The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-07-06
Press Comments.

evidence in favor of Secretary of Com
merce William b. Wilson's prediction
of q great decrease in immigration fol
lowing the war. Industrial conditions
and strict exclusion laws create differ
ent situation from that following pre-
vlous continental wars, and these should
prove detrimental factors.
Yet, ii Mr.. Wilson'S prediction hits
the nail squarely on the head, it will
not diminish the necessity, which the
war has emphasized, of assimilating the
aliens already here. There are about
15.000, 900 of them, eighty per cent. of
whom have come from non-English
speaking countries. OF these, seventy
per cent. arrive between the ages of four
teen and forty-four years. TWENTY-FIVE
per cent. of the total is probably an out
side figure of the number passing through
our only national institution for Ameri-
canizing them-the public schools.
We have fine phrase to express our
duty in this direction, 1.-THE Americaniza-
ton OF the immigrant" 1t should have
specific meaning for every citizen, but
unhappily 1t does not. Except for few
whos for altruistic, industrial or other
reasons, have given special attention to
the subject, it is q good deal of an alb
straction.-Ne0ork Nesos.
Judge Boyle's regret that the law did
not empower him to sentence law wife
deserter to the stone pile will be shared
by great many persons who think that
the punishment should fit the crime.
ANY able bodied man who refuses to work,
deliberately shirks the duty which he
owes to his family and to the community
and should be com PEELED to labor on q
stone pile or elsewhere, and the depen-
nrla oh
wage he earns.
Had the Legislature passed Assembly
man Pancoast's bill providing for work
on the ''stone pile" by that class of recre-
ant husbands, how many husbands
would have ever reached the '.stone
pile ?'' 1t is almost safe to assume.
judging from the scenes witnessed in
the desertion Courts almost anv time
such cases are brought up, that nine out
of every ten long-suffering wives would
withdraw the charges against these
images OF men, rather than see them 90
to jail or to breaking stone in a county
workhouse.-CdDaden Post Telegram.
The new principal Of the Manual
Training and Industrial School for Col
Ored Youth at Bordentown will do not
only the State but the students of that
institution q valuable service if he sue.
ceeds in realizing his expressed purposes
The school is not intended to furnish
college education. Its name is sufficient
evidence Of its real design. Agriculture.
carpentry and plumbing for the bows.
and domestic arts, dressmaking and mill
llnery for the girls, are to be the main
vocational studies, together with the
elements of good literary education
such as is given the great majority of
white pupils. The Bordentown institute
has been q source Of anxiety for MANY
years. Efforts to popularize it among
the colored people OF the State have been
only partially successful. Strange meth |
DDS have been adopted to get enough
students to keep the classes going and
there have been annoying and detri-
mental squabbles from time to time. I'll
the new principal avoids all these and
can get his ideas of proper training |
fair try-out. the school may be made to
do good and valuable service. Tuskegee
and not Princeton or Yale is the model |
Tor the Bordentown school. Vocational |
rather than professional courses are the |
ones most widely open to negro youths
at the present time, even as they are to |
white youths. News.
1t will be recalled that the 'shieh cost
OF living" was the most potent influence |
in the Democratic campaign of 1912.
The ubiquitous" tariff was Responsible
for high prices. There wasn't any doubt
about it. 1t was proven time and time
again, by line upon line, figure upon
figure.
1t was only necessary to destroy the
tariff or tie it down, and the cost of
living would be Immediately and auto
matically reduced, everybody would be
prosperous and everybody wonld be
happy. In the inelegant but eloquent
language OF the street, 1t listened good
and they put it over, with some outsidet
help.
As Uncle Joe Cannon delights to sav:I,
The proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing of it" Everybody knows that prices
have not declined since the tariff was
Every one knows that it costs
at least as much to buy beefsteak, or
sack of flour, or suit of clothes. as it |
did in 1912, but document recently
issued under the title, Retail Prices, y ,
blythe Democratic administration. shows
that the cost of living is really higher
now than it was then.
Nor can it be argued that the war is
The cause, for the proof is presented that
prices in general were higher at the be-
ginning OF the war than they were !
before the present administration went !,
INTO Office. The average prices of fifteen
articles of food, representing the neces- Ii
;aries OF life, are compared by fixing the
average price of all for 1918 at 100. Upon
his basis the average prices of these S
articles in 1912 was 974, and in 1914 was
o. The average for July, 1914, before
he war began. was 1923. n
These figures are not to be denied. nor
re the conclusions to be drawn from q
hem. They prove again the fact that $,
he tariff has relatively no influence
znatever upon prices to the consumer. G.
he Payne-Aldrich tariff did not cause In
ugh prices. The Underwood tariff has
OF lowered them. We get no joy from
aus. IN the contrary, we sorrow that it
so. But it is q lesson that must hs M
armed, and it is not TO be TAUGHT hv
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