The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-26
Taft Urges People to Widen Their
streets; and Let the Sun
shine Have Room to
Shine Upon All.
PRESIDENT ON JUMP
In His Address on Conservation to
Utah Audience, He Said That
Roosevelt is Entitled &c
Credit For Issue.
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lGdte lily Leased wire oerVlCS,J
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 25.-
President Taft concluded his busy
day in Utah's metropolis this after
noon with banquet at the Alta club
and a hand shake all around. From s
o'clock in the morning until midnight
he was on the jump almost every min
ute and besides covering thirty-five or
forty miles in an automobile made
thirty by train out to Salt Air, the
summer resort on the shore of Amer
ica's dead sea, spoke to crowds at
Liberty park and the Country Club,
and attended an organ recital in the
great Mormon tabernacle.
His address at the park was Wig
orous demand for wider streets and
more breathing spaces in our cities.
II don't intend to discuss the con-
servation of our resources in detail
In this speech. But there has arisen
within the last several years and in
less than that time, a deep feeling in
part of the people that We must con-
serve the resources that the Lord
gave to this continent in order that
our prosperity may not be embarrass-
ed, straitened and even starved. We
are bringing forth children who will
live to the time when the conserva
ton OF the resources will become a
most valuable resource to them. Il
involves the saving of forests and the
demonstration of the land which ha
been denuded of forests 1t involves
/ the saving of the water power so thai
the public may enjoy 1t at reasonable
rates 1t involves the saving of the
coal lands. SO that the supply of Goa
shall be more or less under the con
troll Of the public. And it involves
the extension in every direction of the
reclamation of our arid lands.
Now to one man more than an!
other is the fact due that this issue
is before the people and that the!
have become impressed with thu
necessity Of saving and not wasting
the resources that God has given ant
that man is Theodore Roosevelt
was not reserved for him to be il
Office as president in the develop
ment even of the first of these grea
works.
at has often happened that one ma
sows and another reaps and coul
not but feel this when | stood at tn
mouth of the Gunnison tunnel an
opened the way for the water fror
the Gunnison river in order to com
into that unpronouncable valley, tn
Uncompaghfe Valley where thousand
and thousands of acres are to be mad
to blossom as the rose.
"The pursuit of that policy involve
self restraint, it involves foresight,
inolves diligence and industry and
invoices more than that. 1t involve
the passage of legislation we'll direc
ed toward the result. and that is VIII.
we are going to do. We are going
move on congress and ask congress
help us out. Of course congress ma
have a different view and perhaT
those of us that have a clear idea {
what will have to be done, will hay
to modify our views in some way an
arrange compromise. But life is
compromise, progress is compromis
and of all things that are the result
of compromise is popular governmeI
J because it is compromise betwee
ninety million of people. That is onl
j accomplished by parties, by the muc
despised politics, by negotiation, b
speeches and by all sorts of induc
ment to human nature, to bring abol
a result. But fortunately in TIE tin
9 since we have been a nation tn;
much worked we'll and as we loo
J, back we see that after all, better tha
v any course pursued or which hay
; been pursued by any one man, W;
i the course pursued by all men t
q gether as a result Of their delibera
n judgments, working together in OF
single direction"
President Taft will leave at noe
today for Ogden after meeting sever
thousand school children and grow
n people at the Mormon tabernacle.