The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-08


 onsd foods and aduitsrated druss po,s- peeses; those special interests o..n ne Lou9nt the Nation's effort to nrota.. ~ Neuons people. Yet today Nat,onsI .ile 9ueId the health and lives of tb. ,.N .aws n,.i "s x nourished under the prov,n' cSI .usa ot the people divided, thsv - ishsd under the National ids, o, y .s per pie united. And again today u. ne peo- TWO Ioeas arrayed in battle lhese ssaihst the National control n, . and -.r.''. upon which so largely de ee pend just rates and prices to the peo- pie
 Just as the idea of provincialism has worked other evils. so 1t has worked the waste of our national resources The provincial idea was that the natural wealth belonging to all the American peo- pie should Dc handed over for nothing to special interests. This was done un- der the plea of encouraging individual enterprise and the hastening of local de- velopment.
 And so forests which once belonged to all the people have been ruthiessly felled and upon their ruins have risen the em- pires of our lumber kings Priceless de- posits of coal. iron ore and copper which once belonged to ali the people have been surrendered freely to special interests; and these sources of the peoples revenue which should have flowed into the peoples treasury to pay the expense of the peo- ple's government have been diverted by the ditch dug by the provincial idea, Into the treasury of multi-millionaires until the peril of their swollen fortunes Is one of the problems confronting American stafesmanship.
 Waste Must Be Stopped.
 All this waste and robbery of the peo- ple's wealth must be stopped. No ancient and provincial Interpretation of states rights must prevent the enforcement of the peoples rights. No special plea for hasty local development must hinder heefthy general development. No tempo rary state politics compelled by the wealthy few must impair permanent Ma tionai statesmanshfp fos the general good of all.
 ffsd we kept tbe natural resources of all the pAopse and made private interests pey the people just return for exploit ing those resources the Nations income thus derived would now pay most of the Nations expenses; those resources would have been wisely used and not exhaustedi and our whole growth would have been rational and sound instead of unbalanced and defective We would have enjoyed all the benefits from our natural re- sources and yet OUT children would have inherited colossal National wealth and small National burdens instead of pri vate interests enjoying all the benefits of our national resources and their ehil- drcn inheritinS colossal private wealth and small private burdens
 The Nation must keep and administer for all the people those natural resources belonging to all the people Every state should aid and not hinder the Nation in doing this great duty. The state should preserve for the public good the resources belonging exclusively to 1t. the munich pality the resources belonging exclusively 10 it. and both should help the Nation in doing the same thing with resources belonging to all.
 Had certain states conserved their re- sources which the Nation gave them. in- stead of turning them over to private exploitation. the people of those states would be better of today. their children better efr tomorrow and their economic condition better now and for all time to come.
 Had the Nation conserved the resources which belonged to all the Amer'can peo- pie instead of abandoning mo them to cunning. strength and greed prog ress would have been sounder nd moro sure.
 Common eense Policy
 Cooperation of municipality, to and Nation to correct past mistakes 2nl pre- | serve and administer for the general good of all the people the natural resources yet Pemaining-this is tho policy Of com mon sense and common honesty. Strife aBd division to the end that the reign or waste and pillage under the false name of development shall go on and the fever ish upbuilding of private wealth upon the ruins of the peoples resources shall continue-th!s is the policy of private avarico and private plunder. Forests ana coal. water powers and phosphates-ai the wealth that belongs to all the people | must be kept and developed for the bene- At of all the people This great policy for the welfare of all the people is now we'll under way. Let us beware how we hinder or retard It. II is another step In the glorious process or | the building of the Nation. Already It has savcd tho people much that remains of their resources; 1t must save the people | all that remains of their resources. Honor to whom honor is due"-let us not forget that the man who In thought. deed and word has champoned this vast and historic reform until today he Is lts personifcation, is that courageous. pure. unselnsh young American. the president of the National Conservation association, Clifford Pinchot For years he has fear lessly fought, and ceaselessly totled, 10 save and protect for the people the prop ertv of the people: and in that nation wide battle has been the field ofncer or the man who first made this mighty movement a permanent and practical pol lev of American statesmanship Theo- dore Roosevelt.
 The soul of our prosperity as people our very life itself. depends on the idea of our unity and our brotherhooo-hu- nicipaltty state and Nation each work ing within its province for the common good of an the people instead of munci- pality, state and Nation within It's pro vince connivfng at the perilous enrich ment of the few to the injury and lin- poverishment of all. The economic and honsst cars of tho peoples common wei