Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-19
GOVERNOR SILzER DECLINES
TO CALL LEGISLATURE
CONTINUED from Page u

THE end is in sight notwithstand-
ing the dilatory tactics of those who
are willing to inconvenience the pub
lie and defy the state In order to
secure the adoption of a proposed
'plan,'" said the governor.
The governors letter in full fol-
lows:
IL have your letter of September
IA, requesting me to call an extra
| session Of the Legislature to enact
some more or less underlined and
untiring legislation to remedy the
| situation caused by the failure OF
| the Public Service Railway Company
to operate it's cars.
1 appreciate your kind. offices, and
your desire to get results. but for
| obvious reasons, 1 cannot see my way
clear at this time to accede to your
request.
instead Of throwing this matter
further into politics, I prefer IL pos
sible to take it out and pursue the
more orderly course of the law,
| There has already been too much OF
politics and much loose talk.
AS Chancellor Walker has said,
'aThe condition with which we are
dealing is appalling. I have never
known anything like it to exist In
this state.
ITO say that there is ne court
competent to give needed prompt re-
lief, is to assert that there Is a de-
feet in the law itself.
1.-THE duty of this corporation
must be performed or its privileges
and franchises must be surrendered
lIt cannot assume to discharge its
duty to the public on and off,"
Justice must prevail and oui
courts will see hat it does Some
times judicial progress seems slow
but this is necessarily so, since justice
gives both sides a hearing, not ont
alone.
Just now we are finding out il tbs
state of New Jersey is sovereign OF
whether a corporation to whom the
State gave life and a right to the
use CT its streets, is greater than the
state itself. I have no doubt OF the
result.
AS I said in my letter directing
the attorney general to proceed
''The trolley company has our streets
because it promised to run cars or
them. When it says it will not rur
them ana cannot run them, then II
must return our streets so that We
may make other provision for the
great travelling public"
AS soon as the state, through its
courts. IN an orderly and legal man
ner establishes IFS sovereignty, those
who have chosen to defy it, viii
come to their senses
The great riding public has borne
its inconvenience in a truly sports
manlike manner. l am sure 1t will bt
glad to know that the state Is still
supreme. and that there is an END
to the tactics of those who have beer
responsible fer the Inconvenience.
If we cnee surrender the state'i
sovereignty to a private corporation
Heaven help the travelling public.
Temporary inconvenience. and
loss of business, must not also caus'
US TO lose cur heads. for a grea
living principle is at stake; we can
not afford to surrender
After the cars are again running
and the supremacy of the state /
established. then plans" may b.
brought forward and discussed.
The discussion of plans" how
ever, is out of place during the tim,
that the public is Inconvenience, TO
it is too prone to accept anything
at such a time, and be forever sorr,
thereafter, and especially so when /
finds that it has made a bargain
(which it cannot afterward correct.
When the public mind is at ease
it can better discuss plans" an,
reach saner conclusions.
The end is in sight notwithstand
ing the dilatory tactics OF those VIII,
are willing to inconvenience the pub
lie and defy the state in order to Sc
cure the adoption of a proposed
"n1ans"