Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-25
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
LAW BREAKING AND POLITICS.

LAW DINEhfAiAiNO AND IOIJl TO.
A Trenton dispatch that
"the big brewers and saloon keepers
of the state have in mind an effort to
repeal the bishops law at the COM
ing special session of the legislature"
There has been some of this kind of
talk in political circles in Newark. In
fact, it is a general belief that If any
thing besides the sewer question is
taken up at the special session it will
be the new excise law. In the "bish-
ops bill' the regular" leaders, who,
in connection with the brewers and
liquor men, fixed up and passed the
measure last winter for the double
purpose. of putting the Colby move
ment in a hole and quieting agitation
of the liquor question with a mini
mum of charge in the law, now see
their carefully concocted plans being
knocked into a cooked hat.
The machine evidently forgot that
the people would see the record. 1t
was planned to make the bishops
bill" cause the Colby movement the
loss of the saloon vote, which it new
er had. Instead, the fact that the
Colby assemblymen opposed the doc
tored up bill fashioned by the state
leaders has saddled the passage of
the measure upon the machine and
bids fair to make inroads into the Ii
quor vote of the regulars, while the
fact that the Colby legislators fought
for a more drastic act has strength
ened the supperot being given the
Colby followers by that class of citi-
zens who stand for law, order, decen-
cy, and the better enforcement of ex-
else laws calculated to divorce the IL
quor business from it's worst fea-
lures.
At the present time it must be adj
mitted that the bishops bill" threa-
tens a lot Of trouble for the regulars.
They have incurred the opposition of
the saloon by bring about, probably
unintentionally in their zeal to kill
off the reformers, an enforcement of
the Sunday laws he have always had
but never before obeyed, while the
evident element of political animus
rather than sincerity of good pur-
pose a%ctuating the action, has not
won the machine any great increase
from the portion of the community
not identified with the liquor inter
ests and the ''open Sunday" advo-
Gates.
Bad as is the plight of the machine
on the excise question, however, it is
difficult to see how the repeal of the
bishops bill" would help the regu-
lars out of their hole. The News be-
lieves that the law respecting citizens
who would violate law and open Sun
day saloons for the financial benefit
of the brewers, distillers and saloon
keepers. The only reason or excuse
for tampering with the bishops
bill' at the present time is the hope
of gaining votes for the machine by
%re-opening the saloons on Sunday.
To repeal the bishops bill' will
not repeal the Sunday closing laws.
1t will simply restore the ease and
comparative safety of law breaking
in this respect, which formerly pre-
vailed, and with OF without the "bish-
ops bill" the law abiding, the law re-
speeding people of New Jersey are
not likely to quietly submit to the
reopening of the side doors and back
rooms on Sunday after having been
given the illustration furnished by
the bishops bill' of how easily the
law may be enforced.-Newark News.
Prof. Tyler, of Amherst college,
said recently: "A man can live COM
fortably without brains; no man ever
existed without a digestive system.
The dyspepic has neither faith, hope
or charity" Day by day people real
ize the importance of caring for their
digestion; realize the need Of the use
OF q little corrective after ~overeating.
+ corrective like odoi Tor Dyspepsia.
aiges9s what sou eat. Sold s. G.
a: Sexton