Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-09
HOME RULE FOX TIE STATES
That is What Governor Brooks Of
Wyoming Insists Upon.
SAYS ROOSEVELT is WRONG
Thinks the state Can Better Handle
It's Affairs Than the General Gov
eminent at washingtOn--
Tells the Reason.

Governor Brooks Of wyomisg was at the
Henshaw Thursday on his way home from
the National Conservation congress at st.
Paul.
The wyoming governor has no sym )athy
Vt all with much that Colonel Rooco velt
iifford Pinchot and others are staining
Or, control by the nation Of the natural
esources Of the states.
Western people will never stand for that
ind OF thing" said Governor Brooks The
men in the western states who keep in
ouch all the year round with their people
Snow that long-dstance administration OF
affairs which concern the various states
most intimately will never do at all.
:ook occasion to tell Colonel Roosevelt,
whom know very well and admire very
much, Just that. While could agree with
a great deal that he said in his address,
like all the other western governors, demo-
Gratis and republicans alike, ! was com
PEELED to dissent in toto from much that
he advocates
IAN the trouble that we have in Wyo-
ming for instance, concerning irrigation,
made by officials in Washington-clerks.
water power and things OF that kind, is
very often--who do not have the faintest
conception OF the things we are up against.
Like other states, Wyoming has been COM
PEELED TO send its land commissioner and
attorney general to Washington to get our
cause past some clerk TO the real head.
And in nearly every case, when we have
been able to get before the proper offlcer.
our contentious have been allowed -
How wyomInG Does Ii.
In the matter of leasing natural resources
under state control Wyoming has been
practicing that for five years past, Our
MD nd
state collects royalties OF to ! cents a ton.
We find that every leasehold presents en-
tireIy different,features and 1t follows that
we can handle them very much better than
would be the case II the national govern
ment we're in control. -
Colonel Roosevelt is a remarkable man,
absolutely honest and courageous to the
limit, which makes him a dangerous man
when he gets. off wrong. The American
people like to have somebody to, eXpend
their worship and admiration on. Roose-
welt is the man at this particular time, but
like many others whose names will readily
occur to anybody, he is liable to be de.
throned tomorrow. He stands for much
that is good and a good many things that
are popular, but lam convinced he is utterly
mistaken when he advocates .0ntrol by the
naiona administration of matters that are
vital 10 lne States Nllilu lnSHlStlNebE
Calls II Home. Rule.
81 do not CALI tins state rights. because
the war gave to that term a peculiar mean.
ing; but / wouldscall the Issue home .ule
That western people will insist this
sol.diy a little later l am very certain
Their salvation lies that way. because we
are just beginning to develop. in reality
and we have schools to build, children &
educate. roads to make, hundred thing:
10 do that officials in Washington or al
any other distant point cannot care toi
with anything like the effectiveness thai
we can Ourselves.
Personally, l am just grange.
farmer. without any sort of political ambl
ton SO can talk freely on these matters, II
the way feel Perhaps there are men prom
inent in this agitation who are abitlous
looking to the popular thing, but the sobe
second thought OF the American people ha
always made itself felt at the proper time
and il will in this matter. SO l feel tina
eventually the western states will insis
on managing their own internal sffairs u
TO them shall seem wise.
zone thing that made an impression oil
me was tho fact, aas set forth by Colone
Roosevelt. that one congressman from a.
agricultural district OF Mlnnesota-TaWney
believe. is the man--coud upset all TN
plans laid for conservation. II the thin
was so strong. 50 popular and altogethe
right. II would indicate queer state
affairs that one member OF congress could
disrupt ali the plans OF so powerful
president as Roosevelt and the Influential
element acting with him"