Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-02-14
Utterly Futile.

So Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., and
other Massachusetts Republican tariff
reyfSionists are at it agaln-that IS,
they are beseeching the president and
congress to reduce the tariff. Their
effort is utterly futile They might as
well appeal to the Egyptian sphinx for
redress of grievances. Uncle Joe runs
the house Aldrich runs the senate and
the president is SO busy In his war
with Foraker that he has no time TO
consider such a matter as the tariff.
One might as well expect man en-
gagged in life and death struggle with
a grizzly to stop for purposes OF ex-
amining menu card. The Browns
vile episode has proved an apple OF
discord among the Republicans, and
the end is not yet. and let US hope
that the end will not come until the
Republican party is rent in twain new
er to be reunited. That is certainly
consummation devoutly to be wished.
Colonel Roosevelt evidently has on his
fighting clothes and has made up his
mind to carry the war into Africa
which in this case is only another
name for Ohio-by appointing negro
to the collectorship of internal revenue
at Cincinnati, thing apt to ruin For
aker and Dick, no matter what they
say or do. With them it's a case of
damned if you do and damned if You
don't White Ohio Republicans are
perhaps unanimous in the opinion that
negro officials are the proper caper
away down south in Dixie" but negro
officials in Ohio-that's another story.
Very much depends on whose OK is
gored don't you know. Undoubtedly
Colonel Roosevelt struck Foraker on
the flank There has been, first and
last. much philosophizing about what
is the master human passion. Lord
Byron, who certainly knew what he
was talking about, said, Sweet is re-
yengein He was a competent witness,
for he was not only the greatest poet
that ever lived, but the most revenge
full of mortals. He roasted his multi
tudinous enemies over slow fire,
bathed them in vitriol, pulled their
teeth gouged their eyes out broke
them on a wheel, applied the thumb
screws and rack and inflicted upon
them any other fortunes he could de-
wise, and in that regard he was mar
velously fertile in resources.
To use crude but most emphatic
expression coined by my old law part
ner, ex-Lieutenant Governor David
Alexander Ball of Missouri, he limb
ed skinned and jayhawed them SO
far as Foraker ct al are concerned,
the president seems to be in Byron's
reyengeful frame of mind when he
wrote sgThe English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers / haven't read that poem
in ten years, but the opening lines, a
sample Of the whole are fresh in my
memory yet and will be till go hence:
Still must I hear? Must hoarse Fitz-
gerald bawl
His creaking couplets in a tavern hall
And not write lest Scotch Reviews
Should dub me scribbler and denounce
my muse?
Prepare for rhymel I'll publish right or
wrong.
Fools are my theme: lei satire be my
songl
The papers do say that the iron en-
tered the soul of Senator Foraker
when he learned that the president
had called Booker T Washington into
consultation as to the Ohio negro APP
pointments, since which Booker T. has
been dubbed sthe third senator from
| Ohio" It's not only pretty fight as
| it stands. but furious one. Demo
Gratis are shouting Go 1t, husband!
60 it, bearY with perfect impartiality