The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-28

they did not induce, the lamentable |
condition which now exists. In vain |
publicists urged the administration to |
forsake its fatuous policy, to abandon it's |
untenable position, looking toward the
avoidance of intervention and the re-
Mobilization of Mexico by Mexicans
without obstruction by this nation
Futilely this newspaper, in common
with others, for months deplored the
program of drifting toward the newt
able, the academic phrase making of
those responsible for our conduct, the
sophomore endeavor to apply ideal in
ternational ethics to a very real and
practical problem. Without result the
administration was besought ON all sides
to withdraw from it's inexplicable sup
port of the brigands operating in the
North, into whose vengeful hands have
been put American weapons. In vain
the Secretary of the State was called on
to come down out of the clouds and
stand on solid ground, that this nation
might be saved from the fearful obliga-
ton which threatened The peace
makers were too intent on explanation
of their purpose to put it into execution.
While they talked the situation ran
away from them.
The stage of the proceedings is over
and done with. The nation has been
dedicated by its responsible officers to a
definite course and that course, without
bubble, is war. Only Providence can
guide events-Public Ledger.
All the legislative enactments left with
the Governor at adjournment are now
disposed of, a few being vetoed, and this
completes the record of a session which
| is anything but creditable one. The
legislative majority had strong incen-
tive in the years election to carry out
the program adopted for the session, but
apparently the leaders confidently relied
on past pluralities to carry the party
through this year with ''any old record"
at Trenton.
That is often the feeling of party lead
ers after victories. There is a more
chastened feeling after defeat, which
teaches some wisdom, however much it
is lost after power is regained.
The Republicans have had leisure for
repentance for legislative sins and to
form virtuous resolves of what they will
do if the should again control the Legis-
lature, and they will promise much in
the campaign this year. However sim
cere they may be they will at least
match Republican promise with Demo-
cratic performance, and very to the dis
advantage of the latter-NeaOdrE Star.
News of the approval by the Cover
nor of the regular bill carrying appro-
priations for the fiscal year 19l4-15 was
accompanied by the brief statement that
the total of 81, 645, O51 lis slightly in ex-
cess of last years" The total carried in
the regular appropriation bill passed last
year, as it is printed in the volume of
laws of 1913, is Sc, 726, 625. 2S; SO that the
total carried in the new law is $918,42
greater-nearly million dollars, and
this only slightly in excessp'
We have grown SO reckless and extra
VACANT that million dollars seems like
trifie nowadays. In 1894 the total dis
bursements for the year were only 81, $780,
255.22, or slightly in excess" of doubl-
ing the trifling increase in the budget
over last. At the rate the Legislature
and the State departments and institu-
tions are going, it will not be long before
the yearly disbursements run up to $780,,
100000, or an increase of nearly one
thousand per cent. in twenty years
Trenton Times.