Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-27

walk on those waters uaurhter).
This Is bound To be = great city be-
cause u Is the center of such a largo
tributary territory. 10 is the center OF
o. territory that is bound to grow UNI
dor modern improvements and modern
development ! stand here in the pres
enve or community I'm which the first
chort 81 the reclamation OF tho arid
ana serni-arid lands was made and
most successfully applausc) and that
development is hound o. make this
country n most Important part OF the
United States
I'VE are besinning to feel little
cramped in the east We are beginning
Co feel as 20 land and everything was
setting little hit rare. Nou. here.
hen YOU first look out upon fhi.
desert you don't look for much hoto
in this direction bat when YOU come
to understand the application OF water
ana the scientific DEVELOPMENT of the
iand YOU see that in the hands OF the
Americans themselves is the onnor-
tunity for growth and the opportunity
Tor making this whole western country
another source of supplying that de-
mand which. with the increase of
population. is growing $50 rapidly as
now To- send nap farm products and
food aud an the other agricultural
products To- price that the country
people Ike ana The city people don't
Ike OaughtcrD
CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES.
THAT brings me 10 the subject Of
inc conservation Of our resources
don't intend To- discuss that i'm detail
this afternoon, but there has arisen
Wlhin Tho last seven years "a feeling
I'm less than that time--a deep feeling
ON tho "a a..
must conserve the resources that the
LORD gave To- this continent I'M order
mat our posteritv may not ho crnbar-
raised and siraitened and even starved.
man says. We'll. what has pos
terity ever done for us?' Wen. don't
suppose it ever has done anything for
US nut we are here and we have got
TO work out the problem. and we are
ufinslng forth children who will live
70 the time when the conservation Of
these resources will become a most
valuable result to them. n Involves
me saving OF the forests and the re-
icrcstation of land which has been
dcnuded of forest % involves the
saving Of water power so that the
puphc may enjoy II at REASONABLE
rates tappiauseD. involves the saw
ing OF the coal lands SO that the sup
ply of coal shall he more or less UNI
dcr the control Of tho public. and 10
involves the extension in every dircc-
non OF the reclamation of our arid
lands
Now. 90 one man more than any
other Us the fact due that the issue
ls before the people. and that they
nave become impressed with the
necessity for our saving. not wasting.
the resources that God has given us.
and that man Is Theodore Roosevelt.
'Cheers and applauso) It was not re-
served for him 90 bc in office as
president In the development. even. of
the first OF these great works.
III often happens that one man sows
ana another reaps, and could not but
ieel that when l stood at the mouth Of
the Gunnison tunnel, a tunnel six miles
long-longer than any irrigation tun-
mel In the woodland opened the way
Tor the water from the Gunnison river.
IN order 20 come into that unpronounc-
able valley, Uncompahgre valley. where
thousands of acres were TO be made
To blossom as the rose and to bring
forth the fruit which they saw In Colo
RADIO even exceeds the fruit they raise
IN Utah-but. OF course. that is an ex-
aggera ton. UaughterD
when I am ln Colorado the fruit
seems bigger there than anywhere. and
when / come 10 Utah my glasses are
fitted 10 see sc larger here. The pursuit
hl AidA loNcA involves Self-feStrHl int.
il Involves foresight: Il involves dill
gence and Industry and il involves
more than that-it involves the passage
of legislation we'll directed toward the
result, and that is what we are going
TO do. We are going 10 move on Com
gress and ask Congress to help as out
Applause)
"Of course Congress may have diff
ferent views and perhaps those ~ us
thai rnfhmElaeftp fnngn a
as who have clear ideas as to what
ought TO be done, win have % modify
our views I'm some way and arrange a
compromise. But life is a compromise.
Progress is a compromise and Of all
things that is a compromise. and Of all
of popular government because il is a
compromise between ninety millions of
people. and that Is only obtained by
party, by the much despised politics,
By negotiation. by pulling wires. By
speeches. and by all sorts Of induce