Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-12-21
Reform Can Be Made Either In
side Old Organization or By
Breaking 1t Up and Founding
New One.
PRESIDENTS VISIT TO
NEW YORK STRENUOUS
In Several Addresses Chief Ex-
eCutNe Declares Fault of Age
is People Are Living Too
Fast,

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wlre.l
New York, Dec. 20.-President
Taft left at midnight for Washington,
after thirty busy hours in New York,
declaring I'm the last of several add
dresses that one of the chief faults oil
this age is that people are living too
fast.
During his visit here the president
spoke az five dinners, laid the corner
stone of a new home for the blind,
did Christmas shopping and received
many political leaders as callers.
The presidents last speech was be-
fore the New York Young Mems
Republican club AT a dinner given in
his honor. He appeared just as SEN
ator Borah Of Idaho. was scheduled
to speak and listened attentively To o
stirring address by the western sena-
tor. With language which the presi-
dent later declared as having great
force, imagery and poetry Senator
Borah flayed 'lawless big business
in a way that brought demonstrations
of applause.
The president in an optimistic
spttcn dBTeeu WITH StHdtui Dbidh
that the country had defects and
concluded
Effective reform can be made In
two ways: Either inside the party or
by the breaking up of the old party
and the founding of new one. The
question for every man Is, Has the
party TO which he is attached the ma
terial in it to carry out his ideas for
reform? Or Is 1t necessary for him to
join new party to gain them?' /
still have hope for the redemption of
the republican party"
President Taft joined with $500
members and guests of the Automo-
bile club OF America az their banquet
at the Waldorf Astoria tonight and
f0r half an hour or more talked to
them in such a genial vein that they
were kept almost constantly either
laughing or applauding.
He took occasion TO declare himself
emphatically against the opening OF
the national treasury for the building
of great highways.
The president began at once to put
matters on a genial basis by express
ing wonder why he had been invited
to the dinner, because he said, he had
never belonged to the carriage
class" 1t was only lately that he had
ever been temporarily affiliated with
it.
The accident OF office and the
generosity of republican congress,
the president remarked with a broad
smile, gives me for a time the pleas
ure of travel by a new method, but
be,ta iss nf q in
the machine. Therefore, | beg you
to understand that /; am here merely
in a temporary capacity as an auto
mobiist."
The president got down to a more
serious basis shortly and expressed
his appreciation of the value of the
automobiles in the development of
friendly relations between sectionsl
and even between nations
Il have tried to help YOU" he said,
"by getting the duty lowered into
Canada. Once in a while | do some
thing that ought to make somebody
gratified."
Raising objections to the proposed
policy of the federal government en-
tering extensively into road making,
Mr.. Taft said there was no doubt that
the government has the power, but he
added
Il venture to question the wisdom
of opening the national treasury for
money TO use that way"
The state and the nelghborhood
acting as a unit were the proper
sources to look to for both the build
ing and the maintenance of proper'
IA 4 ~
scheme Of national roads as well as
of waterways development, there
would be no end TO the expense likely
to be demanded by forty-eight states,
each wanting it's share,
From the Automobile club banquet
President Taft motored to the Hotel
Astor for an address before the
Young Mems Republican club,
With silver trowel handed to him
by blind woman, the president laid
the corner stone this afternoon of the
first settlement house in the world
for the blind.
A crowd of several thousand per-
sons choked the street to get
glimpse of the presidential party
which was seated on the rough WOOD
en- platform erected In sight of the
proposed DullulnB, ana SeNerhi nun
dred more looked down and cheered
from the house tops.
Il came mere today to lay corner
stone, not a make an address the
president said, after Joseph II.
Choate, chairman, had announced
that the president would speak.
My dearest hope is that this
structure will be typical of the duties
which we who have sight owe to
these who have not, to aid and sue
cor them in their difficult journey
life."
Miss Winnifred Holt, secretary of
the New York association for the
Blind, through whose efforts the
erection of the proposed building has
been made possible; Mr.. Choate, Gov
ernor Dix and Others participated in
the ceremonies.
At the conclusion Of the corner
stone laying the president motored to
jewelry store to do little belated
shopping. The articles he purchased,
II Is understood, were intended for
members of his immediate family.