The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-09-06
Editorial Comment.

The new marriage license law. which
went into effect July 1, was a wiser en-
actment than even its friends claimed
For example, one clause provides that no
license shall be issued when either of the
contr acting parties, at the time of making
the application, is under the influence Of
Intoxicating liquor or a narcotic drug.
Registrar Gall, OF Paterson, says 1t Is sur
prising how many parties showing the
effects of liquor come to him and ask for
marriage license. He always refuses
them, and tells them to come back the
next day. Invariably they do not come
back. It Is safer to infer that the licens-
ing authorities In all parts of the state
have more or less of the same experiences,
and II this Is true, then hundreds of i'm.
provident and ill-assorted marriages are
prevented, simply by refusing licenses
until the parties have come to their sober
senses. The marriage of intoxicated
people is prolific source of poverty, dis
ease and those abnormal conditions that
fill the jails, prisons, aimshouses, insane
asylums and homes for dependent chill
dren.-Nesoark Neaos.
The new idea" leaders In New Jersey
are, with the exception of the Maine con-
tribution, all from the woody West. I"
The new leader In Essex halls from Iowa.
and is named Osborne. He called upon
the Republican county chairman to tell
where he got this campaign money and
what he did with 1t, to which the chair
man replied that 1t would be well for Os-
borne to set the example and tell where be
got $41 900 In the last campaign, how he
spent $36. 900 of it, and what he did with
the remaining 1000. Ofcourse the NEW
idea" leader had no idea of doing any
such thing, but was only anxious to find
out how the Republicans conducted their
campaign. The Iowa gentleman Is natur-
ally an insurgent, coming from the state
that breeds insurgency, and Is running
things In Essex from the new idea" stand
point with all the fervor he Is capable of,
with the aid Of Billy Martin of Nevada,
and others. The Jerseymen up in Essex,
It is reported know what is good for the
county and the state, and will take care
that they get it.-Cdnden Courier.
United business interests can prevail
even against the naughty and opulent
express companies, backed by their side
partners, the railroads. Boards of trade
and other commercial bodies have now
| fled petition with the Interstate Com
merce Commission for an Investigation of
express company rates. regulations and
practices II there is justice In regulat-
ing railroad rates. according to the mea-
sure of their net earnings, why should the
bloated express companies that prey on
all private interests be exempt The
profits of these companies are enormous.
In one case, with capital of 800, 600,
the company has paid 50, 200, 900 in divi
dends and accumulated a surplus OF
81 800, 600 In ten years, while at the same
time giving to the railroad as carrier from
40 to 45 per cent. of the gross earnings.
The railroad Unfortunately profits by get
ting rates S73 times greater than the rates
charged for first class freight. This
systematized extortion has passed un-
noticed by the Taft administration and II
has been found impossible even to get a
bill affecting the express companies re.
ported In Congress. Combined railroad
and express company influences defeat all
attempts at legislation. The same infiu-
ences block the way of parcels post bill.
But a combination of the commercial
bodies of the country can prove all power.
full, and the times are auspicious for sue
cess.-NesoGrk Star.