The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
ATLANTA WELCOMES
 FORMER PRESIDENT
Roosevelt Delivers Three Ad-
 dresses While in City
HONOR TO UNCLE REMUS
Monument to Joel Chandle Harris Is Made Notable By the
 Speech of Roosevelt

Atlanta. October s-Theodore Roosevelt came into Georgia today and found await ing him welcome which was as warm as that which he has received in any section of the country during his recent travels. On his arrival in Atlanta he was greeted by crowds which blocked the streets, needless of the pelting rain. and cheered him as he rode at the head of parade through the business streets of the city. Earlier in the day he spent several honrs at Rome. Ga. inspecting the Martha Berry school. for poor moun- tain boys and girls. and in speaking to another throng of cheering Georgians.
 Colonel Roosevelt made three speeches in Atlanta. His first was at the southern conservation congress. He urged the peo- pie of the south to take care of their natural wealth, and said if the coun- try's resources should fall into the hands of a monopoly the people would revolt. After taking dinner with Mayor Maddox he spoke at the Uncle Remus Day cele- bration. which Is being held to raise fund to purchase the home of the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Un- cle Remus stories, and preserve it as memorial to his work. After speaking of the achievements of Harris, Roose- welt talked on new nationalism. Then he talked to the negroes of Atlanta, in negro church
 The auditorium was only half filled when Colonel Roosevelt delivered his ad- dress on conservation, for admission had been denied to the public, only holders of tickets being permitted to enter the building Colonel Roosevelt began his od l. g-a in the conservation movement.
 Believs in Conservation
 T believe in conservation with all my heart" he said. "I believe that the time has passed In this country when 1t was possible for reasonable men longer to per init the waste of natural resources. I be- lfeve that nation and state can cooper ate in this great movement, and there are one or two impressions which I think we should endeavor to remove from the public mind.
 Here and there, and notably in the west. you will find men who say that our purpose is to lock up the natural re- sources of the country. That Is just as absurd as if a private individual should say that the farmer was endeavoring to lock up the natural resources of his farm when he declined to till his land in such ways that 1t permanently lost It's fer thits' we uO not intend 10 LOCK up a single resource, but we do intend that the resources shall be used without waste
 While it is our duty to give every proper reward to the proper exercise of individual initiative, it Is also our duty to see that the men of exceptional abiIi- ty display that ability in our interest and not aRanst our interest I want to give him all the reward to which he is hon estiy entitled but want that reward to go to him because he serves, and not be- cause he swindles us
 Anarchist Doctrine
 Certain of the papers which are edited in the shadow of Wall street regard the doctrine which I have enunciated as smacking of anarchy. I think 1t Is really the height of conserva tism, I think 1t will help the honest men of influence and wealth when we discriminate in the sharp est manner between them and their dis honest brothers. Now it is peculiarly necessary to do that in connection with natural resources, the ownership of which, if allowed to go into one hand or the hand of one great corporation, may establish peculiarly oppressive monopoly. Let us then make it the busi- ness of the government national or state, as the case may be, to see that the min eral resources so far we still have power over them, that the water power of the country, that all similar powers, are used under such governmental regu- lation as will allow ample profit to the users and at the same time guarantee the public at large in its rights.
 T think that is an essential position for the government to take. I do not be- lieve that we can afford longer to allow of shrewdness and sometimes with lack of scrupuousness to get possession of the natural resources of the country and then treat them as purely their own to do with them as they choose If such a system of monopoly is permitted to grow up in extenso sooner or later the people will revolt against 1t, and when they re- volt against 1t under such conditions that revolt will be very apt to have mixed along with righteousness of atti- tude great unrighteousness of attitude. and the then holders of the privileges would run great risks of suffering the effects of an improper severity because their predecessors had been treated with an improper leniency.'
 Preservation of Forests Colonel Roosevelt then spoke of the necessity of preservation of the forests and continued:
 T hope that Congress will. pass the bill for the creation of the great Ap- palachian forest reserve. These forests lie in several different states. The wa ters which rise in them often go through more than one state and 1t should pe- culiarly be the work of the national gov ernment to see to their preservation. hope therefore that your representatives in Congress will bestir themselves in this matter.
 NO portion of our country is going to show a greater rate of development than the south will show in the course of the | next 30 or 40 years. I ask you to see that this marvellous development of the south takes place in such fashion that 1t will represent not a mere exploitation of territory, not a mere feverish growth in wealth and luxury, or honey-combed foundation of morality and good judge