Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-12-03

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a gem. Occasionally it renders vaIu
able service to mankind in philosophy
literature and humor Recently 81
made a discovery in letters, or. rather
in song, which will astound the public
bringing joy to a few and poignans
regret to many.
For several decades the one song
loved and sung by all the English
speaking race, without reference to.
politics. religion, nationality or resi-
dence, is Home, Sweet Home" That
has been the prime fayorite at every
theater and opera house on the face of
the earth wherever the language Of
John Milton, William Shakespeare and
Thomas Darlington MacauIay is spoken
or understood. Thousands of weary
wanderers in foreign lands have SOL
aced themselves with the best beloved
of all ballads It has cheered the sol
dier marching to battle, the Jack Tar
upon the sea, the searcher for the
commerce in every quarter of the
world Along with the martial airs of
England, Home, home, sweet, sweet
home" has belted the globe. During
all these years millions of people have
believed fondly that John Howard
Payne wrote that immortal song and
so believing, have blessed his name.
He died an American consul in 4 for
eign land, consulship conferred upon
him because a president of the United
States, a secretary of state and a SEN
ate believed that he was the author.
For long, long time he slept in a
humble grave across the Atlantic. far,
far indeed from all that he loved while
tabernacling in the flesh. Later his
admirers in America no, not admirers;
that is too tame, too feeble, too cold q
word to apply to the feeling entertain
ed for him; lovers is the proper term,
his lovers in America determined that
his bones should be brought home and
should rest in American soil until that
great day when the quick and dead
shall be summoned to appear at the
judgment bar of God. 1t was the
unanimous demand of the home build
ers, the home preseryers and the home
lovers of the republic. The demand
was needed by the powers that were,
and the remains of John Howard
Payne were reyerently, tenderly and
proudly borne home in a battleship and
laid away in historic ground at the
expense Of a mighty nation whose
great, pulsing heart he had stirred to
the very depths
And today (Thanksgivin as I write.
nowhere that the American flag flies
on no spot where an American lives.
will family of our blood sit down to
its dinner without thinking kindly of
John Howard Payne, not because he
was a consul, but because they believe
be wrote Home, Sweet Home
But according to the Kansas Cisy
Journal the whole world has been de-
ceiying itself for, 10, these many years
as to the authorship of the tenderest
of all songs Our affections have been
misplaced. A nation dug up the mold
ering dust Of the wrong man and
brought it home.
The Journal has made the astounding
discovery that Tom Paine and not John
Howard Payne wrote Home, home,
sweet, sweet homer
Now, having started into the business
of making literary finds, perhaps the
Journal will settle for us the vexed
question Of the authorship of ssThe Let
ters of Junius, The Beautiful Snow, z
There's No Pocket In a Stroud" etc
Tom Paine wrote Common Sense
.'The Age of Reason and other books
but Missourians at least will not be-
lieve that he wrote Home, Sweet
Home until they are shown.
| The Deficiency Of 1893.
On the 10Th of November, in discuss
ing the Cuban reciprocity bill, Hon
Serene e. Payne, chairman Of the ways
and means committee. repeated the Re
publican stock argument to which
there is no foundation in fact, that the
Wilson tariff bill produced the deficien
cy in the treasury in 1893.
l made up my mind that ! would
clear up that for all time, and in doing
SO made the following remarks and
cited the following documents:
always listen to my distinguished
friend, the chairman of this committee
/ fMr. Paynel, with pleasure. sometimes
/ with amazement and frequently with awe.
! There was one paragraph in his speech
i yesterday which constitutes what Horace
Greeley would have denominated mighty
rich reading. I will read it to you:
Under the Wilson bill we had fallen
behind in the revenue, and the object of
Republican bill always is to produce
revenue as well as protection. Demo-
cratic bill, as. for instance the Wilson
German enormity, was neither protective
| nor did It supply sufficient revenue to
support the government. It was wrong
at both ends. They profess the principle
of tariff for revenue only, with incidental
protection. They did not get the protec-
ton Incidental nor did they get the reve-
! nue. under their BILL and so it is that we
put the rate Of duty higher on sugar than
was absolutely necessary because we could
i get this splendid revenue from the sugar
duty, revenue that came from the people