Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-15
PINCHOT WOULD
PRESERVE TIMBER
MAKES PLEA FOR FORESTS
AND STREAMS
NATURAL RESOURCES RAPIDLY
DISAPPEARING
Splendid Address Delivered Before
Delegation to international Typo
graphical Union in Session
at Boston

BY Associated Press.
BOSTON, Aug. 14--At today's session
of the International Typographical I'M
ion the request of the Seattle union for
support in the court case brought
against it by an expelled member
caused heated debate.
The case was finally referred to the
executive council for invest Sc ton ana
report, il in the opinion Of the Inter
national Typographical unions lawyers
the matter warranted 1t.
Business was temporarily suspended
while Chief Forester Clifford Pincot
smoke on the necessity of conservation
Of the nations natural resources. lie
said in part;
ia the use of hard sense, business prln-
cipIes and practical knowledge IN deal
ing with the land we live in. 1t means
keeping this country in good place 10
live in for ourselves and for our chill
dren.
Most of all, 1t means the avoidance
of waste When the founders of TINS
nation landed in America they found
one of the most magnificent forests OF
all the world They used some OF II,
but they or their descendants wasted as
much as they used, until today the
end of our timber supply Is III slght;
If the present rate of cutting shoulu
continue it will be gone in twenty-five
or thirty years.
1--WE have had and we still have vast
mineral resources. But we have vast
ed about half the coal in the mines all
ready worked by defective methods OF
mining and mainly by taking only the
best, and much of the power IN the
coal Ia wasted when we burn 1t. But
,ed rannnf like tim her. be
replaced by care and cultivation. once
gone, it is gone forever.
Rivers Are Neglected
I'VE have the most wonderful system
of rivers to be found in any civilized
country, and the least used, There Is
less transportation on our rivers, taken
altogether now, than there was fifty
years ago, and in spite OF the vast
sums spent upon them, they are less
navigabe than they were then. We
have allowed them to be clogged with
the soil washed from our tieids ana
mountain sides and wasted their value
for navigation.
ssThe fertile soil which has clogged
our rivers has been washed from our
fields, and every one of the hundreds
of millions of tons lost each year helps
to make the farmer poorer ana TO re-
duee the product of our farms.
duty to stop this waste, and instead to
substitute care and foresight as ma
ton in the use of the great resources
Of our prosperity The whole future of
our country depends upon what we of
this generation decide to do with our
resources.
president Roosevelt has put into the
hands of the American people three
great thingsr first, the square deal,
which is the fair play policy and in
wolves the question of whether or not
the great public service corporations
like railroads shall be the servants or
the masters of the people; second, the
conservation or foresight idea, which
involves the question whether or not
we shall throw away the future of this
nation by destroying the resources OF
its material welfare; third, the farm
life idea or policy, TO consider which he
has. just appointed a commission on
country life.
This policy involves the question OF
whether the men who produce our food
in the country shall have as good a
chance in social, intellectual and CO
operative life as the men who consume
the food in the towns.
For these three ideas President
Roosevelt win be remembered and
blessed long after all of us have gone
TO our reward"