The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-08-21


the State Board of Registration and Elk.
animation in Dentistry by George Ewall
a Paterson dentist, who wants a fair ex
animation with questions appertalning to
the practice of his profession. Mr.. Ewall
graduated from the Pennsylvania College
of Dental Surgery, and practiced in East
ern states before going to Paterson. On
application to the authorities of PassaiC
county for registration of his diploma, he
was told to go ahead till summoned for
examination. In July the state exami-
ners sent for him. but he did not pass,
and was obliged to shut up his rooms.
Some of the questions propounded to
Ewall were as follows:
What is the composition of air in its
exact quantities
How much organic matter is found in
the bone
What quantity of oxygen is found In
the air?
Write a compound prescription for
digestion?
What is the process of getting plaster
paris, where is it found, and in what
quantities?
The dentist holds that such questions
have nothing to do with his profession,
and his capacity to do good work does moi
hinge upon his ability to answer them.
He is right. The questions asked remind
one of civil service ordeal. Why a
dentist should have to answer problems
in chemistry, mineralogy, medicine, and
so forth, is clear only to the state exami
ner, who must do something to earn his
salary. There is considerable nonsense
about these state examinations. The di-
plomas of recognized schools and colleges
should be taken in lieu of them, or if ex-
aminations must be held, they should be
based upon questions directly connected
with the profession of the applicant
UNDER the heading "What is Gained ?'i
the New York Tribune thus comments on
the tariff bill:
The long fight is over for all practical
purposes, and it is in order to inquire
what have the parties won? One thing
the Democratic party has clearly gained
1t was by many supposed to be absolutely
incompetent to pass any revenue bill, and
has shown that it is not. This was the
one shining goad upon which Democrats
in Washington fixed their eyes. Senator
Vest pathetically confessed. in his latest
speech, that this was the one object of
supreme desire; it would be fatal if the
party should prove incapable of passing
any bill. Accordingly a bill, such as ii
is, has been passed The capacity of the
Democratic party TO pass slch bill must
be conceded. It can sell itself out to sun
dry monopolles, and by allowing the
treasury to be robbed it can pass bill.
So much is proved.
At the same time 1t is proved that the
Democratic party is not competent to do
what it pledges itself and tries to do 1t
promised to overthrow sundry monopo-
lies which had grown under previous leg
isation. Instead it enabled those mo
nopolles 70 "hold the country by the
throat" as Professor Wilson pitifully
says, and to dictate exactly what laws
shall be passed. That most of the Dem
ocratic members honestly intended to
carry out their pledges need not be doubt.
ed. The trouble is that they could not
save the party without breaking every
pledge it had made, and they resolutely
saved the party-to that extent. How
much of it is left, with its principles
trodden under foot and its action be
smeared with corruption, future voting
must tell. Any party worth saving would
have preferred failure to infamy, and its
voters may.
The overthrow of discriminating duties
for the purpose of protection. the substi
tuition of ad valorem for specific duties
the admission of raw materials free, the
smashing of trusts and monopolies, were
the principles for which the party fought
or supposed itself fighting. 1t has def
nitely abandoned every one Of them. Ite
tariff from beginning to end is a mass Of
determinations avowedly intended to
suit or to save particular interests II has
retained specific instead of ad valorem
duties in great majority of disputed
cases. 1t has taxed some raw materials
and made others free 1t has turned over
the government TO the trusts and monop-