Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-09

Many thousands OF private telephone
subscribers in New Jersey are inter-
ested in the question of excessive rates
and are now looking to Trenton for
some relief. The business interests OF
the State nave "a large stake IN the
question. In many establishments the
telephone constitutes a serious item IN
the annual expenses. Business men
can make themselves heard and their
influence felt where individual SUBJ
scribers in homes and small offices are
voiceless. 1t is for them to bring pres
sure to bear upon their legislative rep
resentatives and directly at Trenton to
make the investigation of the telephone
monopoly effective by legislation.
The "Biack Horse Cavalry at Albany
for several years held up legislation for
blackmail, passed pernicious bills for
brides and looted the State by all kinds
of schemes. A sample of the crooked
ness of that period is now on exhibition
in the Albany Legislature, and the
branded party is the Republican leader
in the Senate. But there are others and
their names will be brought out before
the investigation is concluded. 1t is
noteworthy that this shameful expose
was brought about by the pique Of a
fellow senator, who knew the facts and
a a witness and party to the in
famous transaction some nine years
ago.
If a women's reformatory shall be
erected in the State, at least one-half
of the board of managers should be
women, as provided in the bill intro
duced in the senate by Mr.. Acker-
man, of Union. The management of an
institution of that character cannot
properly be left to men alone. There
are details of management that only
women are equal to or could attend to.
A first requisite for either male or
female manager will be entire conf
potency, for a women's reformatory
will call for the exercise of more judg-
ment and care than is required for any
other State institution.
General r. Heber B%reintnall, retired,
received at Trenton last night a re-
markable tribute from the officers of
the New Jersey National Guard, show
ing his popularity in the guard. 1t
would be well, indeed, If every officer
who has served long and honorably and
is retired should be rewarded with a
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lions crafty the ambition of an officer,
but these honors do not touch him as
deeply and are not as fondly remem-
bered and cherished as the spontaneous
personal tribute from his old compan
ions in arms.
Again the dime novel and the five
cent library are made responsible for
crime, which it seems may be traced
to its door. In the room occupied by
the boy bandit and his girl bride caught
rifing a postof1ice were piles of cheap
thrillers. But if all the assorted mis-
cry for which the problem" plays and
novels are responsible could be fasten-
ed upon them, the dime novel, in COM
parison, would seem as innocent as a
Sunday-school book.
While stocks are tumbling in Wall
| Street the factories are all busy n
business goes on as usual. People who
own stocks for investment suffer no
real loss by the turns in the market. as
the divided value remains for them.
They are not enriched when the mar
ket prices rise OF impoverished when
they fall. A stock jobbers' panic is
not and it is the stock job
Der who gets the hurts.
President Taft, unlike his predeces-
sor, is receiving at the White HOUSE
lots of counselors from Wall Street.
Whether he is absorbing the good coun-
sci given will appear later.
1t is touch and go with the New Jer-
sey Legislature.
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