Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-31
NUMBER 50

And, Mr. Chairman. what the manufac-
turing cities along the water courses Of
PENNSYLVANIA and the east are to that
country SO viii the irrigated valleys and
plateaus be TO the mountain and plain re-
gions OF the great west and southwest
They will be the canters of commercial
activity and development both in mate
rial wealth and in higher civilization,
which win ultimately make for the ad-
vancement of that great region and the
whole nation as well.
L wish l had room for all Of his
speech. which is a good one from A
to lizard" but have only space for
his peroration, which is as follows and
contains a great amount of truth:
Mr. Chairman. this question is greater
than the Philippine question, greater than
the Cuban question, greater than the 18TH
mian canal question, because OF its great
benefits and the magnificent opportunities
that shall flow from it. 1t means the best
markets and the best homes for the best
nation on earth, and all the happiness
and the prosperity which shall follow in
its train shall be the common heritage Of
the American people, and nothing can
take it from them.
This legislation appeals to me especial
ly because it is in the interest of our
people who receive little enough consid-
GRAFTON from the American congress. No
matter how much we may boast of our
manufacturing and mining wealth. the
growth of cities and our financial
greatness yet. in the finality, the farmer
is the foundation of US all.
Like Atlas of old, he bears the very
business fabric of the nation upon his
back. and. though at times bowed down
by weight of woe because of panics or
disasters which others bring upon tho
country yet after the storms have rolled
by if we will but let the farmer get his
broad shoulders underneath our CONNER
cial structure once more and give him
but a mciety of profit in his business, q
little of the legislative justice to which he
is entitled he viii stand again erect, and
in his rising he viii lift us all.
In Danger.
The Washington Post had better look
little out or it will involve itself in
serious trouble, perhaps great danger.
even the danger of being kicked by
ambassador In Ordinary Joseph II.
Choate, Whitelaw Reid. ambassador
extraordinary. and Don i'll. Dickinson,
tooter i'll general for all aunkydom.
The Post, oblivious to the secret under
standing between Uncle Sam and John
Bull, has the temerity TO denounce Jo-
seph Chamberlain and his gang as
RUTHLESS pirates. In a glowing eu-
logy on General Lord Kitchener the
Post has the hardihood to say:
Kitchener, who did the real work of tho
war is the antithesis of Chamberlain and
Miner who provoked is. In all probable
ity he had no liking for the task assigned
him. We can well believe that he detect
ed and accordingly loathed the mean and
sordid purpose behind the movement. I'm
doubtedly it grieved and angered him, as
it did so many of England's noblest men
and women to see thousands of brave
fellows sacrificed to the avarice of a gang
of ruthless pirates. That there was con-
stant friction between him on the one
hand and Chamberlain and Miner on the
other everybody knew and almost every
body could explain. They stood in the
way of peace last year when Kitchener
had secured for England much better
terms than it was finally compelled to
accept. They added both difficulty and
distaste to the performance of the duty he
had undertaken, and it is easy to under
stand that he held them in unqualified
contempt
After reading that scod what will
our anglomaniaes do, poor things? If
some unfrilled Democrat said that.
every Republican organ grinder in the
land would jump on him and abuse
him as Il demagogue seeking to dis
turb the entente cordiale now existing
between England and the United
States; but the Washington Post says
1.-THE Post, which about two-thirds of
the time indorses what our pro British
administration does and says.