Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-25
&C e e e e &c e :

OF being one OF the most amiaDle OF
men, is monster in human form. If
he succeeds, he will certainly deserve
well of the republic, and if he fails he
will deserve the praise of having had
the good sense to know what ought to
be done and the nerve to attempt its
| achievement.
Going to the Orient
At last Lieutenant General Nelson A.
Miles is going to the Philippines, whith-
er he should have been sent two or
three years ago if they meant to carry
on war over there, for with all his
| fuss and feathers he is the most ap-
| proved soldier on the American conti-
nent. While neither Miles nor any one
| else says what he is going for. the
| mere fact of his going appears to "a
| locker on in Vienna" as a confession
| that Miles has been right about the
| Philippines all the time. He is the
most successful Indian fighter the
| country ever had. Not only that, but
| successful i'll negotiating with them by
| the arts of peace. Let us fervently
| hope that by his mission to the Philip
pines he will prevent any further eff
| fusion of blood and bring peace to
| those distracted islands,
| General Miles has only one more
year to serve in the army before the
age of retirement. 1t would be strange
indeed if in this one year he should
make more reputation by preventing
war than he has made in his whole
career by making war.
Philippine States.
The Washington Post speaks flip
PANTY of ''insular statehood and at
| great length pokes fun at the idea that
there ever will be any insular states,
and yet that is precisely what there
will be if we retain our insular posses
sions, and every man of good sense
knows it. The conditions under which
| Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines
and the rest of them will be admitted
as states are as follows:
Let one party control the executive,
| the senate and the house; let it come
to the conclusion that it needs few
peterborough electoral votes and SEN
ators. and in they will come.
War to the Knife.
The tariff war in the Republican
party is war to the knife, and the
knife to the hilt. The Globe Democrat
| is one of the most eminent whole hog
gers" Whenever any Republican says
q word in favor of tariff revision the
CD. proceeds to jump on him with
both feet. In a recent editorial the
GID. says:
A Minnesota congressman has been dis
covered who is giving some aid and COM
fort to the tariff smashers According tc
| this person, there is a very strong senti-
ment in Minnesota and other states OF
| the northwest in favor of tariff revision
either in the short session of the present
| congress or in the one which is soon tc
| be elected Several of the Democratic
| papers feel a good deal of encouragement
at this talk. Their predictions as to q
complete overhauling of the tariff sched-
| uleS, they believe, are soon to be realized
These tariff revision maunderings are
not attracting the attention of any con-
siderable number of the Republican vot-
| ers. 1t may be safe enough. as Secretary
| Shaw suggests. for the tariff revisers to
get to work when the friends of protec-
| tion get a sufficient majority in congress
to make them complete masters of the
| situation. SO as to enable them to say
just how far the revising can go. The
majority in the present house may OF
may not be adequate for that, but it is
entirely certain that there is no time for
it. 1t is also reasonably certain. accord
ing to precedent, that the majority in
| the congress soon to be chosen will be
smaller than it is at present. The cleaI
lead of 40 over all which the Republicans
| have in the present house may be re-
| duced TO 20 or % or even below the lower
of these figures in the house which will
| be elected in November.
! All this shows that there is not the
| faintest chance of tariff tinkering earlier
than 1905. If it comes then. The Repub-
licans would not venture upon it in the
| congress which meets in December. 1903, IL
| any case bill passed by that congress
| would not reach the presidents hands
before July 1904, at the earliest. or foui
| months before the election. That act
| would be assailed viciously by the Demo
| Gratis whether they were actually against
it or not The trade disturbance which
| tariff revision always brings even WheT
the revising is done by the friends oi
| protection would turn hundreds of thou
| sands of votes against the Republicans
| throughout the country. The Republican
! leaders will not indulge in this sort OF
folly on the eve of an important election
| If the tariff must be changed, let the
/ congress elected with the president tr
1904 be called to do it by the president
lust as soon as ne is inaugurated on
! March T. 1905.
That the CD. represents the major
ity sentiment among Republicans must
be taken and accepted as true. From
the foregoing quotation it is perfectly
clear that there will be no tariff revi
sion while the Republicans are in pow.
er When the 4th of March, 1905, ar.
rives, should they carry the country in
1904, they will find some other excuse
for further postponement. In fact, the
bulk of the Republicans do not intend
to revise any tariff schedules except te
revise them up, but the above extract
from the CD. contains another state
ment of interest, and that is that the
Republican majority in the next con
present congress.
How About Tawney?
But there is another Republican con-
gresham upon whom the CD. will
nave u NCut It's oplGcH- W VIII, MI
Tawney of Minnesota. Perhaps, how
ever, the CD. will be afraid to jump
Jeems, for he is chairman of the St
Louis exposition committee. Brother
Tawney has opposition for renomina-
ton, and that opposition moves him
to publish card in which he says:
In respect to the tariff and its revision
by congress 1 will say that If elected tc
the Fifty-eighth congress / shall not only
work for a revision along the line of re-
duction of duties. including reduction oi
the duty on lumber, but will say to you
that IL the Republicans control the Fifty
eighth congress there will be such re-
vision of the tariff.
The Republican fire in Brother Taw.
ney's rear must be rather warm in or.
der to force such a declaration out OF
him.
The devil was sick,
The devil a monk would be;
The devil got WELL
The devil monk was he.