Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-08-14
PINCHO1 ON
: CONSERVATION
,nnprss BEFORE TYP0GRAPHl.
c,1 CONVENTION BY GOVERN
vrNT's CHEF FORESTER-HE
nrrrNDs NATIONAL POLICY.

: potion. Aug. 14.-The chief fea-
.,rs of the proceedings OF the inter-
sational typographical convention
- was the address given before
.hat body by Chief Forester Plnchot.
hs+ract of the address is as fol-
lcws:
rba conservation of natural re-
,rces is the use of hard sense,
sns;ness principles and practical
rrovledge in dealing with the land
~. live in. 1t means keeping TINS
,,rtrv a good place to live in for
ourselves and for our children. Most
- oil it means the avoidance OF
waste
when the founders of this nation
handed in America they found one
- the most magnificent forests OF
oil the world. They used some of
!, Int they or their descendants
r.sted as much as they used, un-
III today the end of our timber sup
r,v is in sight. If the present rate
=. cutting should continue. 1t will
he gone in 25 or 80 years. We have
had and we still have vast mineral
resonrces. But we have wasted
aho,N half the coal in the mines al
r.adv worked by defective methods
nj mining and by taking only the
hest and much of the power In the
ccal iswasted when we burn 1t. But
coal once burned cannot, like tim
her he replaced by care and culti-
yation. Once gone, 1t is gone for
ever.
We have the most wonderful sys-
tenn of rivers to be found In any civ
1l,zed country, and the least used.
There is less transportation on our
rivers, taken altogether. now than
there was so years ago. and In spite
OF the vast sums spent upon them,
they are less navigable than they
were then. We have allowed them
to be clogged with soil washed from
our fields and mountain sides and
wasted their value for navigation.
~ The fertile soil which has .clogged
our rivers has been washed from our
1ields and everyone of the hundreds
Of millions OF tons SO lost every year
helps to make the farmers poorer
and to reduce the product of our
farms. .'-
1t is a great and pressing patri-
otic duty to stop this waste and In.
stead to substitute care and fore
sight in the use Of the great re-
sources for our posterity. The whole
future of our country depends upor
what we of this generation decide tt
do with our resources. @ .f tf
President Roosevelt has put intt
the minds of the American peopl,
three great ideas: First, the ide;
of the square deal, which is the fair
play policy and involves the ques
tion of whether or not the grea
public service corporations like tn
railroads shall be the servants o
the masters of the people; second
the conservation or foresight idea
"hi0H iHNOiNcS lie QucollOA "A0'AS
or not we shall throw away the fu
tnre of this nation by destroyin
the resources of its material wei
fare; third, the farm, life idea o
lolicy. to consider which he has jus
appointed commission on countr
life. This policy involves the ques
tion whether the men who produc
our food in the country shall hav
as good chance in social, intellet
tua and cooperative life as tn
men who consume the food in tn
towns. For these thre ideas Pres
dent Roosevelt will be remembers
and blessed long after all OF us hav
Zone to our reward.