Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12

them that liberty is not license, but
consists in the power of doing that
which just and constitutional laws
permit. Tell them the sad but ever
beautiful, glorious and inspiring story
of the march of their elder sisters
from the night of despotism into the
light of day. Warn them of all the
dangers that beset the journey Let
them know that devotion to the princi-
pies of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and obedience to the constitution
is the only hope of the political saliva
ton of the states and of the perpetuity
of the republic; that the republic itself
rests on the rock of the constitution
and if you shatter not the constitution
the republic can never fall.
LET them know that the greatest
enemy to the Union is the unbroken
and unbridled spirit of party partisan
ship. overriding justice in her tribu-
nails, destroying freedom of speech in
the legislative halls and usurping pow
er for the executive, that profigacy
and corruption are the children of in
tolerant party spirit, that no govern
ment can be purer than the people that
sustain it and that no corrupt people
can long sustain a free government
Caution them that inequality in taxa
ton, injustice in administration, legis-
lation for the advancement of special
interests and the unauthorized assump-
tion of power as the very essence of
corruption are the potent powers in
the destruction of free states.
"And, Mr.. Speaker, when they take
their stand among the great common
wealths that constitute this Union and
look back upon its struggles, its tribu-
lations and its perils, let no page of
that history discourage them, though
upon it may be written in blood the in
fraction of individual rights and the
desecration of commonWealths, for
these are but the cruel markers of the
progress of peoples national growth,
the index to the evolution of govern
ment Let them understand that the
high tide of danger cannot come to
American institutions until the limit of
federal power has been reached and
exhausted and the government shall
be still powerleSS to contend against
the great and gigantic corporat tons
that have grown beyond the control of
law and when it shall assume to itself
inherent powers of sovereignty and no
longer look to the constitution as the
source of power. Then, Mr.. Speaker,
and not till then, an imperial democ-
racy may lift the crown of sovereignty
from the people and place it upon the
head of their tyrant, who in turn will
deliver it to the peoples oppressors.
"If we shall avoid the approaching
dangers, if we shall forever defend and
protect those principles of free govern
ment for which brave men have ever
contended, l warn you that the federal
government must be strengthened by
constitutional amendment to the end
that no power may exist within the
confines of the Union that is greater
than the Union itself; that every power
under the federal constitution must be
exercised to its full limit in the pro-
lection of the masses of the people,
that all men at last may salute the
flag, obey the constitution and move
forward the march of the states in one
great Union to that destiny that awaits
them in mighty republic where truth.
justice and law triumph and liberty,
like day, breaks OH the soul and by a
flash from heaven fires all the faculties
with glorious joy"
A Wise Saying.
% 4I,o TTo IL, ~
in a recent issue of that most excel
lent newspaper did himself proud by
taking fall out of Teddy in the fol
lowing skillful manner: THE lynch
ings in this country are bad enough,
but they do not in the least justify cru
city in the Philippines Clearly that
is intended-not only intended, but
Serves-as an answer to the presidents
Memorial day speech. In this connec-
tion it may be remarked that Senator
John G. Spooner, one of the ablest of
the Republican chieftains, a man who
is universally regarded as a preSiden-
tial possibility, must have felt himself
hard pressed for argument when as q
defense for General Jake Smiths Her
od-like performances he harked back
200 years and dug up the fact that the
Massachusetts legislature offered a
premium on Indian scalps. In the very
same way Senator Spooner could justi-
fly religious persecution, for just about
that time that same Massachusetts leg
islature banished Roger Williams for
preaching the gospel as interpreted by
the Baptist church. Nearly everybody
thanks God that the world has i'm
proved in 200 years-that is, everybody
except the Republican jingoes.
A la the Bull.
Once upon time, so the story runs,
there was a male bovine, possessed of
more courage than discretion, which
made up its mind to butt steam en-
gine off the track, and ''the subsequent
proceedings interested it no more"
Hon. George B. Cox, the hoodlum chief
of Cincinnati is now in frame of
mind to thoroughly sympathige with
that brave but unwise animal. "Coxy,
old boy" bucked up against Marcus
Alonzo Hanna, junior senator from
Ohio and chairman of the national Re
publican committee, and the manner
in which Uncle Mark ran over him is
the sensation of the season i'll Ohio,
eclipsing even the interest in the vol
canic eruptions in Martinique. Haec
fabula docet that Senator Hanna is
fighter from the headwaters of Bitter
creek and that be carries his nerve
with him, fact of which all Repub-
licans harboring presidential booms
would do well to take immediate no
tice. The Kansas boomers indcrsed
Colonel Roosevelt for 1904, but the
Buckeye Republicans simply indorsed
him in a voluble and meaningless sort
of way. They were on to their job
There is no hint in this long and ram
bling platform that they desire to
march under the orifamb of Teddy
in 1904. Quite the contrary. Marcus
understands his business.
cochran's Hot Shot.
In the debate on the subsidiary coin
age bill Colonel Charles Fremont Coch-
ran of Missouri got his dander up and
delivered himself in a manner much
more truthful and emphatic than ele-