The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-11-29

Carter will oppose any plan which contemplate
wing to the national authorities the right {
control the water power of streams lying solel
within single state, holding that this primar
lily is the duty of the state government.
"Our country has been developed by indivi
dual initiative and enterprise, - he says, "and
seems to me that we should fetter the present
day American as little as Yehe those who hav
made our country what it is.
In spite of the omnous warnings of fogies
who predicted dire results from growing ma
tiona spirit, the approach of Capitalization o
government appears to be more terrifying 4
land and water thieves, mOnopolists and graft
ers, than to anyone else. So long as states dvid
control over interstate corporations, Just $,
long those concerns will be immune from tin
penalty of their wrong doing and the enforce
ment of their obligations. The same is true a
to crude national resources.
Senator Carter, who represents the dominan
influences of the ''rotten boroughs'' of til
northwest, sparsely settled by employees of bi
mining and timber corporations knows that hi
clients can control state Legislation and thei
executives, and knows, as well as we do, tina
if the protection of these power sites, coal de
posts and timber tracts is left to the states
ative and enterprise" of which he speaks s.
glibly.
"What would the people of Chicago and II
linois think, " he asked, "if the federal govern
ment should assume the right to say under wha
conditions water power could be obtained from
the drainage canal"
This same question cOnfrOnts the people o
Montana and other western states, according (,
Senator Carter, and he thinks it most importan
that it should be settled during the comm,
session. ..
IL were folly to decide the question of nation
al and state control upon geographical basis
That question should be decided, according {,
the interest of the general public in the thin!
controlled. If future generations of Kentuck
ians are equally Interested with Montana i'll TIN
conservation of the power sites, mineral an,
fuel deposits and timber tracts of that common
wealth, then the interests of the people of Ken
lucky should not be ieopardized by the "indi
vidua" capacity of the dominating influence il
Montana.
Chicago built her drainage canal, but Senator
Carter and the interests he represents did no
build the Rocky mountains, place the coal il
them, plant the woods on them, and pour TIN,
water on their SUBMITS, that form the cascades
and power producing torrents down their sides
The Almighty arranged that store house OF
wealth and latent heat and energy "a
an essential part IN the providential scheme fol
the perfection of our national purpose, and W,
are not putting the 'Afetters'' any too fast on
the kind who "have made America what it is >
and made Senator Carter possible.
Secretary of the Interior Balinger's report
and recommendations compose a fair expires
sion of the policy of conservation of nationa
resources, and far from hampering the "ind
vidual initiative and enterprise" which has de
veloped the west, will encourageit while pro
tecting the public. The truth of the business is
that these individual enterprises" are moi
anxious to develop the country, but are trying
to secure control of the coal deposits and water
power sites, TO hold them indefinitely and pre-
vent their use, until other fuel supplies are eX
hausted, when they will possess monopoly OF
heat and power in this country
Mr.. Ballinger proposes to inaugurate a policy
by legislation, which will insure the use of these
resources under safeguards which will prevent
waste on the one hand, and boarding on the
other
The best answer to the complaint that ma
tional conservation policy transgresses state
rights and binders individual enterprise is the
report Of Mr.. Ballinger