The New York herald., 1922-10-04

are completing these terminals. We are
putting in something that they never
had before - terminal machinery to
handle freight in modern ways. We are
putting in something that the canal has
not had before-modern dredging equip
ment. We are putting in shops along
the canal to take care of this equipment.
We are starting the development OF
electric energy from the surplus waters
of the canal and we are paying for
every dollar of It as we so out of cur
rent revenues.
''In this connection, because II Is illus
trative, and ! have no doubt 1t Is Illus
trative Of the kind Of campaign that we
are again to meet with, ] am minded to
read another plank OF the Democratic
platform, II you can stand II.
They say They again that means
us, have curtaied the appropriations
for the State hospitals for the insane to
make a false record of economy at the
expense of the most helpless and most
unfortunate class in the State. They
provided $4,000 900 less for food, cloth
ing and maintenance this year. / know
who wrote that"
A Voice-Tell us who wrote it.
The Governor-It sounds very much
like the lamentations which filled the
Senate chamber from the lips of the
minority leader at tho close of the Legis-
lature last year And am led to pause
a. moment to refer to that. There wasn't
any doubt year ago when the Legis-
lature adjourned that economies had
been effected. There wasn't any doubt
that $40, 900, 900 had been trimmed from
the budget requests. And the minority
leader In the Senate. from whose vivid
III, I ha. he ma
was obtained to write this platform. filled
the Senate chamber with his lamenta-
tions These gentlemen of the press that
! see here no doubt will remember it. He
shed tears for the army OF State em-
ployees that were going to march down
Capitol Hill at the close OF the fiscal
year. He shed tears for the unfortunate
wards of the State for whom adequate
provision had not been made, and he
said that IL was all false economy, and
that We would be back the next year
with deficiency appropriations to make
it up. That had been the practice.
But there was another rule that was
iuaugurated In January. 1921, and that
was that in the conduct of the State
government the State Constitution
should be observed, that obligations
shrould not be created without appro-
priations to pay for them. We said that
department heads must learn to live
within their means What happened7
The year rolled round. The wards Of
the State were better cared for, better
housed, better clothed than they had
ever been. The department heads sub
mitted their estimates for the next year,
and those estimates showed not deficit
encies, but surplus. We had given them
more than they needed. with the new
spirit of administration under which
the public business was being conducted.
Well. 10 go on. they want TO say that
we have starved the poor unfortunate
wards of the State. He says. Gov
Miller drove out of office two Repub-
lican members of the State Hospital
Commission who protested. and has ter
rorized those I'm charge OF the institu-
tion into submission to his cruel policy.
There are 10000 insane patients crowded
into buildings designed 10 contain only
80. 600, but the Republican Legislature
under coercion of Gov. Miller failed
to provide for the relief OF the disgrace
ful conditions that prevail in order to