Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-15

it has a very different meaning. SO,
fear, it will only be short time until
the words complete pacification' will
stand to mean a bloody outbreak of
hostilities surprising anything in the
previous conduct of the war. 1t has
only been q short time since the Phil
ippines were, as body, completely
pacifed. One daily paper of May 6
contained on its first page list of
killed and wounded American soldiers
that filed third of column, besides
such headlines as these: prisoners
Shot In Squads American Declares
a Thousand Filipinos Were Slain Near
Sorgoson' And in another column on
the same page were the following:
''Killed as They Fled. Thirty-five Moro
Prisoners Shot by Guards. AS Many
More Made Escape"
AS between the heroic efforts of
Kitchener in South Africa and Chaffee
in Manila complete pacifcation'
stands very poor chance of retaining
its long accepted meaning.
The beef trust now proves itself a
real friend to the Democratic party,
for it is giving a splendid illustration of
the evils of high tariff that allows q
few meat magnates to double the price
of all meats arbitrarily and without
any cause that has its foundation in
the law of supply and demand. Of
course the beef trust does not intend to
aid the Democratic party. Every men,
Der of the trust swears by the unex-
ampled beauties Ola high tariff.
Design No. 1884.
Another of the forces working night
and day toward the success of the De-
mocracy is the glass trust.
1t takes So or 81 at the present prices
to buy pane of glass that would have
cost 81 at the time the Dingley tariff
bill went into effect. This is merely a
sample of the increased cost of all
building materials under the Dingley
tariff Since home building is a sub
ject that interests almost every man,
let US consult some published state
ments made by prominent architect
of st. Louis, made by him in a business
way and not in connection with any
discussion as to the rise in prices on
lumber, glass, hardware, etc, under
the workings of the Dingley act. Here
you are:
have before me little book of cot
tage plans published by Herbert G.
Chivers, architect, office in the Vain
wright building, st. Louis. | have had
it several years, and l think it was
published about 1897. On page 50 there
appears view of pretty little cot
tage, known as design No. 1854, with
| the maximum cost of the erection there
of given at $469 completed. 1t con
| tains five ROOMS and seems to be well
arranged and well built.
| Now, Mr.. Chiyers is preparing for
the st. Louis Republic series of plans
for summer cottages, one of these ap.
| pearing in each Sundays edition. In
the magazine section of the edition of
| Sunday, May 4, l find this same cot
| tage, identical in every detail with the
one found in his pamphlet, the news
paper cut evidently having been made
| from the same set of architects draw
| ings And is the cost of erection given
at $469? Far from it! Mr.. Chivers
states in a few words accompanying
the picture that the cost of the erection
of this cottage at the present time
would be about $1,000!
| I used to know an old philosopher
down in Kentucky who said that the
most sensitive nerve in the human
anatomy is the one leading to the pocl-
etbook. If there are any home build
ers in the Republican party, this one
fact ought to give them an attack CT
nervous prostration.