Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-10-30

mony In the g. o. r. with so much CON
fidence, but the Post sharply takes is
sue and calls attention to the pretty
row started by the withdrawalof Hen
derson. the wrangle over the coal STRIKE
In the east, the imbroglio In Massachu
setts. where Mr.. Foss is running for
congress as a Republican on a free
trade platform and denouncing the
heaven born Lodge as chatterer OF
tommyrot
In Massachusetts most of the Repub-
liean congressman are talking tariff
revision. The state platform is the 9TH
er way. This Is harmony indeed And
here is more of it: The Liberty league
has just had a meeting in Washing
ton. Many, il not most. of its members
have been lifelong Republicans. such
as ex Senator John B. Henderson of
Missouri. In this meeting resolutions
were passed condemning the Republic.
an policies and indorsing the Demo.
cratic candidates for office throughout
the country.
Without going further 1t can easily
be seen that this complacency Of the
Globe Democrat is made of very thin
material
The Moro Chief.
There is at least one man in the orient
who carries his nerve with hinl@-to wit.
the sultan of Bacolod 1t appears that
General Sumner OF the United States
army has been sending that eminent
potentate some soothing letters, to the
last Of which the sultan replied rs fol
lows:
The sultan Of Bacoiod desires war forth
with. He wishes to retain the religion of
Mohammed Cease sending friendly let
ters. What we want Is war. We do not
desire your friendship.
Most assuretlly bis majesty wasted
no words There is no sort of doubt as
TO what he wants His voice Is for
war, and he is quite likely to get what
he wants | commend to his careful
consideration this Inscription on the
tombstone Of an ambitious western
hunter: 'He whistIed for a grizzly and
the grizzly came"
ignoring the Law.
The Hon Richard Olney, who was
secretary of state under Cleveland,
made speech in Boston the other
night In which he lambasted the Re-
publican administration in way that
warns the cookies of the heart. 1t is,
furthermore. evidence that the De
mocracy Is getting together in better
shape than at any time since 1892
This Is traceable in great degree to the
utter disregard for the rights OF the peo-
pie shown by the Republican party
Its policy made the trusts, and it has
now become their creature 1t is the
old story Of the man who took some
pieces of wood and iron and put them
together so as to fashion a devil out of
them. but when he had the job COM
pleted be found that the devil controlled
him Instead of him controlling the
devil. So it is with the trusts and the
Republican party-it has become the
creature Of the trusts because it can't
raise its big campaign corruption funds
without the trusts to furnish the
DOODLE
In the speech to which referred Mr..
Olney said:
The signs of the times are that under
the regime of the Republican party and
through the national governments forty
years of partnership with the protected
industries we have come to the pass where
public officials as well as private citizens
deem themselves above the law
Witness the jealous haste with which
the treasury rushes to the relief Of Wall
street SPECTATORS by novel and forced
construction of the banking law. Witness
the astonishing proceeding of the same
department in its instructions TO subordf-
nate offices respecting the duties to be
collected on coal, but the generally law
less atmosphere in which protected Re-
publican reign has enveloped US is even
more strikingly illustrated by the recent
presidential demonstration upon the coal
strike
The president is our representative with
foreign powers. Will 1t strengthen his
hands that some haff dozen private cit
liens are found swapping their fingers in
his face? The presidents overture to the
coal operators was prompted by the best
motives and should have been treated
with respectful consideration. 1t must
have been declined courteously even If
firmly. but the opportunity to administer
p SkluD IL ltG UFtSltfcfft WIS tOU tempting
Accordingly he was not only treated as
rash intermeddler; he was also lectured
upon the law and facts of the case and,
to crown all. was notified that the cause
OF the troubles was lawlessness, which he
was sarcastically invited to suppress.
Fer sheer aadacity this attitude of the
coal operators could hardly be matched.
and nothing could more strongly empha-
size the disrepute into which the law of
ldrad hoos
tinued Republican domination.
Yet who are they who were so insistent
upon the suppression of lawlessness in
the mining regions? Why, the most un-
blushing and persistent of lawbreakers
For years they have defied the law of
Pennsylvania, which forbids common car
riers engaging in the business of mining.
For years they have discriminated be-
tween customers in, the freight charges on
their railroads in violation Of the inter-
state commerce law. For years they have
Anlawfully lnonopoiized interstate COM
merce in viola:iS7 of the Sherman anti
trust law.
Indeed the very best excuse and ex-
planatiun Of their astonishing attitude at
Ing violated so many laws for SO long and
SO many times. they might rightfully
think they were wholly immune from ell
ther punishment or reproach.
1t is sometimes urged in extenuation of
the ceai operators foolishly offensive tone
at the conference that they we're enraged
at the recognition of labor unions and
the presence BY invitation OF their repre-
sentative. II that be SO, they must be as
blind to the salient facts of the era they
are living In as they are obIivious of legal
obligations.
In these days Of combination by capital
on scale and to an extent as startling
as 1t is unprecedented. can they possibly
Imagine that labor is to be denied an
equivalent right of combination2 If they
do, 1t is only another Instance Of their
complete Indifference to the law of the
land Pennsylvania made 1t criminal
offense to deprive man Of work because
he belonged to labor union In 1893 con-
gress not only did the same thing. but, In
q statute providing for the arbitration of
labor disputes. expressly made labor or
ganiza tons parties to such arbitration
This was In addition to the previous leg
islation by encouraging and providing for
the Incorporation Of labor unions In ig-
noring them. therefore the coal operators
simply ignore and condemn the law Of the
land, Law supreme and equal for all men
is to the American people what the ark Of
the covenant was TO the Jews Of old.
While we have It we need not fear for
our safety When we lose it we are far
advanced on the highroad to ruin
3 Ohm !.