The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

CONTRACTS were signed IN washington
on Thursday by the Japanese Minister
with the Cramp Shipbuilding Company,
of Philadelphia, and the Union Iron
Works, of San Francisco, for the building
by each of the companies named of an un
armored crusier of 1890 tons displacement,
each vessel to be capable of making 2IH
knots under forced draught The cost of
each vessel will be about one and one
half million dollars, and both are to be
completed within twenty-four months.
The statement that the Wilson tariff has
caused a great increase in our export trade
is puerile in its mendacity. Our exports
have reached an unusual volume this year,
chiefly because of the grain shortage
abroad which has sharply stimulated the
foreign demand for American breadstuffs.
The increase in our sales of manufactured
products abroad, as this newspaper has
already shown, is Insignificant in compar-
ison with the total amount of our home
manufactures. 1t would probably have
come in any event, no matter what kind
of tariff the country had possessed.-N.
r. COMMERCIAL Advertiser.
The truth is, and we acknowledge it
frankly, though sadly, that at this time
the only political organization which
stands between society and threatened dis
ruption is the Republican party. 1t is
now the party of order and of the rights of
property against social and political forces
arrayed for their destruction. That is a
fact which all conservative men, whatever
may have been their previous partisan al
legiance, must face squarely. The Demo-
cratic party is at least temporarily disor-
ganized. Officially it is in the control of
the dangerous combination which polled
so vast vote for Bryan and the men
who dominated the Chicago convention
will struggle to their utmost to retain their
hold on it. Nothing has appeared since
the election which affords any form of en-
couragement that their power will be
broken and it is not likely that the stu
alton will change materially during the
next two years, or until the elections for
the new Congress then to be held. Mean
time patriotism, and even regard for the
preservation of civilization, must find
their expression in the Republican party.
~. Y. .Ssn.
The presidential electors will meet in
their respective states next Monday and
cast their ballots for president and vice
president of the United States.
At an adjourned meeting in Trenton on
Saturday of twenty representatives of
boroughs looking toward action to sim
plify the borough laws, a committee was
appointed TO prepare a bill to be present
ed to the joint Legislative committee on
the revision of borough laws. The com
mittee will meet in Trenton again next
Saturday to receive suggestions, and on
January Is the measure Will be present.
ed to general meeting of borough rep
resentatives. Each borough will be COM
municated with by the committee. Mayor
Rudd, of Glen Ridge, presided at the
meeting, and E. c. Stoughton, of River
ton, was secretary.
The Scientific american makes the fol-
lowing suggestion relative to change IN
the calendar which, at least, is worth
thinking about: 1T is suggested that on
January /, 1900, a new division of the
year into thirteen months be instituted.
If such division were made the first
twelve months would have twenty-eight
days, or four weeks each, and the new
month twenty-nine days, to make 1856,
and thirty in leap year. After a few DAYS
there would be no need to refer to the
calendars, as the same day of the week
would have the same date throughout the
year. If January l, were say Monday,
every Monday would be the lst 9Th, 18th
and 3D. every Tuesday the I'd, 9th, 10th
and 23d, and SO on through the year.
The changes of the moon would be on
about the same dates through the year,
and many calculations, like interest, dates
of maturing notes, Easter and other i'm
portant dates would be simplified. AL
though the present generation would
have to figure new dates for birthdays.
and all legal holidays except New Year
would be on different dates, yet the gain
would be more than the loss. as that
would be permanent and the objections
triflrng"