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Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
BAD FEELING.
Chief MOyIan Uphraids Foreman
Anderson Of Washington Hose
Conuany for Responding to
the Alarm : MIsunder-
standing All Around.

That tile Perth Amboy fire depart
ment is in q disgraceful condition was
shown last night when the false alarm
was sounded. If a real fire had broken
out In one of the principal districts
the whole block would have been
doomed before the firemen could have
checked it.
When the alarm sounded the firemen
were quick to rush to the different
houses.
As told in the News, yesterday, q
new floor ia being put down in the
house Of Protection Hook & Ladder
Company and when thu members of
that company started to go TO the fire
they discovered that the new truck
was very nicely stored away in the
house OF Lincoln Engine Company.
The pole of the truck had been taken
OH and conld not be found, and nearly
all of the,tools were stores away some.
where. The Protection boys were in
great trouble and did not know what
to do when the foreman, John
Deveny, ordered them to use the old
truck.
The.old truck is In the alleyway
covered with snow and when the boys
tried tb hitch the horses to it they
found that the harness would not fit.
In despair they gave it mp and under
the direction of Foreman Deveny
they got small ladder and some
tools and ran to the scene of the trou-
BILE on foot, carrying what parapher-
MALTA they could.
During oil of this time Lincoln En-
CINE Company was also having trou-
bles Of ito own. When they tried to
hitch the team to the chemical com
binatio1 wagon they found that the
traces wers so short that when the
horses were hooked up they could not
move. 1t was necessary to take the
team back to the livery stable and
place other harness on them. While
this was being done some of the
members tried to get the wagon out to
the street so all would be in readiness
when the team returned. The, wagon
got stuck and great disorder prevailed
fbr time. They finally got started
and arrived at the supposed fire about
twenty minutes after the alarm had
been sounded. A big pile Of material
is In frontof the entrance to Lincoln s
house which also caused much delay
and trouble.
When the alalm was turned in
Washington Hose Company members
were holding a meeting in the house
and they at once responded to the call.
They were the first on the scene OF
the trouble, but when Chief Moylan
arrived he called Foreman Theodore
Anderson to one side and ordered him
to take his men home. The chief. it
is said, claimed that the Washingtons
had no business to answer alarm TO-.
foreman Anderson claims that it was
given to them by former Chief Com.
ings and was never taken away. The
Washiugtons claim that if a fire had
really occurred it would have been a
good thing that they did answer the
alarm. The McCIelIans arrived with
the old hose carriage and could soon
have had stream on the fire.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
TO The COURT
The Meeting Adjourned Without
Reaching a Settlement City
and County Both submit
Propositions Which are
Turned Down.

The Board of Freeholders came to
town this morning to meet with the
local Board of Aldermen with the ex-
pressed purpose of settling the bridge
approach question. After one Of the
warmest debates that has ever taken
place in Perth Amboy, which lasted
through the dinner hour and until
1:15 O'Clock this afternoon, the ad-
journment was taken, leaving ithe
matter as much in the dark as ever.
Both sides submitted propositions
which were regularly turned down.
The meeting was late getting
, started and the officials settled down
to business at once. There were
twenty -one freehoIders present and all
Of the aldermen excepting Mr.. Toft.
City Attorney Homnanp did most of
the talking for the oity and County
Solicitor Willis, Ffeelolders Foun.
tain, jackson and Bennett for the
county. MI. Harris, of the firm of
contractors building the bridge, was
present.
1t was wordy war from start to
finish. Several times the freeholders
got up to leave but were urged to stay
by Mr.. Willis and Director Fountain.
After tile discussion had been going
on some time Mr.. Willis stated that
something definite should be done and
both sides withdrew for executive
session to agree on plan. when
they re assembled, the debate was re-
umed with as little result as before.
During the course of the discussion
several propositions were submitted
by the city and one by the freeholdera,
all of which were turned down by the
opposing side. The city at first offered
to build as far as Paterson street and
the treeholders come in with the
bridge that far. This the county re-
fused to consider, Then the city
offered to build as far south as the
railroad with the freeholders to build
the bridge in as far as the railroad ami
SHARE ndll bHo e4ptubo Va bhto uAANHS
over the tracks, the city paying the
other half This the freeholders Like
wise turned down as it would mean
that the county would cover 460 feel
of land. Then the city offered to bear
all the expense of the bridge over the
railroad if the county would extend
their structure up to the tracks. This
the county board rejected by vote OF
IA to Z. all the local freeholders vot-
ing IN favor of the proposition excepb
Mr.. Johansen, who opposed.
Finally the freeholders said they
would build from the end Of the
bridge as it now stands half way to
the railroad, the city to build the rest
of the distance. This the city refused
to do and SO the matter was left.
No other time was fixed for another
meeting and the officials went to the
Packer House for dinner. The free
holders will inspect the bridge this
afternoon. ..s 6ua
1t now seems probable that the
matterswill be carried to the courts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
WILL WAIT UNTIL
AFTER THE HOLIDAYS.

The Smith street merchants who, as
told in Monday s News, are contem-
plating the erection of q private cleo
trio lighting plant for their stores,
will. in all probability, take no action
until after Christmas, because of the
holiday pressure of business. A meet
ing will be held Immediately after
the holiday, at which denfnite action
Will be urged, because OF the prevail
ing Public Service Corporation rates :.
Situation Want ads. printed free.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
EXTRA.
30 CHILDREN
ARE DROWNED

Charleston, Va, Dec. 15:-Thirty
school children were drowned here this
morning. The big suspensio bridge
which crosses the Elk river connecting
east and west Charleston fell, carrying
with it four teams, besides many pedes-
trians. All but the children were able
to save themselves. The widest COM
fusion prevails.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
WILL LEASE
NIB. GAS GO.
Public Service Corporation will
Secure Control Of the
Plant.
.SbeciaI 10 HE Eyening Ne7Os,

New Brunswick, Dec. 15:-The
Public Service Corporation is about
70 gobble up the New Brunswick Gas
Company. 1t leaked ont here this
morning that a meeting of the stock
holders Of the gas company would be
held December % to vote on leasing
tho plant. No opposition 10 antlci-
p,ted and it is expected the deal will
be closed before the first of the year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
MARRIED TONIGHT.
Miss Aline Meyer to Become the
Bride of Albert Rlraer.

At 7:30 O'Clock tonight, at st.
Mary's Roman Catholic rectory, Miss
A line Meyer, of Keasbey, and Abort
Hirner, of Smith street, will 5e quiet.
ly married. Mrs. Joseph EIirner, oi
Woodbridge, will be matron of honor,
and Joseph Griener, of Smith street
will lie best man. The bride will
wear gown of white silk. After the
couple are made man and wife they
will proceed to the brides homo n
Keasbey, where supper will be
served. Friends from this CITY,
Woodbridge, Newark, Now York and
Brooklyn will be present.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
LEARN CAUSE
OF The FIRE.

1t is understood that Chief --Moylan of
the Fire Department is making an inves-
tigation OF the cause of the fire in the
Shangold building some little time ago,
at the request of the Board of Fire Under
writers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
CONCERT TONIGHT.

The concert by the Otterbein Male
Quartet, and reader, under the auss
pices of the Teachers Association.
takes place tonight in the high school
auditorium.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15

A large stock of calendars, Christmas
cards, fine quality perfumes and fancy
atomizers for sale at Seaman's Drug
store. 1920 1915 til 1924
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
MEMBER OF THE IuRY.

Harry Salmon, Of this city, is a
member of the jury in the suit
brought by Joseph Elias against
Johnson & johnson, of New Bruins
wick, as told in yesterday's News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15

An adv. in The News Want COL
umn brings good results.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15
POPULATiOa STILL GROWS.

Fourteen Polish immigrants arrived
in this city, at the Hall avenue sta
tion of the Pennsylvania railroad, at
o'clock this morning. Patrolman
Tonnesen took them ito 63 Catherine
street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-15

Look for the Rea Estate column OIL
pages
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS MISUS
fNu REVENUE CUTTERS.

The Army and Navy Register, in a
recent issue, INDUCES in rather
lengthy diaribe directed against Of
ticials of the present Republican adj
ministration, in which the charge is
made that the revenue cutters attached
to the United States Navy are being
grossly misused by high government
officials and their families.
The principal facts set forth ace that
the Secretary of the Treasury and
family have been using the cutter Al
gonquin for the purpose of a summer
cruise; that the PoStmaster-General
and family have been using the cutter
Mohawk for a like purpose, and that
the cutter Window was employed for
the purpose of taking the private Sec
rotary of the Secretary of the Treas
ury and his family for cruise on the
Chesapeake Bay.
In each case, charges the Regis
ter the vessels were recalled from
the performance Of duty ia connection
with the public service to make these
personal junkets, and this the race
of a plainly worded statutory pron1Dl-
tion against the use of revenue cut
ters for such family parties.
In concluding its criticism, the reg
ister asserts: 1.-THE orders necessary in
these cases are not made public ana
the greatest secrecy surrounds these
excursions"
Is this Jeffersonian simplicity or
clean government?
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
EVILS OF THE TARIFF.

There is not a civilized nation that
has so unjust and unequal a system of
national taxation as has ours. 1t places
no tax on property or wealth, but de-
riveS its revenue mostly from the poor
and middle class. 1t has been legisla-
lation for the benefit of Il few, to the
injury of the many. 1t has driven our
commerce from the seas and destroyed
one great industry-to wit, shipbuild-
ing.
1t is the most cumbersome and ex-
pensive system of collecting taxes that
could be devised. 1t has built I'D an
oligarchy of trusts and corporations
and has prepared the soil with the
seeds of anarchy.
1t is legaliZeI plumber and robbery,
inasmuch as it takes the money from
the pockets of the many and transfers
the same to the pockets of the few. 1t
Injuries many industries by its sense
less tariff tax on raw material. Its
servants in Congress seek to enlarge
expenditure, in order to keep or in
crease tariff duties. Appropriations
for the current year, being $S0O,OOO,-
900, require to meet them an indirect
per capita tax of $40.
The tariff system as it stands at
present is "a covenant with death and
an agreement with hell"
A DEMOCRAT.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
GOVERNMENT BY CONSTITUTION.

1T becomes desirable to call atten-
ton to the fact that the people in
whom all power resides, have seen
fit, through the medium of the Consti-
tuition, to limit the Governmental pow
ers conferred and to say to depart
ments created by it, Thus far shalt
thou go, and no farther To secure
the ends sought the people have by
the Constitution separated and diStri-
buted among the three departments of
goyernment-the executive, legislative
and judicial-certain powers. and it is
the duty of those administering each
department so to act as to preserve,
rather than to destroy, the potency Of
the coordinate branches of the gov
eminent, and thus secure the exercise
of all the powers conferred by the pe0-
pie.
Thomas jefferson, in Il letter to
William c. Jarvis, touching the perpet-
uity of our institutions, written many
years after he had retired into private
life, said: If the three powers of our
Government maintain their mutual in
dependence of each other, it may last
long. but not so if either can assume
the authority of the other 1t must
be confessed that in the course of our
history executives have employed
powers not belonging to them; statutes
have been passed that were expressly
forbidden by the Constitution and sta
tutes have been set aside as unconSti-
tutional when it was difficult to point
out the provisions said to be offended
against in their enactment; all this has
been done with a good purpose, no
doubt, but in disregard, nevertheless,
of the fact that ours is government
of laws, not Of men. deriving lis Just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned.' If we would have our Govern
ment continue during the ages to come,
for the benefit of those who shall sue
coed us, we must ever be on our guard
against the danger of usurpation of
that authority which resides in the
whole people. From Judge Parker's
speech of acceptance.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
THREAT OF THE
REPUBLICANS
New Crusade Against the
South a Menace to
Northern Capital.

Not content with having nominated
a candidate who had taught by his
personal example the pernicious doc
trine of social equality between the
Ang.o-Saxon and the African races.
the Republican party has gone still
further, and as if bent upon the mis-
chievous design of aggravating racial
-antagonism, it has deliberately pro-
claimed its intentions to reduce the
representation of certain States in
Congress and in the Electoral College
because the people of those States will
not consent to be represented by ignor-
ant and inferior men. The Republican
party has committed many grave mis-
takes during the fifty years of its ex-
istence, but l doubt if it has COM
mitted any graver one than this new
crusade against the South.
do the men who made and who
adopted that platform not know that if
their threats should be carried into ex-
ecution the South would not be the
only sufferer? 1t would, of course be the
most immediate and greatest sufferer,
but not the only one. Do those men
not know that this country is SO close
ly and so firmly, knit together that the
" uOle IuuSl SuucI lIOlu every y
inflicted on any part. AS certain as
the human head feels the effect of
wound on the human foot, just that
certain must every State in the Union
feel the effect of disturbance in the
smallest and remotest member of 1t.
But even if the South could be isoiat-
ed from her sister States and made
receive this blow alone, the conse-
quences of it would extend to all who
have property located among us or
who sustain trade relations with US.
DO not the advocates of this irritat-
ing policy know that the millions in
vested in Southern railroads are prac-
tically all except the foreign holding.
the property of Northern and Eastern
men? That many Of the millions
which constitute the banking capital
of the Southern States have been sup
piled by enterprising bankers of this
section, and that many Of the factories
which fill our land with the hum of
new and busy industries were built
with Northern money and are owned
by Northern men Prom Senator
Bailey's speech in Brooklyn.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
SELLING ABROAD CHEAPER Than
AT HOME.

The Democratic contention that, I'M
der the shelter of the protective tariff,
trusts are able to sell their products at
enormous prices to American consum-
ers and then ship abroad and compete
in foreign markets, finds new proof in
the following quotation from the news
columns of the New York Sun for Au-
gust %:
The Canadian Pacific Railway has
closed a contract with the United
States Steel Corporation and the Penn
sylvania Steel Company for 10000 tons
of rails. The regular pool rate is SIS
a ton, but it is understood that the
railroad did not pay more than so a
ton, the export quotation
This is a differential of at least Sc in
favor of the Canadian railway, as op-
posed to the lines constructed and OPP
Grated within the borders of this coun-
try.
This identical method of discrimin-
alton was dealt with by Senator Bail
ey. of Texas, in recent speech on
the floor of the Senate. He quoted eX-
President Charles NJ Schwab, of the
Steel Trust, to the effect that steel
rails can be manufactured in this
country IOr OIL per lOu Willie IL Costo
$40 per ton to make the same article
in England.
Nevertheless" Senator Bailey con
tinued, in spite of that we add S1.S4
tariff, and that added to the English
price of $40, would make the cost
price of the English rail laid down
here S26.S4 ton. The American man
ufacturer, knowing that the English
steel rail manufacturer cannot under
sell him at any figure below S26.S4.
plus the carrying charges, proceeds to
assess the difference against the
American people"
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, in adj
dressing the Senate along this same
line, and referring especially to the
operations of the Dingley act in so far
as it effected the railroads of the Uni
ted States, said:
1.-The people OF the Uuited States
have in that time (siX years. paid for
steel rails $15O.530,904 more than the
same rail would have been sold for
to foreign consumers"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
ROOSEVELT And
LYNCH LAW
Senator Bailey Arraigns
President For His Views
on Mob Violence.

IF there are among us men VINO
Justify the lawless spirit which some
times expresses itself i'll Il public lynch
ing they could not find III all the range
of English literature a ntore pointed
and complete defence of such conduct
than las been furnished by the Repub-
hcan candidate for the Presidency.
Long before the dream of the chief
magistracy of this country ever en-
tered his brain he devoted himself to
the more pleasant but less pretentious
task of writing books and in work
which he calls Ranch Life and Hunt
ing Trail he thus records his approval
of the mob
During the last TWO or three years
the stockmen have united to put down
all these dangerous characters, often
by the most summary exercise OF
lynch law. Bands of horse and cattle
thieves have been regularly hunted
down and destroyed III pitched fight
by parties Of armed cowboys, and as
a consequence most of our territory
is perfectly law abiding
1T is one of the interesting oddities
of the Presidents mind that he can
contemplate with eQuaninity, a coun-
try made perfectly law abiding by the
unauthorized. and unlawful warfare of
the mob against the outlaws. The
President then adds, as if relating to
a commonplace incident, this mild
statement: A little over two years ago
one committee of vigilantes in Montana
shot or hung nearly sixty-not, how
ever, with the best judgement in all
cases.
I'm his work, entitled Winning of
the West the President asserts that
good men in such cases band them
selves together to put down with
ruthless severity by the exercise of
lynch law the worse offhand. In many
cases of lynch law which have come to
my knowledge the effect has been
healthful to the community.
And in another place the President
rather defends the people of the border
community for lynching horse thieves.
Il rejoice to know that whatever
may have been done and said in the
Southern States which thoughtless men
cannot indorse, it has never happened
among us that any man with intelli-
gence enough to write a book or with
character enough to command an cleo
ton to an important office has ever
justified lynching as punishment for
theft" (From Senator Bailey's speech
i'll Brooklyn.}
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10

revolutionary States, in the appropria-
ton by mere executive order of mill
lions of money which should have been
held subject to Congressional DISPOSE
TONNES sures none of which would
have been taken except for their sup
posed bearing upon Presidential cleo
tion
How, indeed, can it be supposed to
be possible that this policy of private
enrichment by public bounty can exist
without bringing about a union of all
the forces which seek to participate in
it sufficient to capture the power which
distributes the bounty? How is it
possible for the masses of the people
and the ranks of labor to behold the
sudden acquisition of great fortunes i'll
ways widely removed from honest in
dustry without suspecting that by some
method the fruits of their labor have
been diverted from them, and without
becoming dissatisfied, restless and I'M
easy at what they regard as an I'M
equal distribution of the fruits Of the
Nations Industry"
Mr. Carter is now in Europe, and
will not return to this country before
October. 1t is probable that he will
make one or two speeches during the
campaign.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS ON THE
STAND PAT" THEORY.


Apropos of the n e; "a III ID 70
stand pat" Democrats are quoting
with appreciation the striking sum-
ming up of the situation which Repre-
sentative John Sharp Williams ad-
dressed to the Republican majority in
Congress just before that body adj
journed in the spring. Mr.. Williams
said:
why are you afraid to tell us and
the country what you want to do?
Why are you afraid to tell the Ameri-
can people how or on what principle
you want to revise the tariff? Why
are you afraid to tell them to what ex-
tent you would revise it: Why do you
not explain the phrase. stand patti
Stand pat how long? And how far
up to the limit or beyond the limit, or
where? What in the world is the rea-
son that the tariff cannot be revised
by it's friends now? Is there a single
one of you over there that is not its
friend :"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
OURS EA"WORLD POWER
The United States Has Not Recently
Attained That Distinction.

"OurS is world po-.. err, and as such
it must be maintained, but deny that
it is at all recently that the United
States has attained that eminence.
Our country became world power
over century ago. when. having
thrown off foreign domination. the peo-
pie established a free government. the
source of whose authority sprung. and
was continuously to proceed. from the
will of the people themselves. 1t grew
as a world power as its sturdy citizens.
to whose natural increase were added
immigrants from the old world seeking
to obtain here the liberty and prosperl-
ty denied them in their own countries.
spread over the face of tie land. re-
duced the prairies and forests to cultl-
walton, built cities, constructed high
ways and railroads, till now a nation
which at the formation of the govern
ment numbered only 100000 in popu-
lation, has become SO,00O,00O, and from
ocean to ocean and the lakes to the
gulf. the country is the abode of free
and prosperous people, advanced III the
highest degree in the learning and arts
of civilization. 1t is the liberty, the
advancement and the prosperity OF its
citizens. not any career OF conquest,
that make the country world power.
This condition we owe to the bounty OF
Providence, unfolded in the great nat
ural resources of the country. to the
wisdom of our fathers. manifested in
the form of government established
by them. to the energy. industry. moral
character and law-abiding spirit of the
people themselves Judge
Parker's speech of acceptance.