Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-07-30
vice presidency if he can.

vice presidency it he can.
Marks Mot.
Mark Twain, the most illustrious liv-
ing Missourian, once said, Human ma
ture is very strong, and we all have a
heap of it in u.s. That is a saying so
sensible that it is fit to rank with Lord
Bacon's 'Wisdom of the Ancients" and
with King Solomon's proverbs. This |
line of thought has been suggested by |
recent occurrences which are matters
of common knowledge and which utter
ly refute the theory that lynching male
factors is a recreation peculiar to the
southern states.
Surely Delaware is not southern
state, and lynehing was pulled off
with great eclat recently in Whining
ton. her chief city, right under the ven
cradle nose of Philadelphia. The lynch |
ing was done in the manner most
dreaded by mortal manly burning!l
And a race war was almost precipitat-
ed.
Illinois is clearly q northern state
with an overwhelming Republican ma
jority Yet a lynehing bee was pulled
off with as much skill and enthusiasm
as could have been exhibited by an ag-
gregation of enraged citizens in Kansas
or Colorado, Mississippi or Louisiana.
Governor Dick Yates from Berlin, Ger
many, condemns it, but Acting Gov
ernor Northcutt at Springfield, ILL.,, is
not tearing his shirt about it. Senator
Albert j. Hopkins has recently ex-
pressed his regrets that Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and South Carolina
no longer send colored representatives
to congress, but did it never occur to
the Titianesque haired senator that II
linois should send one?
At Evansville, Ind, the home town
of Congressman Hemenway, who is
said to be slated for the next chairman
ship of the committee on appropria-
tions, there is actually racial war on.
Judge Crumpacker ct id genus omne
should bestir themselves.
These modern instances" are cited
not by reason of any race prejudice,
but to demonstrate the truth of Mark
Twains mot, that human nature is
very strong, and we all have heap Of
it in u.s."
A Friendly Kaiser.
More than once heretofore in these
letters l have called attention to the
evident fact that Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany desires to be on good terms
with the United States. For several
years lot of anglomaniacs have been
doing their level best to get America
and Germany into quarrel, if not into
war. The kaiser has taken great pains
to cultivate cordial relations with us
He sent his brother Prince Helry to
tour this country. which he did amid
universal applause. He made thou
sands of friends for himself and the
fatherland.
Recently our fleet under Admiral Cot
ton visited the German fleet at Kiel
and there was great rivalry among the
officers and men of the two fleets as to
which should outdo the other in kind
ness and in hospitality The kaiser
himself took Il prominent part and
made a speech at a banquet in answer
to one made by the American ambas
sador, Charlemagne Tower. No one
can read the kaiser's speech without
being convinced that he is true friend
to the United States. Here it is:
In responding to your excellency's warm
and sympathetic toast | offer a cordial
welcome to the American squadron, Ad-
miral Cotton and his officers in the name
of the German people. We look upon
them as the bearers of the friendly senti-
ments of the citizens of the United StateS
to which can assure your excellency the
whole of Germany heartily responds.
am happy that my hopes for a better
mutual understanding between our two
countries, through the personal inter-
course which my brother Prince Henry
was able to hold with your excellency's
countrymen, have been fully realized and
have strengthened the bonds of friendship
between Germany and America.
That my gifts of casts of medieval Ger
man architecture have been received in so
gracious a manner by Harvard gives me
the greatest satisfaction. I hope that the
samples relating to our old history will
entice many young students to come over
and study the originals and the people
who live around them.
MY sincerest wish is that our two peo-
pies may become yet closer acquainted.
No serious citizen in America or Ger
many. 1 trust, believes that the harmony
and continuance of our mutual interests
could be disturbed by permanent factors
in our relationship. We are knit too close
ly together to allow of the development of
any antagonism 1t is my firmest convic-
ton that the fact of so many thousands
of Germans living and thriving in the
United States with their hearts still warm
with their love of their old fatherland
will render the task more easy Of smooth
ing the path of undisturbed and progress
| i've relations which are of vital impor-
tance to our countries
1t is now my duty to beg your excel
lency to thank his excelIency the presi-
| dent of the United States for this joyous
| occasion, for which we are indebted to his
kindness. We all over here admire his
| firmness of character, his iron will, his
| devotion to his country and his indomita-
BILE energy, and we readily grasp the hand
| proffered to us across the sea in cordial
| friendship, feeling at the same time that
| blood is thicker than water.
Gentlemen, 1 propose the toast of his
| excellency the president of the United
| States. God bless him and the United
| States!
Has the Turn Come?
Every one conversant with history
| knows that prosperity and adversely
waves move in something of a circuit.
People learn little by experience. Pros
perity comes; everybody begins plung-
ing; everybody gets heels over head into
| debt; everybody predicts that prosper
! ity will not only continue, but increase;
some big operator ''busts;" suddenly a
panic ensues; nearly everybody else
"busts' or is crippled financially; ev-
erybody begins economizing; every
body cuts luxuries out; everybody
wears out his old clothes; everybody
liquidates; things reach bedrock; times
| begin slowly to improve, because they
must; the economical habits formed
! during the hard times enable people
| to have some cash ahead; then plung-
| ing, going in debt, gambling, panic
same old round
Has our prosperity reached the flood
| and is it on the ebb? 1t seems SO.
| Even the Globe Democrat confesses to
one sign, as follows:
| Contrary to the general expectation OF
| six months ago, the railway construction
| of the past half year has not equaled that
| of the corresponding time in 1902. Last
years record for the half year was 2.sl4
JOHN j.