The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-02

0G 11GhA1O-nGIO Dill
of the country may be injured quite
as much by injustice to the railways
as the result of an unwise clamor for
low rates as by the imposition OF ex-
tortionate rates. 1t Is not without sig
nificance in this connection that en-
plOyes and wage-earners of railways
are today associating themselves to-
gether for the purpose of using their
influence TO prevent injustice TO their
employers by repressiYe legislation or
oppressive regulations under the in
terstate commerce commission
Prosperity Assured.
II gives me the greatest satisfaction
to say that in spite of all the rumors
of possible business stagnatiOn, our
basic prosperity is assured for the
coming year, in that the great volume
of the crops now being harvested in
value Will exceed the products of our
fields at any period in the past Our
corn crop, out cotton crop and our oats
crop viii equal approximately three
thousand millions of dollars. and the
significance of this fact in its bearing
on the business of next year can hard
~ be Overestimated.
Reduce Political Patronage.
The giving up OF the power of con-
fifmat1on IS great concession from
the Senate and we can perhaps not eX-
pect it 10 be made in respect TO all To-
cal offices at once. [ shall urge upon
Congress a change in the methods OF
appointing pos masters. so at least the
7,19S second and third-class postmas-
ters can be classified and taken out
of the category OF political patronage.
We can then patiently push on for fur
Their progress toward an elimination or
all local offices from the field of pol
tiles.
This is. however. but the beginning
of civil service reform. The problem
is not merely TO take on the emplOye
through honest competitive eXamlna-
ton. but TO maintain and to improve.
if possible. the initial efficiency of that
emplOye; TO infuse into his work the
same zeal which he would display in
private business.
l am now directing an inquiry into
the efficiency and economy OF the de-
partments. the aim being to improve
the service and lower the cost OF gov
ernment.
Question of Economy.
Our population has vastly increased.
our reproducing capacity has grown
IN proportion and the annual expenses
or the government under the new con-
dltlOns that surround IL have become
greater by many millions Our Demo-
cratic friends are in the habit of say
ing that our government is taking out
from the people in taxes q billion dol
lars a year and spending it for the eX-
rOneOus statement. The net expense
OF running this government, derived
from the proceeds Of taxation, is about
So5o'OOO'OOO per year, not billion dol
lars per year.
Our Democratic friends are saying
that II the Democratic party came into
power it would reduce the expenses OF
this government $500 0OO,00 Do they
mean that the Democrats would abOI-
Ism the pension list? Do they mean
Ihat they would give up the navy and
dlsDand the army? Do they mean that
they would abandon Porto Rico and
the Sandwich islands and the Philip
plneSt Let US have 2 little speclfica-
uoh- What are such statements worth
unless the gentlemen who make them
give u the details OF the expenditures
that they eriticise and expect 10 avoid
II they are let into power and become
themselves the national government?
II Is possible 10 save money in carry
ing on this government, and we are
now struggling in this administrat ton
10 Ilnd out how modern principles OF
business organization and efficiency
may be applied TO a government struc-
ture that has been handed down for
hundred years and has never been re-
organized with the idea OF securing
modern business economy
/ cannot close these remarks with
cut reference 10 the action taken by
our party in the state of New York
during the present week The cause
OF hepublicanism has been heartened
Dy a brave declaration OF principles
am Dy the nomination of an exception
any satisfactory ticket with a candf-
date Tor governor of the highest char
acter and ability. Henry L. Stimson
mas Deen the powerful ally OF good
government in this administration and
ne last. He has been a terror TO evil
ooers: rejoice in his selection.
II IS possible in such a government
az ours TO lose deserved popular ap-
proVal through Misrepresentation ana
But mistakes of this kind are not
permanent. Let us constantly remem-
Der that II We stick 10 our princiDIes
II we insist upon efficiency in govern
tI he II we perform our promises in
the future as in the past, when oDDOr-
tunlty offers, if we stand shoulder 10
shoulder IN the determination to carry
on the work OF progress as we have un-
usfIstood II. then, because We are an
and progressive party, be-
cause we know how practically 10
carry on government, because we know
now We propose 10 stand in the face
or victory or defeat. we shall certain
~ De continued N power.
Burst of Cheering.
When the President entered the
room shortly before O'clock. if was
a signal for d burst of cheering and a
saIvo or handclaDping by the thousand
Between courses the President held
me dals and many OF the delegates
talked with him.
colonel Roosevelt, although praised
by both the President and Mr. Long
worth. was not present tonight. He
IS resting at Sycamore Hill after his
labofs at Saratoga and Ii had been pre-
NIously announced that he would not
attend. Vice President Sherman was
another absentee
While the coffee was being served
f f5l band played The Str-Spangled
the wife of the President, accompanied
by her sister, Miss Heron entered a
box Instantly the diners were cheer
ing Justify for Mrs. Taft The Pres
ldent looked up and smiled. Then the
assemblage shouted:
What's the matter with Mrs. Taft?
She's all right"
Who's all rignt?"
Mrs. Taft
while the uproar was at its height
a ladder was placed against Mrs. Taft's
nd haNa