Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-10-14
CONSERVATION TO
HAVE TAFT'S HELP
Would CIinCh Laws Which Prevent
Growth of MOnOpOIies.
Says Congress Must Enact Neces-
sary Laws-Carry Ouv Roosevelt
Polices-Warns People Not t
Become SIothfuI and Careless
When Good Times Prevail.

Sacramento, CAL, Oct. 5.-After
making one of the longest jumps of his
trip and travelling fer rs hours through
the state of Oregon, and the northern
half of California, President Taft ar
rived last night at 7:10 p. m.
The president selected for the prin-
cipal feature of his speech the subject
of the conservation of natural re-
sources, in which he declared anew that
before many of the Roosevelt policies
of conservation can be carried into
effect confrmatory and enabling legis-
lation will have to be secured, and he
pledged himself to bring all the power
he possesses to bear upon congress to
pass the laws that are deemed neces-
sary.
Speaking from the car-end at Duns-
muir today, Mr.. Taft said:
81 am on tour of some 13, 600 miles
and am trying to gather information
as we go with reference to the condi-
tion of the country and at the same
time to give you superficial aspect of
the man whom it has been your good or
bad fortune to elect president. / think
that personal touch between the people
and those whom you honor by delegat-
ing authority temporarily is good
thing, so that you may know when Il
make my mistakes, and they are repre-
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phasis, that l am still poor mortal
praying for assistance and hoping that
you will forgive human error.
Everywhere in this country l have
found evidences of prosperity from
Boston to Portland, and if signs do not
fail, we are upon an era of business
enterprise and expansion that has
never been seen in this country before.
Now with that l would not have you
forget that here are certain response
bilities. We have had evils growing
out Of our prosperity. Men have seized
power by means of accumulation of
wealth and its use in methods that are
not legal and cannot be approved, by
way of monopoly and otherwise. Now,
we are attempting by the general law
of the United States to suppress that
kind of abuse. They we're brought to
the attention of the people in a mar
velous crusade by my predecessor, The
odore Roosevelt, and it is my duty to
continue those policies and to enforce
them as far as may and put upon the
statute books, or at least recommend
to congress that there be put upon the
statute books those laws which shall
clinch the progress which was made
under him, which he preached and
which we all look forward to as per-
manent condition.
"Now, my fellow citizens, as look
out upon this audience, feel sure that
you are not only healthy in body but
healthy in mind that you are in favor
of the good things; that you are in
favor of decent government; that you
are in favor of decent men and decent
women and that you look forward to
the future as time when we shall all
grow better. The truth is that money
and wealth contribute nothing unless
they enable US to make ourselves bet
ter, unless they enable US to think
something of others and to help others
those who are down-onward in the
progress of life. We cannot all be al
TRUSTS in the sense that we can devote
our attention to somebody else all the
time, for we have to look after our
selves and our families, but am sure
that in the last generation there has
been an improvement throughout our
country with reference to charitable
feeling towards all, and desire on the
part of each to help ALL"