Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-03-17
Their Ok e0red.

Their Ok Gored.
The American Publishers associa.
ton few weeks ago convened in
New York and adopted unanimously
resolutions calling on the Republican
administration to enforce the anti
ts:ssst lazy against against The &, paper ssgB trust
They also declared ia favor of remov-
ing the tariff duties on pulp ana white
paper. Perhaps majority Of that as
ISOLATION certainly large per cent
are Republicans, and their action
would appear anomalous did we not
remember Mark Twain's philosophy to
the effect that human nature is very
strong and that we all have a great
deal Of it in us. The members of the
Publishers association, whether Re
publicans or Democrats, constitute no
exception to the rule Very much de-
ponds on whose OK is gored, and the
paper and wood pulp trusts gore the OK
Of the Publishers association; hence
this high kick. OF course the paper
and wood pulp trust is no worse than
the salt trust, the nail trust, the coal
trust, the lumber trust, the beef trust
and the whole brood of trusts When
consumers of the articles controlled by
trusts in general have raised a howl
these same Republican editors who
now split the welkin with their protest
against the extortions of the paper
trust have looked on with a sardonic
grin upon their faces and have about
as much sympathy for the victims as
the old woman had for the eels squirm-
ing in her hot skillet. In three con
crosses l have introduced bills to place
wood pulp, white paper and all the in
gradients entering into their compost
ton on the free list-one Of the propo-
sitions now urged by the American
Publishers association as q remedy
for trusts. Did the Republican men,
bers thereof aid me any? Not that
anybody heard of. Now the iron en-
tiers their souls and am glad of it. In
the Fifty-ffth congress they would
have had to line up only eight Repub-
lican members to have passed my bill,
for every Democratic member would
have supported It most heartily, and
no man in his senses doubts for one
moment that the Republican members
of that association could have dashed
that many Republican representatives
and more into supporting my bill.
intend to give them another chance by
introducing the bill again in few
days, and, as am now on the commit
tee on ways and means, ] will endeav-
or to force it to a yea and nay vote
in the committee and see how the
eleven Republican members Of that
committee stand on that proposition
on the eve of an election. All the Re
publican members Of the American
Publishers association are hereby
most cordially and urgently invited to
train their guns on Hon. Serene e.
Payne and his ten Republican brethren
on that committee, and if they do not
do SO they should forever hold their
peace.
Commenting on the aforesaid resolu-
tons of the American Publishers as
ISOLATION, the New York Commercial
remarks very pertinentIy:
1t was to be expected that Democratic
publishers would encourage such move
ment but 1t was hardly expected that
men who are constantly preaching the
benefits and advantages of protection
would desert their colors merely because,
for the moment, they might profit there
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