The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-22

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 great cattle and sheep owners.
 The enactment of a pure food law was recognition of the fact that the public welfare outweighs the right to private gain and that no man may poison the people for his private profit. The employers liability bill recognized the controlling fact that, while the employer usually has at stake no more than his profit, the stake of the employee is living for himself and bis family.
 For the Benefit of the People.
 We are building the Panama canal, and this means that we are engaged In the giant engineering feat of all time. We are striving to add in all ways to the habitability and beauty of our country We are striving to hold in the public hands the remaining SUD- ply of unappropriated coal for the pro- tection and benefit of all the people. We have taken the first steps toward the conservation of our natural re- sources and the betterment of country life and the improvement of our wa terways. We stand for the right of every child to a childhood free from grinding toll and to an education, for the civic responsibility and decency of every citizen, for prudent foresight in public matters and for fair play in every relation of our national and eco homie life. In international matters we apply a system of diplomacy which puts the obligations of international morality on a level with those that govern the actions of an honest gen. tleman in dealing with bis fellow men. Within our own border we stand for truth and honesty in public and in private life, and we war sternly against wrongdoes of every grade.
 The obligations and not the rights of citizenship increase in proportion to the increase of mans wealth or pow CT. The time is coming when man will be judged not by what he has sue ceeded in getting for himself from the common store, but by how well he has done his duty as a citizen and by what the ordinary citizen has gained in free dom of opportunity because of his service for the common good. The highest value we know is that of the individual citizen, and the highest jus tice is to give him fair play in the ef- fort to realize the best there is in him.
 Common Sense Needed.
 The tasks this nation has to do are great tasks. They can only be done at all by our citizens acting together, and they can be done best of all by the di- rect and simple application of homely common sense.
 The national conservation commiS- sion wisely confined its report to the statement of facts and principles, leav- Ing the executive to recommend the specific steps to which these facts and principles inevitably lead. According " call your attention to some of the larger features of the situation dis closed by the report and to the action thereby clearly demanded for the gen. eral good
 Waters.
 The report says:
 Within recent months 1t has been rec ognized and demanded by the people, through many thousand delegates from all states assembled in convention in diff ierent sections of the country, that the waterways should and must be improved promptly and effectively as means of maintaining national prosperity.
 The first requisite for waterway i'm provement is the control of the waters in such manner as to reduce floods and reg uiate the regimen of the navigable riv- CTS The second requisite is development or terminals and connections in such man. ner as to regulate commerce.
 Accordingly I urge that the broad plan for the development of our water ways, recommended by the inland wa 1erways commission. be put in effect