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human enemies with a slight interest in their affairs, but I think 

 I am right in saying that in the last few years there has been 

 a gradual but a sure change in public sentiment as to what our 

 government means to the individual citizen. We have* developed 

 this idea along different lines and possibly the most important 

 line is that of sanitation and health. 



We are now interested in taking care of the people who are 

 working in factories, in protecting them from the injuries which 

 are incident to their employment, and in raising the general 

 health conditions under which they work. We are taking care 

 of their home conditions, in that we are regulating the manner 

 in which their homes are built and their surroundings. New 

 Jersey is a combination to my mind of all the circumstances we 

 can bring to the legislators' attention of the various problems 

 that must be faced from this point of view. We have here in 

 this little State of ours three general divisions of land, which 

 carry with them three general divisions of interest. We have 

 a great manufacturing section, we have a great farming section 

 and we have a great vacation ground. 



Now, as I said a few moments ago, we are gradually but 

 surely coming to the point of view that the machinery of our 

 government must be used for something beside warding off the 

 foreign enemy, and we think the change has come in a vast 

 increase in the sphere of our government, and we think that the 

 taxpayers are also gradually realizing that the question of the 

 reduction of taxes is a question which will be solved not in the 

 reduction of taxes but in the better method of spending the 

 moneys that are raised. Now, if that is so, then it is necessary 

 for those who are interested to do what they can to protect the 

 source of the income. Whatever our individual ideas may be 

 as to methods of taxation, I think we will all agree that the land 

 is the fundamental basis of our nation, and anything that is done 

 to increase the value of the land is done in the nature of a safe- 

 guard of the source of our funds. 



We at the present time, in the town in which I live, feel that 

 the town is pretty well taken care of. I live in South Orange, 



