The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-02
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

NOTES AND OPINIONS.
Mr.. Bryan is in great luck that he didn't
happen to select the price of potatoes as
the travelling companion for the price of
silver Washington Post.
Gold continues to flow into the country.
The official figures show that the gold re-
serve Of the Treasury has increased 81, 600
900 since October Ist, and that it has now
reached total of over $751; 100000.
1t may be that recount of the ballots
cast as last months special election on
the constitutional amendments is the right
of the gambling people, but when it comes
to asking the courts to declare part of
the constitution unconstitutional, the limit
of absurdity would appear to have been
reached.--Patsys0a Press.
For all their various crops this year the
Kansas farmers, according to the estimate
of the Secretary of the State Board of Ag
riculture, will receive more than $I7o, ooo,-
600. 1t is probable. therefore, thst the
next wall to come from the Populists of
unhappy Kansas will be that they don't
know what to do with their money!
y. Mail and Express.
The race-track bills are the most dam
nable that have ever disgraced the tair
face of the commonwealth. The men who
voted for them should be marked and
should be barred for all time, from any
participancy in any public Office, for men
who are capable of delivering the State to
the black legs of New Jersey are so def
cient in their moral instincts as to be ut
terly unfit to serve in any respectable ca
pacity.-Nswayk NeaOs.
The labor situation at the present time
is notablysatisfactory. No strikes of any
importance are under way, and apparently
almost everybody who is willing to work
has work. The number of idle persons in
the country is probably smaller now than
at any previous time since the middle OF
1892. Everybody can see that business is
steadily improving. Even Bryan has
dropped that gag about the delay in the
appearance of General Prosperity."-H
Louis Globe Democrat
New Jersey is Republican State by a
large majority on the question of protec-
ton 10 American industries against foreign
competition, and it will not vote this year
to aid the election of United States Sena-
tor next year whose every vote and whose
influence would be given to repeal the
Dingley law and substitute therefor the
disastrous Wilson law, which threw SO
many of our wage earners out of employ.
Camden Telegram.
Out in Ohio wool-growers are jubilant
because the clip is being sold for thirty
cents pound in the local markets, as
against eighteen cents year ago. In the
opinion of the Ohio farmers the Dingley
bill is entitled to due credit for this
changed condition of affairs Their ex-
perience with free wool under the Wilson
bill was anything but satisfactory. Any
measure of legislation that keeps wool at
or above thirty cents pound in Ohio will
be generally and effusively supported in
that quarter, no matter from what direc-
ton the political wind may blow.--Meyayk
WeWs
October expectations continue to be
very heavy. 1t is probable that the fig
ures for the present month will exceed
those of any October for many years, and
will continue to show large sales abroad
of our manufactured goods.
The claim of the free traders that our
exports would fall off the moment we
adopted protective tariff. especially our
exports of manufactured articles, is not
proving we'll founded.
On the contrary, not single country
has closed its doors to or legislated adj
versely to our products. Gazette
Lawyer Edwards, it is said, proposes,
provided his employers raise sufficient
funds, to apply for mandamus to compel
the various election boards which have
thrown out ballots to recount them, and if
he can compel the court to grant any such
palpable scheme to thwart the public will,
the anti-gambling amendment would be
defeated. 1t is we'll to observe, however,
that Mr.. Edwards may be mistaken in the
character of the o6I discarded ballots, and
that it is just as likely majority of them
are in favor of the amendment as that all
are against it. A recount might prove
boomerang for the gamblers counsel,
should it be ordered.-C Camden Courier.
President Mckinley on Friday issued
his first Thanksgiving Proclamation, ap-
pointing Thursday, November as, for ma
tional thanksgiving and prayer. A whole
nation assembling at one time to give
thanks to the Most High for unnumbered
national blessings is an inspiring specta-
Gle The President, in brief but impress
sive review, notes some of the reasons why
the nation should thus acknowledge the
bounty of the Giver of all good. 1t re-
quires no searching to discover wherein the
nation has been signally favored. We
are at peace with the world, and, as the
truthfully sets forth,
Industry has prospered, the conditions of
labor have been improved, the rewards of
the husbandman have been increased and |
the comforts of our homes multiplied"
Let us minimize our national ills, what
ever we may fancy them to be, and mag
nifty the great benefits so abundantly !
showered upon the Republic. Public
Ledger.
Important testimony and that, too.
from an unfriendly source-to the fiscal
of the Dingley tariff is Civ
IN in the Quarterly Journal of Econ