The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-26
Tndfot the Crooked Assessors.

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p Tndiot the Crooked Assessors.
The Board of Equalization will
only do half it's duty if it contents it
self with increasing the assessments
of the delinquent North Hudson
towns. Doing that only increases the
injustice of the Determinations watch
these crooked officials make between
different classes of taxpayers. The
increase Of the rate increases oppres-
sively the burden on the highly
valued property of manufacturing
corporations, the steamship lines and
the other bodies that do not exercise
a political pull. Those who are
undervalued do not feel the increase.
There is only one remedy for the
fragrant dishonesty that has honey
combed every tax levy in this county
for years. 1t is the condign disgrace
and punishment of the crooked assess
ors. No person can doubt that at
least two of the assessors who have
figured before the Equalization Board
this year are liable to indictment.
There can be no doubt indeed of
their conviction of malfeasance in
Office.
Now it is the moral, if not the legal
duty Of the Equalization Commission
ers to secure this result. 1t may not
do any good this year; but it will
have the effect of enforcing an honest
tax levy next year all over the county.
1t must be plain to every one that the
present nonsensical triekery cannot
go on much longer. There can never
be a better time than this to stop it
for clearer cases can never be got
against the guilty men.
Let us have some indictments this
fall.
FHE. West Hoboken tax kickers, be-
fore they rush to any Of the wild
methods threatened at their recent
mass meeting, had better take note of
the cold rebuff Kearny experienced
from the Supreme Court over last
years tax levy, 1t is a notorious fact
that West Hobeken property is as
sessed ca the average at from fifty to
sixty per cent. of its true value. It
should be increased at least fifteen per
e
1T is to be hoped Justice O'Donnell
will deal severely with the gangs and
gang members that come before him
in the First Police Court. There
seems to be a tendency among those
noxious pests to take possession of
certain quarters of the city again.
The police show a commendable &C
tivity in dispensing and ~arresting
them. They sheald have support in
the courts. tt hardly seems as if 30
fine was aseveEe enough punishment
to rePress them.
The JeN2nG4 hints that Mayor
Wanser may not permit the use of
any part of this years license money
for repairing the streets IF the jour.
NAB is right. His Honor is in a fair
way Of getting himself disfiked.
The people will hardly remain CON
tent withiitpaved, dilapidated streets
just to sratify the Mayors erotehets.
The Journal thinks it very funny
that the street iasborers are still at
work ia the expectation of getting
this money. while they may never be.
paid for their work at alt, because the
money may never be available for
that purpose.
The biiking of the city laborers APP
pears to be the stock in trade of the
Mayor and his following. They al=
ways allude to it with pride. It is a
noble reform.
The John Graham Association APP
pears to be an active concern. The
Joa6a1sGS says
The John Graham Association is about to
establish a scheme of instruction for election
officers to be heM every night in the meeting
room, a. A9ntgomsry street Mock election
boards Will be appointed and thoroughly in.
s stTp ssa 6y sapsaih Graham ban y th eas duties suiass the e
the democracy, and how TO- foil them.
The system is simple. II your voter
won't vote "a Republican ticket, arrest
him and haul him before Lockwood.
If he r~esists. slug him.
The journal adds
The Association has resolved to petition the
Mayor TO remove at once all Democratic Office
holders, invoking the power of the Courts II
necessary.
Evidently the boys are getting very.
hungry.
We observe that Chaples s.. Clarke
has a law suit on hand over some