Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-09-04
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/ the tariff is on knickerbockers and 9TH
! unless our customs officer at the port
of New York failed to do his duty.
This sore disappointment came to
Whitelaw because a pestiferous berry
seed slipped into King Edwards YER
inform appendix.
Great Godi On what a slender thread
Eternal matters hang!
Over the entrance to the Office of the
New York Tribune, of which White
law is editor in chief, thanks to his fa-
ther-in-law's money, is the legend,
Founded by Horace Greeley" Won
| der what old Horace, who was an
American from skin to core, would
think of Whitelaw and his royal and
imperialistic knickerbockers! ''What
fall was there, my countrymenv'
A Pointer.
Once upon time was engaged in
| private jawing match with General
Charles Henry Grosvenor. was con-
tending that the Democrats would
elect the house this fall and both
| house and president in 1904. The gen.
eral said that the present prosperity
would prevent our doing any such
thing. But, general" 1 replied ar
guendo, s'there Is no greater prosperity
now than there was in 1892, when the
Democrats wiped the Republicans off
the face of the earth, even securing
one electoral vote in Ohio, which goes
to prove that prosperity has nothing
to do with it," This seemed to nettle
the venerable Buckeye warrior and
statesman, and he exclaimed, "Oh, it
was that blankety blanked Homestead
strike that made the country go Dem
ocratic in 1927 OF course the pro-
family is General Grosvenor's, not
mine. But, while that conversation
happened two years ago, l have been
thinking about it good deal lately
and have concluded inevitably and nee
essarily that if the good gray general
is correct in his diagnosis of the situa-
ton in 1892 we are dead sure to carry
the country in 1902, for precisely what
| happened at Homestead, Pa, in 1892
| is now happening in both Pennsylva-
MIA ard West Virginia this year. Far
stranger things have happened than
that Jndgee. jackson and General Goblin
should unwittiGsgly and unintentionally
elect a Democratic house of repre-
sentatives and a Democratic president
of the United States, i0nsummation
deyoutly to be wished. Democrats who
are inclined to be timorous should re-
member General Grosvenor's w0ras
and cheer up.
Republican Disintegration.
The recent falling Of the campanile
at Venice, which both startled and in
| terested the entire civilized world, is
not more thoroughly indicative of the
ultimate destruction of that ancient
city of story and of song than is the
platform declaration of the Iowa Re
publicans in favor of tariff revision as
a remedy for the trust evil presage
| of the dissolution of the Republican
party. The campanile was the glory
of Venice; the Dingley bill has been
regarded as the Gibraltar of Repub-
licanism. True, Mr.. Mckinley in his
remarkable Buffalo speech, which may
be regarded not unjustly as his fare
well address to the American people,
overthrew the principle of the Dingley
! bill, sapped and mined it's foundations,
by declaring in favor of a general pol
icy of reciprocity, which is free trade
in spots; but the trouble is that Nc
Kinley did not live to carry out by
! his tact and the weight of his great
name the Democratic policy which in
| his Buffalo speech he borrowed from
the Democrats. He is dead, and he
alone could WELD 'Excalibur" He is
in his grave, and the Republicans are
wrangling and jangling on every pub
| lie question, especially the tariff and
| it's daughters, the trusts. Even the
Iowa Republicans, who were doing
| their best to walk in the light, lauded
| the tariff while they condemned the
trusts, utterly oblivious to the great
! truth uttered by Mr.. Havemeyer when
he declared that ''the high protective
tariff is the mother of trusts"
Shaw Versus Gage.
Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of
the trea sury and wet nurse to the Fow-
| Ter bill, of which he and his bank ex-
| pect to be the chief benefciaries, is in
! q fair way to become the scapegoat of
| the Rooseyelt-Shaw administration of
she treasury affairs, and it serves Ly.
han right, for be it remembered that
In 1896 he deserted the Democrats
and rated to the Republicans in order
to secure for himself high office, which
he had never been able to do while
training with the Democrats. He re-
ceiyed his mess of pottage age-namely,
the secretaryship of the treasury. That
he used the great powers of that Of
fee for the benefit of the plutoerats is
generally believed; that he was offered
and accepted highly remunerative
position at their hands when squeezed
out of office by President Roosevelt is
known of all men. He quit the treas
ury WREN all was serene with the rep
utation, self exploited, of being a great
financier, but there are breakers ahead
for Lyman. His successor in Office,
Leslie NJ. Shaw of Iowa, is like Major
Bagstock-"sly, sir; devilish sly" if
not tough, sir; deyilish tough" There
is a growing deficiency in the revenues
of the government, constantly growing
larger, and Governor Shaw-''sly, sir;
devilish sly"-is unloading the odium
thereof on Lyman. He attributes
this ''woeful plight" of the treasury,
to borrow your Uncle Growers phrase,
to Lyman's plan of paying more for
bonds than they were worth and he
proposes to have it thoroughly under
stood that Gage, and not Shaw, is the
architect Of the treasury deficit. Shaw
Is running for president, don't you
know, and must hays a scapegoat;
hence Lyman plays gdGst.
Strange that it never occurs to a pub
lie official so eminent, so astute and so
ambitious as Mr.. Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw that there are two
ways for the government to make buc-
kle and tongue meet-the one is to in
crease the revenues, the other to cur
tail expenses. The latter method nev-
er suggests itself to Republican. The
present congress is the most extrava-
JOHN j.
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