Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-02
DIX IS |NAUGURATED
Takes Oath as Governor of
New York State.
CEREMONY IS IMPRESSIVE
Addresses Brilliant Gathering in
Assembly Chamber.
MAKES PLEA FOR ECONOMY
Says Commonwealth Is Living Be-
yond It's Means, and Drastic
Measures Are Needed.
CEREMONY Is IMPRESSIVE
MAKES PLEA FOR ECONOMY

ALBANY n. Y, January 2-JohI
Alden Dix was formally inaugurated Gov
ernOr Of New York state at noon today
He succeeds Gov Horace White. wht
became chief executive last October
when Gov. Charles E. Hughes resigned
to become an associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
Surrounded by a brilliant gathering In
the great assembly chamber. which had
been appropriately decorated for the oc.
casion, Gov. White relinquished the office
OF chief magistrate to Gov. Dix. the frs,
democratic governor to assume the Office
in eighteen years. The governor then
delivered his inaugural address, after the
oath of Office had been publicly admin.
istered by Edward Lazansky, secretary OF
state. Gov. Dix was sworn in privately
at his home on Saturday
Gov. Dix said in part:
The end of all government should be
the preservation OF true liberty-that
the fullest measure of individual righ,
consistent with proper maintenance OF
the rights Of all others and at the same
time preserves and maintains the col
lective rights Of all members of the
state.
For Rights of Individual.
Under our Constitution such liberty
We possess in New York. 1t must be our
constant aim so to strengthen and extend
the exercise of personal and inalienable
rights by the individual as to bring to
the state the greatest growth and highes,
development of which our citizenship and
resources are capable.
II am succeeding to the governorship
at time when business training and
understanding seem absolutely essential
to the proper administration Of public
affairs.
Great as are the public resources OF
our commonwealth, expenditures and
outgo have grown In measure out Of all
proportion to the revenue of the state,
and we seem committed to an outlay
which will not alone tax to its full extent
our income, but demand that We draw
upon the future in q way which, In my
opinion, is at best of very doubtful wis
dom.
During the past sixteen years those in
charge Of the state government have
discovered and turned to account many
sources OF indirect taxation whereby the
attention Of the great mass or the peo.
pie has been directed from the fact that
our expenditures have been growing out
Of all proportion to our increase In popu-
lation. resources and wealth.
Rigid Economy Urged.
Frankly, we have reached a point in
our state where, for long time past,
we have been living beyond our means.
The pressing duty of the hour is a meas
ure of reform and retrenchment which
will reverse this condition and restore us
to the healthy and normal position where
we shall have something more than a
largely fictitious surplus.
when We are confronted in the f1nan-
ces Of this state with q deficit Of more
than $13,O0O.OOO. a sum larger than the
total expenditure of the state government
less than a quarter Of century ago. 1t is
time to apply drastic methods to eliminate
waste and extravaganza and to again
reach a point where our income shall at
least equal our expenditures.
In my opinion 1t is far better to in
sist on Inconvenience and difhculty In the
public departments than to resort to an
expenditure which will compel a return
to direct taxation.