The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-13
This paper as democratic IN principles
and is Independent In its Uteaos on al
local questions.

tocGt QueSttonS.
Not a Ring Project, After All.
The Newark Daily Advertiser has
some ground for attacking the expe-
diency of the exchange the State
School Fund Commissioners are about
to make of Government four per cents
for Hudson county four per cents.
We believe the Hudson county four
per cents to be, as a matter of fact, as
safe an investment as the Federal
securities but it would probably be
hard to bring the Newark Advertiser
or any disinterested outsider around
to our way of thinking. The out
slider sees the county and the city,
which is its biggest part, in the o n
troll of one Of the most desperate and
corrupt rings that ever gagged a com
munity. 1t sees that the County
Board. as well as the City Admins
tration, is conducting affairs with
such wasteful extravaganza, and such
reckless disregard of the common de-
cencies, as to cause suspicious OF gross
corruption and fears of approaching
bankruptcy and it argues, with a
good deal of reason, that, in view of
the situation Of the present and the
probabilities of the future, the pur-
chase of a large block of Hudson
county securities is not the most judi
cious thing the State School Fund
Commissioners can do with the money
at their command.
But the Newark Advertiser commits
some ~egregious blunders in the treat
ment of other aspects of the question.
1t frowns upon the park project be-
cause, for instance, it is a Ring pro-
ject. If otlr esteemed country neigh
Dor had been as well informed as it
should have been before speaking, it
would have found out that so far from
the Ring being interested in the
scheme, or promoters of it, it is, as a
body, opposed to 1t. The Park Com
mission is made up, on Judge Knapp's
selection, of six of the foremost men
in Hudson county-gentlemen of I'M
furnished regulations, of the highest
repute, of irreproachable character
who have no sympathy with the Ring
and who have never, in the smallest
measure, been identified with it.
The Ring rascals are both Jealous
and afraid of them-afraid be-
cause their wise management
Of the park expenditures may
some day be placed inunpleasant con-
trast with the extrayagances that are
sure to mark the construction of the
Rings boulevard; and jealous be-
cause. holding that the county parks
are county property that should have
been left in their control. they regard
the Park Commissioners as poachers
on their preserves.
The Ring is down on the Park
scheme for other than personal
reasons The Ring has a scheme of
public plumber of it's own on hand.
1t has been striving for years to get
authority to spend the millions the
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county boulevard. The construction
of that drive is going to add largely to
the debt of the county; and the Ring
is afraid that the placing Of the
County Park bonds on the market
will prejudice the sale of the
other securities in which they have a
deep personal concern. So, Mr.. Id
0eatisey, you can see, now that the
situation has been explained to you,
that the park scheme is not in the
slightest degree O Ring project.
You are no doubt right, however,
in assuming that the presence OF the
vandals in the public places prevented
the ready sale of the Park bonds. The
ring has brought the county into such
disgraceful public odor that even
the fact that these securities were
issued under the auspices of gentle
men Of the character Of Charles B.
Thurston, William G. Heppenheimer
and Henry Lembeck was not enough
to overcome it.
IT is to be hoped that Senator Nc
Pherson is not so i'll as to be unable