla,
and while they have their hands In
they had better "work off" such pes
tiferous agitators as Mr.. Babcock and
General HawIey. Nothing short of
heroic measures will settle the hash of
those people who are against the
trusts. A French savant once declared
that it is the unexpected that happens,
and if The Post & Co. keep on whoop-
ing it up till a majority indorses them
Mr.. Payne may join in the chorus,
changing his mind as radically as he
did in the Porto Rican matter.
His Def.
General Francis Marion Cockrell,
senior and perpetual senator from Mis-
souri,, makes no epigrams and is not
much given to rhetoric, but he carries
around on his shoulders a level head,
and recently delivered himself of one
short sentence which all Democrats
and many Republicans will indorse.
Being interviewed as to the third term
idiocy, he sententiously remarked, '.Let
them try it, if they want tor Now,
that is not so gorgeous as Macbeth's
famous defiance to his antagonist:
Lay on MacdufT,
And damned be he who first cries: ''Holdi
Enoughi''
But it amounts to the same thing in
the end. Democrats would welcome
such an issue, knowing certainly that
the victory would be theirs.
Requiescat.
Death has invaded the Texas delega-
ton and taken from the busy scenes
and fierce contests of politics one of its
stalwart members. Hon. Robert EN-
met Burke of Dallas has fallen in the
very flower of his years. He was just
entering upon his third term in the
house, and when the Fifty-sixth con-
gress adjourn 4 sine die at high noon,
March 4, he 9eared to have as good
] a chance egth Of days as any of
! the 551 repre- lkcltatives and delegates
composing thds body. he was begin
ming to take high rank among his
brethren, being recognized as an hon
est, capable and industrious man
faithful to his principles, his constitu-
ency and his country. He was a good
soldier in time of war and a good citi-
zen in time of peace. Three of the
Fifty-seyenth congress are dead
Crump, BroSius and Burke.