The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-30
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

Eli Perkins, who has spent three weeks
in Missouri, Texas and Kansas. expresses
the opinion that free silverism is dying
out in its southwestern stronghold. "The
people," he says, ''now talk about the
craze dispassionate1y and with reason.
The verdict is that it was the ghost of the
greenback craze which set the farmers
wild in 1885,"
The Rev. DR.. ]. B. Graw made a bad
break as to the facts in regard to Camden
marriages. He stated before the Metho
dist conference, last week, that the asser
ton of there having been 1900 marriage:
in Camden last year was untrue. 1t i:
shown, however, by the 1897 almanac o.
the New Jersey Gazette, DIR. Graw's paper
that the marriages in Camden in 1Set
numbered 4,626 Hudson county ha6
3, 7o6.
The marriage license bill hangs fire in
the New Jersey Senate, where it was kill
ed before. Some of the New Jersey min.
listers have got an altogether wrong idea o.
the working of the Pennsylvania law
The reason why so many couples go from
this state to New Jersey to be married is
because minors can be married there
without the consent of parents, and biga-
nous, improvident and improper mar
riages can be made there more easily and
with less fear of exposure and punish
ment than in Pennsylvania. This is bad
distinction that New Jersey can we'll af
ford to sacrifce.-Psika. Press.
Rarely have markets sustained such
surprise as they have received of late with
so little loss. Foreign conditions and
London alarms. the collapse of the iron ore
combination, the destructive floods in the
Mississippi Valley, and the decision of the
Supreme Court against railway associa-
tons, have been used to the utmost, but
not even in railroad stocks has the result
been important. Were all associations of
railroads to cease, it would yet be in the
power of capital controlling important
lines to stop serious rate-cutting if it chose.
With confidence that better times and
larger business are coming, men are less
disposed every day to throw away good
investments, and the very fact that prices
of products are low is regarded as a guar
antee against much further decline. In
all industries, also, the number of mills
and shops and hands at work gradually
increases. -DNn'S ReUte1
Mr.. Wildes' resolution comes in oppor-
timely. The Burlington Assemblyman is
honest and sincere and endeavored with
all the force he possessed to pass his salary
reduction bill He failed, and it NAV be
that his recent resolution was in retaliation
for the failure of his Republican col
leagues to redeem their campaign pledges
In regard to salary reduction. But Mr..
Wildes. like many other men in New Jer-
sey, believes that campaign pledges mean
something and that the cry of reform
should count for more than vote getting
at election time. The chances are that
Mr.. Wildes' resolution may never be heard
of again. There was evident consterna
ton when he presented it and a strong
desire to shelve the whole matter. This
may easily be done in the committee to
which it was referred and probably will
be, but the present Legislature will be
once more placed on record as refusing to
redeem its prediction pledges of econ
omy and reform. -Fyeehold Transcript.
Governor Griggs has again reversed
himself, and has reappointed those anna
Bile laymen, Messrs. Gottfried Kreuger
and John w. Bogert, to be Judges of the
Court of Errors and Appeals. 1t was an
nounced that the Governor intended to
appoint only men learned in the law to
the Court of Errors, and past appoint
ments indicated that was his intention.
But he has changed his mind, and con-
tinues In office the only two laymen on
the bench. This is hard upon the Demo
cratic members of the bar, only one of
whom has been found worthy to be a
member of the court of last resort. Judges
Kreuger and Bogert are reported to be
very capable business men, and doubtless
had nothing to do with hanging up the
Hudson county ballot box suffers cases
for six years before reaching a decision,
but 1t is to be hoped they will insist here
after upon such business methods in the
Court as they pursue in their own private
affairs. The people want expedition, not
delay, in all public matters. Camden
Courier
The best testimony that Mr.. Dinglev
and his associates are receiving as to the
real character of the Tariff bill they have
is coming from abroad. They
had protection in mind when they set to
work, and that they have closely followed
that principle in their labors is to be read
in all of the cables bearing on the subject
There is chorus of protests against the
measure, coming from all quarters to be
affected by its provision. The 1oudest, as
was to be expected, comes from Great
Britain. The Englishman surrenders anv
part of any good market with great reluct-
ance, and his realization of what to him
he return of the Republican party to
power IN this country means, casts a gloom
over his spirits.
AS protection is again very live issue |
Mr.. Dingley and his friends have probably
acted wisely in drawing the line sharply. |
It is only in that way that issues are salts
acorily settled. The home market for
he home people, to the full extent of
heir power to use it, is the Republican
promise and attempted performance. The
est OF this policy, under up-to-date con-
iitions, is now to take place. WASHINGTON
Star, Ind.
The attitude of the Democratic party in
he House of Representatives, during the
discussion of the tariff bill, is indescrib-
IDLY painful not to say pitiable. 1t had
been accustomed to lean upon the strong
nan in the White House, and now that
hat prop has been withdrawn, it seems
Utterly incapable of standing up and
lone
Not single speaker SO far on the Dem
'cratic side has displayed ability or in.
ormation, but all of them founder about
n the error of long-exploded arguments
md theories. Notwithstanding the tariff
las been under consideration since last
December, in open committee, with daily
newspaper publications of progress in the
york. the Democrats came into Coooraes ,