The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-12-06

not with wisdom be dealt with in the
year preceding a presidential election.
has conclusively shown that at such a
time 1t il impossible to get men to treat
1t from the standpoint of the public good.
In my JUDGMENT the wise time to deal
such election"
income Tax and Inheritance Tax.
when our tax laws are revised the
itance tax should receive the careful at
tention Of our legislators. In my judg-
ment both OF these taxes should be part
Ct our system Of federal taxatio1I
trial Disputes.
STRIKES and lockouts. with their at
tendant loss and suffering, continue to
decrease. For the five years ending Dec.
81. 1908. the number of strikes was
greater than those in any previous ten
years and was double the number in the
preceding five years. These figures in
dictate the increasing need of providing
Of disturbances in the interest alike Of
the employer, the employe, and the gen.
eral public. I renew my previous rec
o~mmendation that the congress favorably
consider the matter of creating the ma
chinery for compulsory investigation OF
such industrial controversies as are Of
sufficient magnitude and of sufficient con-
Germ to the people of the country as a
in taking action
National Inspection of Grain.
1.-The grain producing industry of the
country, one OF the most important in
the United States, deserves special con-
sideration at the hands of congress. Our
grain ia sold almost exclusively by
grades. To secure satisfactory results
in our home markets and to facilitate
our trade abroad. these grades should
approximate the highest degree Of uni
formity and certainty. The present di-
verse methods Of inspection and grading
throughout the country under different
laws and boards result in confusion and
lack of uniformity. destroying that con,
tdence which is necessary for healthful
trade. Complaints against the present
methods have continued for years and
~tensity, not only in this country but
abroad. 1 therefore suggest to the con-
gress the advisability of a national sys-
tenn of inspection and grading of grain
merce as a remedy for the present evils.
Inland Waterway.
The conservation of our natural re-
sources and their proper use constitute
the fundamental problem which underlles
almost every other problem OF our ma
tional life. We must maintain f1r "'r
civilization the adequate material basis
without which that civilization cannot
exist. We must show foresight. We must
'ok ahead. As a nation We not only en-
oy. a wonderful measure Of present pros.
1t is an earnest of future success such as
no other nation vii. nave. The reward OF
foresight for this nation is great and
easily foretold. But there must be the
look ahead, there must be a realization
of the fact that to waste, to destroy. our
natural resources. to skin and a
crease its usefulness. will result in un-
dermining in the days Of our children
the very prosperity. which we ought by
right to hand down to them amplitied and
through several agencies. the government
has been ~endeaNoring to get our people to
look ahead and to substitute a planned
and orderly development of our
in place OF a haphazard striving for i'm
mediate profit. Our great river systems
should be developed as national water
utar1es. STANDING first in Importance, and
the Columbia second. although there are
MANY others of Importance on the Pa
citic. the Atlantic and the gulf slopes.
he national government should under
e his work, and l hope a beginnin"
III be made in the present congress: an
S,nni. should receive especial attention:
from the Great Lake to the mouth of
the Mississippi there should be a deep
waterway. with deep waterways leading
from 1t to the -7st and the West. Such
a waterway would practically mean the
extension OF our coast line into the very
heart Of our country. 1t would be of in
calculable benefit to our people. If be-
gun at once it can be carried through in
uthe anpreclably to relieve the congestion
OF O., our great freight CARRYING lines of
railroads.. The work should be sys-
tematlcally and continuously carried for
WARD In accordance with some well-con-
celVed plan.
Il have appointed an inland waterways
commission to study and outline a COM
prehensiiye scheme Of development along
al the lines indicated. Later l shall Law
~ report R se,GIs sne ,e9nS Werk.
irrigation should be far m ore ex-
tensively developed than at present not
only IN the states OF the great plains and
the Rocky mountains but in many others
as. Tor instance, in large portions of the
'outh Atlantic and Gulf States, where
t should go hand in hand with the rec
tamatlon OF swamp land. The, work of
me reclamation service in developing the
larger opportunities of the western half
or our country for irrigation is more i'm
n0rtant than almost any other movement.
The constant purpose of the government
In connection with the reclamation serv-
Ice has been to use the water resources
or the public lands for the m great
est good of the greatest number; in other
words. to put upon the land permanent
h"nlemakers. to use and develop it for
themselves and for their children and
children's children"
Forestry.
On the subject of forestry the presi-
dent says:
are prone to speak Of the resources
or this country as i~nexhaustible this is
not so. The mineral wealth of the coun-
try. the coal, iron. oil. gas and the like.
does not reproduce itself, and therefore is
certain to BE exhausted ultimately. and
Wastefulness in dealing with it to-day
means that our descendants will feel the
exhaustion a generation or two before
they otherwise would. But there are GER
tam other forms of waste which could be
entirely s~topped-the waste of soil by
washing. for instance, which is among
the most dangerous of all wastes now in
progress in the United States, is easily
preVentable. 80 that this present enormous
loss of fertility is entirely unnecessary,
The preservation or replacement of the
forests is one Of the most important
means of preventing this loss. We have
made a beginning in forest preservation,
but it is only a beginning.
Every business man in the land, every
writer in the newspapers, every mar or
woman Of an ordinary school education.
ought to be able to see tina immense
quantities of timber are used in the
country, that the forests which supply
this timber are rapidly being exhausted
and that, If no change takes place, ex-
haustion will come comparatively soon,
and that the effects OF it will be felt Sc
verely in the everyday life Of our PEG.
pie. Surely when these facts are so OBJ
vious there should be no delay in TAX
ing preventive measures.
Panama Canal.
work on the Panama canal Is pro-