Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-05

cGHE&ftEfislltS OF Tue Al6SQlk1 KUWA1
are SO plainly manifest to the land buy
ers who have been entering the state
in an increasing stream from Illinois,
Indiana and Iowa that result is be-
ing seen in the increased confidence
shown by these people They buy land
and go back home to pack up their be-
longings That trip home is q mis-
sionary trip. for they bring others with
them
The Globe-D Democrat tried to show in
recent editorial that lands in Mis-
souri, are much cheaper than similar
lands in Illinois. Unwittingly it for
once did something to help advertise
Missouri favorably. It failed however.
to mention the fact that Missouri
lands have gone up 80 per cent in the
last eighteen months in spite of
Democratic administration. It also
failed to refer to the fact that the
average taxes paid in Missouri on 100
acres Of improved farm land Estate.
county and school taxes is about $13
IN Iowa and Illinois. with their pure
and patriotic Republican admins
trations, it is much nearer $1O0. And
since Missouri can have the most
splendid state institutions on $13, what
becomes Of the immense sums pro
dueed by the high taxation in those
communities where it is the custom to
point the finger of scorn at poor old
Missouri 2? Aye. and on that same $13
we have paid off $45.000,000 of debt
handed down to us by the earpetbag
gers.
Paying off that debt would seem
equal to the seven labors of Hercules,
but Missouri. under Democratic off
GERS, has cleaned up the last dollar Of
it and burned the last bond without
turning hair or repudiating a dollar
of those debts. for which she and her
people received no benefit.
It was told that in Arkansas the car
petbaggers found $4,000 in the school
fund They paid out $4,000 of it in
various ways and concluded the re-
mainder didn't amount to much, any
way. SO they just divided It among
themselves But that was not cir
cumstance to what they did in Mis-
souri,. where it is not stretching the
truth to say they gave away state
railroads to themselves and their
friends.
Old Jerry Black Of Pennsylvania
gave an Indictment against them that
is worthy of a place in the mind of
every lover Of honesty in politics and
of sincerely representative govern
ment. He said. They did that which
the Goths and the yandals could not
do. for they reached their long fingers
into the future and stole the labor of
generations yet unborn
But the carpetbagger, having fed
long since or died or having been
hanged. can no longer steal bonds and
securities However. there are those
left who would even fitch this states
reputation.
The Extra Session.
IT'S done. The extra session is called.
President Roosevelt was like the man
who, having inadvertently asserted
that the horse was seventeen feet high,
stuck to it. The president, having de-
clared he would convene congress in
extraordinary session. has kept his
word despite the protests of many par
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thought Il calling file extra session
70 bolster M if possible! the waning
fortunes of the q q. P. But the
chances are that instead Of being help
cd by If they will be hurt by it-per-
hans wounded past all surgery, to bor-
row 4 phrase from the Bard Of Avon.