Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-31
Chinese Trade.

pOtGuildIl Gtc.s hdS DFUkG4 OuI again.
this time on the burning question of
our trade with China Evidently he
has been lying awake Of nights inyit-
ing insomnia BY Fostering his noddie
over the way we have mistreated the
disciples Of Confueius. He seems to-
carey around a false impression that
the American people should smack
tne.r lips and pronounce delightful any
thing thar IL nkes He is stuck on
John Chinaman and, ergo, everybody
else shouie be The way he comes to
champion the Chinese against Amer
leans is that be resided among them
ter years IL the orient. It may posi-
biz De That whan the rest OF rs have
sad j similar experience we may ac-
quire sllnliar tastes, but it is well for
Hon John to wake up to the fact that
tha rest OF us are not likely to reside
len years il the orient on a good fat
salary, hence are not liable to acquire
his Vitiated tastes. In passing it may
be remarked that he belongs to that
class of public men who could not be
elected dog PETERS, but who manage
nevertheless TO bag desirable positions.
How he manages to do it, like the
peace of God. passeth all understand
ing. Why he should be a fayorite of
administration after administration is
a profound mystery Why he IS not
compelled to remain at his diplomatic
post and discharge the duties for which
he draws salary is another mystery.
Somehow or somehow else he manages
to play in unending good luck to keep.
himself constantly in the limelight.
He thinks, or be thinks he thinks,
that the Chinese boycott is a dreadful
thing, and he pronounces the yellow
peril wild chimera and tommyrot.
This was the substance of his speech
at the Portland exposition What
American laborers will think of his
remarks remains to be seen. Unless
they have changed their minds radical
" since the last Chinese exclusion bill
was passed, what they will do to the
politician and party that undertake
to let down the bars so that Chinese
coolies may come in ad libitum will be
a-plenty. Perhaps after this last break
on the part of the Hon. John the presi-
dent may find it feasible to muzzle
him-a great desideratum.
The Kansas City Times and Star are
exploiting "The Morals of Seneca
THE Philosophy of Epictetus'' and
1.-THE Letters Of Lord Chesterfield to
His Son. these hot days. There is
much interesting reading matter in
these ancient and more or less famous
documents. 1t will do its clientele
good to peruse them-more good than
most of modern literature, if repro
duced. would accomplish. Old Ben
Franklin once amazed the wits and
savants of Paris by reading to them
the book of Ruth, which he pretended
and which they believed to be new
work which sly Ben had picked up.
The Times and Star might enliven
things or the Kaw by reprinting ex-
cerpts from the Bible.
Great guns. How have the mighty
fallen! Philadelphia papers now re-
fer to the senatorial seat held by Boies
Penrose as vacant. Nothing quite so
sarcastic has been said by anybody
in the City of Brotherly Love since
Benjamin Franklin shufied off this
mortal coil Evidently Matthew Stan
ley Quay made serious mistake when
he bequeathed his mantle to Penrose.
1t doesn't fit him any better than
James j. Jeffries' mantle would fit
Tom Thumb.
When Hon. Elihu Root read Hon.
Serene e. Payne's glowing nomination
Of Secretary Taft for president, which
Hon. Serene made betwixt the wal
nuts and the wine in faraway Manila,
he most probably recalled Tennyson's
lines:
Oh. would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me-
That performance by Brother Payne
seems to have stirred up bad blood in
Washington, for they are talking Of
taking away from him the titular lead
ership of the majority in the house,
which would be as severe blow to
him as 1t was to Ii Hung Chang
when be was stripped of his yellow
Jacket.
Hon Joseph I Bristow, late fourth
assistant postmaster general u bis re.
tirement in rural Kansas could give
some valuable pointers as to what II
costs Republican statesman to set up
as a reformer. He was ordered to In
vestigate corruption In the postoffice
department, and be was guileless
enough to take that assignment seri
ously. Consequently he proceeded to
investigate, and as result he was
divorced from the public service In
the Republican lexicon reform means
whitewash.
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