The daily sentinel., 1910-08-29
COLORADO WELCOMES
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Ex-President Cheered to Echo in Denver
Strenuous Program Followed---Gives Strong
Address at Auditorium on Western Problems.

of the public domain as he himself
can cultivate, and there makes a
permanent home for his children who
come after him: but we are against
the man, no matter what his ability,
who tries to monopolize large masses
of public land.
State and Federal Control
Now, to preserve the general well
fare, to see to it that the rights of the
public are protected, and the liberty
OF the individual secured and encour-
aged as long as consistent with his
welfare, and curbed when it becomes
inconsistent herewith, IL is neces-
sary to invoke the aid of the govern
ment. There are points in which
this governmental aid can best be
rendered by the states, that is, where
the exercise of states rights helps to
secure popular rights; and as to these
believe in states rights. But there
are large classes of cases where only
the authority of the national govern
ment will secure the rights of the peo-
pie: and where this is the case | am
convinced and thorough-going be-
lever in the rights of the national
government. Big business, for in
stance. is no longer an affair of any
one state; big business has become
nationalized. and the only effective
way of controlling and directing it,
and preventing abuses in connection
with it, is by having the people ma
tionalize this control in order to pre-
vent their being exploited by the in
dividuals who have nationalized the
business.
BY actual experience in the East
hnt f.,,
nation, and not the several states,
can best guard the interests of the
people in the matter of the forests
and the waters, and that If 1t fails to
attempt this duty az the outset it will
later on have to pa heavily in order
to Re re allowed to take up the work,
cannoi be IS wsIT Done a-sJF I. had
been begur earlier|
Water Power.
"Yake the question of the control
of the water power sites. The enor-
nous importance Of water power sites
TO the future industrial development
of this country has only been realiz-
ed within a very few years. Unfor-
tunately. the realization has come too
late as regards many of the power
sites; but many yet remain with
which our hands are free to deal We
should make it our duty to see that
hereafter the power sites are kept
under the control of the general gov
ernment. for the use of the people as
a whole. The fee should remain with
the people as whole. while the use
is leased on terms which shall secure
an ample reward to the lessees, which
shall encourage the development and
use of the water power, but which
shall not create permanent monop-
oily or permit the development to be
anti-social, to be in any respect hos
tile to the public good. The nation
alone has the power to do this effec-
lively and it is for this reason that
you will find these corporations which
wish to gain improper advantage and
to be freed from efficient control on
the part of the public. doing all that
they can to secure the substitution of
state for national action.
1T is to this assumption of nation
al outlook that we owe our wisest
land legislation from the homestead
law to the irrigation law. The wise
use of our public domain has always
been conditioned upon national ac-
tion. The states can greatly help:
put tHt HdtlOu inuSt take tne ledQ as
regards the land, as regards the for
ests and waters; and perhaps partic-
ularly in the case of waters because
almost all streams are really inter
state streams.
Coal Lands.
1.-The same principle applies with
peculiar force to the coal lands, and
especially to the coal lands in Alaska. |
whose protection and ownership by
the federal government is so neces-
sary, both for full and free Industrial
development in the west and for the |
needs of our fleet in the Pacific. The |
coal mines should be leased, not sold; |
and'th who mine the coal should |
pay back part Of the profit to the |
people. 1t is the right and duty of |
the people to demand the most vigil |
liant trusteeship on that part of that |
branch OF the federal government in |
charge of the fuel resources of the |
United States.''
The Open Range.
II am here at the invitation of the |
Colorado Live Stock Association, and |
desire to express my appreciation |
Of their steadfast stand for decency
and progress in the handling of pub |
lie lands and national forests. They |
have met and overcome the unrelent-
Ing opposition Of some of the most |
influential stockmen OF the state;
they have won because they have