Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-26
President Taft Makes Facetious
Speech to Guests Over Long
Distance Telephone from
Boston.
REGULATIONS AND
TOPICAL SONGS BY WIRE
Under Each Table Was Re-
ceiver Connecting Members
with Outside World; Victor
Murdoch ToaSter,

TPv Morning Journai Special LEASED Wire
New York. April 25.-Representa
tive journalists from all over the coun-
try were brought together tonight at
the annual banquet of the Associated
Press and the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, held In the
ball room of the Waldorf Astoria and
the entertainment provided for them,
which was interesting throughout, was
novel in the character of some of its
! features.
The telephone played "a prominent
part in lending both variety and nov
city TO the program. President Taft,
although actually in Boston, address
ed the assembled gathering,
Tntermingled with these addresses
were songs over the telephone wires
from Josie Collins of the Winter Gar
den, and AL Joson at the Winter
Garden.
At the tables were seated more than
seven hundred guests, those at the
table of honor including President
Frank b. Noyes and other directors
and officers of the Associated Press;
| 1reSluent Bruce l1ditctlldi, VI ti'
American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociation; President Finley. of the
College of New York Augustus
| Thomas, the playwright; Talcot VIII
liams. head of the Pulitzer School of
Journalism, of Columbia University
and DR.. Alexander Graham Bell and
o.ser guests OF note. The surs .undiIts
| galleries and boxes were filled with
many ladies in handsome evening cos
tunes.
1t was between the courses of the
banquet that the novel features were
interspersed. Lively airs from the or
chestra started the banqueting. The
announcement shortly afterward from
Congressman Victor Murdoek. editor
of the Wichita Eagle, who acted as
POSTMASTER, that the voice of Presi-
dent Taft and Premier Borden would
be heard at such great distances as
separated the speakers from the din
ers was greeted with enthusiastic ap-
plause and set the guests to examining
the apparatus supplied for accom-
plshing this feat Underneath each
table was a watchcase receiver sup
piled by the Western Electric Com
pany with connections with the long
distance wires and also with the local
wires of the New York Telephone
Company.
First there came over the wires the
voice of AL Jolson, singing rag time
melody. Fiddle Upon Your Violin"
The diners were next connected with
Premier Borden, of Canada, who
addressed the Associated Press ban
quet over the long distance tele-
phone from Hot Springs, Va. He
dwelt on the responsibility and
opportunities of the uncorrupted
press and expressed the hope that
Great Britain ana America viii unite
in common effort to attain the high
est standards of civilization. He said
in part:
- ne vast increase of WEALTHY has
heen attended with an enormous and
alarming inequality in its distribution.
1t cannot he denied that this inequal-
ity is attended with certain danger
or even menace to the existence of
democratic institutions In their pres
mt form. Equality of results never
can be expected or attained under an
ind idualistic system of national or
ganiz4tion. inasmuch as men differ
widely in their energies and capac-
tiles. But no democracy is built up
on an enduring foundation II II fails To
endow its citizens with equality of op-
portunity so far as that may be hu-
namely possible.
The western democracy is learning
this lesson slowly and painfully.
Gentlemen of the Associated Press.
YOU are the fourth estate. You should
5e the bulwark of democratic ideal
ism. Honest and minded pub
licity is the most faithful friend of
good government and there can be no
effective public option on erea;
continent like this tythout the aid Of
a powerful. independent aud uncor-
rupted press.
But equality great h. your respon-
sibiiits. There II no more .mportan; |
factor in the future Development OF |
national life whether in the United |
states or Canads. than the Just full |
fillment Of that responsibility.
Speaking tol the press OF both |
countries may ! express my first con
viction that upon you depends In large |
measures the dontinued existence and |
the strength df the happy relations |
ietween this treat repubnc and the \
empire TO which Canada owns a proud /
alle glance"
A demonstration OF cheers by the I
guests broke otit when the toastmaster
"Thomas Edison" as the
first American.
Mr.. Edison will not make =
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