The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26

last seven years a feeIing-in less than
that time-a deep feeling on the part or
the people that we must conserve the
resources that the Lord gave to this con-
tinent in order that our pOsterlty may
not be embarrassed and straitened and
even starved.
"a man says: Well, what has posterity
ever done for us% Well, I don't suppose
it ever has done anything for US, but
we are here and we have got TO work
out the problem, and we are bringing
forth children who will live to the time
when the conservation of these resources
will become a most valuable result to
them. 1t involves the saving Of the for
ests and the refOrestatiOn Of land which
has been denunded of forests; Il involves
the saving Of the water power so that
the public may enjoy it at reasonable
rates; {Applause) it involves the saving
Of the coal lands SO that the supply OF
coal shall be more or less under the con-
troll Of the public, and it involves the ex-
tension in every direction or the reclama-
ton Of our arid lands
Now. to one man more than any other
is the fact due that that issue IS before
the people, and that they have become
impressed with the necessity for our saw
ing, not wasting, the resources that God
has given us, and that man Is Theodore
Roosevelt. CHEERS and applause) 1t was
rot reserved for him to be in office as
President in the development, even, Of the
first of these great works
1T often happens that one man sOWs
and another reaps, and 1 could not but
feel that when ] stood at the mouth OF
the GUnnisOn tunnel, a tunnel six miles
lOng-lOnger than any irrigation tun-
mel in the wOTld-and opened the way for
the water from the GunnisOn river, III
order to come into that unprOnOuncabte
valley, UncOmpahgre valley, where thou
sands and thousands of acres were to be
made to blossom as the rose and to bring
forth the fruit which they say in Colo
RADIO even exceeds the fruit they raise IN
Utah-but, of course, that is an eXagger-
alton. UaughteD
Larger Fruit Here.
"When 7 am in Colorado the fruit
seems bigger there than anywhere, anC
when I come to Utah my glasses are fit
ted to see ii larger here. The pursuit OF
that policy involves self-restralnt; 1t IN
wolves foresight; il involves diligence and
industry, and II involves more than that
1t involves the passage Of legislation wei
directed toward the result, and that is
what we are going to do. We are gong
to move on congress and ask congress To
help US out. CApplause)
of course congress may have differ
ent views, and perhaps those Of us that
are most enthusiastic, those of us who
have clear ideas as to what ought to be
done, viii have to modify our views III
some way and arrange a compromise
But life is a compromise. Progress is a
compromise, and of all things that is q
eminent, because ii is a compromise be
tween ninety millions Of people, and that
is only obtained by party by the much
despised politics, by negotiation, by pull
ing wires, by speeches, and by all sorts
OF inducements of human nature to bring
about result.
"But, fortunately, in the time since We
have been a nation that has worked well
and as we look back we see that after
all, better than the course pursued OF
which would have been pursued by any
one man, was the course pursued by all
men together as a resultant Of their de
liberate judgments working together IN
one single direction.
Now, my friends, I am not going to
occupy you. 1t looks to me that as a
great exception you might have lit
tie rain in Salt Lake. 1 know you al
ways have sunlight here, but I am not
going to detain you in order to convince
you that your weather is not all that ii
ought to be.
II thank you from the bottom Of my
heart for your cordial reception. shall
carry away the most charming remem-
brances of Salt Lake and shall feel al
ways that here and throughout Utah Is
loyal population, looking towards Wash
ington for the inspiration Of the central
government, and standing by Old Glory,
the flag, as long as any part Of the
population Of the United States" (Cheers
and applauseO
The oil painting was brought to the
front of the platform after the applause
had subsidized, and then, in making the
presentation in behalf Of the state, Sen
ator Sutherland said:
Mr.. President: The people Of Utah
are not content that you should depart
from the state without bearing with you
some visible token Of their respect for
the high office which you occupy and
their sincere regard for you personally,
have therefore been commissioned by
them to present TO you in their name a
picture Of a Utah scene by a Utah art
list I am not a connoisseur Of such
things. I have no judgment worth the
acceptance of anybody as to whether
or not this picture satisfies the rigid re-
quirements Of the painters art, but
do know that 1t is a most faithful rep
resentatiOn Of the scene which it pur-
ports to represent.
TT is beginning to rain, and I am 60
ing to cut my remarks short. and now
present to you this picture, and with il
the good wishes, the sincere regard and
the loyal affection Of all our people,
(AQQ2a0se ga c6eeCg3
Then the President accepted the paint.
ing and said:
Senator Sutherland and People OF
Utah: I am glad to accept this beauti-
full evidence OF a work Of Nature that 1;
almost equal to the hand of man, and
shall treasure 1t always as a most pleas
ant remembrance Of a most pleasant
visit"