Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-08
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Letter
Especial Washington Letter.


n A WITHOUT any purpose Of be
WW ing impertinent, wish to
" " call the attention of the
members of the Antilynch-
ing society of Boston to the fact that
they are not actively engaged in the
discharge of their duties. AS long
as the lynching industry was con-
fined principally to the south they
made the welkin ring with their de-
nunciations; but, for some unexplained
reason, when the elite of Marion,
Mass, turned White Cappers. were ac-
quilted and were given an ovation
upon their return home the Boston re-
formers were strangely silent, thereby
and therein once more illustrating the
truthfulness of the old saw that very
much depends upon whose OK is gored.'
It is pity that the Boston antilynch-
ers should have let that golden oppor-
tunity escape to point moral and adorn
tale. They are about to let another
one escape them. On Christmas day
certain irate citizens of Pittsburg, in
bleeding Kansas. where old John
Browns soul is supposed to be forever
marching on, battered down the Jail
doors, took from his cell one Montgom-
cry Cooley and publicly put him to
death. Cooley, whose crime bellies his
name, had killed policeman engaged
In the discharge of his duties, which is
not SO diabolical q deed as rape, the
fecund cause Of southern lynchings.
And Cooley was a negro! Only think
of that, ye Boston anitlynchers! Here
Is concatenation of events calculated
to stir the hearts of reformers- bleed
ing Kansas lynching colored man for
murder! Up, reformers, and at them!
Isn't the outgoing governor of Kansas,
Stanley, a Republican? Isn't the in
coming governor, Bailey, Republic
an2 Perhaps these things account for
the mystifying inactivity of the Boston
Antilynching society. Its crusade is
against southern Democratic states.
When Doctors Disagree.
The trust question is certainly one
of the most difficult that ever vexed
the human mind. Most people are
against the trusts. Nearly everybody is
suggesting a remedy. No two appear
to agree, and the trusts grow apace.
Congress appropriates $500,O00 to prose
cute cut Il the trusts one week, and the next
III =
Knox in his Pittsburg speech thought
there is already plenty of law to bust
the trusts, while President Roosevelt
thinks it may be necessary to adopt a
constitutional amendment in order to
bust them. Not long since Senator John
T. Morgan thought they could be reg
ulated and controlled through the tax
ing power, which Chief Justice Mar
shall declared is the power to destroy.
Now comes Senator Morgan and prac-
tically throws up bis hands and asserts
that both the old parties have acted
hypocritically as to the trusts and that
1t may be necessary to establish new
party to deal with them. The venerable
senator from Alabama appears to be in
the same frame of mind in which Nine.
Pompadour found herself when she ex-
claimed. "After us the deluge!' only
she said it in French. AS the new party
would be made up of persons who com.
pose the old ones, the senator's latest
programme holds out precious little
hope to suffering humanity. AS be has
tabernacled In the flesh considerably
more than the psalmist's allotment OF
threescore years and ten, he ought to
know that hope deferred maketh the
heart sick and propose something more
practical and expeditions than the
formation Of new party.
Mr.. H. 0. Havemeyer says that the
high protective tariff system is the
mother Of all trusts, and he ought to
know something about it, for he is
president Of one of the largest and
worst in the land On the other hand,
President Roosevelt thinks that there
is no sort of connection between the
tariff and the trusts. Clearly it is n
case of many men of many minds, in
which even the most eminent doctors
disagree Senator George Graham
Vest in an elaborate article practically
comedies with Hayemeyer as to cause
and effect between the tariff and the
trusts. The main points of Senator
Vests interview are as follows:
The greatest menace that threatens this
country today Is in combinations of capi-
tai that have monopoly for their object
The argument of the protectionists that
equally great trusts exist in free trade
England is false. absolutely.
No monopoly can exist in great staple
of commerce where competition is open to
the world.
The first step In an honest attempt to
correct the evils from which we suffer Is
to remove the protection the tariff gives
to monopolies and force them into world
competition.
The protective tariff is intermutuality OF
greed. Let any attempt be made to re-
move the protection afforded one industry
and every industry that feeds on protec-
tion will cry out in pain.
The accredited author of the Dingley
saw admitted the rates were unnecessarily
high, yet the Dingley rates are now held
sacred, and their continuance is demanded
by the interests that have gluttoned on
them
Refusal to reduce the tariff rates leaves
congress with but weak weapons with
which to fight monopoly
The act of 1880 represents the limit OF
constitutional authority Of congress to
regulate trade between the states.
Resort to the simple subterfuge OF sell
Eng goods to second party and disown-
ing knowledge of what became of then
! after they left the factories will at any
time render the so called Sherman Law
insufficient to cope with trusts.
The attorney general may have resource:
of which I know nothing: but. as one Of
the authors Of the act, do not see how
he can conduct successful prosecution!
under the law.
The diff1culty, II not the impossibility, o.
dealing with trusts through remedial leg
islation being established, does 1t not seen
reasonable that the wisest course woulc
be to cut Off the nourishment that has en-
abled them to grow to such ungovernabl,
size?
Whatever may be thought as to thu
soundness Of Senator Vests views, i
must be admitted that he states then
with great vigor.
Presto, Changed
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is to appoint federal Judges, especiall,
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