The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-11
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
 ADDRESSES ED TORS "The Square Deal" As It Should Appeal to
 the Craft. NATURAL RESOURCES. Advocates Income and In heritance Taxes to Re- strict Large Fortunes.
strict Large Fortunes.

ner1tanCe Taxes to Re-
 strict Large Fortunes.
 never able to see any mi quity save
 President Roosevelt spoke to the as- sembled editors in part as follows: q Ido not intend to dWelfAupon your dut- ies today, however, save that shall permit myself to point yout one mat ter where it seems to me that the need of our people is vital. It is essential that the man in public life and the man who writes in the public press shall both of them,s if, they are really good servants of the pg6ple, be ppoihpt to assail wrongdoing and wickedness. But in thus assailing wrongdoing and wiekedness, there are two conditions to be fulfilled, because if unfulhlled, harm and not good will result. In the first place, be sure of your facts and avoid everything like hysteria or exaggera- tion; for to assail decent man for something of which he Is innocent is to give aid and conAfort to every, .scoundrel, while indulgence in hys- terical exaggeration serves to weaken, not strengthen, the statement of truth. In the second place, be sure that you base your judgment on con duct and not on the social or economic position of the individual with whom you are dealing
 Ut is a sure sign of moral and men, tai dishonesty in any man if in his public assaults upon iniquity he is never able to see any iniquity save that of particular 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"
 Protect Our Natural Resources.
 President Roosevelt lamented that as a nation we have exercised such It. tie foresight in estimating the future, though admitting that lack of fore- sight is characteristic "of young and vigorous people" He went on to say: :, "The conservation of our natural re- sources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which un- derlies almost every other problem of our national life. Unless we maintain an adequate material basis for our civilization, we can not maintain the institutions in which we take so great and so just pride; and to waste and destroy our natural resources means to 1oy iva i.i |
 Tn 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 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 put ting upon the land permanent home makers who will use and develop 1t for themselves and for their children and childrens children.
 The Public Lands.
 'The public lands of the United States should be utilized in similar fashion. Our present public land laws were passed when there was vast surplus of vacant public land. Three years ago a public lands commission was appointed to scrutinize the law and the facts and to recommend 8 re- medy. Their examination specifically showed the existence of great frauds upon the public domain, and their re- commentators for changes in the law were made with the design of conserv- ing the natural resources of every part of the public land by putting it to it's best use. Attention was especially called to the prevention of settlement by the passage of great areas of pub lie lands into the hands of few men, and, to the, enormous waste caused by unrestricted grazing on the open range; system of using the natural