The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-07-03
Random Remarks

Tomorrow law will go into effect
which requires employers to take out
insurance for the benefit of their work
men. Farm hands and household SER
wants are supposed to be exempt from
the provisions of this law, but up to
the present time it has been quite diff.
cult to get any one who can give an
intelligent idea of what must be done.
On one side we are told to practice
economy and conserve every dollar
that it may be used for the benefit of
the people of this and other countries
in order that America may be saved
from the destruction which is assured
II Germany is not conquered. Then
on the other hand the people are
sought daily to contribute to some
cause which is worthy and toward the
/ end just mentioned. It may not be
popular to take exception to anything
that will please the public, but even at
the expense of popularity we cannot
help saying that it seems extremely
out of place to be agitating Halloween
festivities this year. Contributions for
this purpose will be sought and money
will be expended that-could be used to
better advantage before the winter
closes. 1t cost a considerable sum
for last years carnival, and the ex-
pense will not be any lighter this year.
Republican leaders in New Jersey,
Governor Edge among them, are per-
fectly willing that Democratic organi-
cation directors shall make local option
the issue of the elections in this Safe
next fall, il that is the desire and the
intention of Joseph P. Tumulty and
other minority party lieutenants not
directly affiliated with the liquor in
| terestS.
In thus disclosing their acquiescence
the Republican chieftains are not dis.
paraging local option as principle or
campaign policy. 1t may be that
the Republicans themselves shortly
will have something to say upon that
subject in the way of a party pro-
nouncement. They are firmly con-
WINGED, however. that there is no issue
in the State quite so certain to split
the Jersey Democracy up and down
and across and back as a proposal that
the party shall go into allegiance with
the anti-saloonists.
This conviction is based in part upon
pointed statements made last winter
by James Nugent, the Democratic boss
in Essex, when he fastened back from
the Bahamas to line up the Democratic
machine men in the Legislature
against the Hates home rule bill, which
proposed to permit cities to decide
whether or not they should have
saloons. The Democrats killed the
Hates bill, which, without Nugent'a
opposition, would have gone through.
Hudson, solidly Democratic for years,
always has been implacably opposed
to local option. Right or wrong, the
Republicans maintain that the Demo-
cratic sinews of war in the last cam
paign in Essex and Hudson came al
most entirely from the saloons and the
brewery interests.
Whether the Democrats respond to
Secretary Tumulty's plea or not, it is
exceedingly likely that a local option
bill with referendum will be on the
fall campaign. Governor Edge would
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passed last winter.
So Secretary Tumulty will have to
act quickly if it is his thought to make
capital out of local option at the sx-
pense of the Edge administration.
Children Cry
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