The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-18


sentiment that will tend 10 prevent this
| encroachment against popular rights
| This suggestion Is forcibly illustrated by
| the action of United States Court in the
an of MsSs WITH
4 class of citizens who are uniting ana as
| sembling to protest against the oppres-
iU them Z to tesa exist upon upon Starvation wages.
| This act of Federal Judge in the days
| of Jefferson and jackson would nave oe-
/ suspension OF the exercise OF 1ualclal
| functions. But it would seem III these
| days that the power OF capital and IN ms
| trust is used to control the masses. Inc IN
| instance to which | refer shows Fed
eral judge enjoining that the starving
miners shall not intercept miners on on
4 their way to and from work; they cannot
/ speak on any of the public highways lead
| ing to the mines of the corporations; last
| private meetings whatsoever in the
| neighborhood of the mines in question;
I They are thereby deprived OF the srlgnt l.
not to take their places and aid their
employers in crushing them out. Not
! thing had taken place which would have
| This Judge if the conditions were such
| as the press daily informed u.s., had no
pretence whatever for issuing the writ WITT;
| No invasion of private rights had taken
| place; no riot threatened. yet he boldly
| and audaciously enjoined them to tnat
1 extent.
| This was in direct violation of the Con-
| stitutiona1 provision which sacredly pro
| vides that Congress shall make no law
| the press or of the right of the people to
| peacefully assemble, etc, but in the
language of one Of the metropolitan @ Jour,
| law that is beyond The power of Con-
! gress and American citizens, who. wish to
rights, must initiate the Southern negroes
I in slavery and hold their meetings in
| swamps. out of the reach of the eye OF
So fragrant was this act that the New
| York Tribune and Evening Post,
who come as near representing the capt. -
talistic views as any, We're. compelled to
I denounce it the Tribune commenting
| that. such acts were calculated to make
the laws hateful. The Democratic party,
| appreciating the fact that the Courts of
| the United States were overStepping the
bounds of judicial discretion and consti-
| against them in the Chicago platform,
| when they declared: I'VE denounce arbi-
trary interference by Federal authorities
in local affairs as a violation of the Con-
/ stitution OF the United States and
| crime against free institutions; we es-
pecialiy object to government by injunc-
tion as a new and highly dangerous form
of oppression by which Federal Judges in
contempt Of the law and the rights Of
! Judges and Executives In this decara-
1 ton we We're charged with assailing the
| dignity and honesty Of these Judges. ana
| order. This we strenuously denied, and
| claimed the right to criticize this branch
| of our government; and it has taken but
| our criticism and see another illustration
| of the. causes that brought forth that
press of the country many of which took
| issue with. us upon our criticism, de-
nonneing the us; use Of the writ ofoi,s Of IN
! unconstitutional and extending to bring
the law into disreepute and hate;
| with in the conduct
| of the affairs Of this State. ! eall your
| attention to the fact that the gross ex-
1884. 81 $3.50 2S5 In the year 1895, they were
| s., 269,OSe In the year 1896 they we're
s2,1az, $50. And for the present, year I
nous sum Of s2, ,3s5,ssl4 Under the last
year of Democratic rule the gross amount
| OF expenses was 81. SCI $50. which was the
1 time. Here you will perceive is an in
crease of about 100000 each year for the
Years Of 1894 1895 ga and 1926 and about 5000
| ministration. We are charged with mis-
management, extravagance, and corrup-
| ticn in the conduct of public affairs, but
i licans, upon this showing? Conditions
/ have not changed to cause such an enor-
1 nous increase. During their administra-
tion in this State every industry has suf-
| fered from depression and their expense
/ account has been correspondingly de-
that they survive Wages Of laborers,
mechanics, artisans and clerks had to
| submit to the inevitable fate of the times;
| The farmer. too, had to succumb and
lower the price of his products. But Re-
publican extravaganza went on paying
of the people, the impositions of the tax
assessor, or the demand for economy.
| You would imagine with all the suffering
and misery we have passed through dur
ing the past four years that they would
/ do something for a burdened people, but
the record that l have submitted dis
i A Senate Investigating Committee was
set on foot at the demand OF the Repub-
lican machine to expose the Democracy
| and recommend reform. The expense Of
that committee was enormous, and out of
all its recommendations the State has
i not benefited one dollar. That committee
| denounced the method of running the
government by officers thereof without
| the supervision and sanction of the
i Legislature, and an act of the Legisla-
ture was passed providing hereafter for
an appropriation bill. But, gentlemen,
the change has not bettered the situa-
the officers, it is now left to finance,
or you had better term it, q Steering
Committee of the Legislature, made up
| in disregard of the rights of the minority,
| wholly of members of the majority. 1t
might be termed star chamber; its
| proceedings are held in committee room;
the reasons given for making large or
small appropriations is never reported to
the Senate or House. 1t is one omnibus
| bill with gross amount stated for each
the recommendation of a partisan COM
mittee. Upon what principle the great
Democratic party is disregarded on COM
nittee in the consideration of expenditure
/ do not knew Certainly we pay taxes
and represent a constituency who bear a
4 good share of taxation. / can only con-
clude that we are kept in the dark and
obstacles placed in our way to
prevent US from critcising their
gross extravaganza myself refrained
from voting on its passage at the last
session, as I could not commit myself to
a partisan appropriation bill.
/ My fellow citizens, is not this mon
strous injustice2 This Senate Investiga-
ton Committee also reported the fact that
lition of the Riparian Board. IT still con-
tinues with the same expense, $12 00O
and without rejecting upon the present
Board, permit me to say that never
knew it to have any virtue, but recog-
niZed it's authority created to grant the
requests of favored corporations and in
dividuals. This committee discovered and
aries of State officers might be reduced
1 without injuring the public service But.
fellow citizens they still continue and
the benedciaries feed at the same old
public crib Your State has been so lib
eral with its courts that this item of ex-
years from $4,000 to $4,000. A distin-
guished Republican from Burlington, Mr.
Wildes. introduced a bill providing for a
horizontal reduction of all salaries of the
Judges of the Courts of this State, and
he argued when this enormous increase
of expense was presented: True it. is
that the judiciary has been enlarged but
Increased The reason for the increase
llhaS never been really "a seerfair1ad. stbe