The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-14
zine Rascals Must Go. NOW.

The new charges against the Street
and Water Board have the right ring.
They are not the inchoate compila-
ton OF amateurs, but the pointed.
definite analysis Of the facts by a
skillful lawyer. The names attached
to the paper plainly are not alone in
their fight. There is somewhere be-
hind them an element much more
formidable than any which has vet
taken up the fight for reform in this
department OF the city government.
Perhaps 1t is the Republican County
Committee; perhaps it is some lawysr
acting for Mayor Wanssr; perhaps it
is some citizen whose enmity the
Commissioners have aroused by some
of their joIlying and juggling. VIZ
have not been able to trace the true
source of attack, but we are convinced
that DIR. Allen and Messrs. Hill and
Leslie, though earnest and sincere in
their position as prosecutors, still
represent some other stronger and
more aggressive force.
1t is now indubitable that the fire
Commissioners will be removed.
What was lacking in the former ar
raignment is supplied in this-precis-
ion, d~irectness and present vitality.
The charges donot dsalin ancient his
tory, in giittering g~eneralitiss nor in
undigested lists of figures. They are
in legal shape for presentation to the
Governor as findings by Mayor Wan
ser. or course. every baby in arms
knows they are true. The evidence
is written in the stones of the street
as well as in the public records of the
City Hall. The Commissioners Gun
not dispute them without appearing
in a farce comedy light. II they I'M
dsrtake, for instance, to say that
Pearl street is open and unobstructsd,
if they claim that the Washington
street depression is clean and dry and
wholesome, if they say that School
No. %, or the Greenville Station
House was built on tims; if they say
that Carrot Healsy works tor his pay
or hat the water rents have been col
lected up to the scratch, they will bs
laughed out of court as we'll as kicked
out of Office.
We suppose there will be a great
railway bar to defend the accused
The Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley
railways will muster their regular
corps OF eminent counsel to the rescue.
For are they not sin it." too? We ex-
pect to see some prominent mug
Wumpian democrats cooperating
with certain white robsd Republican
reformers to prove the pre-Adamite
innocence of those five men whose
guilt they have been holding up to
public scorn for the last year or so.
Corporation interests make strange
conpanionships.
But the rascats must go. The
Augean stable on Jersey avenue must
be cleaned out. Decsncy,
and respect for the law must be re-
stored to the management of the city's
public works. No doubt some good
honest democrats will be turned out
of office as a result of the commission
ers' downfall; but it is better they
should suffer than the whole Demo
cratic party, which is dying of blood
poisoning. as long as the men who dis
grace it are left at the head of this
department.
Gas Stove Advertising in the Schools.
President Jones and School Dirac-
tors Obergfell, Bailey and Degnan are
to be highly commended for their
sturdy opposition to the gas com
pany's cheap and nasty advertising
job, misnamed the High School cook
ing class. The whole boom for this
humbug was engineered by the COM
pany and its lobbyist, the
purpose being to attract
attention to the gas stove idea
and increase the sales both of tho
stove and the gas. One Of the chief
intercessors with Mayor Wanser for a
veto of the abolition resolution was
the agent of the gas company.
Just how certain very sincere and
we'll meaning gentlemen have been
captured in the interest OF the job,
we, do not know. We presume their
enthusiasm for the prevalent fad of
manual training has bssn slyly
played on. But Mr.. Jones and his
associates recognize that the thing is
q wilful waste of money, a wanten
waste of time and a very evident
offence against propristy.
1t should 60, and the four should
stand firm in making it stay gone.
Specific and Ad Valorem Duties.
A great many rabid protectionists
calling themselves both republicans
and democrats, are out against the
s'ad vaiorem" policy OF the Wilson
bill. Among these is the Philadel-
phia Record, which still lives on the
exploded mediaevalism of the late
very honest but very stupid Sam
Randall. The argument is something