The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-13
SCUDDBR'S HARD WORDS
He Insinuates That Officials
Aiding the New Abattoir
Should Be Flung Over
board

The Rev. John L. Scudder in a prelude
to his sermon at the Tabernacle last night
denounced the new abattoir. He said
This city is menace with the estab-
lishment OF an extensive abattoir at the
end OF fone or it's prominent thorough
fares and so near a vast residential dls-
trict as to constitute a gigantic ana IN
tolerablo nuisance. A slaughter-house
may be a necessary adjunct OF clVliza-
ton, but certainty It's pace IS not III the
heart Of a city, where its Slckenlng
doors would be forced upon the people,
to their continual discomfort and as.
| gust. II human beings had no sense Of
smell such an establishment might pc
| allowed within city limits, but as the
great majority of our citizens possess
o.factory organs the erection OF TINS
abattoir would be an insult ana out
rage.
Yet this is precisely what a large rail-
/ road corporation proposes to do at once
in lower Jersey City. hat the .proJec5
bitterness OF feeling is natural, but IN
these days the rights and comforts q nu7
mainly weigh very little with rallroad
| corporations. If this repulsive abattoir
should be established in the district named
it would be the foul elimination OF a long
course of corporate injustice ana CON
temptuous disregard for pupllc weiIaae,
Jersey City. They do not pay their snare
of the taxes, while they exhibit a dispo-
sition to trample upon the rights OF the
DGODi0 ItIlGN L -SQAlo l4tNtA
Possessed of unlimited funds, they can
put through their iniquitous schemes, ana
the people are powerless. for their repre-
sentatives can be bought up and made
subservient to the corporations. Tne
managers of these roads lean back in
their easy chairs and say: what are you
going to do about it?
This proposed stencil factory would
cause q drop in real estate values ana
be a physical discomfort and mental 1rrl-
az ~ fIN rra r1Jno O. aIl GSnS in lower
Jersey City, who, during the summer
| months, are obliged to keep their windows
open. They would be compelled to inhaie
these nauseating draughts.
Now l submit that it is trial enough
for poor people to be penned up in
stuffy tenements during the heat Of sum
mer. This being forced to breathe the vile
doors of an abattoir, and a hog abattoir
at that, is more than they can bear.
And if in the face of universal protest
this s~tony-hearted corporation shoula
l believe the people would be driven to
violence, and some time when the odors
were unusually virulent would either tear
the building down or burn it up.
II would. not advocate such heroic
| remedies, but I would not be surprised if
they were adopted under circumstances
so aggravating and inexcuSable.
In his age of growing independence,
if the laws will not protect the people,
the people will not obey the laws. Mob
law is the natural outgrowth of injustice
| and oppression. and revolutions are de-
feasible when tyranny becomes unendur-
able.
Jersey. City already possesses a choice
| assortment of doors, and. I suppose this
| corporation thinks we are so used to
them that we can inhale another without
a sense OF uneaSiness. From across the
| meadows of the Hackensack occasionally
there comes to US spicy breezes. which try
our souls and are responsible for a vast
amount of profanity, but then a railroad
corporation talks of placing an abattoir at
our very doors we s~trenuously object. This
is going too far. This is one smell too
many and the odor is too rich. Whe draw
the line at the city limits.
LAS yet l understand no permit has been
granted for the erection of this colossal
impertinence, and | hope it never will be.
IF the Building Inspector of this city,
knowing the popular sentiment on this
subject, should have the temerity to grant
such a permit, he ought to be riddle on
a rail from Gutenberg to Bergen Point
and tossed into the Kill Won Kull.
IF in Difference to popular INDIGNATION
the Building Inspector should throw the
responsibility upon the Aldermen and they
strosity, they would be traitors to the
trust of the people who elected them.
They used to hang traitors, but in
his humanitarian age we shoul be salts
fed if the Offending member were treated
to a coat of tar and feathers and made to
head a procession on the Hudson County
Boulevard.
zone thing is certain, the people will
keep a watchful eye upon this villainous
project. and if it materializes there will
he trouble"