The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-12
FRELINGHUYSEN
URGES ECONOMY
IN STATE AFFAIRS
Gubernatorial Aspirant Adj
dresses Gloucester County
Farmers at Picnic.
FAVORS HIGHER PRICES
FOR MILK AT DIARIES
Tells Hearers to Take Personal
Interest in Politics-Lauds
Trolley Freight Bill.

lspecial to the Newark start
PITMAN, Aug. 12.-Thousands of
farmers, with their wives and families.
friends and relatives into the third and
fourth gen>1ations, gathered at Alcyon
Park today, the second day of The great
annual picnic of the Gloucester County
Patrons of Husbandry, and gazed with
appreciation at the splendid specimens
of live stock and farm implements and
products shown. The affair will close
tomorrow.
This was politicians day at the picnic
n flaming arcs of the political world,
with some minor incandescents, ar
rived in shoals and showed u readiness
to instruct the farmers how to vote this
fall. Main interest centred in Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen; president of the State
Senate, who halls from Somerset
county. He was the guest of Senator
George w. f. Gaunt, of Gloucester,
n was expected to make a speech
outlining the policy of the Republican
party during the coming campaign. Mr..
Frelinghuysen's state of receptivity re-
garding the ~gubernatorial nomination is
well known, n the Gloucester county
men were prepared to view the possible
candidate with a critical eye.
When Mr.. Frelinghuysen arose to
speak he received an encouraging well
come, but his address did not fulfill the
hopes of those who expected him to
make any radical utterances. His dis
course was mostly confined to laudation
of the farmer n the bucolic life in
general. He did urge economy in pub
lie Expenditures, however, and spoke of
the Stateadeficit of 81, 900, 900 last ear
which, he averted, had been almost
liquidated by saving $500, 900 in the APP
preparation bills. He said nothing
about the State school tax grab. The
trolley freight bill was praised as a good
thing for the farmers. Mr.. Frelinghuy-
sen said, among other things:
FreIirehuysen's speech.
THE farmer, after an expenditure OF
bona, muscle and brain not required in
any other calling, harvests his crop,
is at the mercy first of the transporta-
ton company and it's rates and then of
the man who distributes the produce
and practically dictates at what price
he will AXE it. A change must be
made, and / am sure will be made To
those whose work is necessary not
merely for the progress of the nation,
but for it's very life, | am sure that
sooner or later will come just returns,
but such returns will come only when
you assert your rights and cooperate
with each other.
..Vakc an interest ia Legislation.
New Jersey has done much for The
farmer. hut IL can do more. Encourage
your Senators and ~AsseInblymen when
ever they stand for your interests.
Senator Gaunt, of this county, who
so kindly invited me to come and adj
dress you, made d splendid fight last
year and accomplished much for the
farmers when he urged a Jaw allowing
trolley companies to carry freight. re
his great labors for the benefit of that
grand organization, the grange of the
State, and for the farmers in general
is added another wreath. He not only
introduced and fought for the law, but
he succeeded in having it enacted an
placed on the statute books, after Il
had failed in the Legislature in two
preceGing sessions.
1.-THE trolley freight bill succeeded be
cause the grangers were united in theil
demands. You need more markets and
better prices, with improved transpor-
tation facilities to distant cities.
ITO accomplish this you must co
operate and devise ways and means t.
encourage capital to improve and in
crease the means of transportation, anC
when you make a united demand NJ
legislature will refuse to agree will
you.
MANY laws have been enacted tt
protect the public against %unsanitarN
and unclean milk. This is a question
that has been agitated for many years
The farmer is surrounded by restrictive
laws. 1t is almost impossible for him
under present conditions, to secure al
adequate return for this important foot
product.
For Pure MIX.
I'VE are living in an age of scientific
advance. Laws are being enacted 70
pure food, pure water and pure milk
| believe in simple justice to the dair,
farmer. | believe, when a. man gets III
at 5 o'clock of a old winters mornin,
and milks a kicking cow, after beini
compelled by law to become a Baptist
strains the milk and carries it four o
five miles to the creamery, such mill
ought to be worth liquid gold from
the laboring mans standpoint.
1--WE have seen the cost of living in
crease, but the farmer still gets a pit
tance for that important food of man
kind. We have surrounded him witt
restrictive laws, and / say if he Is b,
law compelled to live up to such tech
meal restrictions he should be support
ed in his endeavor to receive for hi
pure milk a fair price.
Pleads fer Economy.
Before closing there is n subjec
upon which / wish to speak which in.
~terests every taxpayer in the STATE
New Jersey is a prosperous State-sh'
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