New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

scientific, busii1ess-like way OF making
appropriations for the support Of the
government he said. I'VE are lum-
bering along to-day In budget.makine
with the old, wornout, rust mschinery
that the state ,asad1i1alf e century ago.
operation, would destroy any large
businasss institution In SIX months. The
state itself only exists under II because
OF its power TO reach into the pockets
Of the people. ~ '.st@'.'a
Few Enderssand budget
"The Republican chairman Of the Sem
ate Finance Committee made the pub
lie statement at q luncheon ofsthe Mer-
chants Association Of New York that
under ourspresent budget system there
were not ten men out Of the 2Dt elected
to the Legislatures who know anything
about tho budget or whateit contains.
Governor Miiler's frank and open 8ad~
mission Mt Durland's Riding Academy
lastSs night clearly ind Gates that, he
doesn't understand lie. I It is d system
that holds out opportunity for, pap and
patronage almostirresistible.
"GoVernor Miller set this we'll
thought plannaside and substituted
for it, whatahe isq pleased TO, call the
Board Of Estimate, and Control that has
never functioned and never can. 1t
passes understanding how Sovernot
praise the executive budget syHtem In
Washington as sleading 1 directly to
economy and then put himself IN the
position Of denying IL TO his own stats.
When return to Albany shall con-
tinua my fight for constitutional
amendments that will permit the crea,
tton OF a. real scientific bpdgetry sys-
tenn to the end that the people may re-
cefve in service dollars worth for
every dollar appropriated a. IS
On the issue Of economy Mr. Smith
said, the ''fancy Aguring, trick book
keeping and fine phrase making. 8 would
never overcome tho cold facts in the
record which shows that the Miller
administration cost the taxpayers S44,-
100000 more than his.,@., s4 q rs
Asks srow- Down on Economy
"That is either a fact sor 1t i'd, nos,,,
said Mr.. Smith, sand the Governor has
tistics. that ehc could' use ito dispute
this statement if he were able o1s He
has n ot done 5soY because ne knowssthat
| am right. and he urtheraRno ows that
with my well~grounaedtideas OF what
8 chief executive tshot Id Jhe III " ot1id
neversmake. that statement "a asaa scandi-
date unless Ircould back it2ap. 4 think
heswHl agree with me that a2snan that
would make tho statement Az coldly
and deliberately ASH make it would
not be- ft9fora toAbe. Governor If that
statement were untrue" ,,s.,s &9.aq eag4l
1 Augustus Thomas, the playwright,
who presided at Che, Opera House
meeting, declared that the Eighteenth
Amendment and the voTstead act were
encroachments upcng the liberties Of
the people. M Il, Thomas depiored movie
censorship and other recent statutes
which he called "blue laws" Speaking
of the need Of registeringea wet vote,
he said: = ~ ~ 4.
"We are moving by the only meth cd
at present available, moving like self
respecting citizens and like atriots to
the redress Of a grievance. Governor
Milier tells us this is bunk Well If
this is bunk, If our call to the elector-
ate is bunk, the~rdi dnfght ride of Paul
Revere is bunk. If this, is bunk, the
protest of the scattered farmers that
gathered at Lexington and drove back
the British regulars is, bunk. If this
Is bunk, why Bunker Hill was bunk