Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-04
THE
EDITORIAL
COM MENT


Out West horse meat has appeared in
the markets, but the relief is only tenn
porary. 1t is as easy for the meat
trust to corner horse meat as any other
meat. 1t has got all the facilities.
There is an evident backing down by
cur government in the matter of
American meat shipments to Germany. |
A month ago the attitude of the ad-
ministration was one of stern resolve
that Germany would ave to modify
her customs and sanitary regulations
in respect to cattle n meat products
or submit to q tariff war. There has
since been such a fire in the rear that
the backbone of the government weak
ened. A pretty thing, indeed, it would
be for the American people If their
government should provoke a costly
tariff war, and at his time. to benefit
the most oppressive and worst hated
monopoly in the country.
T~wenty-six miles of new subway in
New York to cost, with equipment,
$240, 900, 900, will be adequate, when built,
only about. ten years. The estimate
gives some idea of the growth of the
great city. But in ten years there Is
likely to be some new system of trans
portation to relieve the underground
travel. Probably the airship will at the
end of the next decade be transporting
many thousands daily. The progress
made in aviation encourages that belief.
No tunnels or subways need to be cut
through the afr. The only problem lies
in the vehicle.
A good suggestion is contained in a
legislative bill adding juno and Sep
TENDER to the period for music in the
parks in Newark and Jersey City.
There are hot nights in both months,
and music is just as sweet to the popu-
lar ear in June and September as in
| July and August.
During the time that Paris was in
sore straits and imminent peril on ac-
| count of the great flood, there was, SO
far as can be ascertained, no voice
raised in the pulpit about the fate of
"the modern Sodom." Paris is a great
world centre of pleasure. 1t is the
worlds show city. 1t has it's vices.
and also its virtues. Taken all in all,
it is morally not worse than London.
Berlin or New York. And after all
Paris energies from it's peril with lit
~ lo.N - ,4, a-%
and certainly with no serious Interrupt
ton to it's social life.
A man who only signs initials to his
communication writes to the STAR to
suggest that an effective way for the
people to deal with the egg trust is to
keep laying hens. "If all the people of
Newark kept hens says our corre-
spondent, "they wouldn't have to buy
8 single cold-storage egg. Those who
didn't care for egg diet could sell the
hen fruit tc their neighbors." 1t must
be confessed that by the plan pro-
posed there would be c. s%ufficiency of
eggs. But there wouldn't be much
sleep hot nights, with thousands Of
chandeliers shrilly hailing tho dawn.
People would be apt to prefer the COLI.
storage egg.
IN tho investigation of the ccld-
storage houses in Hudson county the
Hudson grand jury may come across a
lot Of game birds illegally held. 1t was
in ono of these cold-storage houses
three years ago that thousands of
game birds We're discovered, and the
aggregate fine amounted to about
$50, 900. The fine was compromised on
the basis of about 4 per cent. A similar
find just now would not probably be SO
easily settled.
With the death of George T. Werts
the last of the long line Of Democratic
Governors passed away. All the foul
living Governors are Republicans, and
this time next year there will be five,
If all survive. None of the Governors
who succeeded Werts has died. The
question to be determined this year is
whether there shall be a sixth Repub-
lican Governor in unbroken succession.