Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-09-21
DAYS Of PORK
/. BARREL NUMBERED
SO Declares Taft in Speaking
of River and Harbor
Improvement
MAKES ADDRESS At CINCINNATI
Ohio Valley Exposition and the
Opening of New Dam
in River.

ley Exposition most all of today The
major part of the time will be spent
at the exposition grounds. This after
noon he delivered an address at the
music hall.
Taft Opposes Pork Barrel.
Cincinnati, Sept. 21.-President
Taft today delivered an address at
Music Hall on the occasion of the OPP
ening of the Ohio river dam at Gin
cinnati. He said that the cost of the
contemplated improvements in the
Ohio river including fifty-four new
locks and dams in accordance with the
plans of the army engineers will be
upward of $63,000,000, but this would
provide permanent head of water for
navigation. Such expense the Presi-
dent said, would be justified in view
of the great territory and millions of
people who will be benefited. The
plan he said was to appropriate suffi-
cient money to expect the completion
of all the dams in twelve years. Il
earnestly hope," he said, that the
time may come in the not distant fu-
ture when the plan for completing
this Ohio river improvement shall be
changed SO as to make the time six
years for completion instead OF
twelve The great hindrance to the
successful improvement of our water
ways has been the delay incident to
the completion of each project. That
has grown out of the method pursued
in the river and harbor appropriation
bills" The President said that in
stead of the present piece meaP'
methods, in which the claims of each
Congressman for his district newt
ably played part, a supervising
board of engineers should recommend
to Congress improvements IN the or
der of their Importance and should
have the power to advise that GER
tain improvements should be post
poned until other improvements are
| finished The President said that he
would ask Congress at the next ses-
sion for authority to organize the
board of engineers to go over many
partly completed Improvements. The
days of the pork barrel should be
numbered" said the President
Taft's Address in Full.
Cincinnati, Sept 21.-"My Friends
and Fellow Citizens-Since l left this,
my old home, more than 10 years ago,
l have been able to revisit it only a
flew times and then not for more than
a day or two at time. l welcome
this opportunity to meet old friends
and to renew old associations, for here,
after my official duties are discharg-
led at Washington, | expect to return
and to spend the rest of my life. In
ten years great changes can come ov-
ier community. The one that strikes
me most is the fact that l have to
recognize the most active men and
women of the community today, not
by recollecting their own faces but
by their resemblance to their fathers
and their mothers.
"You are having an exposition and
neighboring counties and states who
contribute to your bushes life and
ithose who are attracted here by the
opportunities for artistic and social
enjoyment that an old, solid, but pub
lie spirited and advanced community
can offer. Your music, your art, youl
educational system and the character
of your people give you a distinct
type, which in comparison with Other
communities does not depend for its
excellence upon the percentage of in
crease in your population, or those
statistics of material growth which
the new and excessively growing city
hugs to its bosom. There are things
in this world besides numbers ant
besides money and some of thest
things can only be obtained by
quiet growth that it takes time t,
give.
The names of this city's benefactor
bring in review the interest whicl
this community has had and whicI
it has been encouraged in having, il
education, music, art, and estheti
culture.
We were ourselves the pioneers il
developing direct southern busines
and we took upon our shoulders
public municipal debt aggregatin
with interest $30,000,000 that W
might, with bonds of steel, piercin
high mountains and crossing grea
rivers, unite us to the heart of tha
r section.
To-day you are celebrating the OF
ening of another great improvement
which must In the future have muc
to do with the business growth of th
lcity I mean the improvement of th
Ohio river from Pittsbmg to Cair,
1t is to this Improvement that I sha
direct my remarks this afternoon.
"The distance from Pittsburg
4 Cairo by way of the Ohio river is 81
i miles. During the months of Febr
ary, March and April the river is fu
and has depth of certainly nine fe,
, from one end to the other for purpo
L es of navigation. During the month
s Of August, September and Octobe
8 the river is low and in many place
? at low water. the depth is conside
7. ably less than six feet. Notwit
d standing the difficulties of navigation
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