The daily sentinel., 1907-06-10
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In of supporting the strain. The
oaer is the question of utilizing the
,sturaI resources of the nation in the
IN that will be of most benefit to
ihe nation as a whole.
/ Ma utilizing and conserving the nat
|rraI resources of the nation the one
characteristic more essential than any
/oiher is foresight. Unfortunately.
|foesight is not usually characters
|fk of a young and vigorous people
All # Is obviously not a marked char
aierstic of us in the United States.
|Yet assuredly it should be the grow
|hg nation with a future which takes
La long look ahead; and no other
[ntiOn is growing so rapidly as ours
|o has a future so full of promise.
Ia other nation enjoys so wonderful
|t measure of present prosperity
|rhich can of right be traced as an
Earnest one of future success, and for
Ia other are the rewards of foresight
~ great, so certain, and so easily
4 |bretOld Yet hitherto as a nation we
|hve tended to live with an eye single
I'd the present, and have permitted the
NEEDLESS waste and destruction. of
much of our natural wealth.
fThe conservation of our natural re-
pnrces and their proper use consti-
Pie the fundamental problem which
1nderlies almost every other problem
F of our national life. Unless we MAIN
pin an adequate material basis for
olr CIVILIZATION, we can not maintain
.ne Institutions in which we take so
.Feat and so just a pride; and to
Fasle and destroy our natural re-
flrees means to undermine this ma
'hrlal basis. During the last five
ytars efforts have been made in sever
n new directions in the government
frvlee to get our people to look
anead. to exercise foresight. and to
|Nostltute a planned and orderly de
'Flopment of our resources in the
place OF a haphazard striving for i'm
'Aedlate profit. The effort has been
'hade through several agencies.
In 1902 the Reclamation Serv-
" began to develop the larger oppor-
llhltles of the western half of our
euntry for irrigation. The work in
tuqes all the States from the Great
fains through the Rocky Mountains
4 the Pacific slope. 1t has been con
quoted with the clear and definite
PURPOSE Of using the valuable water
Iesources of the public land for the
tlea'est good for the greatest num-
per n the long run; in other words,
III the purpose of putting upon the
'nnu permanent home makers who
flii use and develop it for themselves
fll lor their children and children s
tniiuren. There has been opposi-
ton, OF course, to this work of the
i'eciamation Service; for we have
ecu Obliged to antagonize certain
,en whose interest it was to exhaust
,ol their own temporary personal
lont natural resources which ought
Y pe developed through use. so as
oe conserved for the permanent
.Ominon advantage of the people as
~nole. But there will be no halt
me work of preserving the wat
which head in the Rocky Noun
tn region so as to make them of
~ ,os. use to the people as a whole;
Io0r the policy is essential to our ma
Iohal welfare.
me public lands of the United
800 tsls5 should be utilized in similar
lsllon' Our present public land
~ a1 were passed when there was a
~ m surplus of vacant public land.
,a ~ Chlet desire was to secure set
I'M I'M lhereon, and comparatively
sin' attention was paid as to eX-
4 now the lands were disposed of
m, ue'all In consequence. lax exc
bo,b ,'n OF the laws became the rule
lu n N the land office and in the pub
IN, ny mind. and land frauds were com
-,ol -'e5I- and little noted. This was es-
,lIr lIy true when a system origin
vatasSes3 lsned for the fertile and well
was leu regions of the Middle West
applled to the drier regions of