Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-19


have to cripple herself terribly in order to
maintain the necessary supply. After de-
scribing the magnificent financial ability
at the back of the unequaled facilities for
handling, transportation, ETC., in this
country, Sir Henry says:
Business, Not Sentiment.
"On it's financial side the American
wheat market is elaborated to perfection,
and among the grain men of the north
west are capitalists of the first magnitude
and trained business intellects of the first
order whose main object in life is to pile
up the dollars whenever they see the
chance. In a word, everything that
knowledge, experience, organization and
capital can do is done and is ready to hand
in order to capture the wheat market of
the world should opportunity arise. The
machinery is there all ready to start when
the proper time comes. A great naval
war in which England was engaged would
in all probability give that opportunity.
Imagine the Baltic and Black sea ports
closed to commerce for a few months.
Imagine the Indian, Australian and Ar
gentine long sea routes endangered. Such
events are not wildly improbable. Under
these circumstances if any one supposes
that friendly feeling on the other side of
the Atlantic would prevent our American
cousins from endeavoring, as individuals,
to make money out of our national neces-
stiles. then to my mind they greatly mis-
read the American character and alto
gether misunderstood transatlantic busi-
ness principles.
In other words, Sir Henry Seton Karr
believes that we love England about as
devotedly as he knows England loves US
and that our international relations are
on business and not sentimental basis.
1t may be objected that he knows nothing
about our deep affection for his country
as manifested at Homeric commercial
banquetS, diplomatic love feastS and in
society demonstrations of all kinds. But
to this we reply that he does know about
his side about the London Morning Post
the Saturday Review and about the prev
alent feeling of the governing class in
England. He appraises our attitude by
the standard of the notorious attitude of
the Conservative leaders and representa-
tives in England, and who, outside of lot
of decayed English noblemen and snob-
bish American bounders, will challenge
his conclusions?
We pass Sir Henry's sneer at the money
making instinct of "our American cous-
ms" Emanating from an Englishman,
it carries with it its own sufficient COM
mentary. The revelation of Importance
is that England depends upon the United
States for the means of feeding her own
population and that all her protestations
of friendship referable to this notori-
Gus fact.
Rryan's UItimatum.
The most important piece of news in
the last ten years comes from Detroit.
1t is important because it comes from
the Hon. William Jennings Bryan and
is as follows:
No Democrat has reason to be despond-
ent. We must not work on the principle
of expediency. We must be sure we are
building on the right ground. There never
was time when there was a greater
need for the application of Democratic
principles than today. Down east, in Del
aware / learned more about some other
things than about future candidates for
the presidency. I found that many Re-
puhlicans were fighting against a man
named Addicks. l found that in some
places three-quarters of the voters had
received money for their votes but
could not draw the line between Addicks,
who wanted to buy a senatorship with his
own money and run it for his own inter-
ests and other men who buy office for a
corporation and run it for the interests of
the corporation. What, my friends, do
you say of men who buy senatorships
with the money of corporations and go to
congress as slaves of the corporations?
The senate would not even take up for
consideration the house bill for control Of
trusts.
These men are worse than Addicks. If
you wanted anything from the Delaware
man, you would talk to Addicks, but in
these other cases you would have to go to
the masters of the officeholder. I can't
draw a distinction between the men who
sell their votes for S. and the one who
makes million trading in party politics.
remember a case where ]. P. Morgan
made millions on a matter of Republican
policy. All the difference between Ad-
dicks and the rest is that he confessed
openly to what others do secretly.
1 have been accused of preventing har-
mony. No man wants harmony more
than I do and no one has suffered more
for lack of it than I have; but you can't
keep in one organization men who want
to cut each others throat. They accuse
me of saying hard things about Cleve-
land. I never said anything about him
30 hard as did President Mckinley, who
said, Cleveland is trying to make money
the master and all things else the serv-
ant"
1 am not ashamed of any humble part
/ may have had in driving out of the
Democratic party a man who tried to
make money the master and everything
else the servant. I want him in some 9TH
er party than ours I would be glad to
help organize one for his exclusive use.
] HS nSPuDuCdH OQLiOONs
The close of congress enables one to
sum up the political situation as far as
the Republicans are concerned, and the
evidence is that President Roosevelt
has pretty good chance to get the Re-
publican presidential nomination. The
Republican politicians are not for Colo
mel Roosevelt, but there can be no ques-
ton that he is strong with the people.
He is the fifth man who has succeeded
to the presidency through the death of
his chief, and if he gets the nomination
he will have established new record.
But there will not be anything strange
about his establishing new record,
because his whole career has been phe-
nomenal. He didn't come into the presi-
dency the way the other vice presidents
did John Tyler, soreheaded Dem
ocrat, was nominated by the Wings.
He had served in both branches of
congress and had a record on every
public question; consequently when he
unexpectedly became president he re-
turned to his first love, Democracy,
and thereby split up the Whig party.
Henry Clay, the most imperious of po-
litical leaders, undertook to lay out a
, programme which was contrary to all
the political opinions Tyler ever had.
OF course this got the administration
and the great leader, Clay, at logger
heads and ended in the utter annihila-
ton of Tyler There was an implaca-
BILE feud between William H. Seward
and Millard Fillmore, which destroyed
the Whig party.
Andrew johnson never claimed to be
a Republican, and it was never thought
that he was. He was war Democrat
and was nominated because General
Benjamin f. Butler declined the nomi-
nation OF course when he became
president he returned to his Democrat
ic principles.
| That Famous 3o6.
The greatest fight that ever took
place for the presidential nomination
was in 1880. The greatest meeting
that ever took place in America was
in Chicago that year The convention
lasted nearly two weeks. Bitterness
was ineffable. On the one hand the
JOHN J..