Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-13
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES



From the Boston Transcript.
Why have eggs gone up in price to
Is cents? There is a simple and true
answer to this question. 1t is this:
The hens have stopped laying. Well,
why don't they lay?
To get at the unbiased answer to
this question 1t is necessary to elm
mate from further consideration the
suspicion that some big egg trust
has cornered all the hens in the coun-
try and IS manipulating the prices on
their product. If that had been done
the eggs would be cheaper. Eggs that
the big dealers did corner last sum
mer are still cheap and VIII continue
to sell at as low n price as cold stor-
age eggs, and If they were stored
properly last April or May they sim
are palatable.
But why does not the New England
hen lay today? The answer is lust
as simple as the answer TO the Qaes-
ton why the price has gone up; Tho
hen has something else 10 do. She
has been active all summer with tie
false idea that she was raising her
brood of chicks, which is her natural
function in life, and she is now en-
gagged in the making of her winter
clothes, which must be ready before
the very cold weather sets in. Tn
like her rich owner. she cannot so
into the market and buy a ready
made suit and continue her daily pur-
suit without interruption; but she
must shed her old suit and raise a
new one on her own back, oil IL and
iron II as IL grows, and at the same
time store up energy to keep her Wen
and strong during the extreme cold
weather.
She roosts practically in the open
air while her keepers cuddle around
the heated stove She is to sit on her
roosting pin exposed to untempered
temperature during the coming long,
cold nights, and keep herself warm
in her new winter suit. She must eat
three good meals a day now and pick
and scratch for all she is worth be.
tween meals to get material enough
for that winter suit, and II, per-
chance, she gets a little surplus OF
protein and carbohydrate, she Will
drop an egg occasionally. These sub
stances must be served in almost in
tensifed form and forced into old
Biddv almost against her own will to
produce that surplus.
October and November, and good
parts of September and December,
She has reserved, by permission OF
Nature, for her personal affairs, ana
can't be coaXed into working for any
body else at that time on terms that
would make 1t profitable to enlist her
service.
Democracy Speaks 10 Democrat.
From the New York World.
Premier Asquiths Guildhall speech
bears q, message wider, deeper and
more enduring than Its reference to
a. passing phase of Mexican affairs
ar the tinsel fortunes of an Aztec
dictator. 1t Is a reminder to auto
eracy wherever enthroned. and to
privilege however intrenched, that the
people of England and the people OF
America. understand each other, ana
nothing can disturb our common re-
solve to obtain and maintain a friend
ly and sympathetic understanding.
With the English people this has
long been true, though privilege mis-
representing them has sometimes
worn q hostile face. Even during the
Civil War, when the. ruling British
aristocracy followed Dictator Louis
Napoleon's policy of fayoring the
South and brought us to the verge of
war, the cotton spinners of Ian
cashire starving beside their shut
mills, felt that the cause of free labor
against slave labor was their cause.
Diplomacy in Europe is an orna-
ment of wealthy families. II may
happen here and there that a sur
yiving British envoy of the old school
takes note counter to American in
terests until corrected from the for
eign office. But Britain has now
government resting upon the will of
the British people and holding their
favor by splendid legislative pro-
gram in their interest. No English
statesman for a century has been
able to speak for his country with
such unquestionable authority as Mr..
Asquith possesses. His words mean
something.
Why should it be otherwise? Why
should not democracy In England
and democracy In the United States
be in perfect accord In the hope that
democracy in Mexico may grow and
strengthen?