The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-28
No More sinecures Wanted.

No More Sinecures Wanted.
Justice StilsiDg's average days work
for the city is about three hours.
Justice Wanser's is about two hours.
We mean no reproach to these gentle
men; doubtless they would work ten
hours a day if there we're enough for
them to do; but there is not, and the
fact remains that between them five
hours a day are not expended.
And IL is now proposed to saddle on
the taxpayers a third police Justice
to do these five hours work. This is
the sort OF legislation that drives
votes away from the party which per
petrates it. 1t is simply s~candalous.
No sort of ingenuity a invent an
excuse for it. The bill ought to be
stamped out of existence with all the
power of honest Democracy.
Newark wants 1t no more than Jer-
sey City. Nobody wants it except
some hungry protege of Colonel E. L.
Price. who, The Newark Ecening NeuS
says, is the author of the bill. 1t
should be killed without mercy.
II Colonel Price wants pay for his
heelers, let him invent a bill which
will leave Jersey City out Of the foray
on the public finances.
HERE is a chunk of solid truth from
the State Gazette
Republicans of New Jersey and the country
are no more Interested interested in the Worlds
Fair than the Democrats. They do not care
very much whether the Fair is held or not.
The attitude of the public towards
the so-called Worlds Fair is one of
absolute indifference. The Republic
can party knocked the great project
on the head, and the Chicago side
show is generally regarded as rather a
discredit than an honor to the nation.
THE downfall of Ingalls, is only one
degree less satisfactory to the people
than the destruction of the Force bill.
OF all the malignant sectionalists
who ever sat ia Congress he was the
worst and most unreasoning. He dis
gusted his OWL constituents, appar-
emily. as much as the people of the
of the states which he insulted and
abused, and in retiring him to private
life they infiict on him a punishment
which he richly deserves, and which
must be most CALLING to a man of
his egregious vanity. Now, if the
same thing could be done with Mr..
Hoar, the people would light bon
fires.
Poor old Don Cameron of Penn
sylvania has been picked out as the
scapegoat Of the defeated crew of
revolutionists who were urging the
Force bill. The State Gazette,
which banks their way, has a double
loaded editorial on him today under
the heading Cameron the Traitor"
Now Donald is not bright, neither are
his political principles as good as they
might be. He was a bit of an olligarch-
list or Cesarist or H~amiltonian
Republican himself in the DAYS of the
Unit Rule Third Term fight. But DON
aid has inherited from his crafty old
father a certain native shrewdness,
which saves him from making many
of the blnnders into which brighter
men tumble under the stimulus of
excitement. Donald is a "canny
Scot" and, in the language of the
fiippant, he knows enough to get in
out of the wet. While the Force bill
advocates are getting soaked for their
mad treason against the Constitution
during the next two or three years
Mr.. Cameron will sit snugly under his
umbrella, and grin at the sorry plight
OF his late colleagues.
GOVERNOR ABBETT's address be-
fore the State Board of Agriculture at
Trenton yesterday was an amplifica-
ton of the remarks in his message
upon the causes of the depression in
the farming interest. and the most
feasible remedies for it. He discussed
ably the question of State control of
railway rates, pointing out that it IA
quite within the province of the Leg
isIature to pass laws against discrim-
nation. He significantly added
The railroads will not permit the Legislature
to fix freight rates If they can help it, for they
say that IL this was done on agricultural pro-
ducts it would soon follow on all other kinds OF
freight and they would be subjected to a success
sion Of legislative strikes and would be com
PEELED to maintain a big lobby constantly.
But if the railroads compel us to do this, it
win be their own fault. II they show an in
rlination to do what is fair, 1 know that they
would be met halfway by such men as | see
before me. If they do not there is nothing for
us to do but to make use of the power of the
people to compel them to.
1t is a wonder the railway managers
do not see that their own advantage
lies in developing the farming indus
try. By strangling production they
are killing the goose that lays the
golden eggs for them.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.