The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-01
PRESIDENT TAFT'S SPEECH
AT NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Urges Necessity of Safe Guard
ing Both Coasts.
TO FORTIFY PEARL HARBOR

Greatest TIlrong Gathered in the
Streets of the City Since the
Visit of President Grant Over
Thirty Years Ago.
Newark. NJ IA cheering Taft
mad crowd that overfowed all police
lines drawn for the passage of the
President greeted him here and
howled itself hoarse in welcome.
From the time he left the home of
Ex-Governor Franklin Murphy until
he reached the Kruger Auditorium,
a mile and half away, where he was
the guest at the Board of Trade ban
quet, his progress through the streets
more nearly approached riot than
welcome.
Not since the visit of President
Grant thirty or more years ago have
the streets held such crowds. They
filled nearly every vantage point in
the upper windows of hotels and
dwelling houses along the line of
march they packed the sidewalks
eight and ten deep, and they clam
bered on the roofs of trolley cars to
shout, "Oh. you BILL"
Repeatedly the troopers charged
the mob and rode UP on the sidewalk
to clear a way, but it was unavailing.
| The procession moved at a snails
| pace down Broad street past the City
! Hall, the steps of which were black
with people; up Market street, past
| the Court House, thence along SPRING
| field avenue to Belmont avenue and
/ thence to the hall where the banquet
was held.
Seven hundred and seventy-five
members of the Board of Trade were
present to give the President a noisy
welcome when he entered. The
diners were seated at long tables in
/ the centre of the hall and in the boxes
on either side upstairs. The Presi-
dent and speakers we're seated at the
rear end of the hall, directly under
meath the stage.
Those who rode with him in the
procession and sat at his table were:
Victor l.. Mason, Congressman Will
lam H. Wiley, Ex-Governor John w.
Griggs, Ex-Governor Franklin MUIR
ply, United States Senator Kean,
| United States Senator Lodge, George
F. Reeve, president of the Board of
Trade: Governor Fort, United States
Senator Briggs, Mayor Haussling,
Captain Butt, Bishop Lines, Justice
| Gummere, Ex-Governor Edward G..
Stokes and Congressman r. Wayne
Parker, Ira G. Wood and John j..
Gardner.
President Taft came out fatty in
favor of budget system by which
the Governments finances may be
regulated.
The President talked of waste in
the various departments of Govern
ment, and suggested that the way to
curb it is to have system such as is
used in other countries, where a
schedule of expenditures is made up
with reference to the income.
The President touched broadly upon
other phases of Government policy,
advocating, among other things, the
! rapid completion of the Panama Ca
nal, to be paid for by the issue of
bonds, the pushing of river improve
ments and the building up of the
army and navy.
Like his predecessor, President
Taft sees the necessity of expanding
the navy, and he advocated the con-
struction>of at least two battleships a
year while the Panama CanSl is being
rushed to completion. He believed,
so he told his hearers, that it is poll
tic to add to the naval strength until
the canal Is finished, so as to provide
ample protection to the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts.
After the canal is built, he says,
the country can afford to halt in its
Strengthening of the navy, but not
until then.
The President pointed out the need
of an artificial island at the mouth OF
Chesapeake Bay, which he called the
most strategic point on the Atlantic
coast. In the Pacific, he declared.
Pearl Harbor is the important naval
base, and advocated the establishment
of station there at once.
President Taft is in hearty accord
he declared, with the idea of the pro-
posed Congressional commission to
decide upon some new organization
of the Governments departments
with the end in view of cutting down
expenses. If reform in government
could be attained by any method sug-
gested by the commission, the Presi-
dent would indorse it. He suggested
lLdS q VI vain NC
partments might be feasible.
Another important Recommendation
made by the President was the pen
sioning of what he called superan-
nuated employees of the Government
and the substitution, in their places,
of alert employees who would earn
better the money paid to them
This question the commission, II
| ic IN 70 nd prOc l.
dent Taft indicated that he hoped the
commission would find some way by
which the business affairs of the Gov
eminent could be administered with
more regard for practical results.
South's Business Good.
Clarence H. Mackay, after tour