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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
Excise Issue Is Dead.

[From the Paterson Call, Rep.1
The man who votes for either candidate
for Governor with the idea that there will
be any radical change in the excise
law next winter, or the winter after,
or ever, will find himself mistaken.
The question is decided, and that
settles it for a long time. The or
gans OF the Sunday opening proposition are
merely playing to the galleries, knowing as
well as anyone else that they are only in
dulging in wind and catering to a small
minority. And as this question is settled
for a long time, what is the use OF trying
to make a campaign ISSUE of it? The fact
is that both the Democrats and the Repub-
licans AVE practically adopted the Colby
principles and platforms, so that in nearly
every respect the platforms of the two
parties are almost Identical.
About the only distinguishing planks are
these; The Republicans advocate direct
primaries, which will be adopted, while the
Democrats favor the abolition of the voting
machines, which will not be adopted. So
having nothing else to fight about they
lug in the utterly dead issue OF excise leg
~islation. The law will remain practically
the same as at present, no matter whether
the Democratic or Republican candidate is
elected Governor, and that fact might as
well be understood from the beginning.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1907.
THE AMENDED PUBLIC UTILITIES
BILL.

All the essential features of the Pub
( lie Utilities Commission law hal the
bill passed by the senate lacked were
supplied by the House yesterday. Com
pared with the amended bin the Senate
bill was %innocuous. The House addi-
tons to the bill provide for:
Elective commissioners.
Power to fix rates.
Abolition Of the Railroad Commission
and authority over steam railroads the
same as over all other public service
corporations.
Power to act in the case of railroad
grade crossings.
A penalty of ST. 900 for each offense
in addition to the misdemeanor clause
in the Senate bill.
In the House Yesterday no bill could
be passed without both Republican and
Democratic votes, as neither party
could muster a majority of the whole,
necessary to pass a bill. The action
taken by the House is therefore all the
mRre serious for the Senate. That body
rejected all the amendments adopted by
The House, and will be extremely re-
mctant to take and eat the offered
leek.
The situation when the two houses
meet again next week will resemble
that which was created by the Rail-
road Commission bill. The House then
receded In conference. The Senate only
pretended to make a few concessions.
The amended public utilities bill will go
to conference. Which chamber will yield,
il, as is expected, the Senate refuses to
adopt the House amendments? The
Senate? Hardly. The House? Not at
all likely at this stage of the game.
There is a tradition at Trenton that
when the railroad tax act of 1884 was
before the Legislature 1t was voted for
and passed in the belief that it was
unconstitutional and would be so de-
clared by the courts, as the act actually
was afterwards by the Supreme Court.
The doubt raised about the validity of
the public utilities bill as it came from
the Senate. to wit. that the provision
for minority political representation on
the commission was unconstitutional, is
removed by making the commission
elective, but what other constitutional
defect turks in the bill? The outlook,
however, is for a deadlock and a dead
bill when the Legislature adjourns.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
PunctiIious.

A French schooner went ashore at
one of the fashionable resorts. When
day dawned she was plainly in sight
from the beach, the waves breaking
over her decks, and the crew clinging
to the shrouds The summer residents
fiocked to the waters edge, where a
~nfe-saving crew was working.
Mercy. man, why don't you all do
somethinB-try to save those poor
men? 1 wonder what they are" an
excited woman gasped, catching a
bronzed c~oast-guard by the arm.
We are doing all we can, madam"
was the hurried reply. '"rhey are
French. We nave just sent them a line
to come ashore"
The lady turned to a friend with a
look of admiration in her eyes.
Just think of that, Mary" she said.
And isn't it just like those awfully
polite Frenchmen? That man said they
had Just sent them a line to come
ashore You see, they wouldn't come,
though they were about to be drowned,
without a formal invitationi"-Success
Magazine.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
HeIoise and AheIard.

NAOhS II
To tho Editor CT the Evening Star:
Kindly publish in the EVENING STAR
a sketch of the lives OF Heloise and Abe
lard or their love letters. c. M.
TPierre Abelard, or Abailard, was a
French philosopher and dialectician, born
near Nantes in 1919. He studied under the
Nominalist Roscellinus and the Realist
William de Champeaux. About Ills he
succeeded William in the school of Notre
Dame and there gathered about him pu-
pills from all over Europe. Though he
sought to avoid the J extremes of both
nominalism and realism his doctrines may
be called nominalistic. He became the
tutor Of Heloise or Eloise, the young niece
of the Canon Fulbert, and fell in love
with her. and his affection was returned.
Upon the interference of the uncle they
fled together into Brittany, where Eloise
bore a son. They were married, but after
ward ElOise denied this marriage and re-
turned to her uncle's house that she might
not interfere with Abelard's advancement
In the church. She was brutally treated
by her uncle and fled to Abelard, h
placed her at her W request in the
nunnery OF Argenterll. Fulbert, for re-
venge, waylaid and mutilated Abelard ter
rlbly. Repentent and in deep humiliation,
Abelard retired to the Abbey of st. Denis.
Afterward. solicited eagerly as a teacher,
he founded the monastic school at Nogent-
~sur-Seine. known as Raraclete, which,
when he became Abbot of st. Gildas-de-
Rhuys he gave to Eloise and a sisterhood
under her care. He died April q, 1142,
at st. Marcel priory, Chalon. while on the
way to Rome to defend himself on a
charge of heresy. His body was taken into
the keeping of Eloise, who, twenty years
later. was buried at his side. Abelard was
the most prominent of the ounde of
scholasticism and exerted "a powerful in
fuence upon the intellectual activity of his
tine.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
CANDIDATE wITTPENN's PLEA.

County Supervisor II. Otto Wittpenn,
of Hudson, Democratic candidate for
Mayor of Jersey City, tells an audience:
IF this Senate committee will give
me a fair investigation l will stop my
campaign and devote my entire time
to the work of assisting this commit
tee in it's work. If this committee does
not call me to the witness stand I shall
make a request that I be called. This
committee has been in existence for
four months. and it seems to me to
be unfair for it to come here on the
eve of election to take me from my
campaign work"
There is some justice in that. The
Senate investigating committees Mng
inaction of a third of a year is mex
plicable. There was no lack of prod
ding. AS it is, the committee has laid
itself open to the 1eproach of postpon-
ing the investigation to the period of
the active political campaign instead
of going right to work as the Hahn
committee did. If Candidate Wittpenn
is denied the privilege of appearing
before the committee to testify, the
committee will do a very foolish thing.
believe MI. Wittpenn will be called,
and If he can read his title clear, then
he will need no better campaign in
dorsement.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
AN 1MpRUDENT PROPOSITION.

While 1t is necessary for the future
welfare of the city of Newark that
power should be given by the Legisla-
ture to acquire river and bay frontage
for municipal uses and provide in other
ways for the commercial growth of
the city. the proposition to give to the
Board of Works the authority to call
upon the Common Council to issue
S5O0,000 of bonds for the use of the
board, goes beyond the limit of safety.
That board has not in some of its acts
in the recent past commended itself to
the public confidence to such an ex-
tent as that. The bill passed by the
House should either be amended to
clothe the Council, the board and the
Mayor Jointly with the power asked or
the bill should be defeated in the Sem
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
U VOICE AGAIN.

The long silence of ]. Frank Burke,
of Chicago. prolonged for more than
two months, induced the belief that he
had abandoned his job. The political
primaries were held, and the political
conventions made their nominations
and adopted their platforms, and j..
Frank Burke was not in evidence. 1t APP
pears that there has been an "%inquiring
constituency as to the whereabouts and
doings of the salaried apostle of local
prohibition, and J. Frank Burke sud-
communication addressed to the two
candidates for Governor, couched in
the language familiar to his kind.
The only real local option, ]. Frank
Burke solemnly declares with all of
his western knowledge of New Jersey,
is local prohibition-"the right to veto
the issuance of licenses" The two
c~andidatesefo Governor being ignorant
of that fact, j. Frank Burke enlightens
their ~befogged understandings. He
also reads them a lesson in the basic
principles of democratic government,
telling them that the license system is
"un-American, u~ndemocratic'' and
against the principles of our govern
ment, which information must certain
ly surprise the two lawyers who are
thus advised. They never heard of
that before. and they will surely give
to the proposition their most earnest
thought.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

On Friday of next week the two
houses of the Legislature will meet
again and a conference will be held to
decide upon adjournment. The bust
ness of the long-drawn-out session has
now narrowed down to a few principal
measures that have been quarreled over
for several months. An agreement on
some of these measures is most improb-
able, but after next Friday it will be
next to impossible to get a quorum of
the two houses and final adjournment
will have to be taken anyhow.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
INJUSTICE IN THE LAW.

The rank injustice witnessed in the
treatment of the negro who sat in the
automobile that killed Marcus j. Jacobs
last Thursday on Broad street has
been commented on by the STAR.
Newspapers in other cities have no.
ticed it. The negro was sober at the
time, he had no power over the ma
chine, he protested against the rate of
speed and wanted to alight, and was
prevented. And yet, he was the only
one of the four men to go to Jail, while
the drunken man who handled the lever
and speeded the car and is responsible
for the tragedy was given his freedom
on bail.
There is something radically wrong in
our system of criminal justice when
such a thing a happen.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

Senator Borah's acquittal in his trial
for conspiring to defraud the govern
ment in the distribution of the timber
lands was the occasion for a regular
popular ovation At Boise, Idaho, yes
terday. 1t was made evident that the
jury of the vicinage was with Borah
at the start, and perhaps witnesses de-
scended from heaven couldn't have
satisfied the jurors that .Borah wasn't
all right. according to Boise ideas.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

The surprising statement is made by
the President, in his st. Louis address,
that if We are able to keep up the
present ate of progress at Panama the
actual digging of the canal will be fin
ished within five or six years. The
prospects are that the present rate will
be materially improved upon. The
largest amount of work this year was
done in August. during the rainy sea-
son, the most unfavorable period for OPP
erations of the kind. The commission is
to put in a number of new steam
shovels, which will greatly add to the
facilities. 1t is not impossible that the
actual digging will be completed within
the period of the next four years.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

Whatever may be done with the pub
lie utilities bill, the Legislature should
not adjourn and leave the $780, 200 Rail-
road Commission as a useless leech ON
the public treasury. The promise has
been given that unnecessary commits
sions would be abolished and that COM
missions overlapping each other In their
duties would be consolidated. That
promise has not been fulfilled as yet.
And it would be rubbing it in" on a
disappointed State to saddle it with an
other sinecure commission.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

printer ought to be as prompt as he
was last year. But who is responsible
If it is not the Legislature, which year
after year tolerates this wretched sys-
tenn of public printing?
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Nece.slty Of pncInc FIeet.

The influence of the United States on the
Pacific must be chiefly naval. We must
n aintain a fleet in these waters capable of
dealing with that of any other power. 1t
is not in the least likely that the fleet will
ever be called to action. but its being is a
necessary factor in the diplomatic game
that VIII pc playeu TOT the control of mar
waters must be made worth while IL we
are to hold our own with Japan in COM
petition for Chinese trade San Francisco
Call.
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need of coal for its navy cannot get it
except under impossible conditions. In
such matters the necessity inc not any
statutory construction rules. AS the
government cannot secure American
vessels to carry coal to the Pacific it
will hire foreign vessels. The coal will
go. That's the essential thing.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

The question with the Navy Depart
ment is to get coal from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. The coal must stand
not upon the order of going, but go at
once whether in American or foreign
bottoms. 1t would be supremacy ridicu-
lous to say that q government in actual
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

A young lady, supposed to be a con-
hrmed m~an-hater, was eating some
the other evening, and ex-
a dislike at it's flavor. Her
companions asked her what fault she
with it; w~hereupon she replied
that it had a sort of shaving-soap taste.
had some difficulty in maintaining
a proper degree of u%nconcern in reply
ing to the question hat Immediately
Inquirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
"secretary Of Peace,

That was a happy phrase of Secretary
Taft's in his address at Yokohama when
he declared that he came mot as a Sec
rotary of Wa but as Secretary of Peace"
1t suited the general felicities of the oc-
casion, one of greeting, and as a pleasant
euphemism meant just enough without i'm
plying too much. He was addressing "A
people who knew perfectly well that the
peace referred to meant actually such a
peace as must exactly suit the United
States in its relation with them. The
peace of which he spoke was not that
of any complaint, self-effaclng sort; and
the Japanese, themselves artists In the
nicety of meaningful diction, are not likely
to confuse the eagle for the dove or fail
to see that peace acceptable to our Secre-
tary of War with particular reference to
Japan means peace very much on it's
good behavior. Equally of course it as
sured any doubters that Mr.. Taft is abroad
on an errand of Notwithstanding Amy
foolish fears as to how he would be re-
ceived in Japan are set at rest; he is a
Secretary of War who can draw the vel
vet over the mailed fist to perfection.-
Providence Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

The direct primaries bill introduced
in the House is dead, killed by the votes
of members of both political parties. A
new bill is to be introduced in the
Senate next week, but it is evident
enough that despite the platforms of
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

The point was well put by an Assem-
olyman yesterday in regard to the de-
lay in the printing of the seasonal laws
of last year. Although the Legislature
adjourned in April, the printed laws did
not appear until November. With all
the delay in adjournment this year the
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
IN HUMOROUS VEIN.
All ExnIalned.

How long were you in your last
placer" asked the housekeeper.
"Jisht a month, ma'am," replied the
applicant.
Indeed? What was the trouble?"
9TH trouble was, ma'am, that l got
sick an couldn't Fave no sooner
Philadelphia Press.
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Jacob-How did you make your for
tune?
Isaac-On horse racing.
Jacob-What! I never knew you
betted?
~Isaac--I didn't. I started a pawn
shop just opposite the entrance to the
race course for the accommodation OF
people who wanted to get home when
the races were over.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

There is one thing that the State Democrats are depending
on this fall in this county, and that is the use of unlimited
money and the voting of repeateEs and colonizers. OF course
.colonizers cost money. Last year there wefe perhaps nearly a
thousand illegal votes polled in this county. We do not charge
that they were all Democrats. but the fact that the money was
used for the Democratic legislative ticket makes it logical that
most of them were. 1t is reported that the State Democrats
spent something like $4,000 in this county last year. Whether
they will have that much this time remains to be seen. The
Republican County Committee had the names of nearly six
hundred illegal voters last fall, if we are correctly informed.
They were very largely Democrats. This year that record
promises to be beaten. A committee investigated one district
of a large Republican ward on Saturday and found in one
street there were nearly thirty names on the registry list of
men who voted who did not live in the ward and some OF
them did not live in the city. One of the men who "voted'
died only a short time ago.-Paterson Call.
With Sheriff Sommer bo@ng things in Essex County il
will be both difficult and dangerous to work any such schemes
here. OF course it's different in Passaic County, where the
Grand Juries fatty refuse to find indictments for crooked work
at the polls. The trouble in Paterson has been that both Re-
publican and Democratic politicians were mixed up in the
dirty work, and that is why Judge Scott and the local news
papers found so little support in their efforts to crush out. the
Infamous business. This year there ought to be a Vigilance
Committee, aided by skilled detectives, to get the necessary
evidence and force action by publishing it broadcast to the
world. ]. M.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

Two men there are who never can
Forget themselves l wist;
And ones the perfect gentleman
And ones the egotist.
Philadelphia Press.
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the two parties there is very little
stomach in the Legislature for that
kind of politics.
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DisIikeh His Tome.

viii you pass the butter, Mr.. Diggs?,
asked the new boarder.
Every time" replied Diggs.
And the landlady says it was the way
Diggs said it that made her angry
Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03

Last year there were six Assembly tickets in Essex County,
and this is how the election returns footed up:
Republican, re, 5I4; Democratic, 1864; Prohibition, I76; So
ciaist, 1906; Social-Labor, >43o; Independent Citizens, 9729.
This gave the Democrats a plurality of 6,17o, elected their
whole Assembly delegation of eleven members, and gave them
control of the House of Assembly by one vote.
There is no Independent Citizens ticket this year. Could
the Republicans keep intact their vote of last year and carry
with them soid1y the vote cast for the Independent ticket, it
would Notwithstanding the Democratic vote to be Interchangeable
Republican plurality of $3.50 in the county. Last years indie
pendent vote was made up largely of the Colby following, but
in it were represented many Democrats and Prohibitionists. The
bulk of the Colbyhes will support the regular Republican ticket
this time, the Democrats will return to their old love and the
-Prohibitionists will vote their party ticket.
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FROM STAR

Anonymous communications cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects the
names of correspondents are not required for
publication. but as a guarantee OF good faith.
-Ed,1
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Figuring on that basis the Republicans should still start of
with an assured plurality of several thousand in Essex County.
Then the fact that the Gubernatorial candidate is an Essex
man may reasonably be expected to help swell the figures. On
the other hand there are defectons in the Republican camp this
year, especially among Germans and Italians who stood by the
party last year. Just what this will amount to is conjectural.
1t may be big enough to wipe out the Republican plurality.
On the other hand the very fact of the bolt and the known
reasons therefor may drive into the Republican camp men who
would not otherwise be found there.
A careful survey of the situation in the whole county indi-
Gates that the conservative, thinking element of the citizenship
now holds the balance of power in Essex, and that this element
will not commit itself until the candidates have fully and clearly
explained just where they stand on ALL the current issues.
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Nations Attitude Toward A

Nations Attitude Toward Alaska
The nation must alter it's attitude to-
Alaska. Alaska must have indeper4-
and lone rule, so far as the purely d
tic problems of the territory are conc
Already. in its treatment of AlasI
national government has broken fro
Uniform practise of this country.
should be nodded into a TERRITORY
started on the "a to Statehood. III
hitherto been the attitude of the
government toward the minor politicaE
sions OF the country. There isn'tV
shadow of an excuse for withholdingN
boon of local autonomy from the northe
oountry.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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BE a wholesaler.
This fact comes home to us:
1t does not pay
To be INSCRIPTIONS
In a small way.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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willing to stand n Good neal.

Doris-But I never told you that
have a brother-in-law who is a Sem
ator.
Harry-No matter, darling. Even
that fact cannot separate us.-Judge.
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Ella-she is a decided blonde, isn't
She?
Dora-Yes. but she only decided re-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Inquirer.