Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-19
Root Sounds Clear keynote Of Republican Campaign for 1912

fortified and enormous quantities
of Injurious food material have been
destroyed.
The conservation of natural re-
sources has been In the hands of its
friends.S The process Of examining
and separating the timber and the
agricultural land in the great forest
reserves, established at the close of
the last administration, has pro-
ceeded under the present administra-
ton In accordance with the original
plan. The study of the water re-
cording to the flow of streams have
gone on under the geological survey.
Classification and appraisal of coal
lands and their restoration to entry
at discriminating prices based upon
the classification have been extended
to owe 16, 000, 900 acres of q total valu-
alton of over SIP. 00O, 900.
The enormous petroleum deposits
and phosphate deposits and water
ways belonging to the government
have been examined and classified
and the data prepared for the needed
legislation to regulate their DISPOSE
ton. Construction, under the arid
land reclamation projects has been
pressed forward, and over $4,000 peo-
pie III now living up the reclaimed
land.
Great Amounts Saved.
Great reforms have been made in
tho annnana1 nf fhn n,th1io carUfna A
commission appointed by the Presi-
dent has been examining all the de-
partments of government operating
under the Anticipated statutes passed
generations ago with a view to ap-
plying in them the labor-saving and
money-saving methods which have
made the success of the great bust
ness establishments Of our country.
In the treasury department alone,
where the reforms first received their
effect and can be measured, over
this with increased efficiency of serv-
ice and without discharging anyone.
but simply by not filling vacancies
as they occurred. The savings effect
ed in the administration Of this one
department amounted to approx
mately to 1881. 900 per annum. The
same policy in the p~ostoff1ce depart
ment has made that department self
for the first time In thirty
years and changed a deficit of ST.
479. 770.47 in 1909, caused especially by
the increased cost of rural free de-
livery. to a surplus of 1913, 1872 in
1911.
In the meantime the great Republi-
a policy of rural free delivery has
been advanced, so that the rural free
delivery routes now number AZ, 199,
covering a mileage of 1910, 447 miles.
In the meantime, also, the new Re-
publican policy of the postal savings
system has been successfully inaugu-
rated under the act of June 25, 1910.
beginning experimentally with a few
offices, and now. after eleven months
of operation, extending to $500 presi-
Dental postoff1ces and $11, 900, 900 OF
deposits.
Army and Navy More Efficient.
The army has been made more eff
Gent. The great process of training
not only the regular army, but the
militia, by means of officers of in
struction and joint operations has
been pressed forward, to the end that
If war unfortunately comes upon us
we shall have, for the first time in our
history, a great body of trained Amer
lean citizens competent to act as off,
GERS of the volunteer forces upon
which MO must Go IornaIxv 91r.L1 o..
our military defense. The test of
mobilization of the regular army In
Texas during the summer of 1911,
with its rapidity of movement and
freedom from disease, has exhibited
a record of competency and ability
most reassuring and satisfactory.
sThe navy has improved It's organi-
zation and decreased its pen
has increased its preparedness and
military efficiency, has improved its
Workmanship and skill in seaman
ship and evolution, and has reorgan-
lied and reduced the cost of the sys-
ten of construction, repair and sup
ply.
The execution of the regular and
established program of adding two
battleships to the fleet annually to
take the place of the old ships, which
from year to year grow obsolete, and
to maintain the position of our navy
among those of the great powers has
met with a reverse in the refusal of
the Democratic House of Representa-
tvs to appropriate any money for
the construction of battleships, and
the question now stands between the
cratic House as to whether our navy
shall be maintained or shall be per-
mitted to fall back to a level with the
weaker and unconsidered countries of
the world.
What is the will of the American
people on that question?
Panama Canal Construction.
The construction of the Panama
canal has been pressed forward with
renewed evidence, under the concen-
trated observation of all the civilized
world, that America possesses CON
.structive genius, Organizing power
and habits of honest administration
equal to the greatest undertakings.
1t Is manifest now that the work will
be done in advance of the time fixed
and within the cost estimated, and
that during the coming year 1t will
be substantially completed.
Will not the American people con-
slider whether they have no grateful
appreciation Of the honor brought to
us all by the great thing that has
been done on the isthmus?
When the wonderful procession If
ships takes it's way for the first time
through the canal between the waters
of the Atlantic and the Pacific, will
the people of America wish that the
honors of that greater than a Roman
triumph be given not to the men who
execute the great design but 10 the