The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-20

district who desire the paper viii kindly
notify other dealers to deliver it at their
uses
The attempt of the Singer Sewing
Company to acquire possession
of the city of Elizabeth, or drive the NUM-
cipality into bankruptcy, does not appear
q be very successful-a fact upon which
all dis:pterested observers will congratu-
late the people, who are really the parties
10 the struggle. Of course Elizabeth
should pay her debts -provided she can
but when the enforcement of that princi-
Die amounts to the virtual con6scation of
every dollars worth of property in that
city, it is time to cry halt 10 the interests
of tho property owners who had little or
no voice in the contraction of the debt,
but whose property would have to be sold
to satisfy the judgment. This would be
particularly hard on the small owners who
by hard struggles have managed to secure
home for themselves, and have nothing
else Practically they owe nothing of the
debt, had no hand in creating 1t. never
received a penny on account of il; and yet
to pay the debt would sweep away every
cent they have in the world. This would
be even less honest than reputation,
dishonest as that step would be. And yet
this is precisely what the Singer Company
has been trying to force the city 10 do, and
to accomplish their purpose they have
withheld their taxes. This refusal has still
further embarrassed the city, aud by
depicting the treasury, has prevented the
city from meeting its current expenses.
Finding at last that forbearance had ceased
to be virtue, the city, on Friday, levied
on the Company's property. 1t was merely
technical levy, for even after the attach
ment was served, they were told that they
might use the property-for the present,
at least-just as if the city had not taken
action. The Company then manifested
more plainly than ever the spirit by which
it is actuated. 1t Immediately closed its
doors and threw its three thousand en-
ployees out of work. Exactly what it
expects TO accomplish by this does not
appear, but it is quite in keeping with the
dog-in-the-manger policy the Company
has all along pursued. Possibly President
Mckenzie thinks the workmen will be
driven away from Elizabeth, and so an
injury will be done to the tradesmen, and
indire city TO the city; but SO many of the
worknen live out of the city, that less will
be accomplished in that direction than the
worthy President anticipates. Had it not
BEEN for the course pursued l.y the Singer
Company, Elizabeth would have been out
of her trouble long ago. All the creditors,
including The Singer Company, over two
years ago signified their willingness to
compromise on basis of fifty per cent,
and the city had made arrangements for
settling her debts, when at the last moment
the Singer Company receded from the
and SO put an end to the
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