Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-10-16

N rattling good thing when they
/ n nominated Mr.. Coler for govern
/ d or. Pattison of Pennsylvania,
Coler of New York and Hollis of
New Hampshire are a good three to
draw to. Pattison has been elected
/ governor of Pennsylvania twice be-
cause he is an honest man. Perhaps
the same thing may happen to each
and for the same reason. But hasn't
Republican politics fallen to low level
when man can be elected governor of
a great commonwealth solely because
he is honest?
/ The New York Democrats not only
/ put their best foot foremost in nomi-
] mating a candidate for governor, but
they made a radical departure in mat
ter of platform by declaring in favor
of government ownership of the an
| thracite coalfields. There is meat in
that proposition, sure as you live, and
lots of it. Perhaps the time has come
to settle once and for all whether ].
| Pierpont Morgan & Co. or any other
+, set of men are or can be stronger than
the government of the United States.
If the proposition of the New York
Democrats should be accepted as the
proper thing then we can see the begin
ming of the end of private monopoly
in the public ownership of general
utilities.
| lPrecidentiaI Decentralization
A great many persons are coming to
the conclusion that the presidents of
the United States should perambulate
about the country less, thereby reduc-
ing the chances of death by accident or
violence.
| DoIIiver on Trusts.
Ny distinguished. mellifiuous and eio-
quent friend. Hon. Jonathan P. Dolli-
yer, Junior senator from Iowa, spoke
on the subject of trusts in Chicago not
long ago. When Hon. James Gillespie
Blaine wrote his once famous letter
from Genoa. disgusted patriot de-
clared. with beads of perspiraton and
agony on his brow. that he had read
that mystifying document right side
up. wrong side up and catawampus,
and then didn't have the remotest idea
as to what the magnetic man from
Maine was driving at. | am in the
same frame of mind with reference
to Brer Delivers remarks as to trusts.
He speaks. like the ancient oracle, in
a double sense. He owes it to suffer
ing world to publish a diagram with
| his remarks. He must believe in the
celebrated mot of Talleyrand that Ian
guage is intended to conceal thought.
for he most effectually concealed his
thought, If any he has, on the subject
i to have taken lesson out of the book
/ of his senior. Senator William b. ALI
| son, who rivals the famous Earl of
Halifax as a trimmer. Great is the
Iowa statesman!
The Wall Street Gamblers.
Two sets of gamblers got to playing
high stakes on Wall street recently.
The inevitable happened. One set got
the other where the wool was tight.
Immediately the set with the upper
, hand began to squeeze its victims.
At once there rose as wild a yell
AS all the fiends from heaven that fell
Had pealed the banner cry of hell,
and the cry was: "Stringency in the
money market! A panic is at hand!"
| Immediately Secretary of the Treas
ury Leslie NJ Shaw made unseen
ly haste to rush to the relief of these
gamblers by piacing-illegally as many
think-three hundred millions of the
! peoples money in the hands, or rather
the vaults. of certain pet banks in
New York to relieve the stringency!
! Thus did Leslie NJ Shaw. who was
| going to show the bankers some new
tricks. follow in the footsteps of Ly-
man ]. Gage in aiding and abetting
Wall street. Viye la bagatele!
Query.-Who cared which set of
Wall street gamblers skinned the 9th
er except the gamblers themselves?
Did anybody ever hear of d secretary
of the treasury rushing to the aid of
| the great masses of the people when
threatened with money stringency?
; Never? Well. hardly ever and nobody
ever will hear of such thing until
we get a really Democratic administra-
| tion
American Products Abroad.
| Some Americans wonder how the
| American manufacturers can beat the
foreigners in their own markets. under
selling the Germans in Berlin. the Eng
| lish in London and Liverpool and the
| French in Paris. and yet have to be
protected here at home by high tariff
| wall When Frank A. Vanderlip wrote
! his widely quoted article on "The
| American Invasion of Europe" show
! ing that American manufacturers can
| so into free trade countries and PRO
| tected' countries alike and distance all
| competitors it was read by millions of
| people. 1t started long train of arti-
| cles and editorials of the same char
| acter in magazines and newspapers. 1t
| made Americans proud of Americas
| achievements. but it did more than
| that-it awakened every thinking man.
| even in the Republican party. to the
] knowledge tAat American industries
| that can beat the opposition OH it's own
| ground certainly do not need "protec-
| ton" here at home, and that the oaiJ
| possible use such tariff can have q
| TO enable the trusts to mulct the peo
| pie here at home of large sums of
money-billions of dollars each year.
Senator Harris Shoes.
The other day Senator Harris of
| Kansas came home from trip through
Europe. Time was. by the way. when
every Republican paper in Kansas
would have pilloried statesman who
| would indulge in such a luxury; but,
! happily, even Kansas is of late years
/ growing so liberal that it sometimes
| breaks away from its old mossback
manner of thinking. But, speaking of
| Senator Harris. that urbane gentle
| man brought home on his feet pair
| Of new shoes. He bought them in
| London, but they were of American
| manufacture, and. though freight had
| been paid on them to London and a
| travelling salesman's expenses had to
| be paid across the Atlantic to sell the
shoes. yet Senator Harris bought them
| fer 20 per cent less than the same
shoes would have cost him in Wash
| ington. He knows this to be true, be-
cause he priced the same kind of shoes,
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