The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-30
Highest of all in Leavening Pcwer--Lateot IS. Govt Report
@ a! B Bs,sds.
ABSOLUTELY PRmE
ABSOLUTELY PURE


Incidental bill of 1890. and $3.50 for State
taxes overpail by a railroad COMPANY.
So that in brief we have, for the A42,-
600 of extraord binary receipts-every dol
] r of current and ordinary expenditures
promptly met, and s711 GA. 20 of extraor-
dinsry ami ccum iated appropriations
and expenses and floating debt paid.
This Is the record in brief. 1t is one to
which the writer for the Republican
clubs did not dare to honestly and truth
fully call public attention.. Instead of
thar, the record is falsiied, and ,particu-
lar instances aud actions are culled. out
for Qarbiing and censure. There is no
insinuation, nor dare it be made, of any
illegal or corrupt action, but the best
motives and praiseworthy acts are per-
verfed and distorted In order TO make q
ce~nsurable showing.
The creation of two Vice Chancellor
ships is held up as d piece of extrava-
when. as a matter of fact, he had nothing
to do with it; and the officers were neces-
sarv to the performance of public bust
ness. The fact that two of the four Vice
Cbancellors are Republicans does not pre-
vent the cry of craftsmanship.
The appointment OF q State Superin-
tendent OF Police Is bran led as an official
effort to reward a personsl and political
friend, when, in fact, il was solely in the
interest of public safety and pub
lie economy. The system of a State
police was established to afford
protection to life and property without
recourse to the military power which is
expensive, arbitrary and un~republicau. II
there had been \ State force such
as the State has now provided for, at the
time of the Kearny riots, the county OF
Hudson would have been saved q bill of
damages running up TO between 10000
and $50, 900; and the Governor would have
hno, cnnpad tl,a naroyQitv ff ohonsiun hn-
tween seeing property destroyed and the
law violated, or ordering out troops
whose only function is to intimidate or to
kill.
The creation of the Board Of Taxation
is denounced as an extravaganza without
reason. The Board was demanded by all
people of the State as a step in the direc-
ton of securing an equalization of taxes.
The farmers complained that they were
paying an undue proportion of taxes for
their visible property, while millions of
other property escaped, and everybody
was dissatisfied with the methods of rails
ing taxes. The State Board of Agricul-
ture sought the passage OF the act. The
Board of Taxation has cost some $l2, 500,
and in the first year of trial effort it has
compelled the city OF Camden to increase
its assessments 50, 000. 600. and doubled
the assessed valuations in Atlantic City.
In another year it will compel the dis
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property which has hitherto escaped tax
alton.
The creation of a Department of In
surance u Banking has been criticised
as a mere grab for office, when in fact it
was suggested by the Secretary of State,
who found it impossible to conduct the
business of that branch of his depart
ment, with the care which 1t had re-
ceived and deserved without increasing
his clerical force much beyond the limit
fixed By the law. Every department of
work in the S~ecretary's office-the keep
ing of the public records; the court WORK;
the insurance work. and the i%ncorpora-
ton OF manufacturing cOmpanies-had
so increased as to have outgrown the
narrow limits set. and for that reason re-
lief must have been had. The Depart
ment OF insurance was a necessity, and
it is, moreover. s-elf-supporting, every
dollar of its expense being paid by the
nothing, and IL costs but very little more
in its present hands than when it was an
annex to the State Department.
II is not worth while to go into tine
minuti8 of the charges made by the Re-
publican Clubs. for they are a mixture of
truth and falsehood, all aimed at a false
OF details, while ignoring the
great generalities IN which the Demo-
cratic administration bases it's claiD for
commentator and praise.
Whatever may have been done, and
it may have been done. the
great end has been reached, that u huge
floating debt has been wiped out: inn
portant public improvements made; every
department OF the State mas been
literally supported; the ordinary ex-
penditures have been reduced; and the
State, which was threatened with bank
ruptcy or a State tax. finds every obliga-
uion fulfilled; not a cent OF floating in
debtedness in existence; not a dollar of
additional tax put on Individual OF cor
p%0ration, and a handsome balance of
S400. COO left in the treasury for mex years
business.
What other administration ever did as
mu chr and what one could do more?