Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-07-23
NUMBER 81

the Americans to which they were ex-
posed. In referring to the schemes of a
union of the continental European pow
ers against England and the United
States he said that this was Impractical
bic and also needless. Europe has moth
ing to fear from the industries of Eng
land, he said. 1t has much to fear from
those of the United States. but hostile
commercial combinations on the part Of
Europe would not avail The whole Of
Europe he declared, could not success
fully compete with the United States
save by force of arms" and he added
that s'by shutting off exports of cotton
the United States could paralyze Eu-
ropean industries" Here is an aspect of
the American menace to Europe which
had not received much attention from the
United States.
A Lesson From Gainesville.
Under the above heading the Wash
ington Post. Independent, with Repub-
ncan tendencies, prints the following
sensible editorial. which should have
the widest possible circulation;
The terrible calamity which befell
Gainesville. Ga. a week or so ago has
not been wholly without its compensa-
tions. Three negro churches. the negro
schoolhouse and fifty or sixty dwellings
occupied by colored people were destroyed
by the tornado, leaving some 500 negroes
homeless and practically penniless Yet
Professor Booker T. Washington has re-
ceived from the colored clergymen of
Gainesville a dispatch containing the in
formation that tthe white people are
feeding and clothing the destitute" They
naturally want money to rebuild the
churches, but 1.-The white people" are TAX
ing care of the afflicted negroes and see
ing to it that they do not suffer from a
lack of any of the necessities of life.
1t would perhaps be too much to hope
that this specie Gle of human kindness and
practical sympathy will have the slight
est effect upon the northern demagogues,
whether of the pulpit or the press or the
stump, who spend their time lying about
race hatred and persecution at the south.
They are engaged in an agitation which
contemplates not the employment but the
perversion of truth. What they want is
license of the unbridled variety to work
upon the passions and prejudices of the
ignorant or the evilly disposed and to
keep themselves in the public eye at any
cost Fortunately the white people of the
south do not trouble themselves over the
activities of these crazy mischief makers.
The civilization of the south is in good,
strong hands, and its works of charity
are not intended for display.
But the honest men and women of the
north, who happen to be in a majority OF
about nine-tenths or more, will not fail to
appraise this incident at it's proper value
and significance should it be brought to
their attention And they will be at no
loss to realize the difference between the
quiet, unpretentiouS sincerity of the south
ern whites good works and the wicked
purpose of their northern traducers. The
Gainesville instance is only one In thou
sands 1t is merely an isolated illustra-
ton of an all prevailing fact.
Hat Etiquette.
For long time the papers have had
much to say as to hat etiquette, as to
when, where and how men should tip
their hats or take them clear off to
women. Now the New York Press in
dites this essay as to men taking of
their hats in the presence of each 9TH
er. no woman being present:
Tipping the hat is rare thing among
men when there are no women around A
few fine old fellows cherish the habit of
tipping to each other and to strangers
when introduced, but ordinarily the hand
never touches the brim. In business Of
fees there Is no sort of etiquette. Men in
the sweep and rush of business have no
time to give thought to hats. But certain
decencies should prevail. On entering a
private office look at the head OF the oc-
cupant If he has his hat on, keep yours
on; if his hat is off, remove yours The
removal of your hat is a compliment and
a courtesy and does not indicate that you
are inferior or subservient. Henry H.
Rogers, one of the most active of men,
being a Standard Oiler, always takes off
his hat when he enters business Office.
Pie and Purtanism.
Life seems to think there is a dis
tinct relation existing between the time
honored New England pie and the case
hardened New England disposition.
Hearken to Life:
The decadence of Puritanism is chiefly
due to various preparations of sawdust
being eaten for breakfast throughout New
England instead of the cold pie which
was formerly the piece de resistance of
the matutinal meal there
Cold pie eaten at breakfast gets in it's
work while yet the nervous force, re-
cruited by sleep. is largely unspent. The
result is the fierce, aggressive hatefulness
that is the very life of Puritanism.
But cold pie for lunch or dinner merely
brings on a gloomy and profitless apathy
1t might as well never be eaten, from the
religious point of view.
1t is worth any mans while TO eat cold
pie for breakfast a time or two if only in
order to appreciate the fine irony of Bax-
ter's Saints Rept."