The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-02-09
The Legislature.

state comptroller StaCe-
ment as to the condition of the treas
ury reveals the startling legacy OF
debt left to the Republican majority
by Democratic administrations since
1910. The State Comptroller esti-
mates that there will be a deficit of
81, 400, 900 at the end of the present
fiscal year and there is every reason
to believe that this estimate is con-
sentative.
In 1910 a succession of Republican
administrations turned the State over
to the Democrats under the leadership
of Woodrow Wilson with a free bal
ance of $1,6OO,0O0 Adding this sur
plus to the deficit now announced by
Comptroller Edwards of $2,4O0, 900 it
will be found that the mcompetency
and laundering of Democratic admin
istrations cost the state 100000
more than it's income in five years. 1t
would be almost unbelievable were
it not for the figures which are au-
thentic and cannot be questioned.
The people of New Jersey have cal
led upon the Republican party to play
the part of Moses and lead them out
of this wilderness of debt. The task
imposed is a heavy one-its difficulties
being greatly increased by the general
industrial depression prevailing
throughout the land because of Demo-
cratic misrule in Washington that has
been even more disastrous than that
in this state. With the manufacture
ing interests of New Jersey crippled
by the lear free trade tariff policy
forced or the nation by President Will
son and with the people staggering
under a burden of taxes imposed to
make up a national deficit there can
be no question as to the serious ma
ture of the problem of meeting the adj
mitted deficit of $2,50O,O00.
One year ago the Legislature, with
its aimlessly fioundering Democratic
majority, had just completed the
fourth week of the session. Its eff
forts had resulted in the passage of
less than a half dozen bills and the
people of the entire state were dis
gustedly asking whats the matter
with the Legislature? 2" Last week
the present session concludedit its fourth
week under a Republican administra-
tiop and about fo~+x 6,vo LII. Loro
been passed. No better illustration
could be had of the difference between
Democratic incompetency and Repub-
lican efficiency.
The passage of the Woman's Suf-
frage amendment in the House and
the hearings on the Economy and Eff
ficiency and Local Option bills were
the events of the week that attracted
the most lively interest. That the
Suffrage amendment bill would pass
was assured by the fact that both par
ties were pledged to it in their plat
forms. 1t is equally certain to pass
in the Senate and be signed by Gov
ernor Fielder. This will bring the
question before the voters in a special
election in September.
In the hearing on the Economy and
Efficiency bills, former AssemblymaD|
McDermott of Hudson county made a
bitter partisan attack ON Labor Com
missioner Bryant that fell fiat in the
midst of the warm tributes of praise
that were showered on the Colonel by
persons representing all classes in
nearly every portion of the state.
The opposition to the economy and
efficiency bill that consolidates the bu-
reau of labor and the bureau of labor
statistics seems to center on the fear
that Col. Bryant will not be retained.
Those who spoke at the hearing made
The work of the commissioners their
theme and there appeared to be
1 statewide demand that so far as
Col. Bryant is concerned, at any rate,
should be no change in the con-
of the affairs of labor by the
state.
Richard C. Jenkinson, of Newark,
or the manufacturers urged that the
labor Department be left out of the
proposed consultations. Colonel
5ryant is the best man in the country
or head of the department because he
has satisfied the laboring people and ,
'atisfles the manufacturers" The l
lext speaker was Edison Lott, of the
casualty Company, and he was fol- '
owed by Charles Gillen, of the New
rk board of trade. Assemblyman f
rank A. LaPointe, of Hudson, rep- v
esenting the National Association of Y
tationary Engineers and the Elec-s
,ical Contractors Association. said tt
: spoke for $500 employees when he I
rged the retention of Commissioner q
ryant. Another manufacturer, W. W
Saunders, of Phillipsburg, said Pr
,lonel Bryant is satisfying all. Mrs. 10