Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

thank his stars that when ne re
Gently made his famous Boston
speech declaring that ultimately We
would grant their freedom to the Chris
tians of Luzon and Visayas when they
ask it and when they show themselves
capable of it he was not within the
jurisdiction of General Wheaton. fol
that irate warrior declares that in the
Philippines men have been sent to pris
on for just such reasonable jabber as
Schurman uttered.
Senator Carmack Of Tennessee stated
on the floor of the senate chamber thai
a high officer of the United States in the
Philippines said to an intelligent and
reliable American newspaper man that
1.-The American Declaration of Inde.
pendence is ID incendiary docu'
ment" an opinion identical with thai
held by George III. touching that i'm
mortal state paper Evidently some OF
our army officers entertain sentiments
differing widely from those gloried in
by such soldiers as George Washing
ton, Mad" Anthony Wayne, Light
Horse Harry Lee, Francis Marion
George Rogers Clark and other Revolu'
tionary heroes who fought eight years
to make Jefferson's declaration good
but then, we must remember that this
is "a progressive age" and 1--WE are a
progressive people"
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
was publicly and scathingly reprimand
ed for agreeing with Admiral George
Dewey in declaring that Admiral Win
field Scott Schley was the real hero OF
Santiago, but there is no reprimand fol-
General Wheaton for intimating that
DR.. Schurman ought to be clapped into
Jail for uttering peculiarly Amer
lean doctrine; no reprimand for q
high officer Of the United States for
declaring that the Declaration OF In
dependence is id incendiary doc
umentr'
Yes, we are progressing to
the rank of Toryism of George Gren-
vile and Lord North.
When Henry NJ. Teller, the venerable
senator from Colorado, once secretary
of the interior under Republican pres
ident, suggested that by progressing
much further on the Wheaton plan it
would soon come to pass that senator
would be afraid to read the Declara-
tion Of Independence in the senate
chamber, Senator Lodge of Massachti-
setts denounced the statement as ''sil.
ly." True, when Senator Lodge cooled
off he apologized for using the word
but he could not rub out the fact that
he used It'll o tempora! o moresl
Plantation manners from Massachu-
setts!
made in open senate. Nobody defend
ed 1.-The high officer of the United
States" for uttering words which would
disgrace any citizen of the republic,
and no Republican senator wagged his
tongue in condemnation of him. Yes,
we are progressing" rapidly.
If any high officer Of the United
States did say, as Carmack AYERS, that
the Declaration of Independence is "a
ID incendiary document" he ought
to be stripped of his uniform, broken
of his commission and banished for life
ought to be meted out to him as to
cause all incipient traitors to keep de.
cent tongues in their heads
Rushing Things.
The big Republican majority in the
house run things with high hand
They obey no rules, even of their own
making. They care for neither con-
stitution nor law. Most people have
had an idea that the Reed rules were
drastic enough for all purposes. Not
so, however When "Uncle Joe" Can
non, chairman of the appropriations
committee, wanted to put through q
grab of 100000 to build new barracks
at Manila in the urgency deficiency
appropriation bill, and when Mr.. Hull
the Republican chairman of the com
mittee on military affairs, raised the
point of order that it was new legisla
tion and therefore could not be had or
an appropriation bill, Uncle Joe' beat
the devil around the stump and Undue
ed the presiding officer and the Repub
lican majority to override the rule
which they themselves had established
to protect the treasury from just suct
raids.
Forever and a Day."
The other day when l prodded Gun
Gle Joe" Cannon in debate he "let the
cat out of the bag by vociferating
1--WE intend to hold the Philippines
forever and a dayv' which l then and
there declared to be "the most melan
choly declaration ever made in the
house of representatives, and it is
1t means, if his idea is carried out
ceaseless sorrow and unending expense
to the American people. / also charac
terized his proposition as ''the mos
idiotic scheme ever hatched in the
brain of man, and it is, for there is nj
conceivable way in which we can gair
from this Philippine business either
glory or profit.
We have been assured time and time
again that the Filipinos are ''paciied'
and that the "cruel war is over" anC
every time, just as we were settling
ourselves to enjoy our dream of peace
news of 8 new battle or insurrectior
would come to torture us again. Nov
we have the doleful statement from
the commanding general that $4,000
troops are necessary and will be neces
sary for years to come to hold the Fill
pinos down. Jones, on the floor of thu
house, extracted from Colonel Benja
min Franklin Marsh of Illinois thu
| fact that it costs 81 900 per annum t
maintain a soldier at home and mucl
more probably twice as much) t.
maintain him abroad. That would b.
| $100,0O0,000 year, to say nothing o
the loss of life and the huge pension
roll we are saddling on ourselves. II
view of these facts was thorough.
justified in characterizing .Uncl'
Joe's" scheme as .'the most idiotic eve
hatched in the brain of man" and hi
forever and day" declaration as ''th
most melancholy ever heard in con
| gress''
Holding the Philippines forever ant
day" is the old, futile and condemned
| performance of "shearing wolf" ut
terly proftless and void Of glory.
| Perhaps the illustrious Sucker spok
unadyisedly in the heat OF debate Il