Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
WORLD Taxes NOTICE
Roosevelt Does Something That
Makes Good His Nomination
as World President
CONSERVATION SCHEME BIG
President Will be Made Head of In
ternational Organization to Grow
Out of His misunderstanding Big
Beyond Contemplation - Aims to
Conserve National Peace Also.
CONSERVATION SCHEME BIG
Especial Correspondence

Washington. Feb 23.-Somebody a
couple of years ago nominated Theo-
dore Roosevelt to be president of the
| world
Now there is reason to believe the
president has seconded the nomination,
| by calling a world conservation con-
gress at The Hague.
That Mr.. Roosevelt will be made the
executive head of the international or
ganization which will grow out of ais
call to the nations to get together for
this peaceful purpose, is generally ac-
cepted as assured in advance. The
movement is his own; the invitations
come from him; he will stand before
! the world as the first private citizsn
| of his country, a maker of peace and a
promoter Of reforms He WILL be the
only man thought of for head of the
permanent organization which will
carry out the huge task of making an
| inventory Of natural wealth of the
world.
Big Beyond Contemplation.
The presidents scheme is big almost
beyond the possibility of contempla-
| ton He has conceived how the people
| of Mars, when they saw their world
cooling and dts water vanishing and
| atmosphere growing thinner, getting
together to apply scientific methods of
conserving all they had and making
their resources go as far as possible.
He has seen that as to some resources
the world is nearing sight of a period
not unlike this. Coal, forests, fertility
these will not last always. so the
idea of getting together and beginning
early to guard against the futures
defamation.
NOn the way to the time when the
earth Will be dried up like Mars, and
long this side of that period, there will
come an epoch when the tropics with
their vast productiveness must be de-
veloped; when the sea must be made
to give UP mere to man; when there
must be systematically put back into
the soil an equivalent for all taken
from it.
Beyond all this, there is the idea of
making lit as easy as possible for ono
people, one continent, one race, to ben
eft by the surplus of another; to pro-
mote easy exchange; to take down TAR
if and customs barriers in the inter-
est of the common good. There lies
the solution of the problems Of COM
mercial warfare.
Conserve Peace Also.
And more than all this, more imme-
diately of interest, the president sees
the possibility of promoting peace and
prosperity by bringing the nations more
and more to know and understand each
other: by getting them to cooperate
in many works; by bringing them
around the council board at The Hague
as often as possible to confer together
and impress on each other the fact
that the world after all is but neigh
borhood and that no nation or people
is independent nowadays of the others.
So much and vastly more has been
in the presidents mind. What will
come of his plan is matter of specula-
ton. He will himself be in Africa
| when his conference meets at The
Hague next September. That the ma
lions will respond, and do so with en-
thusiasm and alacrity, is not doubted
here 1t is fully anticipated that the
press and public and parliaments of
the whole world will promptly respond
in favor of the plan. For one thing,
there is nothing to be said against it..
but when he is done with his Afri-
can hunt the president will come back
to civilization, and has arranged to
l,visit several European countries. He
has invitations from rulers to visit a
good share of the world, and there Is
every reason to expect that when he
appears in Europe he will receive such
an ovation as private citizen has
never known From that to the chief
taincy of the great movement he will
have started, will be but a short and
obvious step.
This is the career which suddenly
opens its possibilities to the retiring
president Now. that he has issued his
invitations for the world conservation
congress, every 1y is saying some
thing like this.
81 knew he'd .nne big, striking,
spectacular thing Of = sort which
would set the whole world talking
about him, before he left; but who'd
have thought of this"
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