The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-21
TUESDAY. APRIL 81, 1914

WHEN the Legislature adjourned Gov
nor Fielder gave sigh of relief and
ypressed himself as glad that the body
-ad gone out of business. He is report
4 to have said it was the hardest body
e had ever had dealings with. But his
foubles do not seem to be over yet. He
as called the Senate back for Friday
ext to consider some nominations, and
le is likely to strike a snag as there will
will be decided opposition to one of the
ppointees, man who Fielder is said to
'e determined to place, possibly because
ie runs one of the leading newspapers in
Hudson county and also because posi-
ply = more likely, probably Fielder
wants to get into the United States SEN
lite and the support of a home newspaper
I would be good thing to have. But the
Hudson Observer, another influential
paper, will oppose the appointee and
there is every probability of trouble to
eome. 1t does seem odd that the
Legislature, after being in session thir-
Teen weeks, could not get all of the
necessary business transacted, but there
is suspicion that the entire body
will have to be recalled to straight
en- out some matters that appear to be
in tangle. And in the face of all this
some of the members had the audacity
10 try to make candidates for member
Of Boards of Education possess qualifica-
lions that are ridiculous when you look
at the work done by the legislators,
many of whom are high school gradu-
ates or who have gone through college.
ed that will draw forth as harsh criti-
Icism as that which requires license to
be procured before one can engage in the
innocent pastime of fishing. Republi-
cans have every reason to be glad that
Fielder gave the finishing pen touches
which made the bill operative, for he is
being cussed and discussed in all quar-
tiers and it is hard to find any one who
speaks respectfully about him in con-
'inection with the matter. Many who
Ivoted for him are regretting their action
and his most ardent admirers are kept
continually on the alert to find some
way in which to excuse his action. Even
Though the law does not take effect until
next January and the fact that a gum
ner's license and fishers license NAV be
combined in one the sting is not remov-
a 70
the most foolish kind of foolishness to
let such law become operative. 1t is
sdifficult to find a paper that does not
{ crlticise the statute. The atlantic Csty
Press says: Just think oft! If man
wants to go hunting trout of an after
noon in the fresh waters of Great Egg
Harbor or Lake Lenape at Mays Land
ing he must first take out license and
] pay tax, yet another angler can go out
into the salt bays and slay weakfish and
black bass by the hundred for nothing.
The Philadelphia Ledger has this to
say on the subject: "When the New
Jersey anglers know that ponds, public
and private, and many of them inacces-
sible to all Of them, are stocked at the
expense of the state and mostly for the
convenience of rich men, and are con-
fronted now by the exaction of indi-
vidual license fees of $1.15 for fishing in
rivers and their tributaries not so stock
ed, there is justice in their rebellion
against the new law with this require
ment. Dealers in sporting goods will
lose trade in tackle; the boy in vacation
time must pay tribute for even an hours
recreation; the poor man to provide a
meal, must expend four or five times
what it is worth to fish where the rich
man does not have to cast line, being
better served within the reach of his
purse. Admitting that perhaps this
affecting law may be ineffective because
it classes cunning with fishing, the di-
rection of it smacks of an imposition up
on the poor, and needlessly SO, for the
Fish and Game Commission, in whose
alleged interest the act was passed, is
more than sustained financially by the
income from gunners' license fees.''