Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-04-24


cases, but they are scarce as hens
teeth, like angels visits-few and far
between. And it would disgrace any
representative or senator lncwr to do
such a thing. 1t much mere fire .uent-
ly happens that they go down in.o their
own pockets and buy beohs. etc, for
their constituents when called Oh for
them after their quotas are exhausted.
OF certain books, such as the blue
book, each representative is entitled to
only one copy.
He is entitled to thirty-one copies of
The Daily Congressional Record, in
which all speeches and proceedings are
printed free. If he gets any more, he
pays for them, and he pays for all his
own speeches printed in pamphlet form
at so much per thousand, the price de-
pending on the number of pages. If
one desires a large number of a certain
speech, it is considerably cheaper to
have them printed at a private print.
ing office than at the government print.
ing Office Notwithstanding the fact that
the government printing office has the
type already set up rs it appeared in
The Congressional Record, which proves
conclusively that the government makes
good profit from printing speeches i'll
pamphlet form.
Representatives and senators swap
documents, books, ETC., occasionally, as
what is in great demand in one locality
would be of no interest whatever in
another For example, agricultural re-
ports are drug in New York city,
while some other pub. doc. is in great
demand.
The foregoing remarks apply to the
seed question likewise. Each member
has a certain quota which he can dis
pose of as he pleases. If he hasn't
enough, he may be able to swap part
of his books and documents to some
city member for more seed Apropos
of seed the Washington Post says:
Representative Roberts of Massachu-
| setts yesterday received a poetical ac-
| acknowledgement from constituent in re-
| turn for package of seeds. Here is what
| his grateful friend said in rhyme:
| o Roberts, Ernest Roberts, in D. c. far
| away,
| I've received from you a letter. or pack
age, I should say,
| And puzzled am / greatly to find out how
/ may
| Thank you for this favor which came
postpaid today
| Did you mistake my calling and not
meaning any harm,
| Think that / was toiling upon some back
| woods farm
| Where 1 needed seed FOR onions. for Gu
cumbers and beans
| And a good recipe for raising prime dam
delion greens?
I wonder if you are obliged to send these
seeds by law
| The seed for grape and rye and corn. the
first l ever saw.
| If not, to do it would be parliamentary
abuse;
| Then send the kind of seed that would
raise them in the juice.
True.
Mr.. Patterson of Tennessee in a very
strong speech on the Cuban reciprocity
bill stated a great truth, which cannot
be too often reiterated, when he said,
Nobody but demagogues war on
wealth." That is the Democratic posi-
tion and always has been, yet in 1896
| and 1900 we lost thousands of votes be-
cause subsidized liars in Republican
editorial sanctums and upon the stump
made people believe that we were
making war on wealth. What we were
really doing was making war on an
unjust system of laws which enables
a few to pile up wealth at the expense
of the many, so that. while Mr. Patter-
sons statement is trite, it cannot be
too often repeated or two greatly EN-
| MIA sized II is q great trllth