Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15

never elected any man governor except
a Democrat! Whatever Governor Dock
ery's virtues, whatever his sins of onis-
sion or commission, he did not intro
duce prayer into Missouri.
A Reinforcement.
1t is given out by those who ought to
know that Mr.. Wooten, who was re-
Gently elected TO succeed Judge Burke
in congress from the Dallas (Tex.) dis
trict, is young man Of extraordinary
talent and promise. He will be valu-
able Reinforcement to the thin lines
of the Democracy in the house. This
estimate of him is not to be wondered
at, as the Lone Star State has con-
tirmed good habit of sending strong
men to congress or to any other place
where strong men are needed. No dele
cation in the house stands higher than
the Texan. Intellectually and physic-
ally they constitute splendid body of
men.
A vile SANDER.
1t may be that viler SANDER has at
some time appeared in the editorial
columns of some paper claiming to be
a respectable journal than the follow
ing from the ST. Louis Globe-D e-Democrat,
but it is hardly possible. The CD.
says:
The rains which are coming in large sections Of
the Oarched regions fn fho
Democratic and Populist leaders, but the people
are rejoicing. Crop damage would as those par
ties imagine make votes for them in the elections
this year and next. Happily the general prosperi-
ty of the country and the fact that the crop losses
are likely to be less than feared week ago
stand an excellent chance to drive the recollection
of the drought out of the heads of most of the
farmers before the voting takes place in November
in the few states which have elections this year.
1t will probably be entirely forgotten by Noyem-
Der, 1902, for two years Of drought seldom follow
each other in direct succession. Republican sway
in the country at large is not menaced.
Now, be it remembered that The
CD. arrogates to itself the title of
'the great religious daily" AS a mat
ter of fact, 1t is a great newspaper, but
editorially it grows more radical and
more bitterly partisan as the moons
wax and wane. Certainly the fore
going extract is not intended for hu-
NOR. That idea would be preposter-
Gus. 1t cannot be charged up to igno-
rance, for 1t is thing incredible that
there should be an editorial writer on
The CD. who does not know that it is
absolutely false. Consequently it must
be a result of malice. 1t is absolutely
safe to say that there is not anywhere
within the broad confines of the re-
public even one Democratic or Popu-
listic leader to whom the rain has been
unwelcome. If The CD. knows of
such a wretch, 1t should name him and
not print wholesale SANDER.
A Sweet Prophecy.
General Charles Henry Grosvenor is
not the only pebble on the beach when
it comes to playing the roles of Elijah
and Isaiah. There are others-for in
stance, the Chicago Record Herald. 1t
dips into the future and boldly predicts
that in % years we will be the greatest
exporting sugar nation in the world,
which would be something in the ma
ture of miracle, as we now import
annually sugar to the amount of $780,
000,000. If we only made enough sugar
to supply our own wants. 1t would run
the balance OF trade in our favor up to
S2D0. .0oo,ono annually. IT aow hei@g
5000. 100000. to say nothing OF export
ing sugar. That would be wonderful
11a nn fTInra fxs
land in the United States to produce all
the sugar we consume and more, bu!
Judge John G. Bell, representative from
Colorado who lives in the heart of the
sugar beet district and who is close
and intelligent observer. predicts that
we will never be a great beet sugar
producing country until the American
farmers are willing to work with hoe,
as beet raising needs much hoeing.
The Iron Fist.
Mark Hanna as a boss Is timid,
feeble and inconsequential creature be-
side General Diaz. president OF the
Mexican republic. who is the real thing.
The best Mark can do for the trusts
when a strike comes on is to have his
subservient federal judges issue in
functions, but General Diaz is made of
sterner stuff He has just issued an
order to the effect that there shall be
no more strikes in his bailiwick and
has notified the railroads that he will
furnish them all the soldiers necessary
10 put down strikes. ]. Pierpont Nor
gan. Schwab & Co. are evidently out
of their element north of the Rio
Grande. Clearly they ought to migrate
to Mexico and. instead of wasting day
and night negotiating with pestiferous
strikers, have DiaZ order out the army.
Hawaiian Statesmen.
What a wonderful bargain we made
when our jingoes annexed the leprous
Hawaiian Islands may be realized by
reading the following rich and racy
article from the Chicago Record Her
aid:
That the Hawaiian legislature should have got
to the end of its regular session without passing
any appropriation bills at all and then devoted an
extra session to approving bills far in excess oi
the governments estimated income is not surpris
b9iy of statesmen. The Kanakas, who are in thu
majority are now fellow citizens of our own, but
they have their little peculiarities, among which
is an inability to conform their mental apparatu!
to the exigencies Of our boasted Anglo-Saxon law!
and government and incidentally we might add
to the exigencies of our language.
Evidences of this troublesome but venial fault
were abundant in the time before the revolution
and they have been present in pleasing variation
recently One solon proved his erudition in mat
ters constitutional by proposing that the legisla
ture should repeal the organic act by which thu
territory was established, as if this were Kama
ka affair pure and simple. But this daring ''se
cesh'' was hardly a. funny as colleague who
when he wanted to forestaIl the practice of ere
nation, twisted himself in knot by suggesting
penalties for the cremated.
The meetings OF the legislature were over
whelmed with ridiculous bills and ridiculous chat
ter, which were turned to effective use by car
toonist on the Dole side of the local fight when b,
drew picture of Kipling's bander log or monkey
folk in council and printed below several of tht
Kipling verses on that people, of which the fol
lowing is a stanza
All the talk we ever heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird
Hide or fin or scale or feather
Jabber it quickly and all togetherl
Excellent! Wonderful Once againi
Now we are talking Just like men.
Let's pretend we Never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behindi
This is the way Of the monkey kind.
Though we should be loath to classify our Kama
ka fellow citizens as monkeys, the point Of tii
satire does not demand labored explanation.
Now. those are the people who were
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