The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-01-26

is not turned up at you as yours is al
ways turned up toward us.
ST am not one of those who agree with
the sentiment expressed by the little girl,
when in saying her prayers she said
| Goodbye, Dod / am going to New
Jersey for three weeks
| we are in the forecast of the future of
4 these contiguous territories of the Sis
y ter States" Staten Island and Jersey City
dividing the Eastern terminals of the
I great Western transportation systems,
/ tunnel at the Narrows for the interchange
of the agricultural products of the West
and the manufactured products of the
East devoid of the great expense of hand
/ ling now necessary at this port, a con-
! tinuous route of transportation from the
! Jersey side of the XIII Won Kull encircle-
ing the stores of Staten Island, around
| the unequaled water front of Brooklyn,
! over the new East River Railroad bridge,
across the Island of Manhattan, back here
to the Jersey shore, by way of the tun-
| nels now under construction. or over the
magnificent bridge which will before long
span the broad waters of the Hudson.
This vision will become a reality just as
| soon as diversity of interests gives place
to singleness of purpose.
sCan YOU bring yourself to the com
i prehension of the fact that this great city
of the Commonwealth of New Jersey oc-
cupies only an area of ground which two
hundred years ago this year was pur-
chased for the sum of fifteen hundred dol
lars?. 1t is only sixty-five years
since the first railroad train pulled
out of this place. which is now one OF the
great railroad centres of the world. Talk
about expansion, look at the figures OF
the growth of Jersey City, population
in 1880 of only 1000; in 1910, 5000; in 1850,
| 6.OOO in 1860, 10000; in 1870 $4,000; in 1880,
12o and today, 100000.
Your State has been in peculiarly close
touch with the recent expansion OF the
nation. The hand of Providence has most
unfortunately. and to the profound regret
of the citizens of every State of the
Union severed the official ties which
bound this Commonwealth in closest
Ifbonds to the administration of the affairs
of State. 1t was my good fortune TO be
| one of the thousands, yes, tens of thou
| sands, who knew, and through personal
| intercourse had learned to love Garret
A Hobart. / knew him for twenty years
Tt was my great privilege to have had
| political commercial and social relations
/ with that staunch and splendid specimen
| of man. No one ever had intercourse
| with him in any of these relations who
| was not the better for 1T. / was bene-
ficfary of his advice on more than one
occasion, and 1 am thankful to Him who
both giveth and 'taketh away that was
the possessor of his friendship. Oh, that
Garret A. Hobart might have been spared
to witness the full fruition of the admin
istration in which he bore so conspicuous
| a part
| Mr.. Woodruff then spoke at some length
ON the expansion of the nation and said:-
1.-THE boundless energy of the Yankee Of
today leaps beyond the limits of rhe no
longer boundless territory of his native
| land The population and wealth of the
United States in North America may
continue to grow with the amazing in
creases of the past, burt the Yankee can
not wait. He doesn't go upon the theory
that all things come to him who waits
His maxim is all things come to him
1 who hustles while he waits
/ when we request the States created
out of the territory purchased by thomas
| Jefferson to Secede from the Union, When
/ we restore to Old Mexico the States of
Texas and the Territories Of New Mexico GO
| and Arizona; when we ask England to
take the Northwest Territory OF oregon,
| when we render back to Russia The gold
fields and the wealth Of Alaska, then and
| not till then will the United States restore
! to Spain or abandon to Aguinaldo and ms
! bands of half civilized Fflipinos the fer
tile fields and mineral wealth Of the Tar
repudiate the victories OF Grant, OF Shsr- h:l,-
! man and of observation-disclosures which
| through tremendous sacrifices unparallel-
/ to5 IN, \, oru rora the 0lSm eIlfl6T
| nlent of the Republic; we might as Wen
stamp into oblivion the statesmanshlp OF
an and seWaTd Ben and
| and we might as well prepare 70 erase
/ from memory the victory of Dewey at
Manila, and of Sampson, Schley and Snaf-
ssEf Aguinaido is Filipino Washington,
| the American who so characteristics MIN IS a
Benedict Arnold The Tories VINO calleG
Washington a bandit, and the Copper
| heads who dubbed Lincoln butcher, may
be recognized today in those VINO can
Mckinley a blunderer. As the Patriotlc
.tDsmocrats of the North supported the
Federal Government in the great crisis
of the Civil War, SO today every Demo
| crat worthy of the name of patriot, points
i with pride to the Star Spangled Banner,
4 where Dewey planted it on the Island of
| LuZon.'
/ Mr.. woodruff then dwelt upon the man
! ner in which the Spanish war brought to-
gether the North and South and closed
| by saying: What could possibly serve TO
| arouse tihe patriotic er'-es1~s---7 -
lpeople of New Jersey and New York, the
! citizens of these sister ,s,ll,ee. !
higher pitch Than the council of war be-
fore the fortifcations of Santiago in
which among the participants were Gen
eral ShaIfter, off Michigan. and General
Joe Wheeler, of Alabama-lW heeler, who
a year ago, SO courteously presented The
Northern President of the United States
| to his people of the South, that we hear
the President calling upon the nation to
cherish the memory and guard the graves
/ of the Confederate dead.
!" NO more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers fbe red
They Danish our anger forever,
When they laurel the graves of our
i dead
4 Senator John Ford spoke next on
franchise Taxation and took occasion
to gently roast the Lieutenant Governor.
He began by saying that New Jersey
would be great not by turning its face
1 to New York and the rising sun but by
turning it's face to the rising son of New
York This little rap at the Lieutenant
Governors Vice Presidential aspirations
evoked much laughter. The Rev. Mr.. AL
len responded to "A Whole City Is At
/ fected by Its Great Men,, and Major r.
K Pangborn wittily spoke about 'sThe
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