Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-06-29

is always and under all circumstances
a matter for congratulation all round
IF it ends in the disintegration of the
| Quay Penrose state machine so much
the better. A corrupter institution
never existed
At Last.
The Washington Post says editori-
ally, sour next war will be for our
colonies" That's a mournful declara-
ton and true. IT'S true, and pity It's it's
true. 1t has taken seven years for the
Post, brilliant as it is, to discover what
some duller folks knew in 1898. When
the Hawaiian grab, forerunner of the
Philippine iGiocy, was before congress
seven years ago this month, the Post
yelled at the top Of its voice for the
senseless grab and denounced all of US
who fought that un-American scheme
as little Americans" etc. 1t says now
what we said then. Nothing short of
the roar of Togo's guns seems to have
aroused it to a full realization of the
hole into which we deliberately plunged
ourselves. "Our next war will be for
our colonies Yea, verify. And what
are those colonies worth to us? Moth
ing whatsoever. They are milestone
about our neck and always will be I'M
til they plunge us into our next war;"
when we will probably go out Of the
colony business.
When the Hawaiian grab was in
fiagrante and a reason was demanded
for annexing the lepers we were told
that we could not exist year in safety
unless Pearl harbor, at Honolulu, was
not only ours. but fortiied-which was
a palpable fable, for we had existed
III safety for more than century with
out owning Pearl harbor. What
want to ask the jingoes-and they are
all invited to answers this: IF our
safety depends on owning and fortify-
ing Pearl harbor, how does it happen
that we have owned Pearl harbor for
seven years and have never done q
thing toward removing the bar forth
flying tie harbor or in any way improv-
ing that harbor On which it was said
that the salvation of the republic de-
pended" Did those who in June, 1893,
asserted that we could not live or move
or have our being without Pearl har-
Dor n ssreIreseat the facts w;llEully or
by reason Of ignorance? "Our next
war will be for our colonies!'' That
is a sickening prospect surely. The
Post is a little late seven years late, in
fact-but it deserves credit for waking
up and sounding the toesin at last It is
ahead Of the other annexationists in
getting its eyes open.
Here is the whole paragraph from
the Post, which contains as much food
for reflection as can be found in so few
words printed in the last ten years
Japan's victory against Russia makes
our duty plain. We must be rid of our
colonies or get a navy second to none.
Our next war will be for our colonies.
England is tickled to death. She thinks
we viii need her. Some of our own folks
seem to think so too.
OF course England is tickled to
DEATH She's Bean ticls,el ever since
we played the part Of Sat Loyingood's
daddy by turning id fool and go
ing into her line of business land
grabbing She has always boosted
that we negotiated the idiotic treaty
of Paris under the protection of Eng
lish guns--a thing which tickled all the
Anglomaniacs in this country half to
death It's a pity that it didn't tickle
them entirely to death, for of all the
addle pated marplots living under our
flag they are the worst
England is tickled to DEATH OF
course. She is delighted to think that
she will use us to pull her chestnuts
out of the fire. She cnce had the Phil
ippines and gave them away--the only
land she ever voluntarily relinquished
but she is glad to see US load our
selves up with what she had sense
enough to abandon She longs for d
hard and fast coalition between Eng
land, America and Japan, and she'll
get it If the Republican jingoes con-
tinue in power those jingoes who rate
Washington, Jefferson and all the
statesmen prior to 1893 as old fogies.
Since the Post published that bald
and courageous paragraph above quot
ed Governor ]. A. T. Hull, representa-
tive in congress from Des Moines, Ia,
ought to pluck up courage enough to
crawl out of his hole and retract his
retraction of his interview about our
having war with Japan unless we
sell her the Philippines. The original
interview was the most sensible ut
ferance by all odds that Hull ever
made, but at the first broadside from
lingo organ he took to cover, swear