Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-05-20
! GOVERNORS ADJOURN

'Ths Set Programme of the Last Das,
- ), Swept Aside and the President
With icharasteristic' Progressive.
|. ness, Lets 1t. be Known That Actor
L sis, What is Needed and There. Will
|, be MOI Hating for Precedent or Red
.Tape.uM osEoM ban. / II ;.
Washington, special.-The first
conference of ?the Governors sofE the
States Of the ..NmericannUnion ended
Friday. Theo final Accomplishment
|,,of tBe conference, which has been II
progress at. the White House fol
three days. cannot be Set forth. with
mathematical precision. That its I'M.
mediate results are more than ample
is the expression of President Roose
welt and of the Governors who par
ticipated. i'H- 7sa'.f .1a
j The2aprinted record Of the confer:
ence, which will later be available te
every American home, will be a com.
pilation Of facts, startling in theii
meaning, convincing in their univer
sal conclusion that the States musi
act, and that the States and the ma:
tion must cooperate that to the enc
the whole people of tho nation may
accure the lasting benefit of its nat
ural resources.
Declaration of Cooperation" !"
Besides the compilation of fact.
by the experts and the freely ex,
pressed opinion of the Governors, thu
conference leaves as its permanent
record o thousand word "declaratlor
Of cooperation.
Perhaps greater i'll Importance THAI
all else was the determination of the
Governors of the States to perfect 6
permanent organization whereby .
heretofore unknown intimacy may b.
developed among the Executives OF
the forty-six sovereign States, madt
strong by common purpose anc
made potent by a pro-announcement'
which may not lightly be disregarded
Of the last day the story is ont
of many features. The set pro.
gramme was swept aside. The Pres.
idept presided throughout. The pre-.
pared papers were not presented, bul
they will be printed in the permanent
record. Their places were taken first
by the "declaration" which wa
adopted after discussion which
brought to light no serious objection
to its afirmations.
President Roosevelt himself an
swering the one criticism--that OF
Governor Folk, Of Missouri-to TIL.
declaration, aroused the conference
to it's warmest demonstration Of ap;
Tproyal He swept aside the "aca
demic question: Of where the line o.
authority should be. drawn ibetweer
the States and the nation. He want:
ed action, and what he said received
endorsement t at each each per period. a1ti i wa
ll;sali: EaaiS:: eEi3 haonshige rail5;aGgp a.
e -. Roosevelt. forAction. 3i4.el i,
.l"Justja word ons what has beer
,calldd the twilight land between thu
powers of the Federal and State gov
ernments. My primary aim, in thu
legislation that l have advocated fol
the regulation of the great corpora
| ifions: has beencto provide Some effec
tive popular sovereign for each cor
poration. I do not wish TO keep thi!
twilight land one of large and vague
Boundaries, by judicial decision thai
in a given case the State cannot act
and then a few years later by othcI
decisions that in practically. simila
cases the nation cannot act either
I am trying 10 find ont where one o.
the other can act, so there shall al
ways, be some sovereign power thai
on behalf of the people can holt
every big corporation, every big in
dividual, to an accountability so tina
its or his acts shall be beneficial
to the people as a whole. Tn matters
that relate only to the people within
the State Gof course the State N t,
/ be- sovereign and it should have th'
power to act. IF the matter is .sucl
that the State. itself cannot act ther
/ wish on behalf of all the States
that; he national government shoule
act. .1,; ,a-.r, -,
The. declaration, upon = which tn
Presidents remarks were preiicated
was presented to the conference b.
I Governor Blanchard, Of Louisiana, a
the opening of the sessions. The de
claration begins: ifeia1 .a4el ii
4 MWe, the Governors Of the State
and Territories of the United State
ofr,America, in conference assembled
do hereby declare the conviction tha
the great prosperity of our countr..
rests upon the abundant resources o
| the land chosen by our, forefatler
| for their homes and where they lai,
the foundation Of this great nation.
THE declaration states that the nat
\ .ural- resources of the country arc th
common heritage of all the people
and that the duty of The govelnmen
is to. censure, the same for future gen
RECLAMATION work is advised an
the streams and watcrcourses shoul
be protected and improved: Forestr
ought to be encouraged by the State
and the general government. Th
! final work Of the conference was t
nhdke''it a prrmanencv
4 4 Torpedo 'Flotilla at Savannah.
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