The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-11

two conditions to be fulfilled. because If multiplied, harm and not good VIII result. In the first place, be sure or your facts and avoid everything ike hysteria or exagseration; for to assaii q decent man tor something oI Wnlch he Is innocent is to give aid and com fort to every scoundrel. while indui- gence in hysterical exaggeration serves to weaken. not strengthen. the state ment of truth In the second place, be sure that you base your Judgment or economic position of the individual with whom you are dealing
 There are good and bad men in every walk of life, and their being good or they have or do not have large bank accounts Yet this elemental fact. this fact which we aliSaccept as self the people whom he himself knows h his business and social relations, IS often completely ignored by certain The men who thus ignore 1t and wno attack wickedness only when found in particular class are always unsafe, saders ana ass Disira eSsay Sssy shs who is never able to discover any vices of rien men to attack and the man wno confines himself to attacking the sins and shortcomings Of rich men.
 Sign 0f Dishonesty.
 It is sure sign of moral and mental dishonesty in any man if in his pueiic
 
 to see any iniquity save that of par ticular class; and this whether he is able only to see the crimes of arrogance and oppression in the rich or the crimes of envy and violence in the poor. tie is no true American if he is a respecter of persons where right and wrong are the deInagogue no less than the cor ruptionist. to denounce alike crimes of organized greed and crimes of brutal violence.
 There is equal need to cenounce the wealthy man who swindles investors or buys legislatures or expresses wage workers, and the needy man who in- violence. We need to hold the scales down on one side is as bad as to weigh thsm vh down cor on the the o5hea; esva n sav to you in your capacity of molders anu guides of public thought. In addition l wantsto speak to you on two great feel must necessarily occnpy no incon- men men hDii in the near IT futurg i Sne of these shaping our system of taxation so as to make it bear most heavily on those most capable of supporting the strain The other is the question of utilizing the natural resources of the nation in the way that will be of most benefit to the nation as whole.
 In utilizing and conserving the
 
 characteristic more essentialzthan- any other is foresight. Unfortunately, foresight is not usually characterfstic of young and vigorous people. and teristic of us in the United States. Yet assuredly 1t should be the growing long look ahead; and no other nation is growing So rapidly as ours or has future so full of promise. No other nation enjoys so wonderful measure 1p rrrh right be treated as an earnest of future success, and for no other are the re- wards of foresight so great, so certain. as nation we have tended to live with an eye single to the present. and have permitted the reckless waste and de- struction of much of our natural wealth.
 Conservation of Resources
 The conservation of our natural re- sources and their proper use consti- underlies almost every other problem of our national life. Unless we main tain an adequate material basis for our institutions in which we take so great and so just a pride; and to waste and destroy our natural resources means to ing the last five years efforts have been made in several new directions in the Government service to get our people to look ahead. to exercise fore 
 orderly development of our resources in the place of a haphazard striving for immediate profit. The eIAort has been made through several agencies.
 In 1902 the Reclamation Service be- gan to develop the larger opportunities of the western half of our country for irrigation. The work includes all the States from the Great Plains through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific slope. It has been conducted With the clear and definite purpose of using the valuable water resources of the public land for the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run; in other words. for the purpose of putting upon the land permanent home makers who will use and develop 1t for them selves and for their children and chill drens children. There has been op- position, of course, to this work of the Reclamation Service; for we have been obliged to antagonize certain men whose interest 1t was to exhaust for their own temporary personal profit natural resources which ought to be developed through use. so as to be con- served for the permanent common ad- vantage of the people as whole. But there will be no halt in the work of preserving the waters which head in the Rocky Mountain region so as to make them of most use to the people as a whole: for the policy is essential to our national welfare. ss-, s,e ss
 The public lands of the United States