The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-30
PLEA FOB HOME INDUSTRY.
A Correspondent Asks That Public
EmpIoymeptE se Given TO Our Citizens

Httl OIOI Ill u = W.
To the Editor of 1.-THE Jersey City News
sir-Independent men in politics are
asked to cast their lot with the Repupu-
can candidate for member OF street ana
Water Commission this election under
pretence that our municipal government
would be the gamer by the defeat or
Colonel Robert G. Smith, the Democratic
candidate. We indeoendent. men believe
that the defeat OF Colonel smith W9ulo ee
a public calamity ard a woeful loss to
Jersey City. We are, however, opposed
TO the system in vogue at present by the
municipal authorities in the matter OF
awarding public contracts, because our
own citizens are not engaged to perform
the labor attached to such work. We are
opposed to some men who have been eject
ed as Democrats and refuse to act IN con-
junction with our leader, Robert Davis.
There is a great dead of injury sustained
by every property owner and taxpayer,
labOrer and mechanic brewery hinu, "
the present bad system of letting out pup
lie contracts, and | hope Colonel Smith
will see to it. in conjunction with Com
missioner Haucks Nolan and his other
colleagues. if they will take advantage
of a new law which | understand has been
passed by the Legislature of our State,
which forbids the employment OF aiiens
in our public works. The people who
sustain the Governments by paying taxes
should get the preference OF the work.
Since public improvements have become
so numerous and costly, involving the ex-
penditure of large sums Of money 1t IS
certainly the duty of those in power to
endeavor to keep such money in our own
city, among our own people,, no matter
whether the Board be Democratic or Re
publican.
II we don't know enough to hold bur
own cash for our W special use we
certainly are incompetent to run our mu,
uicipal government successfully. and VIII
never attain good results. Phere Is q
axity of characte" and ability in the
minds of the people to forward their own
interests or an Indifference thereto: in
foo "a n 1nplxc moro like a combination OF
men who desire TO live forever in the
city at the peoples expense and hand
down a false system OF law, contrary to
justice and fair play Tor future genera
lions to follow. 1t is incomprehenslble to
the majority of all citizens as TO why a
man or combination of men should at
tempt to run our city by secret orders.
which is contrary to the rule of equal
rights. To say the least, such a system
causes misfortune among laborers and
mechanics of every kind.
with vicious -spoils-hunting Republicans.
who attempt to vote away our money n
use it to suit themselves by enriching a,
few miserable, misery contractors, that
grow rich and fat at the expense of the
taxpayers by resorting to the system. of
Italian padronism, excluding our own.
skilled labors. TO make place Tor a race OF
men who never benefit a single merchant
in our city, nor help to sustain a single
institution in our State. Depend upon
such q class for the yme of taxes
10 SuDDOIlE OuI SCtOOlSs 1OlitSCSs "a
and State institutions and in a very short
time there would exist no courts of law,
| no schools or colleges, no liberty, no hap
piness.
contractors and ragpickers, but a desert
ed village for our chosen citizens, barring
our numerous pensioners to be. Ii the peo-
pie would resolve themselves into one solid
body for their own interest they could
make Jersey City a garden of paradise
in place of a railroad blockade. Religious
differences exist no more. every MAJ can
worship his God just as he pleases. Work
is the order of the day, and as the good
book truly says:-"Who will not work,
! neither should he eat" How can people
work when the money contributed by
themselves is spent contrary to their W
wishes? If right would take the place of
might, want or idleness would be nothing
| unknown. Real estate would enhance i'll
| values. men with capital would invest it
/ here, the building trade would revive, all
houses would be tenanted, mechanics of
all kinds would be employed, gamblers
| and political trieksters would be forced to
fhe rear, political traders in bribery could
not exist, they would be exterminated;
| taxes in abundance would flow into our
| civ treasurer, our bonded debt would be
| reduced and in course of time wiped out
| of EXISTENCE: Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets and other water front
| property stolen or confiscated would re-
| VERT back to the city; our streets could
| he extended from the Hudson River to
| the Hackensack; railroads would be taxed
iust the same as individuals; charity and
I benevolence would double in size; honor
ably educated statesmen. who woul be
| an honor to themselves and the State,
| world be elected to our legislative halls;
| good Christian laws would be enacted;
| every business would prosper; good citi-
| zens VS. I'D reside here. peace and pros
| perity and happiness reign supreme. Then
| everybody would feel contented and our
| citizens will not be contented until then.
Trusting sincerely that we will live long
| enough to see our entire Government
| transformed from midnight darkness to
| the light of Christian perfection, where
secret orders shall have no part or lot
| in its progress and everything be held
| IN to the clear light OF day,
l remain very truly.
M. J. MsMAHON.