The Cairo bulletin., 1910-09-09
CONSERVATION CON.
GREs5 ADo7Ts RESOLU-
TiONS AND ADJOURNS.
POINTS WAY
Declares Movement For Conserving
Natural Resources Must Be in
interest OF Publc-iEe-
'clined Presidency.

Conservation congress today adopted
4 platform placing the seal Of ap-
pEoval on national control of natural
resources, and adjourned.
The following were chosen as Off
GERS: President, Henry Wallace, OF
Des Moines, Ia; secretary, Thos. r.
Hipp, of indianapolis; treasurer, ID
A. Latchaw, of Kansas City.
Clifford Pincnot and J. B. White, oi
Kansas City, declined to be nominal
ed for the presidency and Wallace
was not opposed.
o. NJ. Banister, Of Muncie, Ind,
started applause by stating that TIE
Delegates have been her four days
without getting chance to speak.
He said; Il suggest that this mis-
take be remelied at the next conven.
ton"
Vice prsident for each state were
chosen, eaen spanking briefly.
delgate from Washington state,
whose name was not announced ac
cused Governor Hays and Land Com
missioner Ross of that state Of civ
ing away power sites.
mo wonder they want state con
trial." declared the delegate.
Ross defended himself VITA great
spirit, declaring the structures against
him were baseless.
G. NJ. Hunt invited tn mkt con
gress to meet i1 Washington, d. c.
MIR. pinchot's Address. ss
like nearly every great reform
Conservation first passed through ;
period of agitation and general ap
proyal. During this period, it met
with little opposition, for as yet it
interfered with no mans private
profit From the beginnisg of the
world, the preaching of righteousness
in general terms has been conten.
plated with entire equanimity by tile
men who rise in violent protest the
moment their own particular priv
ilege, graft, or advantage comes prac
tically into question. That protest
marks the second phase of the re
form.
within the last two years, Con
servation has passed out Of the realm
CT an unimpebchable general prit
ciple into that of practical fightin:
Iattenpt to get things done. 1t has
begun to step on the toes of the bene
ficiaries and the prospective bene
fcaries of unjust privilege, and the
resulting opposition, considering tne
quarters wheHce it comes, is one oi
the best proofs that Conservation IL
live movement for the general good
Soft Pedal Conservationists.
THE people believe in Conserva
ton. Now when any great movement
has established itself so firmly in th'
public mind that direct attack upon
| it will not pay. the regular method
| is to approve it in general terms, and
| then condemn its methods and its
men. SO now the demand from tht
opponents of conservation is not a.
| all that we shall abandon the prin
ciple of the greatest good of US all fP
| the longest time in using out natura
| resources. The soft pedal conserva
tionists merely ask tnat conservation
as applied shall be what they cal
| rational, safe and sane. Safe an'
sane legislation, as that expression i
used by the men who use it ,tnost
means legislation not unfriendly t
the continued control of our publi'
affairs by the special interests. Saf
and sane conservation, as that e,
preston is used by these same mer
means conservation SO carefully ster
lized that 1t will do the special inter
ests no harm. and the people II
good.
Special Interests Power.
when the conservation movemen
began to tell, 1t developed wfthou
lelay that the one great obstacle i
| practical progress lay in the politics
power of the special interests. Ever
effort to conserve any natural r.
source for the general welfare wa
met by the legislative agents OF IT,
men who wanted to exploit 1t for thei
! private profit. The effort to &c
| things done in conservation taught u
clearly, unmistakably, and with it'll
delay, that so long as the politica
domination Of the great business Il
terests endures, their corrupt cor
troll Of legislation will carry wit
. 1t the monopolistic control of the ma
luraI resources also. This Is what W
} face today in the effort to apply COZ
! sarvation.
ol "The fundamental principles
conservation are few and simple. On
: OF the first is that the natural r
sources and natural advantages b.