Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-20


Why should not the government make
that profit? The conduct by Demo.
Gratis of Missouri of the financial af-
fairs of the state for the last thirty
years demonstrates what can be ac-
complished by an honest, economical
and intelligent management of public
funds. The law in that state requires
that the state treasurer let the funds
to the banks which will pay the lar
gest per cent on daily balances after
having given ample and approved Sc
curity. The scheme has worked like a
charm in Missouri and has largely aug
mented the public revenues. Why will
a law that works we'll in Missouri not
also work well when applied to federal
balances? Echo answers, Why?
Not Happy Choice.
Wonders will never cease. II Cen
eral Samuel Pearson, the Boer rep
resentative in this country, is not
misinformed, the bloody Britishers
have opened up a regular British army
post at the port of Chalmette! One
would naturally conclude that Chal-
mette is the last spot on the American
continent where the English would feel
at home. for it was there that one An
drew Jackson in twenty-seven minutes.
with a handful of raw militia. killed
1900 Englishmen, the very flower of
the Peninsular army which had snatch
ed the iron crown of Charlemagne from
the brazen brow of Napoleon. That
that spot of all others should be select
ed as base of English operations
against the heroic Beers is the very
irony of fate. General Pearson begs
the president either to break up this
English rendezvous or to permit him to
proceed against it, and General Pear
son is right in his request, provided he
is correct as to the fact. This is a
neutral nation, at least it is supposed
to be, and should enforce the neutrali-
ty laws without partiality.
SchWab Should Write a Book.
That supereminent member of new
American aristOcracy whose coat of
arms is Charles NJ. Schwab is GER
tainly having an uproarious and royal
time in Europe. The man who can
break the Monte Carlo gambling bank,
be received with eclat by the venerable
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary and while away happy half
hour with Edward VII. is quite likely
to arouse the jealousy and envy Of all
funkydom. 1t is not known whether
Mr.. Schwab is man of literary merit
or not. If he is, he ought forthwith to is
! sue volume entitled "Cfownee Hes DIS
l Have Net and should be particular
not to omit a description of the Prince
of Monaco, who is perhaps the most
unsavory potentate in Europe, Asia or
Africa since the death of the dissolute
Alexander, ex-king of Servia. Mr..
Schwab can add largely to the gayety
of nations if he will explain in detail
how he managed to break the gambling
bank. Perhaps that was what he told
Edward VII.
Playing Politics and Horse.
Brother Babcock is "sly, sir, devilish
sly" like Major Joe Bagstock, if not
tough, sir, devilish tough" like that
doughty warrior. For more than a
year the Wisconsin congressman has
been cavorting around, paving up the
ground and veXing the circumambient
atmosphere with declarations as to
what he would do with the trusts. He
even introduced a bill or bills to cut
down the tariff on certain articles
The other day he seized a moment
x.y1o Of
ways and means committee were alb
sent to move to tack his tariff reduc-
ton bill on the war revenue repeal
bill. Brother Bah and Brother Jeemes
Tawney of Minnesota, both Republic
ans, voted for it, but of course it was
defeated, and defeated by Republic
ans, the vote standing to 6, just as
Bah knew it would be defeated when
he offered it.
1t is said now that Bah will set up
the claim that Republicans could and
would have carried it had the two
Democrats been present and therefore
that the Republicans should have the
credit, and it is said, further, that
Brother Bah was playing sharp pol
itics. Yes, it was sharp politics
so sharp that it will fool nobody.
r. Brother Bah is in earnest, why
did he not offer his amendment
when there was a full attend
ance of Democratic members of the
committee? He not only played poll
tics; he played horse. But the action
of Messrs. Babcock and Tawney shows
that the people of the northwest are
waking up ON the trust question. 1t
was hoped that Bah was bono fde
recruit to Democratic ranks, but his
sharp political play will cause men to
think of the old saying, "Timeo Da-
naos ferentes dona" Il fear the Greeks
bearing gifts. Let us hope that Bah
is not a quitter, for be it remembered
that in the dog days of 1896 at St Lou
is that great Republican patriot, Hon.
Sam Fessenden of Connecticut, assured
that other great Republican patriot,
Hon. Joseph III. Manley of Maine, that
GOD hates gutter" That was up
on the sad but memorable occasion
when Joe hamstrung Hon. Thomas
Bracket Reed as presidential candi-
date by vociferously and prematurely
admitting from the housetops that Mr..
Reed had not ghost of show for the
nomination.
A Visit to ChilIicothe.
Recently 1 lectured at Chillicothe, o.,
and had the good fortune to be intro
duced to the audience by that sterling
young Democrat John Jacob Lentz of
Columbus, who is now in temporary
retirement because by his bold and
able advocacy of the peoples cause he
had made himself peculiarly obnoxious
| to the Hanna gang. LentZ as long as
he was in congress was a sharp and
painful thorn in their sides. He is
making a valiant fight to GUST the Re
! publican who holds the certificate. If
he succeeds, he will be the eighth
wonder of the world No doubt he will
be returned to the next congress, for
| such a man as he is cannot be kept
down, but in essaying to get justice in
his contest he is attempting the impos-
sible.
1t does a patriot good to visit Chilli
cothe. 1t was the habitat of Governor
Allen, popularity nicknamed Rise Up
| William Allen, who was a United
States senator before the civil war and
whose effigy in Parian marble adorns
| Statuary hail. There never was more
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