The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-10-20
Press Comments.
THE COMING CAMPAIGNERs.

TIE COm1NG CAmPAlGNERS.
Advices from Washington convey the
intelligence that no less than three full
fiedged members of President Wilson's
Cabinet are to stump New Jersey in be-
half of Congressional candidates who
have secured their nominations through
profession of allegiance to President Will
son and his policies. 1t is to be sincerely
hoped by all true Republicans that Will
lam Jennings Bryan will be included in
the trio for the Nebraskans eloquence is
of quality that is peculiarly compatible
with Republican success. Whoever the
spell-binders from high places may be
they will have their work cut out for
them from the start in their efforts to
convince hard-headed Jerseymen that
the Wilson policies have had benefi-
cent effect upon the industries of their
state, or have brought about the least
tendency towards ameliorating the high
cost of living. 1t is fundamentally nee
essary that the President should be en-
dorsed at the coming election in his
home state, if he is to meet with no
formidable opposition for denomination
two years hence, and neither wind nor
money is to be spared in an effort to ac-
complish this desired result. So it will
be well to prepare for plethora of
honeyed words from these silver-tongued
orators, who will try to convince their
hearers that black is white, and to i'm
press upon them the trouble throughout
the length and breadth of the state and
nation is either greatly exaggerated, or
due to causes other than the whitening
effects of the Wilson U Underwood tariffs.
But mere words no longer suffice in deal
ing with the voter of average intelli-
gence. He is concerned with condition
as he finds them, rather than with
theories, and while the gentlemen who
constitute the Presidents official family
are assured of the respect due their ex-
allied posts wherever they may go, it is
not believed their efforts will have any
material effect ON the vote cast Novem-
beri3-Aaontic city Press.
How to SECURE GOOD BUSINESS LAWS
The speakers before the convention of
the National Association of Stationers.
who declared that business legislation
should be framed by men who know
something about business were not un-
reasonable. 1t is as impossible for one
who knows nothing of the processes of
digestion to prescribe for dyspepsia as
for one who knows nothing of trade to
make laws to govern it. Yet it does not
necessarily follow that the man who
knows nothing of anything save his own
business can draft business law that
would be fair to men engaged in other
trades. A business administrator" has
frequently proved more unsatisfactory
than a politician, and men with no legis-
lative experience have made worse
botch of lawmaking than political ex-
perts who have learned from business
men what was needed and then framed
the proper statutes to cover the case.
The plague from which the country is
suffering is the multiplicity of reform
ers' and 'uplift'' enthusiasts who wish
to enact everything they call ''social JUS
tice" into the laws. In their eagerness
to bring about the millennium in week
they refuse to take the trouble to learn
anything of existing conditions. AS a
result, they upset business without COM
pensating advantage, either in Justice
or in uplift. If sincere lawmakers will
begin their work with the belief that
business is lawful and the average bust
ness men are honest, it does not matter
much whether they had their prelimin-
cry training in the counting room, the
law school OF the newspaper office They
will accept the honest advice of the men
whose occupation they propose to regu-
late and refrain from penalizing the in
nocent and long-standing customs of
trade simply because some abuse occa-
sionally rises under them, or on account
OF perfervid desire to force change
Pu bic Ledger.