Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-25
Washington
Y ' LETTER
BY h = WALKER
IRREGULARITIES OF LAW

Star Bureau.
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.
A man who is legally insane in New
York is legally sane in Virginia.
Meat that is condemned under the
laws of Pennsylvania is good, health
| full food under the laws of New Jer-
| sey.
II is legal TO sell adulterated food
to the people of some States In which
Il is made, but Illegal to send the
same stuff into another State to be
sold.
Manufacturers in New Jersey must
not employ children under 16, but
must compete with manufacturers in
Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas,
where children are put TO work as
soon as they can walk.
If you want to go from Washing
ton to Hot Springs you take troll
| lev across the river to Alexandria
and buy your railroad ticket for about
a dollar less, because Virginia has a
| two-cent mileage law and the United
states government hasn't. If you've
| been divorced and want to be mar
ried again you must hire a lawyer
10 advise you where to have the cere-
mony performed and where to live
afterwards, as your divorce isn't
good everywhere and you may be ar
rested for bigamy.
Electing a President is certainly
national business, but in some States
women may vote for presidential
electors and in other States they can
not
If a railroad employee is hurt in an
accident while at work the question
of where his train was going decides
whether he may get damages or com
pensation under a Federal law or a
State law, or get none at all.
This is States rights. Instead OF
being one country we are chaotlc
mess of governments. Thaw, Jerome
and Chaloner are the burlesquers or
politics and law-making.
The President is taking long
chance In putting off the reading OF
his Mexican message to Congress I'M
I'll tomorrow. It's purpose is to ex-
plain and justify his refusal to rec
ognize Huerta, the murderer and
usurper, and according to the best IN
formation obtainable the Huerta gov
eminent may not last until the mes
sage is read.
Governor Stokes's candidacy for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination
this year looks like a sacrifice hit to
keen himself on the bench so he can
NAV in the United States senatorial
series In 1916. Politics is a long game.
three-cornered fight for the Repub-
1ican nomination this year, however,
is like q fight for the BOBBY prize IN
q charity euchre.
Save a third Of your electric light
hills This isn't an advertisement
for a new kind of lamp. You can save
the money by living In Cleveland,
where the rate is three cents per
kilowatt hour, instead of ten. They
have municipal ownership there.
Navy department would like to
punish the drunken sailors off war
ships who started a riot in Seattle
and destroyed a lot of private prop
erty. but can't do it because the men
can't be identified. And the navy de-
partment official who gave out this
statement kept his face perfectly
straight when he sprung the joke
Governor SulZer was the only MEM
Der of the Tammany delegation in
Congress who refused to vote as he
was told on the tariff and the fight
against Cannonism. Men who sup
ported him in the campaign critt-
cised him and left him, early In his
administration, because they said he
was too close to Murphy. 1t wasn't
until he insisted on direct primaries
that Tammany decided that he was
unfit to be q chief executive of the
State. It's popular to call Sulzer
crook nowadays. and denounce him,
but Tammany has had lot of law
yers and gumshoe men in Washing
ton for months trying to find some
in, GYY1z c
a congressman, and they gave up
the job. His vote was always for
popular measures and against the
special interests. For several years
Sulzer was the single member in the
House who attempted to make any
effort whatever for parcel post The
men who most loudly denounce him
as crook admit that his public
record as a legislator is as clean as
hounds tooth,
II you get drunk, disturb the peace,
smash store windows, insult women,
beat your wife and children and get
arrested and locked up, you may be
fined ten dollars.
II you happen to own a little house
and give 1t coat of paint which
improves its appearance and the
looks of the neighborhood. the as
SCISSOR will probably tack $500 onto
your assessment and tax you ten
dollars more than you paid last year.
Which kind of lawbreaker are
you?
A few weeks ago a friend who was
going abroad wrote and asked me
to go to the State department and
get him passport. He sent me his
check for So to pay for It, as he said
that was the fee. l got the pass
port, passed in the So, and the State
department clerk showed back 50 of
the money
'"The fee is only a dollar he
said, ''if you get it from the depart
ment If you get 1t from a steam
ship company they charge you 50"
"You mean that Uncle Sam sells
passports to the steamship COM
panies for dollar and lets them
make 81 profit ON each one?" ! asked
That's the idea" said he.
What do you think of that for a
petty little grating game for the
government to be a party to?
While the President and supporters
10.