The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-08

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local questions.
The state PoIice-A Lesson from
Homestead.
The people of New Jersey have one
thing to thank Leon Albeit for in
particular. 1t is now impossible that
any scene of horror such as has just
been enacted at Homestead should
ever take place in this State.
The Governor has been much
abused for the organization of the
State Police system. Today we see
what a wise and humane provision
against a possible deadly emergency
it affords. Fortunately the lesson
comes to our State vicariously, but it
is none the less cogent. If Pennsyl-
vania possessed such an organization
of civil officers for the preservation
of law and order, the Homestead
horror could never have taken place.
The Carnegie Trust would have had
no excuse for calling the murderous
m~ercenaries of the Pinkertons. The
workmen would have had none of
that hostility against the regular
officers of the law that they naturally
felt towards a band of hired assassins,
mustered to shoot them down. The
local and State authorities would
have had no hesitation about calling
out a force of civil officers to enforce
peace and protect property, while
they might well hesitate about calling
out the military force of the people
to wal on the people themselves.
In one great respect we are ahead
of our sister States-in our ability to
exert force on the part of the State
without recourse to martial law. For
that great step in governmental policy
We are indebted to Governor Leon
Albeit.
The comments of the papers ON the
Homestead riot are amusing and in
structive. All the Republican papers
except the tribune. which sits on the
fence, demand the determination of
the strikers. The Sun is with them,
of course It howls like an old tiger
for the blood of the labor unions. The
Mail and EGpreSS exhibits its ears in
all their length and beauty in its in
diSnation over an attack on the
sacred property of a sanity million
aire Republican like Mr.. Carnegie.
The Newark Advertiser sympathizes
with the Pinkertens with all its heart.
The Herald walls like a silly old
woman and finds fault with everyone.
Ali these papers proceed on the as
sumption that the operatives, being
mere common workingmen, have no
rights whatever except that of starv-
ing in the streets when their princely
employers choose to turn them adrift.
"Tae News" and the Ballot Box
Suffers.
Truly the way of the newspaper
man who tries to be honest is hard.
This malicious SANDER appeared in
the last issue of the Newark Sunday
Call .~s
The newspapers of the county CHudson) were
muzzled by public pap. and there were influences
in New York and throughout New Jersey that
could be rallied to the criminals support.
Of course, the writer of this SEN
tence if he had stopped to think a
moment would have remembered the
bitter and un r~eienting hostility with
which THE JERSEY CITY NEWS has
followed up the ballot box suffers.
But he preferred to make a wantonly
injurious assumption On general prin-
ciples, rather than tax his brain with
recollection of the facts.
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS has earned
the hatred of all the corrupt elements
in Hudson County. of none more than
the ex-ballot box suffers. 1t has
won the praise of every honest and
intelligent paper in the State for its
course. from the opening of the Senate
inquiry, down to the day they donned
the stripes. These rascals have never
had one word of aid or comfort from
this paper. On the contrary, we have
been accused of passing the limits of
law and Justice in our demand for
their punishment.
An apology from the Cali is in
order, but the man who is reckless
enough to write such a paragraph as
the above is seldom decent enough to
confess an error.
Mr.. PESHA LII seems to have drawn