The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-05
Transparent Fallaeies to De-
fend High Fares for
Poor Men.
sfORRS AND 0LCOTT'S GAS.
Refusing to Pay Men Who Work
for the State While They Help
Corporations Rob the
People.
Specinl 10 the Jarseu ottu Neaes.

TRENTON, May S, 1894.-New Jersey has
had reason to feel ashamed of her Legisla-
tures before this, but none has given her
more cause to blush than the aggregation Of
rank hypocrites who make up the majority
of the present House.
Ali the world despises hypocrite. There
are those who can dad some excuse for the
man who sins and acknowledges his fault, but
for the frauds and hurnbuRs who stalk about
with 'shoher-than-thou" air praising
Heaven they are not as other men, and who
then do the very things they condemn in
others no one entertains anything but the
healthiest contempt.
Ever since the opening of the session car
tain of the Republican members have never
lost an opportunity to loudly proclaim their
love for the dear people, and set forth the
great things they were going to do to ameli-
crate the taxpayers condition. When not
engaged in this their time has been taken up
denouncing the Democrats as public enemies
whose every act is fraught with danger to
the poor wage Garner.
SHOWN UP.
During the past week these men have had
an opportunity to fulfill these promises and
give practical demonstration of their at
lection and regard for the public veal with
disastrous results to their professions. One
of the best measures brought forth this win
ter in the interest of the public and especi-
ally of the poor wage Garner, for whom the
Republican legislator has such an undying
love, was the two cent ferry bill. Every
Assemblyman on the floor would have felt
insulted had anyone intimated that he did
not know that every ferry across the Hud-
son River, between Hudson county and New
York city is as much necessary adjunct
Of one or another railroad company az q
locomotive or passenger coach Without
the ferry, it would be as impossible to run
the road as it would without coal and water,
and every cent which the company takes
from the Hudson county passengers is con-
sidered clear profit. The ferry Is part Of
the system just as any branch Is. and its
operating expenses are considered part of
the cost Of operating the entire road
So it was plain that no matter what the rate
Of ferriage might be the railway companies
would conduct the ferries the same as usual,
would maintain the same elegant double
deck boats and go on making improvements
for the safety and convenience of their pas
sengers just as they are continually doing
with their passenger coaches In these days
of competition they have to do SO or lose
their share of the traffic.
Oh, THOSE BEFoRMERs
Notwithstanding these facts, known to
every member on the floor, such blatant
ssreformersn as Mr.. Storrs and Mr. Olcott of
Essex voted and worked against the bills.
They talked in one breath Of their pledges to
legislate for the peoples interests and in the
next argued like school boy In his first de-
bate that if the rate Of ferriage we're reduced
the companies would make up tho difference
by raising the rates of fare on the roads and
the poor commuter from the aristocratic
Oranges and the other patrician towns along
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
would be the real sufferers Such fallacious
arguments are only equalled in their vici-
BUSINESS by those produced by the paid attor-
neys of the gamblers who argued last year
that the abolition of race tracks and gamb-
ling would throw large number of men out
of employment.
The estimate which those good Republi-
cans, who always have the interests of the
people at heart, put upon their own argu-
ments is understood when it is remembered
that the companies most concerned in the
death of the ferry bill had powerful lobby
through the fight. One Of the most con-
spicuous Of the promoters" as they now
call themselves, who. worked against the
bill, installed himself in the Speakers pri-
vate room and sent his lieutenants out after
various members who one by one, went in
TO the room and listened to the persuasive
arguments of the bright young lawyer. An
other disgusting fact connected with the de-
feat of this excellent measure is that among
those who voted to kill it were some Of those
who are the nofsiest In their denunciation
Of Democratic extravegance and utter dis
regard for the public good.
RANK HYPocRITEs.
For example, there Is Mr. Olcott Of Essex.
He spoke as often as that other arch reform
or, Mr. Storrs, of the same county. If not
oftener, against the bill.
This, as Is well known. is only two weeks
behind the longest session ever held in the
history of the State and all agree that it
looks now as though # would be the longest.
The pay Of the door keepers, pages, clerks
and other employees of the Legislature is
based on session Of eleven weeks The
session of 1890, which was the longest and
which was composed of Democratic House
and Republican Senate, passed bill Civ
ing the employees an increase Of paJ. No
one opposed the measure as 1t was considered
oy all nothing more than right that these
men should be paid just compensation for
their work A similar bill was introduced
the other day and went to Mr. Storrs as
Chairman of the Committee on Incidental
Expenses and there it stars Messrs Harding,
Lewis and Baker republicans and Mr.. Dews-
nap democrat, aresaid tofayof the measure,