Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-23

tened to his scalp with the best glue
when he undertook to arrange matters
Of precedent among the society ladies
of the finest capital in the world. The
uneasiness of the head that wears a
crown wouldn't be marker to the un-
easiness of his caput when he under
took to declare whether Mrs. Nouveau
Richie should contemplate the back hair
Of Mrs. Veneering, or vice versa, at
some social function. Straws show
which way the wind blows, and the
fact that anybody has the gall to sug-
gest the creation of such an office as
master of ceremonies" shows what q
hold the Goldfish aristocracy is getting
in the capital of 'the land of the free
and the home of the brave" If these
blooming aristocrats, half of whom
can't write a grammatical sentence or
'spell baker, had their way, we would
soon be kotowing to public officials
like a lot of Chinese, but the hard
headed, common sense Americans are
not ready for that, and the office will
not be created.
Friction.
From faraway Manila comes the
mournful intelligence that friction ex-
lists betwixt the civil and military au-
thorities. Governor Taft and General
Chaffee are not dwelling together in
unity. On the contrary, they are at
loggerheads. Not to put too fine a
point on it, confusion worse confOund-
ed' exists in the Philippines, for which,
like a set of consummate idiots, we
paid Spain twenty millions. We would
have done much better to have thrown
the money into the sea and to have
told the Filipinos to go free. Governor
Taft wants the military forces with
drawn from many places, but General
Chaffee, being, like Sir Robert Walpole,
avaricious of power, wants to hold on
to all he has and to get more under his
control. In short, he wants to be sit"
hence the friction.
The Kaiser.
For four or five years lot of ram
pant anglomaniacs in this country have
been doing their level best to stir up
strife between the United States and
Germany and in order to help the fuss
along have invented and propagated
all sorts of silly lies about what the
Germans were saying and doing to in
jure us, and these mischievous liars
knew that they were lying and knew
that the Germans were going ahead,
attending strictly to their own affairs
and letting us severely alone. What
these anglomaniacs were really trying
to do was to line us up on the side of
England should England and Germany
get into a war, but so far they have
failed in their efforts to make trouble
between Germany and the United
States, and let us hope that they will
continue to fail. There is no reason
why Germany and the United States
should be enemies, and there are many
reasons why they should be friends,
the chief bond of connection being the
millions of men and women who were
once German citizens but who are now
American citizens and who love both
the land of their birth-"der vater
land"-and the land of their adoption.
A new proof of the good feeling for
the United States which the Germans
entertain is found in the invitation
which the German kaiser, William of
Hohenzollern, has recently extended
to Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of
the president, to christen his new
yacht. 1t was most gracious and
graceful thing for the kaiser to do and
will undoubtedly go very far toward
bringing Germany and the United
States into closer relations. 1t is to
be hoped that Miss Alice will accept
the unusual invitation if for no other
reason than to put to shame the mali
cious marplots who have been striy-
ing to align US with Great Britain and
against Germany.
President Castro of Venezuela Is also
making a grave mistake as to our at
titude toward Germany. If he is de-
pending on the Monroe doctrine to
help him out in his quarrel with the
German emperor he is off his box, for
the Monroe doctrine was never intend
ed as bar to the collection of an hon
est debt, and that's precisely what the
kaiser is trying to do-to collect large
debt due from the Venezuelan govern
ment to German citizens who put their
good money into mountain railroad
in Venezuela in the faith that the Ven-
ezuelan government would keep it's
promise to pay principal and interest.
Castro is nothing but a bloody and
cruel usurper. 1t would not do any
harm If the kaiser gave him good
thrashing.
In Deadly Peril.
Actors, as rule, are given great IL
cense to play pranks and take liberties
with persons and things, but l fear
that the amiable and delightful come
dian, Francis Wilson, has laid himself
liable to a prosecution for leze majes-
ty. The other night at Washington,
with the president in box, Mr.. Will
son had the gall to sing song whose
refrain ran as follows:
Perhaps he wasn't in command,
But he fought to beat the band,
And he ought to have tablet in the
Hall of Fame.
OF course he referred to Schley. The
audience caught on and stood up to
howl its delight. Now, that was sim
ply awful. Teddy looked grim and
made no sign; but, like the Irishman's
owl, he probably kept up "a divil of a
thinking" Schley's popularity cannot
be killed by Teddy or anybody else.
Feel Encouraged.
That Democrats feel encouraged is
demonstrated by various happenings.
Quite recently Senator Joseph Weldon
Bailey of Texas in what appears to be
a carefully considered interview declar-
ed for Hon. Arthur Pue German OF
Maryland and gave reasons for the
faith he has within him. A day or two
after that Uncle Adlai e. Stevenson
once vice president of the United
States, was interviewed in Chicago and
inter ALA said:
A happy new year Is just beginning fol
the Democratic party. / believe the next
twelve months will see the party on its
feet again and able to present an unbro-
ken front to the foe. The next president
will be a Democrat. All this talk aboui
our lacking an issue for the next nationa
campaign is sheer sense. we couie