. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . tension of thepublic water supply system, urged that mud holesin the public thoroughfares be filled, demandedthe laying of curbs and crossings, and even advo-cated the organization of an equipped force ofwatchmen by day and night, who would notsleep on door steps, and who would patrol theirbeats instead of drinking liquor and playingcards in public houses. It can not be said that all this agitation securedimmediate results, and that the reforms desiredwere speedily accomplished. Looking out fromthe narrow confines of colo
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . tension of thepublic water supply system, urged that mud holesin the public thoroughfares be filled, demandedthe laying of curbs and crossings, and even advo-cated the organization of an equipped force ofwatchmen by day and night, who would notsleep on door steps, and who would patrol theirbeats instead of drinking liquor and playingcards in public houses. It can not be said that all this agitation securedimmediate results, and that the reforms desiredwere speedily accomplished. Looking out fromthe narrow confines of colonial habits of thought,men saw dimly what the future had in store; itwas the period that prepared men for the era ofunrest, which, during the political domination ofAndrew Jackson and all that he represented,meant not only sudden changes in thought, butequally sudden changes in action. Hence to the end color goes out of mens the supremacy of steam and coal and iron,with municipal progress and readjustment ofpolitical conditions, there is much of the prosaic. SHIN-PLASTER CARICATURE OF JACKSONS WAR ON THE UNITEDSTATES BANK: 1837. ONY AND AS A STATE 145 and the commonplace injected into the daily do-ings of people. The distinctive characteristics ofthe governing class merge into the characteristicsof the mass. Industrialism brought comforts andluxuries to the dead level of humanity, destroyedpermanent caste, and in robbing class of its pic-turesqueness raised the mass, gradually but nonethe less surely, toward newer and broader hopesand aspirations. In a State as conservative as New Jersey thechanges thus effected, while not bold, were nonethe less noticeable. A distinctively industrialtype of life could not supplant ancient customand modes of living without creating manufactures and the congestion ofpopulation in the larger centers met with opposi-tion. Upon the quiet farms, inherited throughmany generations, men railed at the uselessness ofmills and
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