The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-03

| MUCH 10 SHY tUdl ~ IL q A0N~<
ment of public enterprise. Not even New
York with all it's wealth and splendor
possesses such a driveway, and 1t is
only necessary ito visit it on a Sunday
afternoon to learn how keen the pubitc
| appreciation of it has already become.
It is true. it has cost or will have COST.
when finished. two millions of dollars.
| But already there is a goodly return 70
| the municipalities through which II
| passes in the increased taxable value OF
adjacent property-not to speak OF the
! pleasure to the pubnc-and the very
| palatiaf dwellings, concerning whscn
| Judge Lippincott speaks with somewhat
! amazing sarcasm. are the sources from
| which the cities and towns and the
| county are to garner back into their
treae,iries not only the interest on the
| two millions, but the millions themselves.
and many other millions in all the re-
| voIving years. Of course, if there has
been Extravaganza or If bad work has
been passed and paid for, that is an
other hin Butt in a word, we do mol
believe anything Of the kind. We hear
a. good dsaluof.tal by. hostile politicians.
d~isgruntled contractors and speculators
and chartered cranks. But we are not
prepared to believe that Mr.. EdloW W..
Harrison, who was singled out by the
ate Judge Knapp on account OF his
high ability and spotiess repute to man
age this work, five years ago, has since
become a fool or a malfeasant merely
because he has had the expenditure OF
some public money. We believe public
enterprises and men engaged in them
are controlled by the ordinary laws Of
human life, and the above assumption
is not. to us, reconcilable with ordinary
common sense, and when We hear this
man and this work made the subject OF
reckless onslaught,-such, for instance.
as the Evening journal has from TIME
to time communicative ask if the char
acter of any man is safe if he once
dares to serve the public.
The City Hall. 1t appears, has also
been represented to Judge Lippincott in
a most lamentable way. He says
1t would seem as if all those Interested
for some reason or other, got into a
condition OF odds and ends in relatqol.
to It, and almost ready and Wiling to
make any possible accusation agalnss
a other.
If this is so. we certainly have not
heard of it. Neither, apparently, have
the Commissioners. What they have to
say will be found in another column OF
this edition of The News" There was
a scuabble between two contractors a
week or two ago., and a little imperfect
work was discovered. Steps were i'm
mediately taken to have it made I'M
On an average of once a month, a charge
has been brought into The News" office
that this or that abuse was being per-
| petrated. Some of these came from poll
ticians hostile to the powers that be:
! one or two came from contractors who
| failed to get in on the job. 1.-THE News
| investigated all of them as they came to
| it, and in no case was the least wrong
| discovered. One after another the ac-
| cusations seemed to be the product OF
misunderstanding or malice, or both.
One thing more appears to call for some
remark in Judge Lippincott's charge, the
arraignment of the police. The Judge
is no doubt right as to the technical
| breach of the law. There are a large
| number of saloons partly open on Sun
| day in this city. But there is assuredly
| no open or indecent defiance of the law
or. of public opinion. The blinds are kept
down and the front doors shut, and the
| saloons are quiet and orderly. There is
| not a particle of offence to people whe
not looking about for 1t.
We dc not believe the true majority
sentiment of the people calls for any more
rigid enforcement of the letter of the law
And we do think there is no small cruelty
in attempting a more puritanical move
ment at this season of the year, wher
the Sunday outing is becoming the week
ly pleasure of the poor man and ht
family. Why a poor man should not b.
able to procure a little beer on a no
summer. day, we cannot see, and we hop
never to see the time when any polic'
force or any court can prevent him..
We cave Judge ~Lippincott's charg'
with a profound sense of depression. w
know the use the reporters for the New
York Herald and World" n
..Times. and RECORDER will make %
it next Sunday; we have seen the ghoulisl
displays of it IN all these papers thi
morning. We anticipate with no pleas
ant feelings the editorials in today
Newark papers. Perhaps it is a fin
thing to spread the evil repute of Jerse,
city, to fill the State and our neighbo
State with the notion that we are some
what on the moral level of the Cities o
the Plains. No doubt the Cour mean
excellently we'll. But the consequences
make us sad to contemplate them.
TIRED OF SOUTH COVE.
Aldermen Order the American Fla:
Raised Over the City Hall Daily.
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