The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-20


GENERAL SEwELL is credited with
saying that General John Ramsay OF
this city has been slated for the New
ark dictatorship. Evidently nothing
succeeds with the Republican party
except strict political morality. The
attention of the Committee of Fifty
is invited.
To Feed the Shylocks-A Freebooter
Outrage.
The labor organizations will be
pleased to hear that, the election
being over, the Board Of F~reeholders
has rescinded it's resolution providing
for the bi-montiiy payment Of its en-
pIoyes, who will hereafter have to
wait Il month for their money, unless
as our reporter naively remarks, they
sell their tilne.n
We have a shrewd notion that the
whole true inwardness of the change
is exposed in these few words. There
is a class of vile blood suckers, com-
monty known as Shylocks. who
grow rich through discounting the
claims of laborers and clerks and
other needy people against the
public departments. These wretches,
charge exorbitant rates for the adj
vances they make, and yet poor peo-
Pile are obliged to go to them or
starve. Public offices, at the best,
are shamefully slow in payment, and
many of the people who hold claims
against them live almost from day to
day on the price of their toll.
We are very well satisfied that the
present action Of the Freeholders is
taken in the interest Of the Shylocks,
who most likely have financial or pol
itical pulls, with a large number of
members of the Board. Nobody
else benefits by it. The
county gains nothing: but it
means a good many hundreds of dol
lars per year to these leeches. We
call upon the labor organizations to
rise up and denounce this paltry piece
of villainy. Ii they are in earnest in
their prompt payment agitation, here
is a first rate time to prove it, and to
make their power felt.
IT is refreshing to know that the
whole county is going to pieces, that
all the public buildings need radical
repairs, that the boilers are ready to
burst, that the bridges are rotten, and
the roads full of holes, and that tens
of thousands Of dollars are promptly
needed to check the progress of de-
cay. Mr.. Cannon is truly an alert
and careful official, and the Board of
Freeholders is a great institution
Mayor Cleveland at Hasbrouck's---
A Whited Sepuichre.
How the cheeks of the fraud Mayor
must have tingled with shame last
night as he sat on the platform at the
Hasbrouck Commencement and lis
tened to the protest Of youth and
honor against the political crimes of
the period. When young David II.
Edwards delivered his bright and
forcible speech on 1.-THE Freedom of
the Ballot every word must have
stung the beneficiary of the betrayal
of the ballot like the lash Of awhip.
There you sat, Orestes Cleveland,
writhing and suffering within, while
your well trained smile, your in
grained practice of deception enabled
you to mask tho commissions of your
soul as the powder and paint cover mp
the rayages Of time and dissipation in
the face of some old harridan who
apes the airs and graces of youth.
Did you go up and take the hand
OF that bright young man, MI. Mayor
BY the grace of fraud2 Did you con
gratulate him on his manly and free
spoken love of honor and honestys
Or did you sink away the moment
the exercises closed to escape the eyes
Of the men and women who We're as