Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-04-17

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would end in a survival of the unfittest.
1t is written. 'sThe laborer Is worthy of
his hire" The American laborer is the
foundation of the republic and of our civ
ilization. the highest civilization the world
has known since the primal curse was
placed upon man, In the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread
The American laborer produces the
wealth OF this country, a wealth that is
too vast to be comprehended by the
mathematical powers of the human mind,
a wealth so stupendous that it eelipses
the wondrous tale of Alroy or any story
out of the Arabian Nights We all take
pride in the fact that American laborers
are the most intelligent the most skillful.
the best clothed, the best fed, the best
housed, the most public spirited and the
most ambitious laborers on the whole face
of the earth. For one / am unalterably
enpesed to anything that deprives them
Of single comfort or that will in any
manner reduce their standard of living or
that will lower them in the scale of civ
ilization even in the estimation of hair.
So far as in us lies it is cur duty to pre-
vent Chinese competition with American
laborers either on land or sea-
More Scandals.
On a celebrated occasion Daniel Web
ster gave utteranee to the famous say
ing, Murder will outr' So it appears
will scandal, sWindling, practical thiev-
cry. In 1898 and 1899 Democrats de-
clared truthfully that there had been
wicked and wanton waste of the pub
lie money, scandalous jobbery and
criminal fayoFitism in buying and fit
ting UP transports for service in the
Cuban and Philippine wars, for let it
never be forgotten that there were two
wars, one of which is still running.
The Republicans held UP their hands
in protestation. sQlemnly raised their
eyes toward heaven, unctuously thank
ed God that they are not as other peo-
pie and yociferously declared that the
charges were Democratic lies. Well,
the elections are over. and now it ap-
pears from belated official reports de
layed Intentionally thatthe Democrats
were right and that the Republicans
We're doing the lying. The washington
Post prefaces long article on the sub
ject with the following headlines,
which tell the whole ugly story briefly:
Ugly Facts Are out: Scandals In
Transport Service Now Before Con-
gress; Riot of Extravaganza; Many
Thousands Wasted In Fitting Up the
Army Vessels; Public Funds Dissipat-
ed by Incompetent If Not Dishonest
Hands Under Pressure of Moving
Large Bodies OF Men; Materials Pur-
chased anG Fat Contracts Awarded
Regardless of Cost to the Government"
What pity it is that the Democrats
did not elect the house of the Fifty
sixth congress in November, 1898! Had
we done so we would have set on foot
investigations to have unearthed war
scandals enough to have swept the
country in 1900 from sea to sea. Only
at this late day is little of the truth
coming out. We would have got it all.
The Same Cast of Characters.
There is one habit of Republicans in
which they are consistent-they stand
by their veteran leaders whatever may
betide. Should they elect the next
house, of which they now have very
poor prospects, the same individuals
will play the principal roles. General
Grosvenor has just been renominated,
the opposition to Speaker Henderson
for denomination has petered out "Un-
Gle joe Cannon, chairman of appro-
priations; Hon. Serene E. Payne, chair
man of ways and means; Colonel Will
liam Peters Hepburn chairman Of in
terstate and foreign commerce, and
Hon. John Dalzell, one of the three
czars, will all be renominated without
opposition. These are the men who
run things with high hand. Individ-
ually they are amiable gentlemen, but
they are ''sot in their ways" and there
can be no reform while they dominate
the hO1se.