Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-01-03

CHAMP 0ARK'S LETTER
Death Of the Hay-Paunce-
fote Treaty.
JOHN BULL KNOCKED OUT.
Best Thing the Senate Has Done
In Many Years.
JOHN BULL KNOCKED OUT.

Best Thing the Senate Has Done
In Many Years.
GOOD COMES OUT OF NAZARETH.
A Pennsylvania Republican Has at
Last Been Found to Speak Word
For the PeopIe-Remedy For the
Trusts Suggested Mark Hanna
FIatIy Contradicted = Philippine
War Is Again "0verc-Benjamin
Harrison Is Raising Hob with the
Administration-ynI of Expert
ence In Congress--A Colossal Gall.
Especial Washington Letter.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty is dead!
Gloria in excelsis! That is the pro-
English Hay-P Pauncefote treaty. The
treaty under that name had been rati-
fed by the senate, but the clauses
wherein everything was surrendered
to Mr.. Bull, whose first name is John,
have been knocked out of that docu-
ment by the genuine Americans in the
house of the eonscript fathers. No act
performed by the senate ia a quarter
of a century will be hailed with such
universal delight by the great body of
our people.
A vast majority of Americans desire
an isthmian canal and propose to have
it, but they intend that it shall be an
American canal, constructed by Amer
lea, owned by America, controlled by
America, defended by America. They
don't care a baubee what John Bull
Oh anybody else thinks about it. He.
may make all the wry faces he pleases
and growl to his hearts content, but
we will build the canal, we will own
the canal, we will control the canal, we
will defend the canal. That's fat, and
that's final.
At Last a Good Word.
Some 1900 years ago the question
was asked, "Can any good thing come
out of NAZARETH" For many years
many patriotic people have wondered
If a Pennsylvania Republican states
man or newspaper would ever utter a.
word IN favor Of the great boag at the
people. At last rAast- word has come,
and, to do Justice to d much abused
man, I am happy to state that this
patriotic word is found in the editorial
columns of the Philadelphia North
American, said to be owned and con-
froiled by Hon. John Wanamaker, once
postmaster general of the United
States. Under the caption Of s'The
Plate Glass Trust Brutner FEanal'
makers paper says:
The plate glass trust of Fittsburg has shown
how extortionate and tyrannical monopoly may
become when unrestrained by law. Not content
with driving all competition out of the field, il
has increased the price OF its products 125 per
cent in two years and now insolently forbids all
jobbers to import plate glass to purchase glass
that has been imported. If the tariff refermer
should search the country for an argument in
favor Of abolishing customs duties on all monop-
oily controlled articles he could not find better
weapon of attack than the plate glass trust pre-
sents.
The Philadelphia Paint club resents the action
OF the trust, but says it is poweress to help it.
self Its only recourse is to appeal to congress
for a reduction of the prohibitory duties OF the
Dingley act, under which the trust fattens. AS
long as the tariff stands the tremendous co1nbna-.
ton Of capital which practically nonopolizcs the
manufacture and sale of glass will be free from
interference to do as its greed bids
system that fosters such abuses must work its
own correction. Duties that make possible plate
glass trust injure directly all the great industries
that have grown and exist the result Of protec-
ton.
1t is probably too late for the present congress
to undertake task of such magnitude as the re-
vision of the entire tariff schedule but the Repub-
ican party cannot go on shutting its eyes to the
exactions OF the protected trusts and hope to es-
cape the just penalty OF loss Of public confidence.
The Fifty y-seventh congress will not meet until
next December. In the meantime competent
tariff commission should be set at work to inves-
tigate how far the customs duties should be alter
ed. The Paint club, for one, has a just griey-
aIle; and there score of other lines of trade
shat are held in the clutch OF monopolies like
the glass tsnst. II they cooperate, it should not
be hard to find &, remedy, but individual appeals
to this or any other congress will avail little.
But the Paint club has started a movement for
legitimate tariff reform. 1t vii soon find plenty
of recruits, and its best allies viii true pro-
tectionists, like its own members
Remedy Tor Trusts.
When l read that, had to rub my
eyes and pinch myself to see if was
awake, for as early as May, 1999 in a
speech at the great antitrust banquet
i'll st. Louis, I enunciated clearly the
doctrine limited at in the foregoing
Wanamaker editorial-namely that the
remedy for trusts is to place every
thing made, owned, handled and sold
by them absolutely OH the free list
For that speech | was denounced by
high protective organs as an idiot,
knave, traitor, demagogue, etc. Now
comes Mr.. Wanamaker, big chief
among Republicans. and practically adj
vocates the same plan. Galilei was
correct when he declared that the world
moves. But I seriously object to The
North American filching from me the
honor Of sinaugurating a increment
1or legitimate tariff reform and be-
slowing it upon the Philadelphia Paint
club.
HThe Paint club, for one, has a jlist
grievance quoth the Wanamaker or
gan, ssand there are a score Of other
lines of trade that are held in the clutch
Of monopoIies like the glass trust.
Now, if that be true and II und0ubted-
" is ue-what becomes Of Senator
Hanna's campaign declaration that
ssthere are no trusts?''
/ wish to call attention particularly
to this declaration in the foregoi'sg sl-
itorial: "The Republican party cannat
go on shutting its eyes TO the exactions
OF the protected trusts and hope to es.
cape the just penalty Of loss Of public
confidence" All, Brother Wanamak-
er, do not put your faith in princes or
Republicans! That is precisely what
the Republican party will do go on
shutting its eyes to the exactions Of
protected trusts until a long suffering