The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-03-07

are, as Is well known several hundred
children in the vicinity of almost every
school who cannot be accorded the edu-
cational privileges the law says they shall
have, simply because the school-houses
are not large enough. II the Board scan
perfect the scheme it has evolved. it will
deserve the thanks of the community for
doing something which no previous Board
was ever able to mplish-even if the
attempt was ever made.
We don't know whether the decent edi-
tors of the State are in favor of President
Griggs's obscene publications bill or not.
They might possibly be in favor of giving
the other kind of editors all the rope they
want, 10 the hope that they will eventu-
ally succeed in hanging themselves. The
publication of indecent stuff in newspapers
seldom fails to bring its own reward. The
editor who permits it may, while wave
of filth sweeps over the community, rake
in few dollars from the casual, and,
therefore, Improbable, patronage of the
class who revel in scandals: but the steady
reader who insists on having his paper
whether there is anythingi it or not gives
him the cold shake, and the net result in
the long run is constantly eularging net
loss that brings eventual ruin and bank
ruptcy. 1t is more than likely that the
publication OF indecent stuff in the public
prints is an evil that can be trusted to cor
rect itself without the aid of an act of the
Legislature.
The House substitute to the Chase Anti
Bridge bill removes the only objection that
1t was possible to make against the bill in
Its original shape. The people are welded
to their general Railroad law, and any
legislation that contemplates change in it
Is regarded with popular suspicion. The
Chase bill, in proposing to amend IL,
offended this sentiment, though really its
only effect was to put into the Railroad
law what everybody supposed was there.
To avoid the necessity OF interfering
. with the general Railroad law, the Assem-
bly, amends the bridge bill SO as to accom-
plish the purpose sought by Senator
Chase's bill. That purpose is to make it
impossible for any foreign corporation to
enter the State and use natural advantages
that should bring material wealth to her
people for the enrichment and aggrandize
ment of another State The bill, in its
new shape, meets every reasonable objec-
ton that could be made against it in its
first shape.
The Knights of Labor have become a
power in the land-a fact that it behooves
capital to recognize. 1t may also be set
down as the best organized association of
workiugmen ever formed in this or any
other country. II is comprehensive, taking
10 every branch Of labor; and it is this fact
which gives it power and influence.
Whether this power will be exerted for
good or evil remains to be seen. If the
society continues to be guided by the
same sound sense it has thus far exhibited,
it will be able to do much for the anchor
alton of labor, and to counterfeit the
schemes of monopolies; but if it falls
under the domination of men of the
/" sand lots orator stripe, there will be no
limit to the evil 1t may accomplish. But
from what we have seen of the society's
workings thus far. we are impressed with
the idea that its work will be the elevation
and improvement of labor all over the
country.
John P. Days three miles and half of
poetry about Grant threw the Board Of
Works into everything but the "fine
frenzy" that is POLITICALLY orthodox, the
other day. The moment John P. said
poetry" to them, they turned him out in
the most unceremonious, manner. His
poetry got unraveled in the fray. and he
has been rolling it into scroll again ever
since. All of which goes to show how
very un@sthetie and unpoetical the Board
of Works isl But 1t must be confessed
that if they intended to act against John
P. at all, they were wise In their day and
generation in acting quickly. TO hesitate
was to be lost. II John P. had ever been
allowed to read single stanza of his hun
dred thousand to them, he would have
knocked them into collapse, and had them
hopelessly .'hors du combat"
The "Journal" doesn't appear to be
very well up in mathematics. 1t answers
contemporary in Thursdays paper, who
asks, g What will it profit Senator Jones,
of Florida, If he should get wife and lose
his seat in the United States Senator" as
follows:
''The young lady whom he desires for wife is
Senate is worth but 5000. Profit to Jones.
IS. SOC, 000."
The TATTLER went to school once, and
his arithmetic taught him that So, 900 taken
from $4,000, 900 left somewhere in the
neighborhood of $9,995, coo. He should
like very much to have hand in bringing
about this match for commission of
$4,000, and have the young lady figure it
after the Journals fashion.
If President Cleveland had known that
Editor Gordon is the most unpopular man
in New Brunswick, and that it isn't four
years since he was burned in efiigy there,
he wouldn't probably have selected him
for United States Marshal. The appoint
ment reflects not the slightest credit upon
fhe Administration The President could