The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-09
It Was a Bum Tragedy.

The Hayner-Adams tragedy fits on
to the Stocker murder as naturally as
if it were an outgrowth of the crime
that crushed one of the strongest
political associations out of existence.
And how like in its results also is one
crime to the other. One dead, another
wounded. The difference is that in
this case the lover lies dead from the
avenging husbands pistol. In the
other the bold Lochinvar carried him.
self off with cowardly haste. while
the faithless wife was killed. But
in all the rest the two tragedies are
very like. There were the same
shameless women, though only one
was brought into the actual tragedy;
the same drunken orgie, the same ap-
parent complaisance of the husband
for a while, the same disregard of the
husbands rights and of public de-
cency by the Lothario, the same
drunken emotional insanity-and
then the fatal pistol shots. There is
perhaps a little more of Mosaic JUS
tice in this later case, for the tempter
is dead and the shameless woman
wounded, but that was because Mike
Adams didn't have the same chance
to get away that good luck accorded
to Handsome Jack"
pr,+ would +Jo,o ~ o- 80
these tragedies if the family rumsters
were suppressed? The saloons may
not be closed. since men will drink;
but the so-called family entrances
may be. Women may be debarred
from visiting and carousing in them,
and so saved, i'll many cases, from the
drunkenness that leads to dishonor
and eliminates in murder. OF course
if a woman will go to the devil there
is no stopping her. But how many
of these are against the great army
who are led into Satan's dominions by
temptations that could not assail
them if these family rum mills were
closed? Is it one to a thousand? We
think the disproportion is even
greater.
That these family gates of hell can
be closed and women kept out of
them has been demonstrated. All it
needs is that public opinion should
force the police of all cities to make
the effort. The profit will be worth
all the cost. Jersey City is a good
place to inaugurate the reform-right
nov is a good time to begin it.
The men whom it is sought by in
terested politicians to make anti
Young candidates are cordially unani-
nous about one thing-they all de-
cline.
The Jersey City and Hoboken
Health Boards and F~reeholders are
considering the location and cost of a
cholera hospital. Why wouldn't it be
a good idea for them to pool their
issues and make one serve for all
three. in case the need arises-which,
Heaven grant, it may not.
HAS Nancy Hanks really beaten
the record? That remains to be seen.
In time she is / 81 seconds ahead of
Maud S., but Nancy was driven to a
sulky equipped with pneumatic tires.
This ''new fangle" being a conceded
advantage, the sporting public must
perfcrce suspend Judgment until
Maud S. shall have q chance to show
what she can do in front of a pneu-
matic-tired sulky.
COMMENTING upon the g~ubernator-
ial situation the Newark advertiser
says -
While the Senator tMcPhersonl is detained al
Quarantine, very much ag inst his will, the
opponents of YONG are hilarious.
They are, most noble Festus-quite
as hilarious us if they were going to a
midnight funeral, aud each and every
one of them occupied a nice little
hearse of his own. And please don'i
forget that one of the principal oppo-
nents of Mr.. Young is a certain John
Kean, Jr., who would like to be hilar.
ious but finds it up-hill-arious work.
And by the way, Madame Ad0eatiser
have you heard the to The
effect that if MFR. Young is il
a sure way of being nominated,
Mr.. Kean will quietly crawl into his
W bar'l and draw the bunghole in
after him, leaving his convention tt
put up Varnish Maker Murphy, o
your town. to stand up and take the
polishing? But, of course you have.
Pardon us for reminding you Of it.