Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-26


said, but upon the arduous greatness of
things done" That would make a
magnificent epitaph for Grant, and if
Nicholas Of Russia keeps up his pres
ent lick it would also be a fitting epi-
taph for him. His great ancestor, Peter
the Great, judged by what he did
rather than by what he said, was one
of the greatest men that ever lived. He
took a savage people and placed them
far on the road to civilization. The
most remarkable fact in his remarka-
BILE career is that while he civilized
| others he remained a savage till the
| day of his death. He laid broad and
deep the foundations of Russia's great
| ness and planted in his peoples minds
and hearts the ambition of one day
possessing Constantinople, perform
| ance which they will achieve. From
Peter the Great to Nicholas few of the
czars have done anything worthy of
remembrance. Perhaps the greatest
single act was the emancipation of the
serfs by Alexander. Truth to tell, the
Romanoffs are a cranky, violent set.
| Most of them have been murdered.
| Some of them were crazy. Even Peter
| the Great suffered from epileptic fits
all his days. Since Peter no czar has
| approached Nicholas in the beneicence
| of his deeds, and he is young yet and
there is no predicting what benefcent
things he may accomplish for his coun-
! try. The Hague conference was a
great conception and will undoubtedly
| hasten the time when swords will be
| beaten into plowshares and sheaths
into pruning hooks. BLESSED are the
peacemakersw But the recent acts of
Nicholas in granting religious freedom
| and even a rudimentary constitution
| upon Russia will have far greater
immediate effect upon his subjects than
| The Hague conference. Most assuredly
he is a strange autocrat and is really
doing better than many rulers who are
not denominated autocrats
LittIefieids List.
A Democratic paper says:
sit will be difficult for the Republic
| ans to run away from the trust issue in
future or to deny, as did Senator Han
ma in 1900 that there are any trusts
One of their leading congressman, Hon.
/ Charles E. Littlefield of Maine, whom
| the administration last year selected to
present the simon pure antitrust bill in
| congress, has settled this discussion in
| his party Mortified perhaps because
his bill was shelved by the trusts which
| controlled his party, he resolved to hit
| them and their agents in congress a
back handed swipe which would make
| them gasp for breath. He got together
and published in the Congressional Rec
ord a list of trusts'-not corporations
simply, but real trusts = which fills
more than six pages of the Congress
sional Record. He says of this list that
it contains the grand total capitaliza-
| ton of nearly $14,000,O000 These
totals are fully 33 per cent larger than
those of any other list hitherto pub
lished'
"This list puts in the shade any list
published by the Democrats or in any
| almanac or yearbook. 1t must make
Senator Hanna's hair curl to see this
list put into the Record by a great Re
publican. Had the list included rail
roads, practically all of which are now
merged so that they do not compete
with each other, about $11 11,000,000,000
more of capital would have been add
ed, making a total of $25, 000,000000 of
capital in trusts and monopolies.
"As the total wealth of this country
is about $90,000,000O and as about
two-t thirds of all this is in real estate
and Improvements and farm animals,
implements and products, it is evident
that the trusts have nearly completed
their work, so far as the manufactur-
ing and the natural monopoly indus
tries are concerned Hereafter they
must turn to the farms, the water and
the air if the trusts wish new worlds
to conquer
eve now understand why the cost of
| living is going up and is greater than
ever at this season of the year, accord
ing to Dun's index number of com
modify prices for Feb. 1. The trusts
are gradually putting on the pressure
and giving us all we will stand. They
have the power and could screw prices
up higher, but they prefer to proceed
cautiously and judiciously. Give them
time, and they will squeeze the last
dollar out of us and have us mortgageG
so heavily that our children, if they
submit as meekly and supinely as we
do, will be hopelessly bonded and COM
PEELED to pay tribute to the trusts, which
will own all on, above and below the
surface of the earth
'We do not need fieldglass to see
that Littlefields 800 trusts hang like
an ominous cloud on our political and
industrial horizon"
Two Senators.
At the opening of the extraordinary
session of the senate of the United
States the observed of all observers, the
cynosure of all eyes, were Reed Smoot,
Republican, of Utah, and Arthur Pue
German, Democrat, of Maryland. The
reasons why people craned their necks
to see Smoot were entirely different
from the reasons why they strained
their eyes to see German. The atten-
ton paid to the Republican Smoot was
result of the prurient desire to see
any monstrosity in the animal king
dom, such as white elephant, a dog
with two tails, child with four legs
or a polygamist prophet and apostle.
The curiosity to see Arthur Pue Cor
man was an honest, genuine, heartfelt,
spontaneous tribute to a great leader,
the leader of a great party, the great
est parliamentary leader of this age,
who has been in banishment for four
years and who now returns to his prop
er place in the counsels of the party of
Jefferson and Jackson. The heart of
the great Marylander must have thrill
ed with pride at the outburst of popu-
lar applause which marked his return
to the house of the conscript fathers.
AS he held up his hand to be sworn in
many mind went back to the time
when by almost superhulnan skill he
defeated the hateful and infamous
force bill, and blessings without stint
were poured upon his shapely head
j The Democrats of the senate made
him their leader, vice Senator James
/ JOHN j.
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