Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-24
All Nations but Our Own Have IT.
Our Method Being Rather
Haphazard.
ECONOMY is NECESSARY
Great Many More Government En-
ploycs Than Needed IL Service
Was Highly Efficient

Newark, y j.. Feb 23.-Prcsidcnt
Taft prcfaced his prepared address be-
fore the Newark Board of Trade to-
night with passionate statement OF
his feelings, after being year in the
White House. which brought the audi
ence to It's feet with cheers. lie took
occasion to pay his respects to the
newspapers, saying he was going home
TO Washington to avoid thcm.
Former Gov. Franklin Murphy. In in
Producing President Taft, predicted the
president would make good, and he also
look a fling at the newspapers.
"I had not intended to say anything
on the subject OF my first year In the
White House." said the president, but
after what Gov. Murphy has so grac-
iously said l cannot refrain from per-
sonal word or two.
AS TO NEWSPAPERS.
..It is true l told him 1 wanted to
mako good n year ago. / am not GER
tain of doing 1t now, He said some
thing about the newspapers, When
the newspapers are prone to criticism
md sometimes unite in hammer1ns
YOUR administration, treating II some
times with contemptuous disdain ana
sometimes with patronizing friendship.
4, is hard to overcome the feeling that
perhaps you ought to begin all over
again.
I'm view of all that, to have received
the welcome which l did today gives
little hope that perhaps the newspapers
don't carry IN their pockets all of pub
lie opinion, and that. perhaps. the
American people are able to see
through something of hypercriticism'
something of the hysteria and some-
thing of hypocrisy and to have real
sympathy with the man who. under
considerable responsibility is doing the
best no can.
"They say that sometimes demon
strations are misleading, but L am go
Ing to believe. as / have said, that
your reception today and tonight is
sincere, and / am going to take that
notterine JUNCTION to my soul as / go
back to Washington and avoid the
newspapers
..You see. therefore. that when
came hero today l was In frame OF
mind which made your welcome as
balm to my soul, and l carry away
sense Of gratitude that will never de-
part from my memory.
TAFT's ADDRESS.
President Taft. after acknowledging
the pleasure of being afforded the op-
portunity to speak TO the business men
of Now York, said:
when l accepted the Invitation TO
come here. learned that l was to have
the pleasure Of being fellow guest
with my friend Senator Lodge, and that
he was to take up the question OF high
prices a question that has occupied the
attention OF all the people and has IN
vlted the Investigation into its cause by
the Congress of the United states and
by some of the state legislatures. For
my part of the evening. l should like
TO direct your attention to a moro prosy
subject. to the question of government
expenses and government revenues,
and the possible economies and what
expenditures are essential at whatever
burden of taxation.
In the first place. 1t should be said
that we have been so far from exhaust
ing the rcsourcese of national taxation
and federal revenues have been collect
ed so easily, and in such an amount
that we have failed in the past TO
adopt a budget system which is prac-
tiscd in every other civilized country.
BY q budget system / mean a reference
of proposed expenditures and receipts
to some one authority or tribunal.
which, after determining what the
revenues will be. must also determine
what the expenditures can be, and
make a budget without a deficit.
'In our legislative body. which pro-
Vides the revenue and authorizes the
expenditures. time was when the COM