Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
PRESIDENT GIVES
7. R. A SLY Poke
Opposes Too Much Government
Control in Speech at Con-
ServatiOn Congress
DEFENDS OIL WITHDRAWALS
Gives Careful Outline of Policies
of Administration Sena-
tor Nelson Talks
DEFENDS OIL WITHDRAWALS
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tion of public property and that the
national and state governments should
legislatively coordinate to the end
that within a reasonable period of
time the state governments be con-
ceded the full and complete admin
istration of such conservation laws as
may be found adaptable to the varying
conditions of the several states.
Third, that the experience of the
conservation states demonstrates that
disposition of public property as made
under existing national conservation
laws and regulations, have tended to
intrench monopolies and interests
menacing the common welfare; and
that notifications of such laws and
regulations should be promoted by the
conservation congress.
Fourth, that the elimination from
the national forest reserve of all
homestead and untimbered grazing
lands is Immediately eXpedient.
Fifth, that use and control of all
water power inheres of right in the
states, with perpetual freedom from
monopoly.
sixth that the privilege of Amer
lean citizens to seek and develop min
eral wealth wherever it may be found
should be amplifled and secured by
laws.
Seventh, that the idea of deriving
federal revenue from the physical re-
sources of the states is repugnant to
that adjustment of constitutional pow
ers which guarantee the perpetuity of
the Union"
PLEADS FOR STATE CONTROL
Governor Hay pleaded for state con-
frOl dpplaraH tharn inst
much reason for Secretary Wilson to
come out to Washington and harvest
their crops as to expect the federal
government to attend to the eastern
states natural resources.
IF the states are not able to con-
troll the corporations" said he, they
might as well go back to territorial
days and be done with it.
president Taft, in his address this
forenoon, expressed our ideas better
than I can. Also, I might remark, the
states which are strongest for national
control are those states whose re-
sources have been disposed of long ago
"a tree is like human being. 1t
has its maturity and its old age. 1t
should be utilized at it's maturity,
rather than to be allowed to die and
to become a fire trap-a source of dan
ger to the mature timber about it."
Addresses of welcome by Governor
Eberhardt and Mayor Keller, and the
invocation by Archbishop Ireland
marked the beginning of the congress.
President Taft reached the platform
from a rear door. AS he climbed the
steps to the platform the crowd broke
into cheers as his head became vis-
ible.
The speech of President Taft de-
manding detailed statements for or
against conservation of natural re-
sources, rather than glittering gener-
alities calculated to stir public opinion
without pointing the way, was the fea-
ture of the national conservation con-
gress today The president was said
by those who are With him on his
present trip to have made his most
telling speech. He was applauded
without reference to faction
TAFT MAKES SPEECH
President Taft spoke as ollows:
conservation as an economic and
political term has come to mean the
preservation of our national resources
for economical use, so as to secure
the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber. In the development of this coun-
try, in the hardships of the pioneer,
in the energy of the settler, in the
anxiety of the investor for quick re-
turns. there was very little time, op-
portunjty or desire to prevent waste OF
those resources supplied by nature
which could not be quickly transmitted
into money; while the investment of
capital was so great a desideratum
that the people as a community eXer-
cised little or no care to prevent the
transfer of absolute ownership OF many
of the valuable resources to private
individuals, without retaining some
kind of control of their use. The i'm
pulse of the whole new community was
I,n n
the increase of settlement and the
opening up of business; and he who
demurred in the slightest degree to
any step which promised additlonal
deVelopment of the idle resources at
hand was regarded as traitor to his
neighbors and an obstructor to public
progress, But now that the commu-
mites have become DID, now that the
flush of enthusiastic expansion has
died away, now that the would-be pio-
neers have come to realize that all the
richest lands in the country have Deeh
taken up, we have perceived the neceS-
sity for q change of policy In the dls-
position of our national resources SO
as to prevent the continuance of the
waste which has characterized our
phenomenal growth in the past. To-
day we desire to restrict and retain
under public control the acquisition
and use by the capitalist of our nat
ural resources.
"There is no crying need for radical
reform in the methods of'disposing OF
what are really agricultural lands.
The present laws have worked We'll
The enlarged homestead law has en-
couraged the successful farming of
lands in the semi-arid regions. or
course the teachings of the agricul-
tural department as to how these sub
arid lands may be treated and the soil
preserved for useful culture are of the
very essence of conservation.
RECLAMATION WORK
"Bv the reclamation act fund has
been created of the proceeds of the
nublic lands of the United States with
which to construct works for storing
ereat bodies of water at proper alti-
fudes from which, by a suitable sys-
tenn of canals and bitches, the water
is to be distributed over the arid and
subarid lands of the government to be
sold to settlers at @ price sufficient to
nav for the improvements. About
thirty projects have been set on foot
distributed through the public land
states in accord with the statute, by
which the allotments from the reclaim
alton fund are required to be as near
as practicable in proportion to the
proceeds from the sale of the public
lands in the respective states. The
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