The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-06-25
IT.. rourth's No,..

The Township Committee has issned
it's usual proclamation against the sale
and setting off of fire crackers and other
explosives. The law governing this sub
iect is a state statute and while nobody
mas the power to annul iss provisions at
any time, it is always understood that
the boys may have their fun on the
Fourth.
Nobody objects to the celebration of the
day at the proper time, but to begin a
racket at midnight Of the Sd with shoot
ing, shouting. ringing bells and the like,
is nuisance that should not be tolerated.
To keep hundreds of people awake for
the enjoyment of few III unreasonable,
and the police forcsysisaipuld tbe increased
to such an extent that order will besmain-
tanned until the proper hour in the morn
ing. The following communication on
this subject is right to the point:
Editor of The News at desire to enter
my solemn protest against the unre-
strained nighttime noise and nuisance of
the Fourth. am one ofthose who main
tain that noisy enthusiasm is educational
and necessary to impress the young with
the lessons and the spirit of the day. I
like the restless spirits who delight in the
biggest bombs and loudest horns more
than the CLANS who sit silent without a
thrill or ripple of excitement when they
hear the soul-stlrring Declaration, and I
believe that it is that very. element of
noisy, restless souls and bodies that could
be depended on to fight for liberty and
Union at any time. But I ask, in the
name Of the sick and the dying, whose
pains are intensified, whether the neces-
sarily noisy patriotism could not be made
still more noisy, and more happily and
sensibly noisy, if it could be confined to
the time that the majority of the people
are awake, and prohibited, at least, from
midnight to sunrise on the morning of
the Fourth.
"The absolute right of personal security,
including the right to be secure in the
enjoyment of health, Il venture, includes
also the right to be secure in the enjoy
ment of sleep, most essential to health.
Personal liberty does mot include the
right to destroy personal security. l be-
lieye that the blatant noise at dead of
night before the Fourth is part and par
eel of that contempt for private rights
which is at this hour painfully and peril
ously manifest in many disorders in many
parts of our land.
The absolute suppression of noise dur
ing some portion of the night preceding
the Fourth would increase respect for
both liberty and security. Certainly the
day time gives sufficient room for exer-
else in the perpetuation of our liberties
by making as much noise as we person
ally please.
Ny hope that something may be done
to emphasize officially the point of this
letter, through the police, as far as any
duty or power lies at present in their
hands, and through further careful, rea-
sonable legislation, if it is needed, is
strengthened by the knowledge of the
noise-made miseries Of many sick and
nervous persons. and the belief that many
physicians could multiply stories of such
cases by the thousands Let us have
glorious Fourth, but let US not have to
say Liberty hath murdered Sleep" Let
the people have chance to sleep hard,
in order that they may get awake more
enthusiastically. Let us have Liberty
and also, yours truly,
PERSONAL SECURITY.