The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-09-11

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eommodious state armories; rne nation
al guard has been completely equipped
with the regular army magazine rifle
the Sea Girt encampment grounds have
been enlarged and improved and be
come national and international il
their uses.
Benefits to Labor.
The legislative contributions of the
Republican party TO the legitimate in
terests of labor have been such as tt
broaden the workman's opportunities
and protect his interests in every posi-
Bile away consistent with justice toothers.
Notable among these statutes are -four
enactments, all directed against long
standing and widely recognized abuses,
namely:
The act Of 1900, providing for the
cash payment of wages at periods not
longer than two weeks, which has
been and is now of incalculable benefit
to the large populations Of the glass
producing districts in the southern
counties Of our state, and also to the
iron miners of the northern section,
who had for generations back been
obliged to accept goods at company
stores instead of the cash which they
had honestly earned by their labor.
Second, the tenement house law of
df,. taI@ -
the erection Of tenements was appoint
ed, whose duty it is to see that struc-
lures in which Of necessity large num-
beers Of our population must find homes
are provided with every safeguard of
health known to modern sanitary and
hygienic science.
Third, the general factory act Of 1904,
which fixes fourteen years as the mini
mum age at which children Of either
sex may be employed in factories or
workshops, provides for the fullest
possible protection for operatives in
the matter Of factory construction, the
use of safeguards against accidents
and the installation Of such devices as
are specially designed, like the ex-
haust fan, to mitigate the dangers of
occupations known to be menace to-
health.
Fourth, an act appointing commits
sion to revise the master and servant
act in the interests Of labor, an act
greatly desired by laboring people.
New State Institutions.
There have been created by Repub-
lican legislation since 1894 these new
and important state institutions, either
built or authorized by statute, in addi-
ton to important engagements and i'm
provements Of existing Institutions:
The Railway reformatory, cost ST.
04S,2S0.
The state village for epileptics, cost
$312, 1858.
Home for soldiers and sailors and
their wives, cost $103, 800
Colored manual and training school,
A new state normal school Ito be
built this year,.
A state tuberculosis sanitarium (in
building).
State home for girls building, cost
$125.00O
State armories, cost 1881, 800.
Two Millions For Improved Roads.
From 1894 to 1905 inclusive the
state paid in state aid for improved
roads total of 81, 1872. 1924 The APP
preparation last year was $277, 900. In
1893, the last year Of Democratic con
troll ia the legislature, the appropriation
was $20,661 80. There had been no
previous appropriation. Practically the
entire system of state aided good roads
in New Jersey is the result of Re-
publican legislative appropriations.
The legislature this year was extraordi-
narily liberal in giving to this impor-
tant state object.
Under the state aid law Of 1892 there
were built, up to Nov. /, 1905, a total
of 1,1111a miles of improved roads at
a cost to the state of $1,925, 441.14. or
this total only 37.89 miles were built
prior to 1894 when the Democrats were
in power in legislation.
New Jersey is today foremost Of all
the states in the extent of improved
roads, and her example has been of i'm
mense benefit to the country at large,
while the Improvement has been of
enormous benefit to New Jersey farm
ers and villagers and has vastly stimu-
lated the growth Of suburban places
and the values of suburban and rural
property. The greater economy Of
transportation for farmers and urban
business houses, if capitalized, would
far exceed the cost Of state aid for
improved road building.
How Equal Taxation Has Been Ac-
oomplished.
The legislation of the last two years
has been described as epochal A mere
schedule of the most important acts
passed in 1905 and 1906 will fully jus
tify that description. 1t has been af-
tirmed, and without contradiction, that
the legislation of the two years is in
comparably greater in Its Importance
and far reaching beneficial effects than
the sum of all the previous legislation
in this state since the adoption of the
constitution of 1914.
The greatest achievement Of the last
two years was the final settlement Of
the railroad tax question, which had
been the great problem Of state politics
ever since the first railroad received a
charter from the state.