Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-09-03

B. Landis of Indiana and Representa-
tive G. II. Grosvenor of Ohio have not
only been leading strenuous life, but
the Republicans hope to win this year
and In 1904. It is the old and falla-
cious argument, Cum hoe. ergo prop
ter hoe" C'Because two things exist to-
gether, one necessarily produces the
other'). OF course it Is preposterous,
but the late Phineas T. Barnum, pro-
prietor OF the greatest show on earth,
always maintained that the American
people love to be humbugged, and he
grew vastly rich and prospered might
lily by living up to and acting on that
cynical theory. He was also author of
the famous dictum that "a sucker is
born every minute Most assuredly
Republican orators have pondered Bar
NUNS words in their hearts and pro-
pose to make them the rule and guide
for their faith and practice.
Talk to them of the criminal folly of
our proconsular government in the
Philippines and they yell at the top
of their voices, Corn was selling at
20 cents bushel in 1896; now it
brings 35r' That's their yell in farm
ing communities. They try to reverse
it In the cities. Tell them that tariff
law which enables an American manu-
facturer to sell his wares abroad to
foreigners for two-thirds of what he
sells them to Americans for is an out
o,,d 10 hr Iod nd
shout, There is $500,00O000 more of
gold in the United States than there
was in 1S96v' They then claim that
the Republicans raised the price Of
corn and made the gold which has been
mined in Alaska, coolly ignoring the
fact that four lean years in Europe put
up the price of our food products and
that Democrats had fully as much to
do in digging that Alaskan gold as Re
publicans had Tell them that our
gold supply has been increased because
the balance of trade has been In our
favor and they at once below them
selves hoarse asserting that Repub-
licans caused the balance of trade to
come our way, thereby virtually claim
ing that Republicans raised every
bushel of wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley
and potatoes, every pound Of beef,
pork, mutton and hay, which we have
shipped abroad to feed hungry Euro
peans in the last five or six years, and
that the millions of Democrats In the
land have sat sucking their thumbs all
that time and hayescontributed nothing
whatsoever to creating the surplus
products Of farm, mine, shop, river
and forest which have enriched our
people. And they expect to win by
pumping such monstrous fables, such
preposterous canards, into the ears Of
sane citizens. 1t is written, Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which
be Cesar's and unto God the things
which be Gods" precept which Re-
publican stumpers blasphemously vio-
late by claiming that Republicans
cause the sun to shine and the rains to
fall, simply because they happen to be
in power
Following voltaire's Advice.
In our debate at the Chautauqua Sen
ator Burton glorified the Republican
party because more boots and shoes are
made and worn by the American peo-
pie now than before the civil war, just
as if 80,000,000 Americans would not
make and wear more shoes than would
100000 Americans under any sort of
administration whatsoever. A man
who uses such an argument as that
must necessarily assume that his audi
ence is largely composed of fools.
Tell them that God grew the trees
for the use of his children and that the
tariff ON lumber is a tax on a prime
necessity of life and retards home
building and the answer is that people
cause the Republicans saved the I'm
iona self evident lie, because it was
all that the Republicans, aided by mil
lions of war Democrats could do to
put down the rebellion: but Voltaire
knew what he was doing when he
cynically declared, Keep ca lying and
some of it will stick
Tell them that trusts should be throt-
tied, and they solemnly and vociferous-
ly asseverate that John Sherman, whom
they would never nominate for presi-
dent, but whom they now apotheosize,
was the author of the Sherman anti
trust law, when every intelligent man
John Sherman, who was not much of
q lawyer, never wrote word of the
so called Sherman antitrust law except
the enacting clause. What John did do
was to introduce a rambling, mean
ingless antitrust law to afford him a
pretext for making vituperative
speech against General Russell A. Al
ger, whom he accused of buying his
southern delegates away from him at
the Chicago national Republican con-
vention of 1888 and whom he hated
worse than he hated Old Nick Sher- |
mans bill was referred to the judiciary
committee of the senate, composed of
great lawyers like George of Mississip-
pi, Vest of Missouri and Hoar of Mas
sachusetts, who could not have been
induced to report such a poorly con-
structed bill. So these illustrious dis
ciples of Blackstone and Kent laid
their beads together and constructed
n law which they substituted for Sher-
mans aud which, with some amend
ments, remains upon the statute books
to this day The Republican campaign
is to be an elaborate and impudent |
Justification and misrepresentation of
the facts of history.
Bad News For Missouri Republicans.
A rumor distressing to the practical
politicians among Missouri Republic |
ans prevails to the effect that Hon.
Richard G. Kerens, having grown
weary Of putting up, is about to close
his barrel at spigot and bung. This
rumor, ii 1t prove true. win have about
the same effect on his followers that
cutting Off their supply Of mamma
would have had on the children Of
Israel, footsore and weary Of wander
Ing In the wilderness. Missouri Re
publicans have become so used to see |