Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-31

IA with the trusts!" hoping
III thereby to deceive the unwary
voter, but who at the same
time are SO much afraid of what Gov
ernor Steele of Indiana denominates
tariff tinkering" that they are op-
posed to Cuban reciprocity, would do
well to seriously ponder this editorial
paragraph from the Washington Post:
The Republican party will do nothing
practical on the trust question as long as
it is afraid to revise the tariff.
To understand thoroughly the force
of that sentence it is only necessary to
recall what the Post is. 1t is an ex-
ceedingly brilliant paper. 1t is doubt
full if any paper in America is more
ably edited. 1t is independent. 1t is
goldbuggish and also high protective
shoIter. 1t was great admirer and
stanch supporter of President Nc
Kinley and all his works; but the Post,
with the skill of great physician,
makes a correct diagnosis of the trust
disease, recognizing its origin and sug-
Gesting the remedy-"tariM revision"
Everybody with two ideas above a
mud turtle knows that Mr.. Havemeyer,
president of the sugar trust, told the
truth when he said '"The high protec-
tive tariff is the mother of trusts" The
Post wants the Republicans to revise
the tariff, because it knows that unless
the Republicans do it The Democrats
will. OF course such hidebound Re
publican organs as the Globe-Democrat
will kick like steers at the Posts Sug-
gestion, but the fact remains that the
independent press of the country,
which the Post represents, and the in
dependent voters of the land, for which
it speaks, hold the balance of power
at the elections. While the foregoing
paragraph from the Post is mild hint
to the powers that be, it serves to show
which way the wind is blowing.
Another Straw.
Hon. Chester l. Long mournfully and
prophetically remarks, IF the Repub-
lican party confesses that reciprocity
is too great problem for it to solve.
it will matter little who is the candi-
date in 1904" And Chester's head is
level. Who is he? What is his evi-
dence worth? He represents the big
Seventh Kansas district, made famous
by Jerry Simpson. He is candidate
for reelection to the house and for
election to succeed Hon. William A.
Harris in the senate of the United
States. He is Republican member of
the committee on ways and means,
and he is in favor of Cuban reciprocity
and other bits of reciprocity, deeming
it necessary to Republican success.
What Is reciprocity? Free trade in
spots. "Charge. Chester, charger
Gall.
For undiluted. concentrated gall
commend us to Senator j. Ralph Bur-
ton of Kansas. Certainly if there We're
a worlds fair for gall held anywhere
beneath the vaulted skies Burton
would walk away with the blue rib
bon-iR fact, with all the ribbons. He
would have no competitor. In a
speech before the Republican state con
vention of Missouri the senator said:,
There is no capital so valuable in poll
tics as integrity of purpose, and 7 would
impress upon the people of Missouri that
it is to the advantage of them all. Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike, that their
state should be Republican. Missouri has
the finest kind of climate, the greatest
amount of raw material, the richest land
and the greatest natural advantages of
any state. 1t is great producing state.
Production is wealth. 1t is better and
safer than trade.
Srr1any.o ic, M fol s,n
politics as integrity of purpose" Very
true. senator, very true, but even with
your gall you will hardly have the face
to claim that you have patent on that
opinion or that you originated it. The
value of that dictum lies in the appli-
cation. How do you apply it? BY say
ing, Il would impress upon the people
of Missouri that it is to the advantage
of them all. Democrats and Repub-
licans alike, that their state should be
Republican" Indeedi That is queer
non sequitur. Missouri was Republican
for eight years.. e.. by frauds I'M
equaled in the history of the human
race-and by wholesale and bruta! dis
franchisement the Republicans held
the offices in Missouri for eight years,
and the outlandisb manner in which
they abused their power and plundered
the people during those eight years is
the very reason the state will never go
Republican again. The debt piled up
on the state like Pelion upon Ossa by
the Republicans during their brief orgy
of crime is not quite paid off yet-after
thirty-two years. During their mis-
rule. no matter how people voted or by
how large a majority Democratic can
didates were elected, Republicans were
counted in. Drake and his gang would
not permit Frank P. Blair to vote,
though he created the Republican par
ty in Missouri, fought four years as
Union soldier commanded a corps in
Sherman's march to the sea and was
pronounced by General Grant to he
one of the best two volunteer officers
in the army. They swindled General
James Shields-the brave old Irish he
and civil wars-out of seat in con-
gress. giving it to some obscure Re
publican whose name | am happy to
say have forgotten. Shields was shot
through the lungs with grapeshot in
Mexico and fought Stonewall jackson
tooth and nail in the valley of Vir-
gina Nevertheless he was robbed OF
a seat in congress by the most heart
less set of political freebooters that
ever cursed any state in the Union.
When the Democrats came into their
own again. they promptly sent Shields,
then an old man and broken in health,
to the senate of the United States,
thereby enabling him to boast that he
was the only man in American history
ever elected to the senate of the United
States by three different states, the
three being Illinois. Minnesota and
Missouri
1T would be for the advantage of
them all, Democrats and Republicans
alike, that their state should be Re
publican" What fools we mortals
be-" Missouri is Democratic, Kansas
Republican. During the decade from
1890 to 1900 Kansas barely held her
own in population, while Missouri
gained enough in population to entitle