The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-04-27

Legislature twentY-six bills were marked
''disapproved. The legislators have no
Just cause for resenting the Governors
action. They transferred the whole law
making power to him when they adjourn
ed sine die without awaiting his decis-
ion upon the measures passed in the clos
days Of the session.
Such abdication of the law-making power
is repugnant to the spirit Of our govern
ment The trainers of the constitution
provided that by bare majority vote the
Legislature could override the Governors
veto. When the legislature deliberately
put away this power and leave every
thing to the Governor they have no right
to find fault with his decisions, whatever
they may be.-Oanden Post Telegram.
Governor Fort having signed the New
Jersey automobile law, the whole motor
Ing fraternity is open to Fluctuations. The
act is model statute. protecting the pub
lie ana granting liberal privileges to the
owners and operators of motor cars.
Both the 10y rider" and the petty local
official who sets traps to catch unwary
motorists will find their occupation most
improbable one hereafter in the good state
of New Jersey. Philadelphia Press.
When the Ice machine was invented and
became profitable the price of ice ceased
to be dependent on the weather.
All summer large share of the ice for
sale is machine-made. 1t costs no more
to make 1t one year than in another, I'M
less the cost of coal or labor goes up.
Neither has taken place this year. The
cost of machine made ice, is this year just
what it was last year.
| The price should be the same. 1t Is the
same, where the artificial ice-maker has
not combined to advance. The cheapest
ice makes the market, unless there is a
combination. What is taking place this
summer is that few producers, led by
the Ice Trust, are trying to combine to
raise the price of ice.
The price cannot be raised without a
combination and combination to raise
the price of ice is an indictable offense.
Philadelphia Press.
Just what benefit the trolley freight
law will be to the farmers of New Jersey
it is impossible to predict. especially as
there has been no intimation that any
trolley company will take advantage of It,
Indeed, Colonel Hines, general manager
of the Public Service corporation, is quot
ed as saying that that company has moi
taken the matter under consideration al
all, and as 1t controls about all of the i'm
portant railways in the state it is not like.
ly the trolley freight facilities will material.
lie very soon. 1t will not be denied that
a trolley freight service would be of great
value to the farming communities within
easy reach of the large cities, but the cost
of providing and operating it is an I'M
known quantity, and may deter trolley
companies from making the venture until
well assured it would prove profitable.
To establish freight line will necessarily
call for some interference with passenger
traffic, and that of itself would make the
project unpopular, but it may be possible
to adapt the running time of freight trains
SO as not to materially interrupt passenger
travel The Changers made sturdy fight
for the passage of the trolley freight act,
and 1t will be too bad If it should prove an
idle one Camden Courier.
The proposed constitutional amend
ments, if adopted in September, will not
go into effect until February, 1910, and,
therefore, they will not affect the general
election to be held next November. Sen
ators and assemblymen will be elected as
usual this year, and in November, 1910,
will begin the election of senators for -four
year terms and of assemblymen for two.
year terms. legislative elections to be
thereafter held every two years. instead OF
annually. The senate will be divided In
to two classes, instead of three, as at pre-
sent, so that one class can be elected every
second year. If the amendments are
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in Newark next year, as the amendments
provide for such election in odd-numbered
years. Municipal officers chosen this fall
will hold over one year, until their success
sors are elected and qualified. The first
election for Governor for four-year term
will be held next year, together with the
election for legislators and county officers,
and there will not be another guberna-
tional election until 1914. The longer
term will give the Governor a consider
able enlargement of power. In the matter
of patronage he will have appointments to
make during four years, instead of three
years, as now. 1t is well for the people
who are soon to vote on the proposed
amendments, to clearly understand their
purpose and effect. The Star will not ne
elect to make all the amendments clear to
the voter, in order that he may go to the
polls in the special election on September
IA with knowledge of the effect of his
ballot-Nesoork Star
Al al o0NACoo az O ASO0Ah6 Va OAS 41AOA-
mouth County Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union. Thursday, Mr.. Boom, of
the crimes and dependency commission,
made the statement that there were 1880
"speakeasies '-that is to say, places
where liquor was sold secretly without a
license-and that they ''were mostly in
prohibition territory" meaning places
where the local authorities refuse to grant
licenses. 1t does not appear in the report
of Mr.. Boom's address what the point was
that he wanted to make, but the bare
statement is somewhat disconcerting to
the local option prohibitionist. If it be
true, as Mr.. Boom says. that there are
2. 300 unlicensed drinking places in the
state, the loss of public revenue, at the
license rate of Newark, is more than a
million dollars annually. If the state
ment is true, and we do not question it,
local prohibition is failure where it is in
operation in this state. In the prohibition
territory where the ''speak- easies" flourish
there is not merely loss of license revenue,
but also the encouragement of law break
ing and that form of indulgence that is
most prOmotiVe of habitual inebrietv-the