Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-10-16

back to fifteenth place. This is a
frightful increase i'll the percentage
of illiteracy and cannot help in u few
years but show its dire results in in
creased crime and destitution. Such
condition is bound to breed anarchy
and riot. of which Illinois has surely
had too much already. The lawmak-
ers of Illinois are responsible for this
condition because the laws of Illinois
ment of child labor, than which moth
ing can be more pernicious. How
different are the laws of poor old be-
nighted Missouri" where the heaviest
penalties are prescribed for those who
employ children where their mental or
physical health is liable to become i'm
paired in the slightest. Mrs. Kelley
speaks of the shocking incompetency
and Indifference of the officials" Poor
old Republican Illinois, stony hearted
stepmother' Ito use the words of De
Quincy when he apostrophized old
Oxford street,, thou drinkest the tears
of the children and nearest the cries
Of the fatherless"
RoseWater and the Geese.
Republican 'harmony' in Nebraska
properly begins with the letter H. >
but it should contain but four letters
if it is aimed to correctly describe the
present condition of the G. 0. p. in
that state. Editor Rosewater is at war
with the party organization and is
heading a boiling movement that
congressman and the state ticket.
Governor Savage has had himself in
terviewed. Evidently the first Saw
age was named from trait of charac-
ter that has been handed down to the
governor, for here is what he said:
If Rosewater has as much brain power
| left as God gives to geese, he surely
realizes by this time that the people do
| not indorse his methods of conducting
political fights. l feel nothing but pity
| for the man who is now placed between
the devil and the deep sea. For twenty
years he has waged a relentless warfare
| against the fusion candidate for congress.
| For several years he and his friends-not
| friends for he has none-for several years
| he and those who fear him have waged
| one of the most bitter fights Imaginable
against Mercer Now, what can he do as
between these candidates?
Free Trader Foss Nominated.
Up in Massachusetts the fight in the
Republican party over tariff revision is
waxing hot. Eugene N. Foss has been
nominated for congress on platform
that, SO far as its tariff plank is con-
cerned, reads as if it had been
"Quigged" from Democratic speech.
1t declares fatty for tariff revision and
free trade in articles controlled by the
trusts. They want free raw materials,
they want free coal and free beef
A Bad Outlook.
The Washington Post independent,
with Republican leanings, in summing
up the political situation, says:
Speaking as an impartial but sympa-
thetic locker on, we are disposed to say
that the lot of the Republican family at
this time is not a happy one. On the
contrary, quite the reverse II seems to
be literally honeycombed with schiSmS.
disagreements. even feuds Republicans
are divided among themselves on issues
that are really vital, and they en-
gagged in bitter quarrels over mere mat
ters of party leadership and discipline.
Out in Iowa Speaker Henderson has just
declined denomination because he says
he is not in harmony with his associates
as regards tariff revision. In New York
the Republican convention has been on
the verge of pandemonium over the nom
ination for lieutenant governor. Two
powerful factions were snarling at each
other, and 1t is openly declared that the
antagonsm TO Sheldon included the presi-
dent himself. as well Governor Odell.
In great western states like Michigan.
Nebraska and California there are ugly
contentious over Cuban reciprocity. and
all these conflicts are of character
which insures aftermath of rancor. no
matter which side may prevail.