Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-28

Alexander Selkirk on his island There
is another Republican Daniel to come
to judgment-Hon. Charles b. Lands
of Indiana. Landis is a leading light
in the Republican synagogue since he
made his famous speech in favor of
ousting Brigham H. Roberts of Utah.
Lands is not too old to learn. Last
summer he thought stake and rider
high tariff among our choicest bless
ings.
PurlOined From Democrats.
The day after Brother Babcock in-
troduced his great reform measure,
purloined bodily from Democrats,
Brother Landis, in an interview in the
WASHINGTON Post said
am heartily in favor of Mr.. Babcocks bill to
remove the duty from steel and iron and kindred
products, and the commendation that bill will re-
ceive from every nook and ccrner of the country
will surprise some gentlemen. especially the mag
mates who, boldly and in defiance of public senti-
ment have organized the most gigantic industrial
combination in history.
There can be but one object in this-consolida-
tion and the elimination of competition. The va
rious industries amalgamated by this billion and
quarter capitalization nourshed from their
birth by patriotic people giving support TO the
principle of protection. The various infants have
grown to giants, and the giants have now joined
to prey upon the people, to whose lberality and
generosity they owe their existence. The people
will expect this congress to teach these ungrateful
benefeiaries of their bounty lesson, and if the
next session of congress does not do it the people
will send one here that will.
These trust formers and competition destroyers
4f..I
ours rests on the ballot. The ballot is still in the
hands of the individual, and the individual still
has fair idea Of his rights. If had my way
about it, the Babcock bill would pass at this ses
sion. BY the time we come together again we
would know how effective such legislation was,
and if satisfactory trust destroyer the good
work could go on not in hate nor in malice nor
in haste, but in wisdom to the end that the in
divdual be protected in his rights. believe cap
ital should have walled about it every security
and safeguard, but there is point beyond which
capital should not go. An anarchist is not neces-
sarily poor man. A trust that destroys lagiti
mate competition by brutal, arbitrary power is
just much of anarchist the fellow who
destroys building with bomb ! against
both of Them.
That's good. strong Democratic doc
trine. l cordially welcome Brother
I.andis to the fold He is my lecture
partner, and l am particularly fond of
him, but clearly if he is correctly re-
ported in The Post, we can't debate
trusts, for he has come over to my side.
A Tariff War.
In endeavoring to aid his friends OF
the sugar trust Hon. Lyman i. Gage,
secretary of the treasury, appears to
have got his foot in it and stirred up
hornets nest of huge proportions. Iy-
man levied discriminating tariff on
Russian sugar to keep it from compet-
ing with the great American sugar
trust. whereupon the czar of Russia
elapped discriminating tariff of 80
per cent upon American agricultural
implements and other American imple-
ments. That unexpected caper of the
Muscoyite entails a loss of $20.000,000
year on Chicago manufacturers, and
they squeal louder than all the hogs
ever butchered by the Big Four. A
she bear robbed of her cubs is in a
heavenly frame of mind when COM
pared with beneficiary of our high
tariff system when his pap is taken
away; hence the ear splitting squeal Of
the Chicagoese manufacturers. They
thought it a fine thing to charge an
American farmer at the factory door
so per cent more for an agricultural
implement than they charged his Rus
sian, Australian or South American ri
val after shipping it across the ocean.
And it was fine thing for the Chicago
manufacturer, but death to the Ameri-
can farmer. Lyman had no idea of cut
ting off the luscious and multtudinous
pap of the Chicagoese manufacturers.
He was bent on the superfluous work
Of greasing fat hog by increasing the
profits of the sugar trust He never
dreamed that the latest successor to
Peter the Great would put in force the
lex talionis and raise him at his own
of history. Young Nicholas did not
propose that his sugar should be dis
eliminated against SO he took his pen
In hand and wrote the ukase which has
set the Chicagoese wild. They are not
mealy mouthed about expressing an
opinion. Secretary John NJ Glenn of
the Manufacturers association said:
The members OF our association were informed
some time ago by their statesmen Of the threat of
Russia that. ii Secretary Gage levied fiscriin-
mating duty against Russian sugar in favor OF the
sugar milionaires Of tile United States, something
serious might be expected in the way of retalia-
tion from the Russian government. We immedi-
ately sent in request asking for liberal inter
pretation Of the Russian sugar law and also set to
work to satisfy ourselves whether or not The con-
tention of our government was right. We found
that remission Of the excise tax to Russian sugar
growers was in no sense bounty.
In the meantime we received advance infor1na-
ton that retalistory measures were hriag prepared
by N. de Witte, which would be anaeuneed as
sooE as an adverse decision by sserstary Gage