Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10
GOV FORTS MESSAGE TO LEGISLATURE

Hoboken terminals in this State went
upon a strike for causes deemed by
them to be just. The strike was
handled by the Jersey City authori-
ties with good Judgment. Appeals were
made to the executive to order out the
National Guard, or a part of ii, but,
after a thorough investigation, through
the acknowledgements office, and other
wise, II after full personal inquiry
and conference with strikers and EN-
ployers, l declined to order out any
part of the National Guard. In this
action l was sustained by the opinion
of the encouragement.
1.-THE ordering out of the National
Guard in case of strikes, or the like.
is a matter for the most careful con-
s~ideration. 1t is not q question to be
lightly treated by the executive, when
he is asked to move the National Guard
with loaded arms to a certain point in
the State, where 1t may be possible
that it will be called upon to shoot
down our own citizens. 1t should never
be done, except the local authorities
are unable to reasonably control the
situation and preserve the public peace.
There is quite q distinction between
using the National Guard for he pre-
serving of the public peace and the
prevention of rioting, and h employ
ing of the guardsmen in transport
ing merchandise upon vehicles through
the public streets, thus melting to riot
by the very act of the guard.
when troops are called out they
cannot determine upon the controversy.
They must only keep the peace, and
that alone. they are not sent to con-
duct the business of the employer, nor
to aid the striking employee in trying
to compel his unemployment. They are
there to preserve order and to prevent
either party doing any act of rioting or
any act tina may tend to incite to riot
Gus conduct.
''The strike was finally settled and
the wisdom of refusing to order out
the guard was clear Upon all the
facts 1t was apparent that the strike
would never have occurred in the first
instance if the reasonable request made
by the employees had been considered
by the employers In a spirit which the
common. dictates of humanity would
seem to have required.
The Emergency Fund.
1.-The fund provided for use by the
IiOi III Id5CS VI CAAiC 5StACg 49,
be made larger than ten thousand dol
lars. During my term it has sufficed,
and no doubt will in all ordinary cases.
But If the National Guard is ordered
out in any given emergency the fund Is
insufficient. The Governor can be
trusted with this fund, and he will not
use it where absolute need is not shown.
That which is not used will lapse into
the treasury.
Our State is large and becoming
more and more cosmopolitan. 1t is
never known what will occur requiring
quick action, and. since the appropria-
ton bill prevents any money going out
of the treasury, except as 1t provides.
ample provision should be made for the
governor to protect n preserve the
peace or to meet other conditions,
should necessity arise. Reasonable
precaution would not make 1t less than
twenty-five thousand dollars.
Agriculture.
1.-THE. agricultural interests Of u
State are a subject matter of c~ongratu-
lation. The value of farm lands and
the increased value of the output are
remarkable. A table showing the
steady increase for the past eleven
years makes a wonderful exhibit.
"Our farmers are prosperous, n the
tendency now is for young men to re-
main upon the farm, and for those who
are being educated in proper schools
of agriculture to go upon the farm as a
life-work. There is no interest or bust
ness which assures a greater i~ndepend-
ence and a more certain profit, together
with the general comforts of life, than
farming.
1.-THE record of the past six years in
New Jersey in the value of the output
of the farm is as follows:
Field Crops
$50