The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-09
Uncle Joe
Fla form.
SPEAKER or HOUSE DEC ARES
HIS OPPOSITION no coa
SERVING RESOURCES.
NOR IS HE IN FAVOR OF Lance
EXPENDITURES FOR PAN
ANA CANAL.

! CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-pncle Joe Can
i non, speaking before the Chicago
bankers club declared his opposition
10 the Idea OF the reservation Of
pubic resources and against the ex.
lpeaditures c.. l-rge sums fer the com
ipletlon OF tho Panama canal.
! Before the speech was delivered
newspaper men were requested to
lave the room. Then the sneaker, de.
claring that they were all hardheaded
Business men and not doctrinaires.
sall that the province of the govern
mcnt was the protection II life. llber.
~ and property
LET IT perform those functions" he
sid. then let every man take care
Of himself"
There are great problems to be
solved by the next congress-" sa'l Nr.
cannon. "and they are not going to be
solved by the emotional hysterla Of
tho country"
! Other guests at the banquet were
Charles Warren Fairbanks and James
Hamilton Lewis. Charles G. Dawes, re.
firing president Of the club, acted IS
postmaster. Fairbanks was the frs.
speaker. He said that the Panama
canal was great undertaking but lie
expressed the belief that the country
would finish It.
No Time to Spend Money.
Then Cannon spoke. He referred
to the canal first OF all.
This is not time for the expendi.
ture of large sums d' money for the
completion of the Panama canal. Dis.
Greet care should be used in the en-.
deavor to build deep waterway from
the lakes to the gulf"
He said great engineering probleu,s
are involved and they might be left to
future generations.
Newspapers. magazines, specialists
and doctrinaries. women's clubs anil
school children. he said. signed me.
MORALS for congress for the issuance
# bonds for millions to be used in all
sorts of plans.
Because happen to be one con.
gracen,on u,ho l., In a ,,o,ik;o, ,,,l.,
my Judgment is brought to bear on
these subjects. some think I SHOULD
be killed altogether"
! He said that many people blamel
him for opposition to the re.foresta.
ton of the Appalachian range. Their.
is question, he said. as to whether
the nation had the police power %
prevent the destruction Of forests. He
said he thought that the police pow.
ers He with the State.
He declared that there was also a
question as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of rp.
,forestation and criticised magazines
and newspapers for their articles on
the waste of coal and timber. 1t re.
minded him, he said. of boy who was
requested by his teacher to figure out
how long It would take frog to jump
out Of a well If 1t fell back two feet
when 1t pumped up one. The maya.
zines. he said, seemed to forget the
great quantities Of undeveloped coal
/ in tho Rockies.
! Dcfers Completion Of Canal.
The completion of the Panama can
al he declared, might come when the
nation had reached five hundred mil
lion inhabitants.
! Transcontinental railroads might be
completed, he thought. when the na-
ton got to have one hundred or two
hundred million people 1t would be
q serious thing. he said. for the coun
try to go ahead now and make mis-
takes. Referring to the campaign, he
said:
"The campaign has demonstrated
that the democracy has a great lead
err but ne has developed great rpposl
ton. Some day a really great opposi.
ton TO Republicanism will develop
but 1T will be by real Jeffersonian
party"
He said that defeat had once come
to the Republicans because they had
billion dollar congress in two years
The government, he declared, waa
great and expensive. and now Bill.
lion dollar congress was the result.
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