The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-23
APRIL 90.

SATURDAY. APRIL 23.
This paper Is democratic IN principles
andaa Is Independent in its Vieles on all
Toe al questions
The County Road-A Wicked "Jour-
nal' Attack.
1t is a strange thing about the
Journal that it never favors a public
Improvement which combines utility
with probability. If you find it in
favor Of any great work, you may
at once make up your mind that the
project is either dishonest or impossi-
BILE. Conversely, if you find it vent
ing all the malice Of it's soul on any
thing, heaping up charges OF mis-
management and extravaganza, you
may at once conclude that the work
is good and useful, and is being we'll
and economically conducted. We
defy anyone to name the good thing
that the Journal has helped or the
bad one that it has killed.
The latest object of its spite is the
great CouHty Road, altogether the
greatest and best enterprise of public
Improvement that has ever been taken
up in this city or county, one which
will afford opportunities OF N
1oymenta to everyone, and which
will enhance the value OF real
estate by millions of dollars. 1t
opened it's batteries on this work yes
terday in qnerof those editorial briefs,
in which it launches all it's most
venemous tshafts. The charges, OF
course. we're. the vaguest possible.
They always are, The one attempt
at precision was a lie as to its source
and a lie as to it's substance.
After the article had been written
and published, the champion mis-
r~epresenter of facts Of the Journal
was sent to get material to back it up
Today lis effort will{appear, Doubt
less it will be a ma1Tel Of p~revarica-
ton.
Now the whole cafein a nutshell is
this:-The County&Road condemna-
ton proceedings cover many hundred
separate parcels of real estate IN all
parts Of the county. They involve
bany buildings to be moved, altered,
or demolished in whole or part. Al
together, frem tive to three thousand
are willing to pay the money for the
separate issues have to be determined
by the contemplation commissioners
Manysef+he decisions areliable to be
tigated, and must therefore be made
6ith peculiar care.
All this is costing and must cost
money! good deal Of money. Tne
people know that. They knew it
when they voted for, the road. They
sake of the return, SO long as it is
faithfully and economically spent.
Now what matter is it whether all
he money il paid cut in six months to
sixty m~en-expert lawyers, real estate
men, builders and the like-or to ten
men in three years2 Will the county
be a dollar richer on poorer, or the
Dad a dollar dearer or cheaper by
@ering the distribution OF fees?
viously, mol The condemnation
~eoceedings will cost just SO much
whether they are finished up in a
month or drawn out through a life
time. If anything, delay would
make them more costly.
But by dividing up the work and
getting it done quickly, the people
will get their road soon. And the
people want it soon, and the Free
holders and all concerned are not only
doing their duty in using all measures
for haste, but they would be highly
reprehensible if they did not push on
the work with might and main.
AS for the compensation that the
Commissioners, experts and others
will receive, there is the most absolute
guarantee that it will not be excessive.
the Freeholders assigned it, the
might make it the ground of
'aek. But the Freeholders
othing to do with it, ex-
The Circuit Court
ne the compensation
"a We suppose the
venture to re-
.ey or the judg-
It. This one fact,
seally conducts all
On proceedings and
expense of them,
he sunlcient to silence any
AIRY crank, but the Journal is
ing if not foolish and indecent,
we suppose cannot be deferred
by the respect for the Bench,
CD generally prevails, from crafty
IS malice.
~resent fight, as in nine out of
takes up, it will have every
ID public spirited citizen
qzette asks this morn