Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-14
0mens of Trouble.

The Republican party in New Jersey is
rapidly reaching that condition where it
will need sound beating to bring it to its
senses. There is no longer any wise and
farsighted leadership. If the mantle of the
late Senator Sewell descended to success
sor, the fact has not yet been made appar-
ent. The party is rent and torn by the
struggles of selfish local leaders to attain
their sordid ends, and factional fights are
rapidly dissipating the harmony which for
a number of years has made Republicans
invincible in New Jersey
Sore spots have developed in widely sep
arated parts of the state, and unless these
are quickly healed the gangrenous condi-
ton is certain to spread. The worst is
probably in the First Congressional Dis
trict, where the sub-lieutenants of Sewell
are now fighting each other with deadly
animosity. The murderous violence at the
Clmden primaries is but an exponent of the
character of the :men who now aspire "a
party leadership in that stronghold of Re-
publicanism. Decent people must surely
repudiate such leaders and methods by de-
feating them at the polls
1t will be no easy matter to reconcile
many voters of the Sixth District to the
nomination of William Barbour. Repre-
sentative Stewards strength was with the
workingmen, and here is Barbour's weak
ness. 1t may be admitted that Stewart
was not an ideal representative, but greater
wisdom might easily have been shown in
selecting some one to replace him on the
ticket. At time when the Republican
party is practically placed upon the defen-
sive because of its attitude toward trusts
and monopolistic combinations, the NOM
nation of Barbour seems STRONGLY ill-ad-
vised.
In Union the enemies of Senator Kean
appear to have determined upon policy Of
vindictive warfare which must certainly
invite reprisal and consequent party dis
aster. The promise of harmony seen in the
unopposed denomination of Representative
Fowler has not been realized, and for this
the latter, perhaps unjustly, is held respon-
sible. Certainly he seems to have taken
no steps to restrain the aggressive methods
of his avowed friends. 1t is limited that
Mr.. Fowler aspires to succeed Mr.. Kean in
the United States Senate. 1t is further
asserted that there are other state leaders
who cherish like ambition, and that here
may be found the secret of much of the
inharmony.
In the mean while it may be suggested
that there is still respectable number of
Democratic voters left in New Jersey and
contingent of Independents
whose good will the Republicans can
scarcely afford to ALLEVIATE.
The Democratic Congressional Commit
tee makes this forcible presentation of the
effect of trust control over American indus
tries:-
"While the Republicans are flooding the
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might be well to see who the prosperous
are. The steel trust is making money at
the rate of $4,000, 600 year. No one
will deny that that is prosperity. The
beef trust is selling beef at figures that
puts about ten cents in their Golfers on
every pound of beef the American people
have to buy. Certainly that is prosperity
The coal trust is charging two dollars for
one dollars worth of coal Nc one will
deny that they ought to be making few
dollars as they go along, And that they are
feeling slight evidences of prosperitv in
facturer is selling typewriters to American
buyers Tor SiO0 each which he can afford
10 sen IN Z England at $55 each. He is I'M
doubtsS1Iy prosperous at that rate. The
sewing machine manufacturers are selling
the housewives Sl7 sewing machines at $40
each and that is prosperity.
'But what about the other fellow? When
the philosophical men of town want to
build street railway they must pay the
steel trust $28 for the same kind of steel
that that organization ships to England and
sells there for $23 per ton. Does that make
the buyer prosperous? Last May and at
the present time, the laboring man had to
pay twenty-five cents for pound of the
same kind of beef that the beef trust ships
to London and sells there for fifteen cents
per pound. Is he prosperous? The coal
trust makes the consumer pay $40 for Sc
worth of coal. Perhaps the consumer feels
that all is prosperity while he is doing So
When the American business man wants to
buy typewriter he is charged just 500
for a machine that is shipped from here to
England and sold there for $55. When
the busy housewife, who has to do her own
sewing in order to help her husband to
make buckle and tongue meet, wants a
sewing machine, she has to pay $40 for a
machine that her English sister can buy
for SIT. In the face of these facts who will
have the hardihood to deny that ours is a
blessed prosperity with the tariff fostered
trust manufacturers growing richer every
day at the expense of the people? The
prosperity of the trusts is not the prosperity
of the people"