The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-11

Old Jamestown was forlorn and King William
scarce born
Twas the year OF Bienheim's victory,
Whose trumpets died away In the far Virginia
On the cabin of an old tobacco farm.
Where a planters little wife to a little girl gave
life
And the FIRE in tho chimney made it warm.
Here is one from the middle:-
Come and see your son. the immortal Washing
ton,
He has beat the King and mighty cornwallis;s
They crowd her little door and she sees her boy
once more.
But there is no glory in him like his kiss.
The Marquises and Dukes in their orders and per
The Aide de Camp. the Generals and ala
Stand by to see ana listen. how her aged eyes will
giisten
To hear from him the tale of Yorktown's fall.
And here is the closing burst of poe
try 9E
The mothers love sank down. and its sunset on his
crown 3
shone like the dying beams of per feet day.
There was none like her to mix In the draught of
politics a j
The balm that softens injury away. =
But he was his mothers son till his weary race was
Her gravity, her peace, her golden moan
Shed on the State the good Of her sterling woman
hood,
And like her own, was Georges closing scene.
It is not hard to see where Mr.
Townsend got his model. You all re-
member Mr.. Bunthorne's touching
little song:-
II you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic
line
AS q man of culture rare.
You must gather all the germs of the transcendental
terms
And plant them everywhere. etc.
The only difference is that Mr.. Gill
bert's lines are good humor, suitably
placed, while Mr.. Townsend's are
idiotic gravity, so displayed as to heap
shame on all Americans of average
common school education.
The Harrison and Kearny Steal.
All Jersey City should turn out this
evening to protest against the act of
partisan robbery attempted by the
Republican majority of the Legis-
lature in the transfer of Harrison and
Kearny to Essex county. This act Is
being done for the purpose of giving
one more Assemblyman to Essex, the
Republican leaders believing they can
carry that county this fall. 1t also
deprives Hudson county of n rep
resentative, and Hudson is sure to be
carried by the Democracy.
But apart from the political rob-
berry, the transfer is unjust to Hud-
son county. The county has spent
vast sums of money in the interest Of
Harrison and Kearny. The accom-
modations of our public buildings are
all provided on a scale to aceommo-
date the somewhat heavy demands of
these townships. We have spent
hundreds OF thousands of dollars on
roads and bridges for their advantage,
and in their labor troubles we have
been at heavy cost to maintain the
peace and protect property within
their confines.
In return for all Hudson has spent
in their interest, these towns have
constantly tried to bunco the county
In the matter of their taxes. They
have year after year come to the
Board of Equalization with prepos-
ferrous valuations. When these were
raised they plunged the county into an
expensive lawsuit, on which they
were sigrlally beaten in every court
in the State. Now, some OF their
residents, in a fiji of sulks because
they have been mado pay their way.
want to punish Hudson by refusing
to stay in with her any longer. They
meet with all the aid and comfort
they want in the partisan greed of
the Republican majority. That is all
there is OF the case. These towns,
geographically. historically and in
their essential interests, belong to
Hudson. The natural boundary of
Essex is the Passaic. Let her rest
content within her natural con-
fines.
The rest of Hudson county has
been too long supine about this mat
ter. There should be a demonstra-
ton this evening that will make the
right impression on the Governors
mind