Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-14

plauded and cheered as he arose to ad-
dress the conference. He took issue with
Mr. Carnegies statement that wasteful
methods prevailed in iron mining in the
Lake Superior region. and cheerfully as
srred that gentleman that Mr.. Hill will
be glad to take issue with him on some
things
Continuing. Gov. Johnson said:
Il have beer. impressed during the last
two hours by the statements made as to
the exhaustion of the natural resources
of the country. 1t seems to me that the
sun of prosperity of America has reached
the summit and the shadows are falling
on the other side of the hill
This does not make much difference to
us. but we should do something for those
who are to come after us. l do not
know much Of the situation as TO coal.
hut in my state there is much iron ore
and as the governor of that state l have
familiarized myself to some extent with
this mineral.
There is criticism of the destruc-
ton of the forests Gov. Johnson con-
Guided. but the destruction of the for
ests on the Lake Superior range tended
to disclose the great iron ore deposits
there.
1T occurs to me that this conference
may wisely consider not only the con-
servation of natural resources but give
attention to measures for the true de-
, velopment of industry. One is as i'm
portant as the other in the prosperity
OF our country"
Technical Information was next supplied
| The conference by Dr. G.. r. Van Heise
of the University of Michigan. who was
introduced by Gov. Johnson. 4 call FOR
Gov Hughes met spontaneous backing.
but the departure of the governor for
Albany was announced.
John Hays Hammond, who has the ""p-
utation of being the highest paid mining
| engineer in the country. read paper
on engineering methods. in which he
| drew the conclusion that while there was
no way to revolutionze mining methods,
they might be improved gradually.
| The climax of the afternoon session was
the speech of Secretary OF State Elihu
Root.
Root Enthusiastically Greeted.
| Mr.. Root was received with great en-
! thusiasm and the remarks he made met
approval by demonstration euualed only
| by that accorded the President on his
entrance at the morning session. Mr.:
| Roof said: ~
Mr.. Chairman: What occurs to me to
! say y response to your very kind invita-
| ton is what comes naturally to the mind
| Of the officer who is the official medium
!, of communication between thes govern
ment of the United States and the gov
ernments of the states. Forty-four SOW
eraign states are represented here today.
| All are sovereign. here upon the invita-
ton of the executive of the sovereign
natiOn-the United States No one can
Overestimate the Importance of main
! tanning each and every one of the soyer-
eighties of the states and no one can
overestimate the Importance of maintain
ing the sovereignty Of the United States.
The nation cannot perform the function
of the states snvereignties. If it were to
undertake to perform those functions it
| would break down-the machinery would
not be able to perform the duty. The
pressure is already very heavy
upon the national machinery to
do its work l feel deeply i'm
pressed with the idea that the forty
six sovereign states in the performance
of duties of government are tagging be-
hind the stage of development which the
other sevoreignties of the earth have
reached.
LAS the population of your states in
crease. as the relations between the peo-
pie of each state and each other state
grow more frequent. more complicated.
more important, more intricate. what
every state does is more important to the
people of every other state
Relations of the Nations.
IF you look at the international life
Of the world you will see that the CORE
spondence between the nations is contin-
ually ng-correspondeace not in
the letter. writing sense. but the inter-
communication and understanding about
benefit of all their people. Scores and