Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-21

SOmOllmeS SHlileu az tOl thp I'm
phasis they give to the decaiogue
have had a wide and perhaps 2 deep
effect on the vogue which mortality
is enjoying. Men like Folk are the
second generation of this movement,
which includes commerce as we'll as
politics, the Equitable as well as
boodling in Washington or st. Louis,
pure food legislation as well as brib-
cry or postal prosecutions. The
outbreak of exposure literature in
the magazines is a symptom also, an
effect which becomes in turn aeause.
Much has been done, and much re-
mains to do. All such movements
are vague alike in their beginnings
and their ends, but perhaps the fair
est time to name as the beginning OF
the present wave is the date when
Grover Cleveland defeated his enor-
mously popular opponent because
that magnetic republican was sus-
pected of being not wholly free from
the money faint in politics.
Camden Post-Telegram:
Discipline is as necessary to the
maintenance of an efficient police
force as it is in the training and con-
troll of an army. INSTRUMENTATION II
condoned will do more to mar the
efficiency of q police department
tnan most any other offences recog-
nized as such in the regulations. A
case which clearly demands action
on the part of the police committee
occurred on Saturday night, when 1T
became necessary for II police
officer to arrest another on thestreet
because of offensive language used
to a superior officer who was carry
ing out an order from the mayor.
Authority must be upheld if a police
force is to respect itself. The
officer who so far forgets his duty
as to condemn the authority of his
superior and openly defy him, needs
to be disciplined in a manner that
will bring him to a realizing nj
of his position and of the conse-
quences of a fragrant act of insubor-
dination.
Camden Courier:
huW IDA lulCo 0SClu W w
of the day up the state. Newark
came down a point; New Brunswick
fell twenty and Perth Amboy thir-
teen points, and there is evidently
a determination on the part OF these
communities to limit expenditures
to something nearer the figures h
taxpayer is willing to bear with COM
plaisance. 1t would be a grand
good thing if all the cities in the
state possessed governing boards
that would resolutely aim to con-
duct municipal governments on busi-
ness principles; that is, limit The tax
rate to the lowest possible figures
compatible with good government.
Freehold transcripts
We observe that an experience
has come to the owilafs OF she in-
mense Roebling manufacturingiIa
at Trenton that otier business con-
Germs frequently find themselves
sun against"-there was not room
for their proI er and very desirable
expansion in Trealon and to =
tons loss, they have had to seek
elsewhere the land needed for TN"
erection of new bull li1gs. To be
sure there was grouhl enough and
to spare near tfe home plant. and
/. was adapted to the purpose, and
the Roeblings We're willing to pay a
fair, even a generous price foi IT,
but the owners were; "onto it,, and
they advanced the price of their tas
VT pnproductiyel holdings until IT
bcrame evident that nothing like q
fair equivalent for the land would be
accepted. And then and there the
Escheme collapsed-the prospective
purchasers simply abandoning the
deal and going miles away, where
land could be got on favorable terms,
and transferring a valuable end ex-
~tcnsive branch of their business to a
new locality.
The place selected was Kinkora
in Burlington county, and an import
ant industry is now spring up there
which was fairly driven out OF Tren-
ton-although it meant profit to
land owners and hundreds If not
thousands of others.
The lesson is as wholesome as 1t
is, unfortunately common. Many a
town is retarded in its. growth by the
parsimonious proclivities, or short
sighted policy of owners of real
estate, who stand not only in their
own light, but bar the way to mum
icipal progress generally. Opposition
to the expansion ofe private enter
prise Of a beneficial character, and
resistance to public improvements
manifestly for the betterment of
local conditions, go frequently hand
in hand. and communities suffer and
the grasping owners themselves are
sooner or later the losers.
"There is that withholdeth more
than is meet and it tendeth to pov.
erty." Let us hope than no repre-
sentative of the class are to be
found, not only in our midst but
anywheres near at hand.