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

game. Manley predicts Republican
majority in the house of thirty Eve (at
present It is forty three. and then with
q face as solemn as an ass he says:
While the Republicans will make a
Fhey have any show whatever, still if
must be admitted that 1t will be Tar bet-
ter for the Republican party In the presi-
dental contest Of 1904 il 1t should lose the
present house of representatives and this
rs apparent to every one.
| Just think Of it! Fighting strenuous
~ for something they don't wanti OF
course this can mean nothing except
that Manley expects defeat for the Re
publicans and is making a soft spot on
which to alight. Brother ManIey is
not alone in this view, for other lead
ing Republican statesmen have blown
the same whistle.
His Dear, Dead Friend.n
There is no more representative type
of southern gentleman than those to be
found in Atlanta, and no name is bet
ter known in that city than that OF
Major Livingston Minis His body
servant, an old eolored man named
Richard Henry, died the other day and
WAS buried from the colored folks
church. A great many white people
attended the funeral, and the pastor of
the church called oh Major Minis for
some remarks, He made the remarks.
and would like every Massachusetts
imam who wishes to stir up a little
strife between the whites and the
blacks down south to read what the
major said. Here it is:
Your call on me to speak on this occa-
sion was certainly unexpected. and yet
while SO heartily commending all that
has been SO feelingiy and eioquently said
IN reference to my dear dead friend-my
friend of more than a third of a century,
cannot refrain from expressing the gen.
uine grief and sorrow that his death has
occasioned me; indeed SORROW that my
entire family shares. and / know. too, It
will be felt " the large number Of his
friends and mine who knew him so we'll in
the connection he had with the business
In which have been engaged for so many
years and might add his many white
friends in this city who respected and ad
mired him for the splendid qualities that
he possessed. He was ever doing charity
was indeed a model husband and father. a
good citizen. loyal and devoted friend
and Christian gentleman.
/ To me his Offices of concern and thought
fulness were constant and grateful
In the course Of nature he should have
survived me, and ! always felt that IL he
did there was no living man on whom
my family
can point ta no one whose daily life
and character afford a better and more
commendable example to all men to emu
late than this.
He well deserves all the comforts. bless
ings and promises of the holy religion he
professed and which the distinguishes
reverend clergy has on this solemn oceae
sion SO ably administered
] care not though, for creeds In that un-
known country from whose bourne no
traveller returns. and to which his pure
spirit tends. for feel that the good man
who sleeps in all the awful majesty of
death in yonder coffin carries with him
acceptable credentials to all the ha ppiness
that pertains to morfals after death
Major Minis and bis people were
slave owners. and the above fitly rep
resents the real feeling of that class
toward the former bondmen.
The Tariff Reform Row Again.
That tariff row is stiIl hot. especially
in Iowa. The Cummins tariff revision
men and the Henderson antirevisioD
crowd are still at each Others throat.
The following editorial utterance OF
the Washington Post Is very Interest
ing:
The maximum OF smuke from the mini
mum OF IRE is a problem that has heen
solved by the iowa Republicans with the
innocent looking little tariff and trust
plank that they chucked into their plat
form. 1t eeemed as harmless as a boys
popgun with its paper ammunition. but It's
report has been heard around tho
world. and its wild reverberations, as
of thunder in the mountains. are still
shaking the continent How far into the
future It's infiuanee may penetrate and
what will be the final summing up OF It's
effects on the destinies OF parties who
would venture to predict7
: Governor CummiHs and his faction were
credited with a great victory in securing
the adoption of that plank. and they are,
In some quarters charged with the re-
sponsibility OF having exploded the mine
that blew Speaker Henderson off the
track. 1t Is therefore ma tier Of some
interest to find out from the governor Just
what that plank means and why he sup
ports It. Here Is his explanation, which
seems clear enough
What have tried at various times to
say Is this: a monopoly. whether estab-
nshed by trust partnership or Individual,
is not entitled to the benefit of tariff du-
ties and that II this were the law 1t
would have some effect in preventing the
creation of nonopoies.
Tt Is not necessary to the business OF
the country that monopolies shall exist
and ambitious men should be Informed
that they cannot have both monopolies
and the tariff You can be sure they will
choose the course most profitable to
them,
That Is very mild compared with the
utterances of Mr. Babcock when he
mounted his antitrust tariff reform
charger and boldly set himself afield to
attack the citadels Of protected monope-
lies The governors statement compares
with some of the Babcock interviews as
blue skimmilk with hot scotch.
The governor does not positively assert
that there are any protected monopolies,
nor is there any such assertion in that
mild hammered platform Both the plat
form and the governor point rather to the
future than the present. to prevention
rather than cure. They seem anxious to
avoid soaring the ucnopelies and there
fore go after them In gum shoes instead
OF hunting them with brass band as Mr..
Babcock proposed.
It will be further observed that the
Iowa insurgents are not carried away
with the deiusion that all OF the trusts are
protected or that all the evils OF the trusts
could be cured BY tariff amendments
They know that to be absurd. What they
do believe IS that monopolists ought not TO
be protected. In that belief the voting
masses. regardless of party lines. are with
them. and no man who disputes that
proposition can be q consistent friend OF
protection
The idea that the Republican party can
not make a revision OF tariff schedules on
protection lines that will dislodge protect
ed snonopolies without running our indus
tries is a libel ON that party. It looks too
much like an admissions fake conelu-
sion that the cancer OF monopoly has
gained such hold on the patient that It is
too late for surgery
Washington Post Versus clobe-p Demo.
crat-
The Washington Post says:
That kind of optimism which results
from ignoring disa greeable facts thrills
the soul of our true blue Republican con-
temporary. the st. Louis Globe Democrat,
SO upliftingly that It exalts its voice In
glorification OF the harmony now exist
ing In the q. o. r 1t finds the Repub-
Iican line intact and sees IN every direc-
fiou ss.vid erifft3 f}lf3t the ReDtlblican lead