The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-12


The Harrison and Kearny Infamy.
The question in the Harrison II
Kearny transfer affair is not as 70
whether the handful of people In
these two towns want it. but as TO
whether the people of Hudson county
want it. The people of Hudson
county number 275, 900. according to
the last census; the two towns include
some 1000 souls. The question is;
Shall this handful of people dictate
to the huge majority and set up Its
ill-tempered freak in opposition to
the plain interests aud the delib-
crate Judgment of the whole com
munity.
At last nights meeting in the City
Hall, the advocates of the transfer
were able to advance no argument OF
of the least moment. Some OF us
buy in Newark, they said; some of cs
bank there: some of us work there;
therefore we want to be annexed.
Garry this idea to its logical conse-
ouences. Some residents OF Jersey
City buy in New York; some bank
there and some work there. What
would be thought of US If we made
nm our minds that we wanted to leave
New Jersey and flop over to the
Metropolis Yet one proceeding would
have lust as much ommon sense In
1t as the other.
The Passaic has, from the very be-
ginning of the county distinctions,
been the line of demarcation between
Hudson and Essex. 1t is natural 1t
should have been so. 1t is a bigger
river than the Hackensack. 1t is the
sort of stream which nature has de-
signed for a boundary. The territory
living between the Passaic and the
Hackensack is essential to the growth
of this city. We have already come
within sight of the time when all the
available space in Jersey City's pres
ens limits will be occupied with
dwellings and factories. 1t is abso-
luteiy necessary for US to look a little
ahead and provide for the overflow OF
cur population. Where are we to do
this if not Oh the farther bank of the
Hackensack.
This stream is now being improved
by the National Government.
Already factories and warehouses
are springing up along its banks,
and is seeking its
waters. This is, properly speak
ing, the property of Hudson county
OF Jersey City. Are we to be robbed
of it o to please a clique Of tax dod-
gers and to give Essex county and the
Republican State machine one more
Republican vote in the Assembly?
Governor Werts may certainly be
trusted to defeat this scheme of in
iquity. He is uninfluenced by local
prejudice or by partisan greed. He
will be affected only by the facts and
logic OF the case. He will interpose
his veto to prevent the contemplated
outrage, and in doing so will earn the
gratitude OF the vast majority of Hud-
sons people of all parties. Whether
the fnfamy can be passed over his veto
or not remains to be seen.
ONE other scheme OF partisan spoli-
alton, akin to the Hudson county
division, went through the Senate
Yesterday. a bill was passed depriy-
ing Hunterdon county of one of its
AssenbIymen and transferring him to
Camden.
Hunterdon is staunchly Democratic;
Camden is prospectively Republican.
This is all there is in the scheme.
Ttlsre is no other possible excuse Oh
Justification for it.
But is it not unconstitutional A
portion of Section Ill, Article IV.Sol
the Constitution reads as follows:-
The present apportionment shall continue unit
the next census of the United States shall have beer
taken, ana an apportionment Of the members OF tn,
General Assembly shall be made by the Legislature
at its FIRST session after the next and every subse
cuent enumeration or census, and when made shall
remain uDaltered until announcer enumeration snaj
have been taken.
we do not see how the closing word.
of this section can be ~reconciled Will
the transfer Of an Assembiyman from
one county to another.
Indeed it seems to us that on
strict construction of the terms of the
Constitution it would be unbelievable
to transfer an Assembiyman from
Hudson to Essex eve after TIN
transfer of Harrison and Kearny had
been made.
Mrs. Bradford, Swindiing Banker.
One of the stock arguments in be
half Of giving women political rights
is that they display on superioi
honesty to men in their business re
latisns. This claim is persisted in
despite numerous proofs by experience
TO the contrary.
The story of Mrs. Bradford, femal
fnancier, printed in this morning
papers is merely the latest in a ions
train of similar cases showing tina
women are In a rather particuia