The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-09-13

400. The bounty OF the state 10 the
dependent classes aggregated about
s9,5OOOOO from 1894 to 1905 inclusive.
Of this amount about S11s4.OO0 was
special appropriations for construction
and enlargement.
The Railway reformatOry was built
ut n cost of $1.O4S $50 up to the pres
emit year when a large appropriation
was made fora new wing. In the last
twelve years nearly a million dollars
nave been appropriated for new and
rommodious state armories the nation.
Al guard has been completely equipped
with the regular army magazine rife;
the Sea Girt encampment grounds have
been enlarged and improved and be
come national and international in
their uses.
Benefits to Labor.
The legislative contributions of the
Republican party to the legitimate in
tareSts of labor have been such as to
broaden the workman's opportunities
ind protect his interests in every posi-
Bile way 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 ut 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
1904 under which a board to control
the erection of tenements was appoint
lures in which of necessity large num-
bers 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 a 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 inn
provements of existing Institutions:
The Railway reformatory, cost ST.
O4S 2SO.
The state village for epileptics. cost
s312, 1858.
Home for soldiers and sailors and
their wives, cost S103,500.
Colored manual and training school.
4 new state normal school Ito be
built this year..
A state tuberculosis sanitarium lin
buildingl.
State home for girls building, cost
SIPS, 900.
State armories. cost 1891 800.
Two Millions For Improved Roads.
From 1894 to 1905 inclusive the
state paid in state aid for improved
roads total of 81, S12, 576.24 The ap-
preparation last year was $277.0OO. In
1893, the last year of Democratic con-
troll in the legislature, the appropriation
was 20.661 S5. 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-
nariIy liberal in giving to this impor-
tant state object.
Under the state aid law of 1892 there
were built. up to Nov. /, 1905, total
of 1111h miles of improved roads at
cost to the state of 81, 925, 441.14 OF
this total only 37.S9 miles We're built
prior TO 1894. when the Democrats Were
in power in legislation.
New Jersey is today foremost of AL
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 rura
property. The greater economy OF
transportation for farmers and urbar
business houses. if capitalized, would
far exceed the cost Of state aid fol
improved road building
How Equal Taxation Has Been Ac.
compIished.
The legislation of the last two year,
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
firmed. and without contradiction, tina
the legislation of the two years is in