Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-22

Legislature than we had and refused
to pass the bill. So we must have
two superintendent and two sets of
overseers, when one would have been
enough. Here was a business idea
that our opponents had a chance &c
help us put into effect, but they
blocked us.
Il wonder what they would do #
they controlled both the Legislature
and the Mayors Office. 1t Is very evil
dent that they wouldn't give you q
business administration.
To Show Real Saving.
zone of their speakers said the other
night hat he could shave a little off
the tax rate by making some oilers
and wipers do engineers work and by
discharging a few scrubwomen but l
can show them better ways than that
II they will only get out of the way a
while and stop blocking us when we
have a real chance to lower the tax
rate. l can show them better ways
than that by taking them on what
you might call a personally conduct
ed tour through the Board of Works.
That's the place to get to work, 1t
seems to me, IL o wan to save
money.
I'VE used to collect taxes from "A
big insurance company on something
like s2S, o00,O 900 of property. The com
pany went to the courts last year
and got n decision, on a kink In the
law, that it didn't have to pay those
taxes any more. We Went to the
Legislature last winter to get that
kink Strengthened out, so that we
could begin collecting the taxes
again, but our opponents We're in
charge of the Legislature and they
wouldn't even introduce the bill. l
think they had a chance then to
show that they favored a business
administration. But I didn't hear
that they had IN use for thai kind
of an administration tin a couple of
weeks before election. Did anyone
else hear anything about 1t?
New Charter Thrown Into Wastebeskct.
I'VE have tried for a long time to
give the city of Newark a new char
ter. We have framed a charter, the
work of a non-partisan commission,
that has been pronounced second to
mons In the country. out every time
we went to the Legislature to get 1t
approved our opponents were in
charge of either one branch or the
other OF the Legislature, sometimes
both branches, and our charter was
always thrown into the waste basket.
Here was another chance for them to
give us a business administration.
They didn't hurt themselves trying.
did they? They think about a
business administration until they
want votes.
Our opponents have been in charge
of the county government, the Board
of F~reeholders. for a long time. Did
anyone ever suspect that there was a
business administration thcre?,
I'm spite of all the handicaps we
have gone on improving and develop
ing. You have only to look around
you to see what the city government
has done in the past five or six years,
I have mentioned a number of these
achievements before tonight. I
might just refer now to the weights
and measures department to prevent
tuc Sii@dtihS VI pooi pcopic, tHS ue
velopment of the watershed to give
o pure water, the fastening of the
plan TO clean the Passaic River, more
paved streets, many new schools,
more Fairgrounds for children, appro.
priations to destroy the mosquitoes
and there are others that 1 intend
to talk about. That's my idea of a
business administration. and the tax
rate for the past six yea, has been
less on the average than IL was in
the previous decade StttS