Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-08-22

tudt We nave mol e5tdDiiSueu OuI-
selves in foreign markets very sue
cessfully as yet, as compared with
competitors, because we have been
| SO complacently content with the
domestic market We have been COM
| placently content with the domes-
| tic market, because by ingenious
| legislation we were making the
| prices of the domestic market most
inviting. And If we could get all
| the money we wanted out of the
pockets of our neighbors, there was
no particular interest in stirring our
brains to find what pockets we could
get it out of on the other side of the
| world. But America has so pros
pered; she is now so productive of
everything that the human race uses
almost that she has got too much to
sell to herself. If prosperity is not
to be checked in this country we
must broaden our borders and make
conquest of the markets of the
world That is the reason that Amer
lea is SO deeply interested in the
question of which | have already
spoken the Merchant Marine, and
that is also the reason why America
is SO much interested in breaking
down, wherever it isIpossible without
danger TO break it down, that dam
against which all the tides of our
prosperity have banked up,that great
dam that runs around all our coasts
and which we call the protective
tariff l would prefer to call it the
tariff that holds us back should
prefer to call it the tariff that hens
us in, the tariff that chokes US. the
tariff that smothers us, because the
great unmatched energy of America
is now waiting for field greater
than America itself in which to
prove that Americans can take care
of themselves
| don't want to belong to a crowd
that can't take care of themselves.
after while if you keep on with
this tariff business, We will have to
have special board of guardians to
| look after the United States. Now,
we have tried one board of guardians
| in Jersey. I speak this with bated
breath, because a distinguished mem
! Der of that board lives not so very
| far away from here, and used to
have great deal to do with the
thoughtful protection of this public
resort, but nevertheless | am frank
to profess my belief that New Jersey
not so very long ago used to be look
ed after by very particular board
of guardians, and they saw to it that
their friends were taken care of, as
| guardians always do Guardians
1 have not a large imagination Guard
| ians have not a large liberality
| Guardians attend TO business, and
/ don't want to see the United States
any longer in the hands of guard
ians.
There was a time, ladies and gen.
| tlemen, not many years ago when
would have uttered sentiments like
these with certain degree of heat;
because would have felt at any
rate-that l was against an almost
Irresistible force But don't feel
the least heat now. We have got
| them on the run now; and the resist
ance is very little. The friction is
going to come when they try to put
on brakes and try to stop. There is
no heat in the business now; there
is hopeful confidence that the peo-
pie of the United States at least
realize their opportunity know what
it is they want, and are out to gel
| it. | have never known anything
like the awakening that has occur
red in the United States in recent
years. 1t is just as if we had all
been taking long and comfortable
sleep, with sometimes very disturb
ing dreams, we would wake up once
in while in a nightmare and say
I"Who is sitting on my chest" but
then we would turn over and go tC
sleep again, and at last we walked
up and found there was somebody
sitting on our chests And now WE
! have come entirely to the conscious
ness of the new day There are moi
going to be any Nightmares. 1t is
going to be daytime all the time
and somebody is going to be on the
lockout all the time to see that this
thing does not happen again; anG
what we are trying for in this cam
paign is merely this Who of you
how many of you, which of you, have
enlisted for the fight. | believe that
it is going to be one of those gen
eral recruitments when you won
need to have recruiting officers.
was talking to friend the' other
4 day and said, We must go around
and form clubs I said, my dear
boy, they are forming themselves.
They don't have to have presidents
and secretaries and constitutions
Every group you meet on the street
! corner is a club, and somewhere about
/ their clothes they have got club
| and the men that need to watch the
4 weather are the men for whom that
club is reserved.
i / believe that there is going to be
a great handsome, peaceful, hopeful
revolution on the fifth day of No
! vember, 1912; and that after that
revolution has been accomplished
men will go about their business
saying, What was it that we feared
We feared chains and we have won
liberty We feared to touch any
thing for fear we should mar it, and
now everything wears the bright