Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
NUMBER l6

edict that emma should participate In the
| worlds fair. but would send an imperial
commissioner to represent them. They
specially requested Commissioner General
Barrett to convey to President Roosevelt
their deep appreciation of the attitude OF
America toward China In her troubles.
That remarkable excerpt recalls
Mark Twain's famous dictum, BLESSED
is the man that bloweth his own horn,
lest it be not blown" The best thing
the Louisiana Purchase exposition
| managers could do would be to recall
Commissioner General Barrett forth
with and to squelch his secretary.
Leze Majesty.
The brilliant editor of the Washing
ton Post. Independent. is liable-in fact,
quite 1ikely-to be hauled up for leze
majesty or at least to be tabooed by
our Anglomaniac aristocrats and land
| grabberS If he does not suddenly check
| himself in the mad career upon which
he has entered, for in a recent editorial,
commenting on England's war upon
''the Mad Mollah," he has the impu-
| dence to say this:
| We suppose that the whole trouble Is
Il que 10 a CONVECTION iOQReQ somewhere IN
/ the British mind that the Mad Mollah'g
country and people are richly endowed
with portable property of some kind. 1t
/ Is conviction which has always fired the
| true Briton's heart and led to violence In
| every part of the world in which persons
| and territories lay under this dark sus-
| picion. For more than four centuries the
| Anglo-Saxons have been ready at all
| times to go forth into the four corners OF
| the earth at the barest mention of divi-
dend in marketable plunder. They have
overrun India for gold and jewels and
| bullied and prosecuted China by way of
propagating the opium trade-with China;
| they have harried the Dutch In Africa
since the beginning of the nineteenth
| century until the discovery of gold and
| diamonds twenty-five or thirty years ago,
converted them into exterminators and
set in motion armies such as England has
| not put afloat or afoot in all her piratical
| career They are the same old fierce and
| bloody minded spoliators that sailed forth
| from Scandinavia In the dark ages and
ravaged every land that could not help IL
| self
! AS for Sonlaliland and the Mad Mollah
we wait for further information. May be.
after ALL they are worth looting.
Now submit that things are coming
to pretty pass when an American
editor right under the nose of Mr.. Sec
retary of State Hay is permitted to
| talk in that strain about England. I'M
der the protection of whose guns. ac-
cording to Joseph Chamberlain. we
| negotiated the calamitous treaty OF
Paris. It's misprision of treason ac
| least.
Rather Severe.
Every once in awhile some preacher
takes fall out of the secular press,
| and then once In awhile some editor
Of secular newspaper takes fall out
of some particular preacher. The fol-
lowing editorial from the New York
Press is more or less severe:
The style of Wall street preaching has
| changed somewhat in the last century and
a half. Those fine old felows-PRyson.
| Whitefeld, Wesley. Jonathan Edwards.
| Caldwell. Witherspoon and Burr (fatheT
of Aaron and founder of Princeton univer-
| sity)-stood out in the clear light OF
| heaven and flung the gospel Into the open
| board from the curbstone. They called
| things by their right names and saved
| sinners-possibIy. The Rev. DR.. Morgan
| Dix, who has been preaching at one end
of the street for forty years. paid less at
tention to its habitues than any other
clergyman In town. To all intent5 and
purposes he does not and never did know
that such an institution as the Stock Ex-
change exists. No open air thunderings
for himi He prefers his priestly robes
in the quiet pulpit of old Trinity. Mere
word of mouth would never convert .
Wall street sinner. He has no time to
listen to preaching. But with glance OF
the eye as he hurries across the street he
can take in the whole silent sermon
preached by the venerable edifice Of a re-
worth in round numbers 100000 on
which it has never paid 81 in taxes What
sort of sermon is II? The gospel Of
wealth hangs its banner on the outer
| wall, and the cry is. still they comet"
| We were a deeply pious community as
| long as the spire OF Trinity pierced the
sky, but since 1t now pierces only the
upper atmosphere Of skyscraper we are
grown wicked again AS Mammon ascends
| the church descends.