DOCTOR COOK AS A CITIZEN.- 



BY HON. ABRAM S. HEWITT. 



-THE State of New Jersey is fortunate in being a small 



^ State It has been more fortunate, up to a recent 



period, in being largely an agricultural State. There has 



been a certain family and social feeling pervading this 



State which is unique. I have known the Legislature and 



its citizens pretty well for about fifty years, and I have 



found that it is the most Democratic community in the 



world. This is my judgment. The Legislature represents 



more closely and more nearly the opinions and interests of 



its inhabitants than any other political organization which 



has ever come under my personal observation. 



It is true that in ancient Greece, particularly in Athens. 

 where the people come together in mass-meeting and there 

 were no representatives, we have an example of a pure 

 Democracy, which always suggested to me what have 

 during my life observed to be the fact in New Jersey 

 Hence, in this State, there is a very close supervision of 

 the expenditure of money, and, forty years ago, there was 

 a crreat indisposition to expend any public money, for any 

 purpose except the ordinary conduct of government The 

 State, occupying its peculiar position, between the two 

 great States of New York and Pennsylvania, was to a 

 Targe extent influenced in its development by the ov^erflow 

 of population, wealth and industry from the neighboring 

 States Of its own resources it knew but little, and it is a 



