The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-07-31
EDITORIAL CLIPPINGS.


What is apparently an inspired"
utterance comes from Oyster Bay, to
the effect that if "Mother" Jones
wants to talk to the President she
can do so. Even her bringing one or
two of her adherents would not be
objected to, but an invasion OF an
'army" of rag, tag md bobtails
would not go. And this is stand
which every sensible person will APP
prove. Paterson Press.
The Newark Call says; New York
State is to decide in November as to
whether it will spend $101, 100000 for
the enlargement of the canal system OF
the State. The whole question there
is whether the amount is too large,
the plan of works upon too extraya-
CANT a scale. Here in New Jersey we
seem to view things differently
Next November we are to elect legis-
lators who will decide whether the
State is to give away its canal inter-
ests, without recompense, in order
that the Lehigh Valley Railroad may
be profted thereby"
The Newark News says: "It is re-
gretted by a great many individuals
that there is not that seriousness
about the proceeding which they had
expected when they read the Gibson
declaration of war. There was hope
among the anti-Lentz people that the
new aspirant for honors really had the
active support of former Senator E.
G. Stokes and others of even more in
fiuence in the party. But Mr.. Stokes
has shattered the hope that was rails
ed, so far as he is concerned, by de-
claring that he has had nothing to do
with Mr.. Gibson's candidacy. Any
question as to the position OF the Re
publican State Committee in the mat
ter has now been answered without
equivocation or evasion"
The Passaic News takes a fall out
of Assemblyman Swackhamer for at
tempting to crate with Hughes and
Coult, Jr., at a farmers picnic, as fol-
lows: eff there is any one thing the
Sussex county farmer knows, besides
the fact that COW does not resemble
a pump in the slightest particular,
it is excellence in public speakers.
Sussex has raised and pastured few
public speakers who could deliver the
real goods. If these Sussex farmers
don't assign Swackhamer to the ticket
box of the dance platform, Hughes as
the 'enticer' for the ring and cane
game, and deliver the SkittiSh Coult
over to the tender mercies OF some
kind old woman, after they have
wabbled along the oratorical path
way for about five minutes, respect
lively, our knowledge of the Sussex
county farmer is sorely in need of
revision. However, we think it will
stand"
More than three weeks have elapsed
since the Fourth Of July, yet death is
still gathering in the lockjaw victims
of that days dreadful accidents. At
Bristol, on Saturday last, a promising
little boy Of twelve died in terrible
agony. His hand was burned on indie
pendence Day, by the accidental
explosion of toy pistol. The list
now runs somewhere up into the
hundreds. We're the people to be
asked in advance whether they would
sacrifice the lives of several hundred
boys and girls or abandon the use of
powder and firearms on the Fourth
of July, there would be but one an
swer. But no one dreams that his
own child is to be the victim, there
fore everybody takes the chances and
the annual death list is of terrible
length. Why can't reasonable people
stop such unnecessary and such cruel
acknowledgements News.