The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-05-28
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

laSt thursday Inc wild west
boys of the FIRST Ward held their ex-
hibition week previous.
Everybody should witness the dec
Grafton of the old soldiers graves in
Mt. Hope and st. Johns cemeteries,
Friday next.
Honesty in overalls and blue jumper
can't borrow money, without throw
ing a good form for double security
as an evidence of good faith. In
fact, you must pretend to be better
than the honest laboring man, before
the honest laboring man will send you
to the state legislature Not as hon
est as the laboring man, mark you,
but only better than he is-a better
diplomat, one who can take bride
and not show it right away by buying
new clothes and diamond pins. A
bride must be handled with as much
care as stolen goods. 1t daren't be
displayed right of, but must be
brought ont by degrees, and then
called the profits of lucky specula-
ton.
The editor of the WAGE WORKER
tells us he may make few speeches
during our congressional election
in the old 4th District. Well,
"Jackey" is not the man to forget
any little mean things these politicians
bring TO bear again him and he will
resent their acts in way which will
be most felt and at the proper time.
The WAGE WORKER is not in politics
for pleasure, but for business and will
sooner or later be recognized in its
efforts to bring the political issue fair
ly and squarely before the voters.
The old Democracy of Iunterdon has
been run by few so-called leaders
for the past half century, who made
out to monopolize all the offices for
their own personal gain. They all
live in the upper end of the county.
OF course, we have few of the small
fry in Lambertville, but they will
meet their Waterloo in the near fu-
ture.
Nobody is too good to be exempted
from labor nobody is too bad or too
low to be turned away from job.
There are positions for good men, and
jobs of all sorts for all sorts of men,
with all sorts of wages and salaries at
tached to them TO be sure, easy po-
sitions bring easy salaries, while the
hard Jobs bring hard dollars-hard-
earned dollars. But we must take
courage II we are too low down in
| the social scale to be an honest mer.
chant or bishop, we might get pc
litical job. Character is not required
| in this profession. Neither is honesty
nor sobriety, nor morality. If yot
are not ripe enough for prison, bu
fear the early frosts may catch you
get political job ut once and you car
escape the law for great many years
If you can't make spread eagl
speeches and tell the dear people wha
your party is going to do for them il
the future, you can at least stuff tn
ballot-boxes, or peddle stereotype
lies, or get up riot, or pad the asses
sor's book, or run n saloon, or at leas
get gloriously drunk after the election
of your party candidates, and give tn
affair a CLINT of prosperity. The
again, if you are too dumb to hoe pc
tatoes or drive an ox-cart, you can &c
job on the jury, or the police force
or the reportorial staff of polite,
daily paper. There are positions fo
men of brains, and there are jobs 70
men of gall So take courage, We i'm
perfect men. There is nothing per
feet, not even the latest improve,
washing machines, or fountain pen, o.
| typewriter, or the present system o
government. 1t will probably be 1
| long time before we have perfec
government. if we must use the auto
maton sort of statesmen now in the
market. To be sure, the system of ali
governments will undergo some
changes, for systems can be changed
a great deal easier than men, espec-
tally politicians. Take courage, my
unregenerated brother. Politics will
have use for pretty tongh characters
for II long time to come and you have
II good opportunity to secure job
when some Of the tough incumbents
go home to die amongst their pale
green constituents, and have batch
of resolutions hung up in the local sa-
looms for the weary flies to roost ON
after filling themselves with stale
beer.