The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-24

SOLID merchants ana the papers e0u-
eating and arousing the nation.
Important Job of Educating Public
Educating? Yes-that is wherein
the chief value of the work lies. If
we never had a deeper channel, the
educational one would make the cam
paign memorable. In the old mon
arches public works depended upon
the will of one man or of a well-edu-
Gated minority Such works might
be overthrow or abandoned by the
within of the next ruler. With us no
great work can be undertaken until
the majority, the mass of the democ-
racy is educated to the point where
it can comprehend and can favor it;
and any work based on the education
of the nation can not be overthrow,
but must continue to advance. 1t is
by such campaigns that a democracy
advances to higher things, slowly but
with increasing purpose and power.
1t can not retrograde. And how pow
eTIullH LHlS one has DtSu
was evidenced last December when
there gathered at Washington at the
same time the Southern Commercial
congress, the governors of all the
states, and the National Rivers and
Harbors congress, 5000 delegates,
representing every large commercial
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of the Union, to formulate program
upon which states and nation might
work together for the accomplish
ment of the new purposes-the for
mutation of a policy, not the advo-
cacy of selfish project.
Never in America or elsewhere has
there been brought together such
another body of men as that. On all
that concerned trade relations, and
that means international relations in
general, they were not only we'll in
formed, but eager to use their knowl-
edge. They saw the little river at
home not merely a possible route for
SJSdUlUOdt, UuI iii itS lCldtlOh W thS
problem of rate regulation and of
general commerce. 1t was their link
to the La Plata and the Yellow river.
Through it they sought not to get
their coffee in cheaper but to send
their goods to wider markets. And
seeing this they understood also its
t0 he nrnhlon1c tN
the storage of water, to the develop
ment and use of power, to the inter-
relations OF the states. Never has a
body of representative men come to-
gether which understood so well the
whole problem which they were to
discuss.
Upstairs in room of the Willard
hotel lay John Fox, just emerged
from a hospital. Worn to shadow;
too weak to spend more than a few
hours of the day in the lobby; but
inspired by the sight of this culmina-
ton of his efforts, he received the
endless congratulations and good
WISHES Dt IDt '" AIo hthN
sought him out. He, who three years
before had not been known outside
of the ST. Francis. was the best
known and the most popular man
there. He had come there to lay
down his dictatorship and to go back
to private life; but the demand for
his help was too strong to be resisted
Walking Chautauqua on Conservation
"Are you going to quit, john
asked him on the last day of the con
vention.
He shook his head rather sadly
ssNo-I can't do it. seem TO De SUI
elected. came here to lay 1t aside
hut here are 5000 men. nearly ever!
one of whom is personal friend
They all make the same demand
Won got us into this; you must sta,
an, see us through So I will sta,
with the work till it is finished
He is down in Miami while l writ
this; fighting to save his lungs an
life Andi { he saves them It is yer
certain that neither private bushes
nor political favor Will come betwee
the needs of the nation for deepe
channels and this walking Chautat
qua ON Conservation. John Fox
Blythesville. the man who has boone
the nation.
A large crowd was present last ev'