The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-18
THIS pepper is Democratic in principles
and is Independent IN as rie,cs on all iocct
offeSf1ons 49,
More National Holiday.

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unexpected, q new woman, with the re-
markabie name of Brown, evolves h
date Of John Cadets FIRST landing on the
soil of North America for a National
feta
Why not2 let as have Cabot Day and
Co.unhus Day and Plymouth Rock Day
AMI Ponce de Leon Day and De Soto
Day and John Smith Day and any other
rass we can th.nk Of. Let US have
three hundred holidays a year. Sixty
is cg-ite enough for Sundays n bust
ness purposes.
The cnly, thing VIZ protest against is
the consumption of the entire year with
Lays dedicated 10 mere men. We must
have some weeren's Days to even the
thing up. Why not a woman's Day pure
and simple TO begin with. Then there.
shou,3 be a Pocalontas Day and a Lille
Drvsrsux Bake Day and a Mrs. Potter
Palmer Day ard a Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe Day and a Sorosis Day i an
Isabella of CASTLE a Perhaps the
only trouble win be thai there will not
be days enough in the year to go around
when the ladies get putting in their
claims IN their own self-abnegatory way.
The Electric Tru.t story mi . FPke
The Evening Journal was pleased
yesterday 10 pronounce a fake the ac-
count printed in THE News" on Friday
and Saturday OF the organization OF an
electric light and power trust. embracing
the Jersey City Electric Light Company,
the Hudson Electric Light Company and
the Newark Electric Light Company.
In making this assertion, the Journal
INDUCES in a malicious Justification. The
facts are exactly as ssThe News printed
them. The ~'Journal' cannot cover up
its own stupid inability to get and print
the news of the day by singing mud at
its more enterprising competitor.
Whatever else may be said, all Jersey
City will agree that no. fake was ever
printed in the columns of 1.-THE News"
NJ paper was ever more %serupulous in
guarding its columns against such i'm
pastures upon the public, Further, we
confidently claim that few papers have
been more successful in excluding I'M
founded gossip. 1t is not in human
nature 10 escape error always, but this
paper has had to take back about as
- -. 20 f.-4
paper of its age in this part of the
world.
The journal will find tina the cleo
tr.c trust story was true IN every i'm
portant particular. just like the numer-
Gus other stories on which we have
beaten it almost daily for months past.
The journal" besides. has too many
windows in its own establishment to
throw any stones OF this sort. Indeed.
there is something ludicrously impudent
about an adherent of the shameless
Chicago Associated Press ~venturing even
to breathe the word fake"
THE latest blow to the world" is
the default of some of the alleged bond
subscribers. This is going to throw nc
one knows now many millions more OF
the bonds into the hands of the hated
Morgan syndicate Their absorption by
that body wifSbe a good thing for the
for them in clean gold; but it is a bad
slap for the Blatant rag that forced the
u-nbusiness-like style of subscription or
the Government, which led to reckless:
speculation and default.
BY the way. zone of the increases ir
price, which formed the basis of The
recent proat-aguring e~xtravagances
have materiaiized.
THE Asbury Park Lfquor Humbus
Tho Asbury Park liquor question
Aiphers itself down to a very simpl,
Ibroblem. Us there a demand for th'
liquor or is there not? II there is. Their
should be no legislation to make its sal,
impossible. II there is not, no legislation
is necessary.
As a matter of fact there is such
demand There has never been a tim
when there was not an enormous con
sumption Of liquor in the Park. Privat
stocks furnished a large part of it; tn
speak-easy the rest. The rest was
good deal. too. for the speak-easy wa
profitable enough always to tempt me
to take big chances. The only effec
of the oppressive law which used to pre-
van was to cause hardship and incon
venience to many persons. and caus
Others to resort to demoralizing. la'
dodsing expedients IN order to gratif
their reasonable desires.
That the cause Of virtue or sobriet
was promoted in the least no sensibl
person can believe, there are som
other features Of Asbury Parks summe
manners which make the oyer-sens
tiveness Of its bosses on the liquor issu
just . tribe ridiculous.
The case OF Ocean Grove Is somewhs
Inherent. There we have 4 church COZ
Germ, wned hg = church ~organizatio
a ~t4n nrtxnarf5v for church purpose