Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
NEW NATIONALISM
IS 7. RS SUBJECT
Declares American People Have
Not Learned to Economic
and Need Thrift
FAVORS NATIONAL CONTROL
Says Corporations Have Caused
the Issue of States Rights
in Conservation
FAvoRs NATIONAL CONTROL
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out which the people cannot hope to
derive from 1t the benefits they have
a right to expect.
IN nearly every river city from st.
Paul to the Gulf the water front is
controlled by the railways. Nearly ev-
cry artificial waterway in the United
States, either directly or indirectly, is
under the same control. 1t goes with
out saying that unless the people pre-
vent it in advance, the railways will
attempt to take control of our water
ways as fast as they are improved and
completed; nor would l blame them II
we, the people, are supine in the mat
ter. We must see to it that adequate
terminals are provided in every city
and town on every improved waterway,
terminals open under reasonable con-
ditions to the use of every citizen, and
rigidly protected against monopoly;
and we must compel the railways to
cooperate with the waterways con-
tinuously, effectively and under rea-
sonable conditions. Unless we DO so
the railway lines will refuse to deliver
freight to the boat lines, either openly
or by imposing prohibitory conditions,
and the waterways once improved will
do comparatively little for the benefit
of the people who pay the bill.
Adequate terminals, properly con-
trolled. and open through lines by rail-
and boat, are two absolutely essential
conditions to the usefulness of inland
waterway development. 1 believe fur
thermore that the railways should Dc
prohibited from owning, controlling or
carrying any interest in the boat llnes
on our rivers, unless under the strict
est regulation and control of the inter
state commerce commission, so that the
shippers interests may be fully pro-
NATIONAL FORESTS
"The people of the United States be-
ueve in the complete and rounded de-
velopment of inland waterways for all
the useful purposes they can be made
TO serve, They believe also in forest
protection and forest extension. The
fight for our national forests in the
west has been won.
"If any proof were needed that for
est protection is a national duty the
recent destruction of forests in the west
by fire would supply it, Even with
the aid of the army added to that OF
the forest service the loss has peeh
severe. Without either 1t would have
been vastly greater.
But the forest service does more
than protect the national forests
fire. 1t makes them practically ana
increasingly useful as we'll During the
the national forests were used by 22,OUO
cattlemen with their herds 5000 sheep
men with their flocks, 500 tlmbermeh
with their crews. and 4OOO miners
More than 5000 persons used theLl loL
other special industries. Nearly 54,9OO
settlers had the free use of WOOD Inc
total resident population of the ma
tional forests is about quarter of
million. which is larger than the popu-
lation of certain states. More rhan
100000 acres of agricultural lana nave
been natented or listed for patent WITH
in the forests, and the reports OF the
forest officers show that more thah
100000 people year use ti9 Loi as,i,1d loa
recreation, camping, hunting, nsnlhs
and similar purposes. All this is done,
of course, without injury to the TIM
her. which has value of at least
thousand million dollars.
Moreover the national forests pro-
feet the water supply OF thousand
cities and towns and about 500 lrri-
cation projects and more than 300
0ower projects, not counting the use
Of water for these and other purposes
hv individual settlers. l think that
hereafter we may safely disregard any
statements that the national forests
are withdrawn from settlement ana
use. -,,--i4ioe
in the NlBSl6SlRpl NetAASJ '-AN
die est have made WonderIul pIo5-
ress vet even the best of them, IKE
communities of every other kind, are
not beyond improvement, while much
needs to be done in some otnef sec
tions to improve country IRE: AS YET
we know comparatively little OF Iue
haste facts of rural civilization. Ihe
means for better farming we nave
studied with care, but to better nv
ing on the farm and to better business
on the farm the farmers themselves
have given scant attention. one Oh
+he most urgent needs of our clFlllza-
tion is that the farmers themselves
shOuld undertake to get FOR then-
selves a better knowledge along these
lines and then to apply it. Sir Hor-
ace Plunkett, for many years Wyo-
ming cattleman and now deVotlng
himself in Ireland to the country lie
nroblem there, has suggested IN MS
recent book on the Country Lire
problem in America the creation OF
q country life institute as a center
where the work and knowledge Of the
world concerning country life may De
brought together for the use OF eV-
erv nation. | am strongly in sympathy
1z,ith this idea and 1 hope to see it
CARRIED out with the cooperation and
oseis+ance of our own people. Last
snring while visiting the capital or
Hungary, Budapest, was IllllislS"iS
impressed by the Museum OF country
Tife. containing an extraordinary Sc
-1ies of studies in agriculture, stock
raising, in forestry, in mining; the
EXHIBITS were of the utmost practical
Importance and were also intensely
interesting and instructive. l greatly
wish we had such a museum in wash
ington and some Of your farmer con-
gressmen ought to get full and de-
tailed report Of this Budapest museum
10 be printed for distribution in a pub
lie document,
EFFICIENCY
"As a people We have not yet learned
10 economic. one Of the virtues we
Americans most need is thrift 1t Is a
mere truism to say that luxury and eX-
trayagance are not good for nation.
So far as they affect character the
loss they cause may be beyond COM
lutation. But IN the material sense
there is a loss greater than is caused
bv both extravaganza and luxury put
together. / mean the needless useless
and excessive loss to our people from
premature death and avoidable dis
eases. Wholly apart from the grief,
the suffering and the Wretchedness