Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-05-23

united country on all occasions, usually
in exact proportion to their need for
office or to the quantity of spirituous
or malt liquors they have concealed
about their persons. Carmack deserves
the thanks of the country for running
amuck on them. He appears to have
taken for his own Danton's motto:
"L'audacel Laudace! Toujours Pau
dacer'
A New Map of the World Needed.
From time to time geographers issue
new maps of the world on which the
possessions of each nation are printed
in some peculiar color for purposes of
Identification. The British color leads
all the rest. One of the most gorgeous
sentences that ever fell from human
lips is that of Daniel Webster about
England's drumbeat encircling the
globe. At the present writing ours
does the same, but If j. Pierpont Nor
gan keeps on making conquests new
map of the world viii soon be neces-
sary with Morgan color to indicate
the Morgan possessions. Indeed, he is
rapidly forging to the front as one of
the great powers" Up to a recent
date the list of persons entitled to the
privilege of the floor of the house and
furnished the doorkeepers ran some
thing in this wise: "The president. vice
president. members of the cabinet.
heads of divisions, senators. eX-mem-
bers. members elect, foreign ministers,
governors of states. those who have re
ceived the thanks of congress by name
and George Bancroft" The list of
great powers" will soon be remodeled
SO as to read. "The United States Of
America. Germany. Great Britain. Rus
sia, Austria, France, Italy and j. Pier.
pont Morgan He is certainly boring
with big auger.
Orange Blossoms.
Seventeen of the 357 men elected TO
the Fifty-sixth congress in the first in
stance are dead One of the 357 ap-
pears to have found happiness during
his two years service-Hon. Oscar Tur-
ner of Louisville, youthful statesman
who relieved the veteran Walter Evans
of his cuticle and hung it upon the
fence to dry. Turner is to wed the
daughter of Congressman Caldwell of
the Springfield Qlls.l district. and his
fellow statesmen, as John Allen calls
them, all wish him joy all his days in
his new venture.
Lack of Candor.
There are no lengths to which con.
frmed Republican organ grinder will
not go In the endeayor to score a point
The Globe Democrat of St Louis is a
conspicuous example of that sort of
vicious journalism. When the census
figures for Missouri were announced,
it was found that certain great agri-
cultural counties had lost in population
Notwithstanding the fact that the state,
taken in its entirety, had made a re-
markable gain in that respect. In
stanter The CD. instead of realizing
that that was only symptom of
universal disease-the tendency of peo-
pie to go to the great cities Il call it
disease because | so regard it)-day
after day harped sadly on ''the de
cadent counties" as signs of the evil
Of Democratic supremacy. OF course
its rant was idiotic and malicious, de-
ceiying nobody but idiots and pleasing
nobody except malignants. 1t turns
out that the movement from the farm
tunate movement The story is the
same in every old settled state. wheth-
er Democratic or Republican. Indeed.
the movement cityward is not confined
to America. but is seen and felt in Eu-
rope as we'll Missouri is Democratic:
ton; therefore, shouts The CD, Dem
ocratic supremacy is blight upon
agriculture. 1t is the old fallacy of
Cum hoe ergo propter hoe" Now. If
The Globe-Democrat's logic is correct,
will it not explain to an eager world
how it happens that in Ohio. the hab
itat of William Mckinley. where Mar
Gus A.. Hanna is supreme. % counties
out of SS-exactly one-fourth Of the
whole-lost population. Ohio is un-
questionably and incorrigibly Repub-
lican; % counties fell off in popula-
tion; therefore Republican supremacy
is blight upon agriculture. The lines
Oh. what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceived
lre not applicable to The G.-D., for it
is an old. If not gay, deceiyer on all
subjects political.
The truth is that conditions grow
harder and harder in agricultural dis
tricts year by year. and energetic, am
bilious young men and women rush
cityward in the hope often a vain
hope-of bettering their condition, The
CD. knew that, but it was not candid
enough to say so. On the contrary. it
proceeded to preach false and libel
GUS doctrine IN the hope of making n
little cheap political capital
A Trust Item.
| hope will not be considered an
impolite person if ask The tsiol5e
Democrat and Hon. Serene e. Payne.
chairman Of the great committee on