Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Newark Advertiser:
If the Morris canal lessees had not
been inordinate in their greed in
their several attempts TO get the leg
i~slature to pass a canal abandon
ment' bill: if they had been content
in the figuring TO take the tide-water
basin and the canal right of way,
leaving the water rights, the lakes
and municipal and reversionary
rights to go where they belong, it is
probable that they could have secur-
ed the enactment of their bill,
But they wanted the whole thing,
and. defeated in one legislature, they
resorted to the next, and always with
the same measure of greed. Every
year, 100. the people become better
informed about the value of the Nor
ris canal. and if the appetite of the
canal lessees did not diminish the
resistance to their demands did in
crease until the present year. when
the lion of the Elvins joint resolu-
ton arose and barred the way of all
canal bills.
The methods employed by the an
al lcssees have also been clumsy.
They acted on the theory that legis-
lative action could be controlled by
a few influential politicians whom
they engaged in their interests. They
depended on arts and sophistries OF
retained attorneys. They procured
the insertion of abandonment para
graphs in counter resolutions, and
they tried to work" the Newark
Board of Trade And they signally
failed.
Instead-r6f making game of the
state, NE lessees are to De hunt
ed VI game by the state. II is no
LOGGER aggression and aggrandize-
but self-preserVation. The can
al lessees have been attacking, and
now they are on the defensive. 1t is
not now a question OF acquisition OF
canal property. but of retention OF
any right whatsoever in the canal.
The present legislative session has
wrought a %wondrous change. It is a
remarkable session. and the other re-
markable events that have happen
ed, including Il complete Wiping out
OF Il half century of railroad tax sub
sides, have for the moment obscured
thei Importance of the peoples vic
tory which has affected this turn
about in the status and affairs Of the
Morris canal and its lessee. the lie
high Valley Railroad Company.
Hudson Observer:
The state board of education in
session at Atlantic City today has un-
der consideration the shortage of
teachers and the fact that New Jersey
has to rely upon the training schools
of other states to secure competent
instructors. Nearly one-half of the
total numbe employed is the proper
ton, it is said. Having decided upon
THE site of the new normal school at
Montclair. the board al This meeting
is to ask the Legislature for an apprO-
priation of S350,000 for the erection
of the building and is anxious TO COM
mence this work at once.
Until this institution is in opera
ton, the normal college at Trenton
must continue o~vercrowded. With the
opening of the Montclair school. both
North and South Jersey will have
proper facilities for training teach
ers.
And ii may be added the best of
the graduates will promptly fill posi-
lions in other states, especially in
New York, where salaries commeusu-
rate with their requirements and
standing offers.
Asbury Park Press:
Yesterdays Brooklyn Eagle con
tanned forty-eight hotel ADVERTISE
ments from Atlantic City for Easter
visitors. There was uOt one invita-
ton from the AsburN Park hotel
men. Just q lesson i'm progressive
ness.
Pasaic Daily News:
On March 1G the Board of Trade,
at the suggestion OF AIR Victor l..
Mason, president Of that organiza-
ton. adopted a resolution requesting
the senators from New Jersey and
the representative from this district
10 offer a resolution in congress di-
recting the Secretary of War to cause
TO be made a survey of the Pas
sale river from Bellevill to the head
of tidewater. this city.
This concurrent resolution was Of
fered in the senate by MI. Kean, and
it passed that body late Thursday
afternoon. Mr. Mason has received
every assurance that the House of
Representatives win take similar ac-
ton at this session. and that the new
survey will be made by the engineers
of the War Department in time to
enable Passaic to make an agrees
sive fight for river navigation at the
mex session of congress.
This is a sample of what can be
accomplished by aggressive action.
Talk is all right in its way. Action
accomplishes something. In a few
days President Mason has pushed
the cause of river navigation a long
way forward.
Trenton Times:
AssemhlvWana Barber has intro
diced BIZ IN tae house chat is Ia
tended to put d stop to the common
macIice q, oYegaGapitalizing CORPORA