The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-09
The Newask Calf ISLANDERS Hudson

The Tribune, quotes this morning
with cordial approval an article in which
that offensive cad, the Editor of the
Newark Sunday CALI spews his venom
over Hudson County. The greater part
of the article is devoted to abuse of the
Republican leaders in this county, abuse
which is Intellectual because it is indis-
eliminating, abuse which is grotesaue in
the columns of a paper whose own county
Is bossed by Major Carl Lentz.
The abuse of the Republican leaders is,
however, a minor matter. The "CalPs"
influence is great neither in Hudson nor
yet in Essex, and it is enthusiastically
small in the State as a whole Its con-
slant habit of abusing someone has de-
prived its utterances of all weight, and
we would not think it worth while allud-
ing to them were it not for their repro
dorsement of that paper, whereby they
may come to harm the repute of this
community in New York and other out
side regions where the Call" is not
known as the discredited riga of crank
aness and s~no5bery.
The particularly injurious feature of the
present article is the fat-footed state
ment that local government in Hudson
IS as bad as it can be. This wholly
g~roundless Islander is a fayorite one in
the columns of Republican papers. for
no better reason than that the govern
ment is generally Democratic, and its
constant repetition is one of the crimes
for which we constantly arraign the Re-
publican party before the people, for the
effect of the oft repeated libel is practi-
cally pernicious.
1t is on account of no sentimental feel
ing tina we resent this form of attack.
Hudson, so far as her own people are
concerned, can pass by the ~utterances OF
the Cali and the Tribune with the
contempt with which they deserve. But
there can be no doubt that settlement
and Investment in Hudson have been and
are today hindered and reduced by the
evil reputation which INSCRIPTIONS liars
like the .CaM" and the Tribune have
spread regarding US among our ~neighbors.
Were it not for ahis actual loss in
progress and prosperity, it would be
1aughable to see the 'Call' allude to
bad government in any place outside of
Essex. Ordinarily, we have no wish 10
dnjure our ~neighbor county, but, in view
of the present attack, we may be for
given, perhaps, for illusions to one or
two phases of life in that county. For
instance, the "CaN' itself had an article
on Sunday showing that taxation was
taking a Jump this year throughout the
county which was well nigh causing q
panic among property owners. Then we
have in all this mornings papers a letter
from Elizabeth A.. Allen. a School Vice
Principal. protesting against a scandal in
the school system of Orange, consisting
IN the removal of a number of efficient
and experienced teachers, without rhyme
or reason
If any one desires to get an idea of
Newark morals, and Of its police
and excise arrangements are, let him
start at the Market street station Of the
n. r. r. and walk up to Broad street.
BY the time heshas counted the low dives,
from the open doors of which the cracked
music OF theB owery stage emanates. by
the time he has appraised the low women
and the toughs who haunt the street,
he viii think no one in Newark is in a
position to throw stones on the subject
Of bad government.