Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-19
ORGANIZATIONS
AID FISH FIGHT
Continued from First pase3


on this subject, in which the cam
paien of The Star was commended
and Endorsed. was under the auspices
of the Acquackanonk Grange, Pa
irons of Husbandry, of Passaic and
Bergen counties. Another we'll at
tended meeting last week was held
by the First Ward Republican Club
of Paterson and a very important
one was held last Friday night by
the Forum Of Passaic city.
Many Women at Meetings.
Atan three meetings former Assem-
blyman Pikaart was the principal
speaker No other subjects were con-
sidered, and at the Grange and the
Forum meetings, which were largely
attended by women, the questions
asked of and answered by Mr.. Pikaart
were numerous He told them about
the efforts of this paper to secure
cheaper food fish for the people, and
of the bill now before the Legislature
to create a fish commission to handle
the catch, and he brought forth cheers
when he illustrated to them the
amount Of money that the state
would derive if the bill becomes a
law. while at the same time the fish
ermen would receive better prices than
>
the people would be paying less. This
would he triple benefit, said the
speaker. First, the fishermen would
receive a better price for their catch,
the people would save at least nifty
per cent in cost and the State would
receive a half million dollars as a tax
He also told them that other states
are assuming control of their natural
resources and turning them into
he go. - Tn n N o.
ton as an example as the State that
derives enough money from its oyster
industry to pay for the care of an
institution the like of which costs New
Jersey S100 900 annually He described
the method employed in controlling
the oyster industry and pointed to the
fact that New Jersey had the legal
right to assume the same manage
ment and control over the marine fish
cries and to derive from them a
proper income for State uses.
One of his telling points was that
which The Star has featured on more
than one occasion and that was the
offer that stands today by a body of
men who are willing to pay The Star
hundreds of thousands of dollars an
for the privilege of acting as
middle men, receiving the fish from
the licensed pound net men, paying
them more than they receive today
or have received in ten years and
selling the fish to the people at half
the price they pay today.
These and similar statements kept
the audience in an attitude of atten-
ton at all these meetings, and after
Mr.. Pikaart finished he had to an
swer questions for fully an hour.
Mr.. Pikaart was telling a group of
about these meetings
at Trenton last Tuesday when Sena-
tor Austen Colgate, of Essex county, |
told about the fish question as 1t APP
plies to Sea Girt.
The senator is a summer resident |
at Sea Grit. and while there are sew
eral pound nets off the shore the own |
ers do not sell their catch or any
part of 1t to the people but ship it |
to the New York markets, and from
there it Is shipped back to the fish |
dealers In Sea Girt.
The same thing applies to other re- |
sorts along the Atlantic coast and !
now the people are beginning to |
realize that they are being duped. |
They see that a group of men called |
a fish trust by The Star. are con- |
trolling the food fish of New Jersey, |
a condition that cannot be reached |
by the "SeVen Sisters law although |
these laws were passed in hopes that
the high cost of living would get n
death blow. They see that they not
only pay the fish trust profit but
they pay the railroads for taking the
fish to New York and pay them for
bringing them back again.
1t Is safe to say that the people !
along the sea shore counties will |
favor the suggestions of The Star as
now setforth in the bill before the |
Legislature to give the State entire |
control of the food fish. This is the |
bill on which a public hearing will be
held in the Assembly chamber next |
afternoon at 3 o'clock The
hearing will probably bring out many
new facts concerning the food fish
question and it will also be the means
Of showing the members of the AS
semblv way whereby the State can
derive an income of 100000 a year
making 1t unnecessary to attach the
public school funds in order to pre-
vent deficit in the State.