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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

1t will be all the same for the rail
roads in the end. They would not
have allowed the Legislature to pass
the bill If 1t had not been figured out
to bring about a result which would
affect the corporations but little.
Real equal taxation is that propos-
ed by the Colby movement. The way
to get that is to elect the men pledged
to the Colby platform to Office.
In Middlesex county such a man is
Alexander II. FOrdyce, Jr. Vote for
his candidates at the primaries Sep
TENDER 70, and do your part toward
overthrowing bossism and corpora.
ton control.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

being ashamed of them after election.
The best solution for the school
board problem in this city is for the
people to forget politics, as far as the
education of their children is con
cerned, and let all parties get togeth-
or in each ward, agree upon the best
man available in the ward, and ev-
eryone unite to elect him to the
Board of Education. Drop politics
and think of the welfare of the city.
Such a movement would be a big
step in advance for this city; it would
keep the people in direct control OF
men who should be directly respon-
sible to them, and it would place
the schools above the ordinary level
of politics.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
NEW YORK HERALD WEATHER
FORECAST.

In the Middle States and New
England today fair to partly cloudy
weather will prevail with local rains
and thunderstorms, nearly station
airy temperature and light to fresh
variable winds, mostly southerly and
southwesterly in this section. On
Friday local rains and thunderstorms
will prevail, with stationary, follow
ed in the western districts by higher
temperature and clearing, and with
light to fresh winds, becoming east
erly, and on Saturday fair, warmer
weather, with possibly showers in
the coast districts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

Prof. Tyler, of Amherst college,
said recently: "a man car live com
fortably without brains; no man ever
existed without a digestive system.
The dyspepsia has neither faith,
hope or charity" Day by day people
realize the Importance of caring for
their digestion; realize the need OF
the use of a little corrective after
ov~ereating. A corrective like Kodol
For Dyspepsia. 1t digest what you
eat. Sold by G. A. Sexton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Didn't Finish.

Winks-I didn't see you around yes
terday.
Minks-No. l had a room that need
ed papering and painting, and
thought I'd stay home and do it my
self. But can't stop to talk-I'm in d
hurry.
Whats up?"
well, I've got to take my business
suit to the dyer's and cleaners, my
wife's dress along with it, and mus
stop at a store for a new carpet, ant
then hunt up some painters and pa
per-hangers toto put the finishing
touches on that room, you know
N. Y. Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Saucv Boarder.

The landlady was in a playful MOOD
the new boarder having paid fol
two weeks in advance.
Which do you think came first. Mr.
Bifkins," she queried, 'the chicken OF
the egg?"
81 never gave the subject a thought
replied Bifkins, as he pushed his egg
cup to one side, but Pm Offering odds
to 100 to one that If any chicken pre-.
coded this egg it accompanied Noah
ON his famous ark excursion ."-Chica'
go Daily News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9.
THINK 1T OVER"

InOrOugnly alarmed by the way
the people are beginning to sc,
through the fake scheme of the re.
/ publican ring to give equal taxation
the machine newspapers are endcav,
Orfng to explain" it and keep tn,
I wool over the peoples eyes until af,
ter election, at least, in a frantic eff
Z fort to keep votes from the Colby
tickets.
Following is u remarkable admis-
sion of one Of the Monmouth coun-
1 ty machines chief organs, the Mon
mouth Inquirer, published at Free
hold:
4 $50 general has been the misun-
4 derstanding on the part of property
owners throughout the state as to the
/ meaning of proposed increase OF their
I assessments to the value of property
4 that a statement will be issued on the
subject by the tax board. Real estate
owners lose Sight of the fact that the
tax rate will be reduced in the same
proportion assessments are increased.
"The forthcoming statement in
substance will be T. the effect that
the Perkins bill did not change, nor
did the last Legislature change the
practice in laws effecting the disclo-
:. + or listing of property of the val
NuatiOn thereof"
While admitting that the AK rate
will be reduced, this machine organ
does not tell its readers that it is the
tax rate which will determine the
amount of money the railroads shall
pay on their main stem.
The law provides that AN average
shall be taken by combining all the
tax rates of the state, and this aver
age rate shall be the rate at which
ain stem railroad property shall be
ed. For that reason it is to the
rest of the railroads to have an
kge tax rate as low as possi-
IL the tax rate in every city,
Ugh and township is low, the
average rate will be low. Therefore.
I'm order to make the tax rate low, so
that the average may be low, the val
nations on the individual property
owne is raised to the limit so as to
bring the rate down.
The '.ring'' g is right when II
says that everything will be the same
under the new law.
1t was the desire of the people to
have things different. They wanted
the railroads TO pay a more equal
share of the taxes, but while it is
made to appear that they will pa,
more, they will, in reality, pay the
same on their main stem, for the ma
chine is raising valuations on the
people so as to pull the tax rate down
and this will mean a low average rate
IT which the railroads are taxed.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Not Like Andy's.

mo" said the beautiful girl, after
he had refused to heed her declaration
that she would scream, your kiss is
not like Carnegie's. 1t soothes, but it
doesn't satisfy"
After which he caught her in his
arms again, for he was chivalrous at
heart, and would not Willingly permit
a lady to suffer.-Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

upon the members of the bankers associations. Congress
is NOT ALONE TO BLAME if we are lacking in wise currency
laws.
To my mind we are in a lethargy of success. We hear paeans
of prosperity sveetly sung on every side. Unexampled totals mark
the measure of every phase of industrial and commercial life. We
have engaged in expenditures of capital on a scale s. vast that it makes
the financial operations of other days seem PETTY BY COMPARE
SON. Labor was never before SO fully or so pro6tably employed.
Business was never more active.
AND so, SOME OF US SAY, THERE SURELY CAN BE NOTHING
WRONG WITH a SITUATION THAT GIVES SUCH EVIDENCES OF
HEALTH AND seRowTH.
We see undue accumulations of currency at the financial centers.
We sec banks that MUST PAY INTEREST on these swollen de-
posts relend the money with nervous haste at any return, no matter
for how long. We know that funds in this way may some day become
tied up SO that there may be the greatest difficulty in l~iquidating the
situation to meet an UNEXPECTED DEMAND. But it does not
seem to come with much force to the average banker that the leghi-
mate result of such a situation may be financial disaster.
AT the present time there is reason for believing that the country
at certain seasons requires ~$150,O00OO more currency to transact
its business than is required at other seasons Now, remember / am
talking of currency, NOT OF CREDIT. To meet this Auctuating
demand for currency there is absolutely no provision in our laws.
Our bank notes increase or decrease in volume a a result of the huc-
tuation in the. market price of government bonds, and there is prac-
tically no relation between that price and the current demand FOR
CURRENCY! Our banks are permitted to give freely to their Gus
toners credits in the shape of deposits, but when a customer wants to
convert that credit into the form of a circulating note he can only be
accommodated by taking from the vaults of the bank its reserve
money.
I believe the first principle to recognize is that there is not an
essential difference between a bank credit IN THE FORM OF A
DEPOSIT and a bank credit in the form of currency. Certain safe
guards must be thrown around a circulating note that are not required
for the protection of a deposit, but with that exception in view this
principle stands. / believe, as perhaps the most important one to
recognize in a currency discussion, that there is not ar essential differ
ence between a bank note and a bank deposit and that the customer
of a bank ought, under satisfactory safeguards, to be able to CON-
VERT ONE INTO THE OTHER AT WILL.
One other principle that has been fatally lost sight of in half the
discussions of the currency is the principle that adequate REDEMP-
TlON facilities are a certain bar to an overissue of circulating notes.
PEOPLE TALK OF THE COUNTRY BEING FLOODED WITH AN
ASSET CURRENCY. WITH ADEQUATE REDEMPTION FACILITIES
SUCH A THING IS INcoNcEvARLE.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
SCHOOL BOARD PROBLEM.

Several months ago the Chamber
of Commerce took up the matter of
the school board and started an agi-
tation for the appointive system in
stead of the present elective method.
At that time the EVENING NEWS
commented |favorably upon it. 1t
would seem, however, that for the
people to reject the present elective
method and place the school board in
the hands of one man, is for the peo-
pie to confess that they are not capa-
BILE, themselves, of choosing a fit
school board. Such an admission
does moi look well in a republican
form of government where every
thing, from the presidential office
down, is supposed to be "of the peo-
pie and by the people,"
Judging from general appearances
throughout the country it looks as if
the people were suffering from too
much government. The centraliza-
ton of power is increasing and the
people are more and more taking the
government out of their own hands
and placing it in the power of GER
tain elective officials, commissioners
and the like. 1t would seem as if the
people we're more and more distrust-
ing themselves.
Such a thing should not be. When
the people cease to govern, this re-
public ceases to be. The people should
abolish the a~ppointive offices as far
as possible, and get back to the sys-
tenn in which they themselves choose
the Office holders.
Abraham Lincoln had great faith
in the common people. When the
masses cannot be trusted then this
country is a failure.
The more the elective offices are
abolished the more the power is
placed in the hands of political MAJ
chimes and the harder 1t is for the
people to reach the guilty offenders.
There should be a system whereby
the people can recall an official as
well as elect him. This would solve
all problems and would break dead
locks when they became annoying.
The system of recall is in vogue in
some of the states. and 1t keeps the
ofiiceholders going straight. They are
~answerable to the people for every
thing and the people can, by an cleo
ton called for the purpose, unseat
any of them at any time for a sufIi-
cient cause.
This government will be just as
good as the people make it, no bet
ter, no worse. The school board will
be just what the people want it to be-.
1t is safe to say that nine-tenths of
those who are finding fault with the
present board, did not go near the
primaries when these men were nom
mated for the Office. II the people
would see that good men are named
for Office there would be no need Of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
FIRE ALARM x

23-Raritan Copper Works.
26-High and Lewis streets.
27-Madison avenue and Paterson street.
2S-Market and First streets.
+ S5--Smith and High streets. +
S7-State and Smith streets.
& Standardization ave. and Hartford 81.
I 46-Commerce and Front streets.
and Washington streets.
64-State st. and Buckingham ave.
66-Hayy avenue and Charles street.
67-State and Wayne streets.
62-Washington and First streets.
S3-New Brunswick ave. and Elm st.
B4-Smith street and Watson avenue.
66-Commerce and State streets.
72-Front and Smith streets.
73-Water and Gordon streets.
74-Kearny avenue and Gordon street.
S2-Smith and Herbert streets.
S3-Woodbridge road and Washington st.
S4-Lehigh avenue and Stanford street.
To send in an alarm, open the door of
the box and pull down the lever n let
go, once only. Stay at box until f1remen
arrive.
SPECIAL CALLS.
/ tap-Break in circuit. 2 taps-Dril
and fire alarm test. 3 taps-Fire out. B
taps-Police call. 12-Calls for Lincoln
Engine Company. .13-Cal for Washing
Company. 15-Call for Protection Hook
and Ladder. 16-Call for Eagle Hose
Company
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
The True Purpose of
ImprisOning Criminals
BY EUGENE Smith Famous criminolosist

I is not easy to see how punishment ever came to be regarded
as an EXPIATION for crime. The expiatory nature of
suffering depends en- its VOLUNTARINESS. Yet this alb
surb idea is the only ground on which a dangerous criminal
is now discharged after a CERTAIN TERM of Imprisonment.
Public protection is the only motive which justifes the state de-
priving a criminal of his liberty revenge being wholly alien to its
majesty. But Imprisonment that is not reformatory insures protec-
ton ONLY WHILE 1T LASTS. Therefore we can protect our
selves from the criminal only by life Imprisonment or by reformation,
and reformation seems to be more humane, besides being less ex-
pensive. And reformation presupposes THE I~NDETERMINATE
SENTENCE. The criminal must be treated UNTIL CURED
The question Of his guilt is wholly immaterial, and attempts to make
the punishment fit the crime are an a~bsurdity. Only OMNIS-
CIENCE can measure guilt. Under the old criminal system the state
figured as an avenging fury pursuing the criminal.
UNDER THE NEW 1T is A HENEFIcENT POWER STRIVING TO
AID HIM, AND NO cRUELER WRONG CAN BE DONE TO HIM THAN
TO SET HIM FREE WHEN HE IS INCAPABLE OF SELF CONTROL
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

The city hall park is being neglect
ed. This is a shame. Seldom, il
ever before, has it looked as bad as
it does today. Not only is the grass
growing high, but weeds are higher.
The paths are untrimmed and alto
gether things are in bad shape.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

The bridegroom, fresh from Hobo.
kus, was gazing at Niagara falls.
Talk about tryin' to save 'em!" he
yelled in his brides ear. why. gosh
durn it, Fan, it'd cost more'n a mil.
lion dollars! Their amt no way OF
earth to do it! That water has Just
got to run somewheres!"-Chicag
Tribune.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Her Selection.

Brother-Yes, l like Jack we'll
enough, Dora; but why did you marry
a man a head shorter than you are?
Dora-I had to choose between a If.
tie man with a big salary and a big
man with a little salary.-Cassell's
Journal.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
ONLY One Fear.

Old Lady-What's the matter, little
boy? M
Street Urchin (whimpering)-
'Fraid.
Old Lady-Afraid? Well, l do de.
clare! l didn't know you street
gamins were ever afraid of anything.
seen or unseen, in this world or the
next.
Street Urchin-Y-e-s, we're 'fraid
of-of each other.-N. Y. Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Safe.

"And you say you have a little girl
five years old?" he said when they
met in after years.
EYES," she replied, "but don't let
that keep you from calling on us.
We have never taught her to speak
pieces. Chicago Record Herald.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Would Open Her Ewes.

Anxious Parent-Doctor, my daugh.
ter appears to be going blind, and she
is about to be married.
Doctor-Let her go right on with the
wedding. If anything can open her
eyes, marriage will.-Tit-Bits.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
A Puzzled Observer.

There is another custom which
illustrates how different your ideas are
from ours" said Ii Lo, the eminent
Chinese scholar.
What is that?"
when one of our financiers proves
untrustworthy we behead him and
keep the money in our country. You
send him to Europe and let him take
the money along. "-Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
De Noble.

think of til That man had the
nerve to call me a liar, a cad, a
scoundreb, and a dog. Would you ad-
wise me to fight for that?"
by all means. Always fight for the
frnth'N-Milwaukee Sentinel
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
A Certain Cure.

Patient-And you say this will en-
able me to sleep?
Chemist-Absolute cur for insom
mia.
Patient-H'm! Now, when do
take it,"
Chemist-Immediately before going
to sleep.
Patient-Yes; but when do l get tc
sleep?
Chemist-Immediately after taking
the powder.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Evidence.

"How do we know that Solomon
was the wisest MANI"
well, for one thing, he got together
a colossal fortune without being in
Y~estigated."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Pretty Near Right.

Markley-Wiseman told me to-day
1nat 10 never get back that ten-spot
| loaned you
Grafton-He did?
M~arkley-Yes.
Grafton-Well, if 1t wasn't SO ex.
pensiye I'd make him out a liar right
now.-Philadelphia Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
He Had.
forgotten

Waiter Haven't you forgotten
something, sir?
Diner-Yes, what a good steak tastes
like.-N. Y. Sun.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
A Near limerick.

mere was a young lady named Hannah;
she slipped on the peel of a Watermelon
Came down with a slam.
And softly sighed: How
Absurd that I cannot rhyme this thine,"
Judge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

Blame this muck raking,' anyhow!
There's no Sweetness and Light
in it."
You're mistaken-there is both.
Aren't they going to investigate the
sugar trust and Standard Oil com
pany?'-Cleveland Leader,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
His Record.

"Archie, what is the longest contin>
uous ride you have had in your auto
mobile?"
Sixteen miles,"
How long did it take you?"
-Four hours"
"Great Scott! What was the"
THAT was the distance to the near
est repair shop, and the farmers
blamed old horses couldn't pull the
car any faster. Chicago Tribune.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Editorial Page Of the Nsn7S.
A Bank
Note Currency Is
e q ny FRANK a.
VANDERBILT.
Vice President National City hank. New York
Vice President National City nsnk. New y

BELIEVE there is the gravest need for legislation which
will provide a scientific system of bank note currency. 1
believe, too, that there is no group of men upon whom the
responsibility for such legislation lies so heavily as it does
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Seeming Extravagances
May Be Only Enterprise
By WILLIAM WALDORF AsTOR

0 long as one tries to live decenty and does the same things
that you and your ~neighbors would do IF YOU HAD
- MONEY / don't see why one should be counted as unusual
or of special interest.
AS to Lord Norhclnfe's remarks anent husbands, ] am a new
husband, but it seems to me to be a matter of individual rather than
racial temperament.
l think the growth Of socialism is all right so long as it does not
interfere with ones liberty.
AS TO THE CRY OF ExTRAvAcANcE, SUPPOSE ExTRAvAcANcE
EXISTS ONLY IN PROPORTION 70 THE VIEW ONE TAKES or
THINGS.
have heard the argument advanced that what seems like extrava-
gance in many instances is ONLY ENTERPRISE. / think the
laws Of adjustment would preclude very much harmful extravagance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

Advertising in the NEWS brings
good results.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-16
BLOWN TO PIECES
FIVE MEN KILLED IN PENNsYLvA-
 MIA MINE.
Workman Carryfnh Box of Dynamite Let 1t Fall to the Ground.-Force Of Explosion Felt All
 Over Mine.

Shenandoah, Pa. May 15.-Five miners were torn to pieces and twelve badly burned by an explosion of dy namite in the Shenandoah City colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading, Coal and Iron Company.
 A box of dynamite which a work man was earring fell from his shoui' ders and caused the explosion whicn ignited the mine gas. There were about fifty men at work m tts east gangway of the shaft when the expio- sion occurred. but so far as known all escaped except those working on the first lift. In this part of the shaft none escaped death or injury.
 The men killed were mutiiated De- yond recognition.
 The force of the concussion was ter- rife, Doors were torn of and braf. tices were wrecked. every section or the mine feeling the effect 9f the shock
 The work of rescue was begun at once, under the supervision or Mine ln' spectors Lamb and Fenton, Division Su- perintendent Pollard and all the ais trict superintendents.
 The absence of the deadly black damn made the work of rescue less hazardous than in other accidents or the character. ,.
 The force of the explosion was feit a great distance from the shaft sno friends and realtives of the entombed miners rushed to the mouth of the pit So great was the crush that # was necessary to call on the coal and Iron police to keep tho crowds back
 All of the killed were foreigners Rut little damage was done to the mine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-16
REcoNsrRUCTToN or SHIPS.
Done Under the Guise of "Repairs,' ?
 Says Mir. Tawuey

says huWhEF.
 Washington. May 15.--Amendments , while the navy budget was under con- sideration by the house today. having for their purpose the abolition of the present policy of the navy department in respect to repairs to ships and ma chinery.
 These amendments provided that here after no repairs be made in excess of 10 per cent. of the estimated cost of late new ships or machinery unless previously authorized by congress. Under the guise of repairs, he said. ships had been reconstructed to the ex- tent of sS00.000, in the case of single ship.
 MT. Tawney wss emphatic in his de- claration that 1t was both bad policy and bad administration to give to the navy department the right of spending S11 ,000, 900 for repairs of vessels with out SO much as being compelled to give an account to any one for the money expended.
 The vote on the first amendment. providing that no more than ten per cent shall be applied to the repair of any ship unless details be submitted to congress. was defeated-yeas SS; nays 65.
 Mir Tawney withdrew his second amendment, with the remark that the committee evidently desired the navy department to continue the practice of spending millions for repairs of ships resulting in their reconstruction.
 That portion of the bill relating to the increase of the navy having been reached, the naval bill was laid aside and the house adjourned.