Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-07-07

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MADAME PRESIDENT AND DELE.
GATES-LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN:
When I received the invitation to be
with you here to-day and speak upon
the subject Forestry and Home
c%rofts," as it is announced on the
program. l felt that the occasion was
one of so much Importance, and the
opportunity n which l so greatly APP
preciated. that / ought to do some
thing which l rarely do, and that was
to at least think out a speech in adj
vance. l was asked for a manuscript
of it for the press, but l felt that it
was unsafe to give it because l never
did that yet that something didn't
happen that made me lay aside nv
speech and talk about something else.
have a speech epared which was
planned to last for half an hour, and
there it is (holding up a CARD. Now,
| have fifteen minutes to speak, and
! am going to save that speech for
some other occasion, in some other
place. and talk to you about something
which has been suggested to me here
this morning by the address we have
Just listened to from Mr.. Mills.
| was born in California and spent
my life there applause from the Cali
fornia delegatesD until within n very
few years when my work in the Ma
tional Irrigation Movement took me
away from my native state. But l
want to take advantage of this op-
p~ortunity to stand here and make a
plea for the preservation of those
Temples of God-the Big Trees of
california. ~(Applause.)
| question very much whether those
who are here to-day realize the power
that is yours. in bringing about right
action, whether it be in congressional
or state legislation. We often say
that this is a government of the peo-
pie. and that it is controlled by their
votes. So it is. But behind the vote
is the thought of the people. 1t Is
public opinion which controls this
country. The vote is merely 4 regis
tering of that opinion; and the thought
of the people which precedes that
opinion and brings about reforms, is,
I'm my Judgment, often a thing that
springs from the minds Of the women
of the country rather than from the
minds of the men of the country.
am free to say that in my earlier
Years, and before I had Il wider ex-
perience and opportunities of OBJ
srryation, / was not a believer in CIV
ing the ballot to the women. l am
not here to make a plea for that to-
day. because l am not so much i'm
pressed with the Importance of il as
others who think that the ballot is the
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The home circle and the thoughts that
sTrtng most often from the minds of
Tie mothers of the country that con
irol this country. (Applause.)
And although l believe to-day that
the status of the mar and the woman,
81 far as their rights of citizenship
aud rights before the law are con
eerned, should be the same, l want
10 lay that conclusion before you
simply as a basis for the broader
statement that women ear control
this country by the power of thought
without the ballot. If the women who
are here to-day and those who are af-
hliated with YOU in this great organi-
zation, would take up one or two
things as the result of this conference
md 20 hence and agitate it in every
home circle, and In every women's
club, and in every village and city,
and through the columns of every
newspaper in the land, and by cor
dependence, you could accomplish
within the next twelve months two
Great things which would be a record
IF accomplishment sufficient for n
YEAR of hard work for your %organiza-
lion, and that is, first, to save the big
tfees of California (Applausel: and,
second, to secure the passage of the
Ill providing for forest reserves in
tie White Mountains and on the APP
ialaehian Range. (Applause.)
If those great trees in California
Hore nee destroyed they could not
aa replaced in centuries and probably
never. They We're there when Christ
walked the earth. They We're there
when Rome shone Respondent in all
her glory. They were there when
carthage nestled amid green fields
and vineyards ON the southern shores
If the Mediterranean. They were there
when Palmyra, with all her magniti-
eeDce. was the meeting place of the
caravans travelling between Asia and
Tie Mediterranean country. And to-
day they stand there pleading with
tapir out-spreading branches against
ruthless destruction to satisfy the
reed of man.
We may go back through history,
AID ruined city after ruined city
shows how ephemeral is everything
hat man builds. Did is never occur
10 YOU, has it never occurred to those
Who are interested in uplifting and
.ncreasing the power for good of the
church, and in carrying its missionary
work into the cities and into the Sums
and into the tenements, where, God
SHOWS, it is needed most of anywhere
eo this earth-has it never occurred to
Aeu that a child nurtured in the tene-
tHents and in the slums and in the
tHty flats. and seeing nothing around
Il but bricks and mortar and asphalt
md trolley-cars and things that man
'1S made, lives whore there is nothing
10 create a conception of a higher