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che rnorrl$ County Chronicle
and the Morris County Standard,
Morristown, N. J.
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The Camden Courier says in regards
to a Trenton correspondent of a New
York paper which is continually mis
representing affairs in this State, “The
most caustic and unsparing assailant
of the ‘ regulars ’ and the ‘ machine ’
in the Republican party, is an em
ploye in one of the State departments
at Trenton, whose chief is one of the
most prominent leaders of the Regular
Republican organization in the State.”
The Trenton correspondent’s news
paper is among the most insignificant
of the New York press and just about
his size, very small all around, but he
seems to suit Col. Sam. Dickinson,
Secretary of State, in whose depart
ment he is holding down a desk when
be has time to spare from hunting up
defamatory partisan ' matter for his
daily screed in the newspaper he
serves. It is remarkable, however,
that the powers that be in Trenton
should keep on the pay roll a number
of men with penny-a-line newspaper
attachments which enable them to
play into the hands of the political
enemy. That is the anomalous con
dition which surprises most men, who
believe that ‘ Ingratitude is the un
pardonable sin.’ ”
The North Jersey Street Railway
Company has just sent to City Con
troller’ Bacheller, of Newark, a check
for $108,332.25, which represents five
per cent, on the gross receipts of the
cempany in the limits of Newark dur
ing the past year. It was a little more
than thirteen years ago that the ordin
ance was passed requiring the trolley
companies to pay over five per cent, of
their gross receipts in return for the
privileges granted. The first year the
city received but $8,330.40, which was
increased to $46,702.91 in 1895. Since
then the percentage has gradually in
creased until this year it amounted to
moie than $108,000, or $11,414.24 more
than in 1905. The total for the thir
teen years is close to $970,000, and there
is a contest now on between the city
and the company as to whether the
percentage is to reckoned on the track
mileage or the car mileage basis. If
the decision favors the city there will
be a substantial increase in the yearly
receipts from this source.
New Jersey may not have a chance
to hear and see William Jennings
Bryan this year, unless former Senator
James Smith, Jr., the leaders of the
True Democracy and some of the mem
bers of the Democratic League can
get together and arrange some mu
tually satisfactory plan for sharing
the honors of chaperoning the Ne
braska politician and statesman. The
whole trouble is over that announce
ment of Mr. Smith that he had receiv
ed a letter from Mr. Bryan accepting
an invitation to come to Newark, Sep
tember 1st, as his guest, or under his
auspices.
When the leaders of the True Demo
cracy and some of the members of the
Democratic League of Essex county
read Smith’s announcement they im
mediately started out to prevent the
Nebraskan’s visit being used to give
indorsement to the Smith leadership
and the regular party machine.
The twenty-fourth annual general
conference for Christian workers at
East Northfield, closed its first week
Saturday night and has made a new
record for summerconferences in every
department of the work. For the en
tire week new guests have continued
to pour into the town so that it was
estimated that nearly half a thousand
more people are in attendance than at
the corresponding time last year. In
the number of the public meetings
and in the general attendance the
same showing has resulted. Every
speaker is sure of a large audience al
though many visitors attend only a
few meeting a day.
We are informed that the bribery
offer the particulars of which were
brought out at the board of aldermen
meeting last week, is ancient history,
the event happening several years ago.
This accounts for the apparent lack of
interest on the part of the town
Solons, who as a rule are jealous of the
good repute of the town. It is hard
enough io follow a warm trail of that
kind, and one several years old is out
of the question. We are also glad to
learn that there is no foundation for
any suspicion on the part of town of
ficers and whatever is done is with the
best intentions and best judgment of
the doers.
The “Rtitherford Republican”
mentions a rumor that the Bergen
County delegation to the congression
al convention will be asked to support
State Seuator Edmund W. Wakelee as
the county’s choice for Congress. If
the nomination should be made the
Newark “News” can repeat its experi
ment of two years ago when it sent
thousands of copies into Bergen coun
ty to defeat Mr. Wakeiee and doubled
his majority.
THE TAX VUEsTIOJi.
“ The Newark News remarks that
‘ the equal tax question is becoming
acute ail over the State, now that the
majority of the assessors have made
their report as to valuations.’ It is
indeed—more it is a burning question?
and causing a lively kick even among
the profesional clamorers for equal
taxation, who are anxious to saddle
part of their dues upon others,” says
the Camden “Courier.” To be sure
they are kicking without cause, for the
indications are that in all taxing dis
tricts where the assessments have been
honestly made and reported there will
be rio increase in taxes because of a re
duced tax rate, except in the cases of
those who have shirked their proper
taxes through absurdly low valuations.
Every citizen who has been conscien
tiously calling for equal taxation
system will Cheerfully lend his support
to the new law and accept the results.
For partisan or factional political ef
fect there are .persons in every com
munity who are opposed to equal taxa
tion of all property, for if the law
should prove effective they will lose all
their political capital. Notwithstand
ing the successful efforts of Republi
can administrations to lighten the
burden of taxation on the people of
New Jersey, there continues to be a
coterie of demagogues who, from per
sonal motives, will not cease their
shouts for equal taxation until they
can free themselves from any tax what
ever by attempting to compel corpora
tions to support the municipal govern
ments as well as the State government
and the schools. That is a grafting
proposition, closely alllSdTddownright
robbery, but the “ new idea ” leaders’
mental obliquity refuses to recognize
the fact. It is a difficult problem to
solve, but the Republicans have made
and are making every effort to secure
taxation that will bear equally and
justly on every interest, individually
or corporate.
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The; Bureau of Manfactures in Wash
ington has made some statistics re
garding manufactures in Philadelphia
that are interesting. It is stated that
in 1900 the wages paid amounted to
$94,000,389, and in 1905 to $107,640,307,
an increase of 13.6 per cent. In 1900
the value of the products was $519,981,
812, and in 1905 it was $591,380,078, an
increase of 13.7 per cent. In 1900 the
capital invested was $445,725,392, and
in 1905 it had increased to $520,178,654,
or 16.7 per cent. It is somewhat re
markable that there was only one-tenth
of one per cent, increase in products
over the increase in wages paid, when
there was an increase of capital invest
ed of 16.7 per cent. The increase in
wages paid, it will be observed, keeps
close to the increase in value of pro
ducts, a sure indication that labor is
sharing fairly in the continued pros
perity enjoyed by the manufacturers
of Philadelphia, fo maintain this re
lation it is necessary that labor should
zealously endeavor to retain the pres
ent administration-of the government
in power by voting few . Republican
nominees for the Legislature and for
Congress. That is the issue before the
voters of New Jersey—to retain the
legislative power of State and Nation
in the hands of those whose fidelity to
the American policy of protection of
home industry cannot be questioned.
Superintendent Smith, of the •
State Motor Vehicle Bureau, is be- '
coming anxious concerning the fines
imposed upon violators of the automo- 1
bile law by justices of the peace
throughout the State. The law pro
vides that every cent of the fines col
lected most be paid to the State Road
Commissioner, to be used in repairing
the roads of the counties, and, not
withstanding both Commissioner Hut
chinson and Superintendent Smith are
aware that the fines have been impos
ed, only about $100 have reached the
State House. Is It possible the jus
tices are following up tlieir old habit
of pocketing fine and costs, without
respect for the law’s mandates. The
story goes that the justices and their
constables are not so alert as they were
under the old law, and that fewer ar
rests of auto scorchers and violators of
the Frelinghuysen act are being made
and recorded.
ii .ioU'J'’’ '
Farmer Orator Martine, who
ran for Congress in this district two
years ago, is evidently getting ready
to make another nfh. He took a day
off on Monday and attended the first
ball game he ever witnessed. He
made a speech after the game in which
he explained that he had been too busy
with politics all his life to take an in
terest in ball. A hearer “ butted in ”
by suggesting tnat he.had done a good
business in the bawling game, to which
Mr. Martine agreed.
The County Tax Equalization Board
have some work to do judging from the
figures returned by the assessors of the
some of the municipalities. As the
board decided to do business in a dig
nified manner President Cahill was
made the victim of an unwarranted
and unjust attack by a local newspaper
from which the “ Bulletin ” makes a
garbled quotation and draws an unjust
conclusion with regard to Senator Hil
lery.
Georoe L. Record, late counsel for
the Riparian Commission, has return
ed to Jersey City from his vacation
trip to Maine, and promises to explain,
the alleged grafting In illegal fpes as
soon as he can find out what the
charges are. Mr. Record is entitled
to a hearing and should have, it as
speedily as possible. He says the fees
he received were “ legal and honor
able,” and came to him “ with the
knowledge and consent of the commis
sion.”
THE K1.PAKIAS COMMISSION.
It may be as charged the t the pur
pose of investigating the work of the
Riparian Commissioners is simply to
make political capital, but it certainly
was needed. From eight to ten thou
sand doll a re a year is paid by the State
for the care of its riparian interests,
and the investigation so far shows that
the duties are performed in a most
perfunctory manner.
At the request of the committee
State Treasurer Frank O. Briggs had
prepared a list of all arrearages of ripa
rian licenses. Fifty-one such arrear
ages have been placed in the hands of
the Attorney-General for collection.
The aggregate amount due on them is
$98,194 Among those in arrears is
George L. Reoord, et als., for $379. In
December, 1894, when Mr. Record
ceased to be the Counsel of the board
his arrearages were $3,608.50.
At the hearing on Wednesday, John
C. Payne, secretary of the Riparian
Board, was the only witness. The ex
amination was mostly in regard to
George. L. Record's connection with
the board from. 1890 to 1905. Mr. Payne
thought Mr. Record was made counsel
because of services he had rendered to
the Democratic party, to which he
then belonged. He got $1,500 a year
salary, and his duties consisted in look
ing over and often preparing abstracts
of title in case of grants or leases, fie
was also a regular attendant at the
meetings, ready and willing to give ad
vice or prepare opinions. He did not
prepare many opinions, however. The
witness thought about two a year#was
the average. Mr. Record most of his
term occupied offices with the board
and many of his personal expenses in
connection with his private law prac
tice were paid in whole or in part by
the board, the witness said. In addi
tion to his regular salary, Mr. Record
received fees, ranging from $10 to $35,
for the examination or preparation of
abstracts of titles and other papers.
There was no law for this, Mr. Payne
said, nor was it authorized by the
board by any resolutions. In fact, he
did not believe the members of the
board were aware of the fact. Accord
ing to the witness, when a grant or
lease had been made by the board Mr.
Record would instruct the secretary to
send two bills to the grantee. One
was to the order of the State Treas
urer for the amount of the grant on
the first rental in the lease and the
other was to George L. Record for his
services in connection with the titles,
etc. When the checks arrived, one
was forwarded to the State Treasurer
and the other was given to Record.
Payne said that he had made a compu
tation, and that from 1895 to the ter
mination of his office, about seven
years, Record had received about $7,
000. While the bills were sent out by
the secretary of the board on the offi
cial letter head and were copied in the
letter book, none of the board was ever
aware of it, Payne swore, and several
the members confirmed him privately.
Senator Minturn, of Hudson county,
is fully convinced that New Jersey’s
method of disposing of riparian rights
is unconstitutional and at variance
with the Federal Constitution. In
his inquiries during the- investigation
Mr. Minturn has been persistently
leading up to this issne. If his theory
is correct, even in part, such a ruling
by the courts would probably have a
very disturbing effect, as the riparian
leases and grants disposed of by the
State are now worth to their owners
many millions of dollars.
At a subsequent hearing Mr. Pane
testified that when Mr Record and
the commission separated the former
sequested the furniture of the office
claiming that he had paid for it, but
refused to show his check book. Mr.
Payne had secured Record’s check
book and presented photographs of
the stubs to substantiate his state
ments. _ •
Supreme Court Justices J Franklin
Fort, Trenchard and Reed, have ren
dered decision on the excise law ap
plying to the removal of the screens,
in the supreme court. The decision
said in part:
“There is no inherent right in a
citizen to sell intoxicating liquors by .
retail; it is not a privilege of a citizen
of the State or the United States. It
may be entirely prohibited by state
legislation or limited in its evils.
“ The police power is inherent in the
several states and was left with them
under our federal system of govern
ment, as the constitution was origin
ally ratitied by the states, and the
fourteenth amendment has not chang
ed this in any way.
“ One engaging in the sale of liquor
at retail does so subject to the right of
the state, under its police power, to
terminate the business at its pleasure.
There is no contract relation between
the state and the licensed retail liquor
dealer. He must conform his business
to the state and municipal regulations
lawfully enaoted.
The otherslde of the street lighting
question is presented in this issue and
oitizens of the town should give both
due consideration, and by all means
should carefully compare the report of
the committee with the criticims and
judge between them. As this matter is
to be an issue in thecoming municipal
election aspirants for office especially
should weigh the matter carefully and
be ready to give their opinion on the
subject. ________
The idea of all Republicans contri
buting one dollar to the campaign
fund is a great one, but the contribu
tors should n‘ot labor under the delu
sion that they have done their whole
duty when they have anted up. They
should remember that a vote in the
ballot box is worth two dollars in the
contribution basket.
A Tbknton physician has advanced
the theory that badness in children
can be cured by a surgical operation.
This may be true, but we imagine the
average parent will trust to the slip
per rather than the scapel to reform
his children.
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The Hudson Observer, which is the
most vigorous advocate of Record says:
“ Thus far, in an effort to smirch
Record, who was the Board’s employe
the Committee of Inquiry has brought
out some damaging facts about the
Board itself, which has been long sus
pected.
“ State riparian land seems to have
been sold to favored grantees for a
mere song. Immense sums have been
lost to the School Fund through these
surrenders.
“ Testimony as to these transactions
is not yet complete. It may be shown
later that there was uo positive dis
honesty, but it is apparent that at the
least Senator Mlnturn’s demand that
no more of the riparian domain shall
be parted with in fee will be sustained.
“ Meanwhile it is to be hoped that
the inquiry will be continued, irrespec
tive of who it hits or hurts. Enough
has been disclosed already to show that
this Board ought to be abolished. It
should be added injustice to Governor
Stokes that he has twice recommended
to the Legislature that its power be
abridged.”
It is but fair to the present Board
to say that all the "damaging facts ”
disclosed relate to the old Riparian
Commission, and not to the present
body, which was named by Governor
Murphy,and which,apparently prompt
ly proceeded to adjust riparian condi
tions.
Summit Trolley Ordluauce.
The Summit trolley ordinance con
tains the following provisions: The
ordinance grants the company the
right to cross Springfield avenue,Orch-:
ard street, Ashwood avenue and Den-!
man Place at grade. It requires the;
company to widen Park avenue by 15
feet, the city to condemn the land re
quired In the event of the company
being unable to reach an agreement
with the owners. The period stated '
in the franchise is thirty years, and ;
the compensation to the city provided
for is to be live per cent, of the gross j
earnings with the proviso that ip no |
year shall the amount paid to the city j
be less than the following: $200 per j
year for the first five years; $400 peri
year for the second five years; $600 per
year for the third; $800 per year for
the fourth ; $1,000 per year for the fifth
and $1,200 per year for the sixth term
of five years. The stipulated fare
within the city limits or to Milburn or
to Springfield is five cents and six tick
ets are to be sold for twenty-five cents.
The fare to Elizabeth is placed at 15
cents. The terminus of the line is to
be on Park avenue just east of Maple
street and the company is required to
run its cars on a half-hour schedule.
Speed within the city is restricted to
twelve miles per hour.
Proctor’s Theatre.
Continuing in his policy of giving
tiie patrons of his Newark Theatre
headline attraction only, Mr. F. F.
Proctor seems to have outdone himself
fpr the week of August 20th. The
program is resolendant with the names
of vaudeville celebrities. Harry Pil
cer, one freshman, and his six sopho
more girls, give one of the prettiest
ensemble singing and dancing acts be
fore the public.
“Her Busy Day,’’ a breezy little
comedietta, will serve to introduce
Mr. E. R. Phillipsand his capable com
pany. The late star of Joe Weber’s
Broadway Stock Company, Marion
Carson, the girl prima-donna, will be
heard in her latest succeses. Ameri
ca’s foremost gymnasts, McLee and
Hill, will demonstrate their right to
this title by their clean cut and won
derful work on the mat. Happy Jack
Gardner, the black-face comedian, will
be here with.his horn and some brand
new songs and stories that will doubt
less be one of the most enjoyable fea
tures of this great bill. Jordan and
Harvey, a team of top-notch Hebrew
comedians; Delpliino and Delmore, in
a grotesque musical act; Wilbur Ames,
a Juggler of recognized ability, and an
entirely new set of animated pictures
tend to round out a program that
when coupled With the comforts of the
one theatre that is “ cooler than a
roof-garden,” is unbeatable for three
hours of solid Dleasure.
Card of Thunks.
. I take this method of expressing my
appreciation ftf the prompt and effi
cient services rendered by the mem
bers of the Morristown Fire Depart
ment at the burning of the Crane
building on Monday morning.
B. J. Chane.
Morristown, August 14, 1906.
HIJCD.
FULLER.—In Morristown, on Sun
day, August 12,1906, Emily Granger,
» widow of the late William H. Fuller,
of Suttield, Conn
RUNYON.—At Millington, August 7,
1906, after an illness of nearly three
years, Benjamin Runyon, aged 80
years.
“THE WHITE PLAGUE."
People Don’t Inherit Consumption
from their Parents.
The New Jersey Society for the Pre
vention of Tuberculosis was organized
in February, 1906. One of its chief
methods is the dissemination of in
formation concerning the cause and
prevention of tuberculosis. A series
of articles on this subject, of which
i the first is summarized below, has been
prepared. Tuberculosis may affect any
organ, but the lungs are most often
attacked. Here it is known.as.“con^
sumption.” Tuberculosis destroys
more than 4,000 people in this State
every year. If allowed to go on un
checked fully 300,000 of those now liv
ing in New Jersey must die from this
disease. The disease has been known
from the earliest history of medicine,
and its infectious nature is not a re
cent discovery. In Naples, in 1782,-a
royal decree required the disease to be
reported and quarantined: disinfection
was carried out after the death or re
covery of the patient. This correct
idea was gradually dispelled by the
false theory of heredity, which has cost
millions of human lives. One may in
herit a tendency to tuberculosis. Other
things being equal, a child with one
parent, and especially both, consump- i
tive, will be more apt to develop the
disease when exposed to the exciting
cause than a child whose parents have
been free from tuberculosis.
Experiments with cattle are instruc
tive. Calves separated from tuber
culous mothers at birth rarely develop
the disease if kept from other animals
affected with tuberculosis. The same
results may be obtained in the human
family. Bernheim gives the following
striking examples:
The family B, was composed of five
children, a father, who died of con
sumption, and a mother who was well.
The second child was removed from its
home immediately after its birth, rear
ed by a healthy nurse until he was 13
years of age, and then put in a school.
He is now a healthy man of 36. He
has never lived with his parents. The
four other children lived with their
parents. Two of them have died of
pulmonary tuberculosis, and the other
two have the disease in an advanced
stage. In another family of seven chil
dren the father and mother were both
tuberculous. The second and fifth
child were removed from their pa
rents and their brothers and sisters,
and never lived with them. The five
children reared by their parents have
all died of tuberculosis. The two who
were isolated have remained well, are
now both married and have fine
healthy children of their own.
This early and complete separation
of children and parents is seldom pos
sible, nor is it necessary, for if strict
precautions are taken by consumptive
parents to guard their off-spring
against infection in the home, they
wijl be in little danger of contracting
the disease. We may dismiss heredity,
then, by saying that it is simply a pre
disposing cause of tuberculosis, like
alcoholism, overcrowding, bad venti
lation, damp soil, etc. No one need
be disheartened because he has lost a
parent or near relative from consump
tion. He is, it Is true, slightly more
prone to the disease than others. But
this predisposition may be overcome
by simple hygienic measures, which
will at the same time protect him
against many other diseases due to
faulty habits of living.
In Summit forty-eight places were
reported to the Common Council at
the last meeting where sidewalks were
in need of repair and upon motion the
clerk was instructed to notify them te
put their sidewalks in good and satis
factory condition at once, under penal
ty of a fine of 810 for each week they
neglect to do so after due notice. There
are about two hundred and forty-eight
such places in Morristown.
The 30th N. J. Regiment Veteran
Volunteer Association will hold its
sixteenth annual reunion at Winfield
Scott Post rooms, Plainfield, N. J., on
Thursday, September 20,1906, at 11 a.
m. Note change of date.
Close Saturdays at 12 (Noon). Open Friday Evening
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