Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-06-28

moved to lay the Williams appeal on
the table A roll call was had on the
| Tawney motion to table. and his mo-
ton was carried That's chapter No I
of the proceedings of Saturday. June
16. The main feature thereof is the
record vote, out Of which no man can
wriggle, for what's writ Is writ II
that record does not make Democratic
votes; then there is little hope to cut
down even the greatest extortions in
the Dingley rates. But there is more
to follow.
De Almond For Economy.
Shortly after the foregoing proceed
| ings Mr.. DalzeH of Pennsylvania, chief
among the stand patters. reported a
rule to force a vote with forty minutes
debate on the Aldrich amendment re-
ferred to above.
Against that rule Judge De Almond
Of Missouri, one of the ablest Demo-
Gratis in public life, delivered this terse,
| logical and caustic speech:
Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Penn
sylvania IMr. Dalzell] thinks that very
liberal amount of discussion has already.
taken place upon this most important
subject. Incidentally few members yes
terday and incidentally a few members
today for a short time, in the aggregate
I think not equaling sixty minutes talk
ed about this general subject. How many
millions or tens of millions, perhaps even
a hundred millions, of dollars are involved
in it no man knows and no man can say.
Everybody ought to appreciate the fact
that in engaging to construct this Pana-
ma canal we have a great undertaking
upon our hands. Nobody knows how long
the work will last; nobody knows how
much it will cost. All must know that
there will be a considerable consumption
of time running into years and years, and
all can know that there will be hundreds
of millions of dollars expended Every
dollar will come out of American citizen
ship, american labor even, to use the
term employed so affectionately by the
gentleman here. so far as lip service Is
concerned. and treated with such con-
tempt, so far as action goes.
1t would SEEM in general way, that
in providing for this work we ought to
endeavor to arrange to do it as cheaply as
in decency we can do it. That seems TO
be no more and no less than is due to the
American taxpayer, the American citizen,
the American. labcrer. The burden will
be heavy enough at best. It threatens TO
become excessively heavy unless good
mana cement. good judgment, economy
and honesty are exercised throughout 1t
is even possible, great a $ this nation is
and mighty as are its resources; that at
no distant day. ard long before this great
work is completed. the American people
may consi1er seriously the question OF
whether they had not better delay awhile,
in view OF enormous expenditures and let
the completion Of the work await a time
when we shall be even more powerful and
when the contribution can be made with
less tax upon the energy and the SUBJ
stance Of the American people hope
no such time ever will come.
A Momentous Question.
But no one has any assurance that it
may not be so. And no one who has re-
gard for the interests that we have at
stake at home or in Panama-no one who
desires honestly and earnestly the speedy
completion of the great canal or who has
any respect for the rights of the Ameri-
can people-can approach this question, it
seems to me, without a sense of gravity
on account of its vast Importance. Then
why is it that this resolution Is to be
hurried through the house under whip
and spur, without consideration, with a
contemptuous disregard for the duty of
consideration, with an absolute and com
siderations? What is it that this propo-
sition involves? As things are now, the
American president and the American
secretary Of war and the American canal
commission every one of them-like all
the other people of this land, of every par
ty, are disposed to buy Of American man
ufacturers and from American bidders,
as you would do Mr.. Speaker, and /
would do, and as every man here would
do and all Of our constituents would
do following the common, everyday ex-
perience when the purchase can be made
upon as good terms here as can be OBJ
tanned elsewhere.
AS things are now, everything will be
bought from the American manufacturer
unless it ought not to be bought from
him. unless the commission, disposed to
/ buy from him out of a sense Of duty to
the people Of the United States and zeal
Gus for the successful completion of this
great undertaking, deliberately decide
against their own inclination that it
ought not to be DONE There is no need
of protection in this direction. There is
no need Of an admonition to buy from
Americans Everything will be bought Of
American manufacturers without legisla-
ton that ought to be bought of them at
| all, as 50 per cent of all canal supplies
| have thus far been bought from them.
An Outrage Upon Labor.
What, then, is the object Of this resolu-
ton to hamper the president, the seere-
| tary Of war, the canal commission-every-
body who has anything to do with this
matter-by virtue Of which they wifi be
under a degree of compulsion to buy from
| the American manufacturer at the Amer
| lean manufacturers prices, with very lit
tie regard to what prices are elsewhere
| or what necessary supplies might be
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