The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-19
ROOSEVELT THE
CHIEF SPEAKER.
North American Conservation
q Congress at the White
House.
WHOLE WORLD INTERESTED
DELEGATES FROM CANADA AND
MEXICO PRESENT.
WHOLE WORLD INTERESTED

y Washington. Feb. 1S.-Permanent =
= organization of the North American =
= Conservation congress was perfected y
= at the first regular session with the =
= selection of Clifford Pinchot. q MEM =
= Der of the American delegation, as y
y chairman, no other name being pre- y
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Washington. Feb. demonstration CO.
operation OF worldwide scope was the
keynote of an address of President ROOse-
welt, made at the White House today be
fore the delegates in attendance upon the
North American Conservation conference
This sentiment, which was first voiced
by the president, gathered considerable
momentum during the days proceedings
and was reflected in addresses of those
who participated
Characterizing the movement as of the
utmost Importance To the world at large, -
President Roosevelt impressed upon the
representatives of this government, Can
ada and Mexico the momentous posi-
bilities of the work that has brought about
the assemblage-
Universal Congress.
President Roosevelt, after the session
opened, expressed the hope to Secretary
of State Bacon that universal conser-
walton congress. in which all nations shall
be invited to participate should become
a reality in the not distant future.
As showing the necessity for a uni
VersaI congress to deal with natural re-
sources. officials call attention to a re-
port from Consul General Wynne of Lon
don relative to the royal commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the question of
forest station in the United Kingdom.
Experts examined by this commission
with reference to the future scarcity Of
timber stated that in less than thirty
years no timber would be available unless
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about replanting Immediately and that if
every country should take it up now the
restoration would not be half fast enough
TO keep pace with the consumption.
Roosevelt's Address.
The president, after extending hearty
thanks said:
This conference represents one of the
many steps that have been taken of re-
cent years looking toward a harmonious
cO-operat ton between the nations of the
earth for the common advancement of
all.
In international relations the great fea-
+ure of the growth of the last century
has been the gradual recognition of the
xset that instead of its being normally
- the interest of one nation to see an
other depressed, It is normally to the in
terest of each nation to see the others
elevated. Fundamentally. it is the same
with nations as it is with individuals.
AS a rule the most prosperous man Is
the man who lives in a prosperous com
munity; as a rule the man is prosper
Gus who has prosperous people to deal
with who carries on his business with
other prosperous people, who has prosper
Gus people around about him. A poor 10
caiity is just the locality where it is hard
est for the ablest type of man to do
well.
Nations Like individuals,
\ The ablest man will do best where
oil Ia TU
so with US as nations. In commercial
relations the trade of one nation is great
est. not with the poor and backward ma
ton, but with the rich and the progress
sive nation.
''The movement that you gentlemen are
beginning. Of national cooperation for the
conservation of national and mterna-
tional resource. marks another stage in
the advance along these lines Each ma
ton will be left absolutely free, Of course,
to exercise its own wisdom in doing with
the things that concern itself, but 1t viii
be given the chance to profit by the Wis
dom of other nations; and l know of no
nation, or no individual, that cannot profit
by the wisdom of others.
I'm addition. the opportunity will be
given to all Of us to join together in 90
union. by all or some of US, as compared
with doing it each one separately. Win
nations whose boundaries march along a
great extent of land frontier, as with Can
ada. the InlteQ states anu MtAiGOs liEEIt
are necessarily large tracts of land in
which the welfare OF the people depends
upon the action, not only of that coun-
try, but of the neighboring country. This
of course. is especially true where our
streams are concerned. You cannot cut
down the forests on the headwaters OF ar
International stream without having il
hurt both nations.
Anxious to Help.
II am anxious to do all that in me lies
II help YOU gentlemen in getting our sew
eraf peoples 10 come together with the
idea of working in harmony for the COM
mon good, instead of working each to get
something at the expense Of the other
Ultimately each of us Will profit immeas-
urably il. instead of striving 20 advance
bv trampling down the other, each strives
to advance by joining with the other toi
the common advancement
Il welcome you on behalf OF our PEG
ple. I think It is Of good augury for the
North American continent that you should
he here. and 1 believe that the movement
which YOU this day inaugurate is of tbs
utmost Importance to this hemisphere and
may be of the utmost importance TO the
world at large"
Secretary Wilson declared it was only
a question of time when through the eff.
forts of experts of his department the cot
ton boil wseviI, which has been destruc-
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