The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-31
Csesarism.

BY this time our republican
brethren who hungered for revenge
through the strong arm of the Federal
Government. are pretty tired OF life.
In their short-sighted rage they shut
their eyes to the real meaning OF their
action and to it's consequences to
themselves.
But THE JERSEY CITY News laid
bare their reasonable assault upon
the sovereignty of the State, and the
Independent press following our lead,
have spread the note of alarm.
The people, too, have experienced
a great awakening. The true charac-
ter of the Republican party has be-
come more apparent than ever,
and thousands, who might have in
clined to its side on minor issues,
have resolved to rebuke the imperial
tendency by crushing the unscrupu-
lous politicians who assist it.
Among the papers which have en-
Enthusiastically taken up the subject is
the Newark Journal. Following up
THE JERSEY CRY NEWS editorial of
last Monday, the Journal said on
Tuesday -
orial, its fiimsy pretense, and its invitation to
the President to employ the federal power in our
State affairs in violation of the whole spirit of
our laws and institutions, are calculated to dis
D1ISt and iDppnSn any man who iS not himself a
place hunter. The republican editor is qualified
to measure the effect of such an ignoble perform
ance on the minds of decent men In the party,
and that is why they discreetly suppressed the
publication of the memorial.
Let the memorial of the republican legislators
be printed and spread broadcast. Let it con-
front the speaker on the stump, the emissary in
the tabernacle and the candidate who comes with
honeyed words of reform in legislation and poll
tics. Let it be thrust at the memorie.listS them
selves when they come up for reelection. Let
every republican voter in New Jersey read that
shameful memorial, and know the quality of the
men and the morality of the party that want to
get control of legislation in 1890 and of the State
patronage for the next three years.
Yes; let the document be scattered
broadcast among the people. Let
them be instructed upon its meaning,
upon the consequences of the course
of action which it recommends. Let
the people try to realize what this
country will be when the President OF
the United States dictates from Wash
ington the course of legislation in the
several States.
If this is the future we are coming
to, would it not be better to take the
matter in hand ourselves, abolish our
Federal system, and devise some new
plan of centralized commonwealth
That would be preferable to submis-
sion to a party despotism, a kind OF
Cesarism such as the Republican
party is gradually rivetting about us.
THE meeting of ministers and Young
Mems Christian Association workers
gives promise of the ultimate success
of the movement for a suitable Chris
tian Association building in this city.
The effect on the moral tone of the
city of such an institution as these
gentlemen have in contemplation,
must necessarily be salutary. II
would do more than most people
imagine to decrease the number OF
saloons by withdrawing their patron
age; and the healthier tone 1t would
impart to the morals of the young
people would make it, in that direc-
ton alone, worth all the expenditure
that is in contemplation.