The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-30
Pail of Menlancholia, Sadness
and SlOughs of Dependency
Hover Over Upper House.
BY HARRY DOANE.
"HIS is a sad world, my brethren,
a sad and weary world, wherein

"HIS is a sad world, my brethren,
a sad and weary world, wherein
men and motives are misunder-
stood. Little do most of us realize the
weight of sorrow that Expresses the
bosoms of our neighbors and causes
them to gaze with tear-dimmed eyes
upon their fellows.
And sac il is to be- elected to the Sen
ate. A kind of sweet sadness, perhaps,
in which the thought that we are do
ing our duty to the people who elected
US draws, to a certain extent, the sting
that lies in the knowledge that the
minority does not believe we love them
as much as we say we do, but still a
sadness.
But of all the sad things that can
happen to man in this continuous per-
Torrance of woe that we call life, per-
haps the most lugubrious, heart-break-
ing, sorrowful, melancholy, gloomy, dis
NAL, doleful fate that can befall us is to
be elected pr sident of the Senate Of
this sovereign State of New Jersey.
Heartless Senators persist in intro
ducing bills, and, not satisfied with
that, argue their merits. There are
constant insinuations that the chair Is
not acting in strictly impartial man
ner towards certain of the members.
People rise to wearying points of order
in which someone is bound to be dis
gruntled with the result. Yes, indeed,
being president is not the joyous job
that you or |, mere voters that we are,
might imagine.
Probably you don't believe all that,
but you need not take my word for il.
Drop in on the Senate al s o'clock any
Monday night during this session and
see for yourself. Get there a little bit
early n watch the happy throng of
"SqIons" gamboing about like kids DIT
play, slapping one another on the back
and putting up a pretense of being
happy. Then watch them as the gavel
falls.
The answers to the roll-call betray
that solemnizing effect that that tap
has produced, and in the midst of the
holy quiet that prevails you look about
for the influence that has caused it until
finally your eyes rest upon the presi-
dents chair and the mystery is solved
One glance at President Samuel X
Robbins, senator from Burlington coun-
ty, and you wonder how the other mem
bers car ave the heart to bother him
so. There is such an air of sorrow
ABOUT MN. MOufnfully ne asks Ine
minister engaged Tor the night to pray
and in comparison to his demeanor oi
detection the prayer that follows seems
frivolous and hollow.
Perhaps it is too early to say thai
this influence will last. Senator Hinch-
life, of Passaic, may regain his old
time gaiety, and senator Frelinghuyser
may again hurl the fires Of his dis
approval with the old -time vigor ano
wit, but at present any attempt to as
sumo again the former life-like method
of doing things is frowned upon, ano
an unappreciative audience casts dowr
its eyes and looks as il it wished il
weren't there when anything approach
ing RIGHTEOUSNESS energies from the
slough of sadness.
Yet there must be some appreciation
of a spirit bowed down, for the voters,
or whoever 1t is that elects legislators
in Burlington, have had many an OPP
portunity to declare for gayer, il not
better things. than Mr.. Robbins. There
! is no reason to suppose that Senator