1898 



GIvEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



741 



ture does not give you a glimpse of the depth 

 and expanse away down under the surface. 

 Oftentimes beautiful caverns with coral-like 

 pillars open out away off under ground. 



HOW THE PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY THREW OFF 



THE SHACKLES, AND GOT THE UPPER 



HAND OF THE GAMBLERS AND 



WHISKY-MEN. 



In our issue for Feb. 1st, p. 104, I told some- 

 thing about what the Law and Order League 

 of Connecticut had succeeded in doing. At a 

 recent temperance meeting in our town, Rev. 

 J. C. Jackson, one of the lecturers of the Anti- 

 saloon League, gave an account of a similar 

 work in New Jersey. I was so much pleased 

 with it I asked him to give a brief outline of 

 that part of his talk. He has done so, and I 

 submit it below, hoping these illustrations 

 may be an encouragement for other States 

 where the good people are being snowed un- 

 der by outlaws and criminals. 



The case of the deliverance of New Jersey from cor- 

 rupt political rule is full of encouragement for all 

 those who are working in the cause of civic righteous- 

 ness. I refer to the popular uprising against the ring 

 of gamblers, ballot-box stuffers, and political corrup- 

 tionists who were overthrown there a few years ago. 

 For twenty-five years this ring had practically (polit- 

 ically speaking) owned New Jersey. 



By .stringent legislation New York had forced the 

 great majority of its race-track gamblers to emigrate 

 across the Hudson. The crusade again.st the Louisi- 

 ana Lottery had also resulted in many of the corrupt 

 creatures who had been connected with that and kin- 

 dred enterprises transferring their activities to Jersey 

 City. The chief " greengoods " operators of the Unit- 

 ed States generally made their headquarters at Tay- 

 lor's Hotel, a few numbers up Montgomery Street 

 from the Jersey City Ferry. The.se forces of evil, I 

 say, practically ruled the State. They elected legis- 

 latures who did their bidding; and if it was necessary 

 to manufacture a fraudulent majority, it was furnish- 

 ed by armed bands of thugs and repeaters from New 

 York who made the rounds of the polling-places in 

 Elizabeth. Paterson. and Jersey City toward evening 

 on election daj'S. There were polling-places where 

 no decent citizen dared show himself on election days 

 after 4 o'clock. The ring controlled the railroad in- 

 fluence in legislation. The race-track managers and 

 gamblers had set up their establishments at Gutten- 

 burg, Clifton, Linden, and at the great national race- 

 course at Monmouth, and, through the enormous 

 crowds attracted to the races, were able to secure the 

 favor of the railroad companies. 



There were ju.st two things in New Jersey the gam- 

 blers did not own. They did not own that grand in- 

 corruptible judiciary which has made " Jersey just- 

 ice " a .synonym for stern, unflinching integrity, 

 throughout the Union. And they did not own the 

 great masses of the honest common people of the 

 State, whose hearts were true to righteousness. After 

 our people had groaned under this tyranny for a quar- 

 ter of a century they began to take steps to throw 

 it off. 



On a certain day we went by thousands to Trenton 

 to beg the legislature to do .something to free us from 

 this thralldom. W^e went from all the churches, 

 from the boards of trade, reform organizations, cit- 

 izens' leagues, and the like. But (would you believe 

 it?) the .sergeant-at-arms of the legislature was the 

 creature of the race-track gamblers, and, with the 

 consent of the legislature, shut the doors and locked 

 them in our faces. We were denied the right of pe- 

 tition. 



Then the hearts of the sons of those old Jersey Rev- 

 olutionary fathers who had fought at Brandywine 

 and Trenton and Monmouth took fire with moral in- 

 dignation. They went home and .set New Jersey on 

 fire from Sussex to Cape May. We came out from our 

 little prayer-meetings (we had prayed long enough), 

 an i gathered in great mass-meetings in our largest 

 churches. I recollect that, in Jersey City, we met in 

 Dr. Scudder's great tabernacle, which held a vast 

 multitude of people. Over one side of the arch above 



the altar we put a black list of the legislators from 

 our town who had misrepre.sented us, and whom the 

 religious and moral people were to vote against at the 

 next election, and down the other side the names of 

 candidates for the legislature whom we knew we 

 could trust. We sent over for Dr. Parkhurst, from 

 New York, and he came across and sounded the kej'- 

 note for us one night. Then we went into a hot cam- 

 paign to revolutionize things for righteousness over 

 the State. Party lines vanished. There were no long- 

 er Democrats, Republicans, or Prohibitionists; it was 

 decency against indecency; morality against immo- 

 rality ; light against darkness ; God against Satan ; 

 heaven against hell. 



When election day was over we found that we had 

 swept the enemy before us everywhere, as one of 

 those Atlantic cyclones that comes up the Jer.sey, 

 coast in the fall clears every thing from its paths. 

 Oh how the people rejoiced ! At Paterson they climb- 

 ed to the top of the Orange Mountains, just back of 

 the city, where Washington's troops were encamped 

 during the Revolution, and there on the top of those 

 mountains, just where the old patriot army built its 

 bonfires of rejoicing the night after the conquered 

 British sailed out of New York for England at the 

 close of the Revolution, our people buiit bonfires. 

 They shined far out over the Atlantic, and the sailors 

 a hundred miles away on the ocean asked, " What's 

 going on over on the Jer.sey shore ? " Next day, when 

 they sailed into New York harbor, they were answer- 

 ed, " They have smashed the gamblers and ballot-box 

 stuffers in New Jersey." Then after our rejoicing 

 came the day of judgment for the tyrants who had so 

 long lorded it over us. In one day I saw thirtj'-two 

 (if 1 recall correctly) of the former political bosses 

 and ward managers and ballot-box .stuffers of Jersey 

 City brought into court and sentenced to heavy fines 

 and good long terms of imprisonment in the peniten- 

 tiary at Trenton. Their friends had brought up 

 hacks to take them down in state to the Pennsylvania 

 depot on the road. The judge saw the hacks, and 

 said, " None of that, Mr. .Sheriff; bring some open 

 street-cars up here; handcuff tho.se men; load them in 

 and take them to the railroad station." So they went 

 down in open .street-cars, in full sight of the whole 

 city which they had so long outraged. When they 

 were safely in the penitentiary, New Jersey drew a 

 long breath of relief. For the first time in twenty-five 

 years she sat redeemed, purified and free. She had 

 broken the evil power that held her in its grasp; and 

 now she has incorporated in her constitution that 

 there shall be no more gambling within her borders, 

 not even at church socials. 



I covet for Ohio such an opportunity of breaking the 

 power of the beastly abomination of the liquor-traflSc 

 which has so long held us in subjection. That oppor- 

 tunity will some day come. The people are growing 

 more and more restless and angry under the tyranny 

 of the saloon, and in some supreme hour of exaspera- 

 tion they will arouse themselves and break the chains 

 which have so long bound them. 



REMEDIES FOR BORERS IN FRUIT-TREES; 

 RABBITS, MICE, ETC. 



For some time past we have been receiving 

 flaming circulars in regard to new inventions 

 in the way of tree-paint, etc. These circulars 

 tell how much money can be made in a day 

 by visiting farmers, and urging everybody to 

 go into it. I forwarded one of them to one of 

 our Ohio Experiment Station people, for his 

 opinion. Here it is: 



A. I. Root: — I know nothing about Brown's Tree 

 Paint, but I should hesitate to use it extensively until 

 assured that it would not kill the trees. It will prob- 

 ably keep the rabbits from gnawing the trees, but I 

 doubt its value to keep out borers. If it has been 

 fully tested it ought to be better known, and we 

 would have heard it through the regular channels; 



