The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19

the sin of extravaganza cannot be laid to
the charge of any past Legislature. A
State containing the population and varied
public interests of New Jersey that keeps
ITS expenditures within easy sight of two
millions of dollars annually and is prac-
tically out of debt is on the whole eco
nomically governed. -PEila. Times.
A few years ago there was much talk
abount reckless extravaganza in the Ex-
ecutive chamber during Governor Alb
belts last term. Nobody can say now
that anything is wasted in that section of
the capitol. An apt illustration of this is
found in the circular letter sent out with
copies of the Governors message making
the usual request for protection against
premature publication. The letter ac-
companying the message that was read
from last year, with the date changed and
the word message substituted for inaugural
address.-N. y. Tribune
1t remains to be seen whether the DEM
ocratic party will accept the place of rear
guard to the Populists-mere campbell
lowers, as it were, without even a control
over the fesh-pots of the party. No one
who knows the character of the average
Democratic politician, and remembers
how readily he substituted regularity for
conviction and principle in the late cam
paign, will ever believe this. Like Luci-
fer, he would rather rule in hell than
serve in heaven, and the alternative now
offered him is service and not rule in a
place very much resembling Lucifer's
dominions Petersburg Index Appeal.
India's famine, frightful as all accounts
show it to be, is yet serving useful pur-
pose in teaching the people of that un-
fortunate country the value of American
corn as a.food crop.
Vast quantities of this grain have al
ready been sent into India, and more will
follow, designed primarily, of course, to
relieve the immediate ravages of starva-
ton, but the ultimate result will be the
planting of great areas with this cereal
during the coming season and the perma-
nent addition of corn to the grain crops of
India. This is the one compromising ele-
ment in famine so extensive in range
and so awful in the aggregate of its vic
Tins that the recital of its progress has
Mortified the world-lNafI and Express.
Speaking at the late State Forestry As
ISOLATION meeting, Professor Fernon, says
the Newark Ad0eytisey, states that ''about
90 per cent of the soil of New Jersey is
fit for nothing but wood crops, and, with
ordinary care, this area could be made to
produce wood to the value of one million
dollars annually. New Jersey spends out
side the State about $I2. 900 annually
for lumber, and from 81, 900, 600 to So, 600
600 of this could be paid to our own peo-
pie if the forests we're properly conserved.
The losses by fire amount to about 81 ,ooo,-
600 annually, in consequence of the neg
lect of the State to provide means for the
protection of its woodland. 1t appears
from these figures that New Jersey pays a
heavy price for Legislative neglect or in
capacity in dealing with its forestry in
terests"
If ever political party received an I'M
mistakable mandate from the people, the
Republican party received it in the three
successive elections of 1894, 1895 and 1896.
The first two turned almost exclusively
on the tariff issues. By an emphasis un-
exampled in all our political history, the
American people demanded an immediate
abandonment of our disastrous expert
ment in partial free trade and return to
our historic policy of protection.
The Presidential contest of 1896 turned
on the currency first and the tariff after
ward. On both of these issues the Repub-
lican party took an unequivocal position.
Every man who voted for the Republican
candidates knew that the new administra-
ton was irrevocably committed to main
tain the integrity of our currency and re-
establish the protective system. Nine
tenths of the voters who supported Nc
Kinley and Hobart positively desired that
both of these things should be done. The
other tenth, while not friendly to protec-
ton, frankly consented to it, like the hon
est, patriotic men they we're, because they
regarded the salvation of the financial
credit of the country as the paramount is
sue of the campaign, and knew that only
through Republican triumph could it be
accomplished.
These "honor Democrats have nothing
but contempt for the free trade marp1ots
who are playing right into the hands of
the silver agitators by fighting the enact
ment of a Republican tariff The great
body of the citizens who, sincerely be-
lieving in tariff reform yet voted the Re-
publican ticket are disposed to let the Re-
publican tariff policy have fair play.
They acknowledge that the Government
requires increased revenue and if a Re-
publican tariff law can provide it, they
are prepared to rejoice as men who are
broad enough to place patriotism above
partisanship.
Meanwhile business is sensitive. The
process of recovery drags. Every reck-
less attack upon the committee of Con-
gress which is wrestling with the tariff
problem is blow to confidence that post
pones by just so much the restoration of
prosperity for which Republicans and
Democrats alike are fervently hoping.
The politicians and the newspapers that
out of sheer partisan malice assail in this
crisis the Republican leaders in Washing
ton are enemies of business and enemies
of the country. Boston Journal
THE LEGISLATURE.
The I2Ist Taoislatura of Now Tareav