The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-05

ST. PAUL. MINI. Sept 5.-Teng
thousand people surrounded the depoS
exits when President Taft arrived
here to-day There was little DEM
onsratton when he was escorted
through the streets. the crowds ap-#
parently having come to see the prestS
dent rather than to cheer him.
From a box he reviewed the Labor
Day parade of 10000 union men. Az
number of unions were absent, hav-
ing decided several weeks ago not to-
be reviewed by the president
Ten thousand delegates and invited
guests of the Conservation Congresn
awaited the president at the audf-
terium. where he arrived at 1890 a.
NJ
Marked by Formally.
The presidents welcome was mark-
ed by its Formally. the applause given
him at the auditorium not exceedfng
in volume that accorded James 81.
HUI and Senator knute Nelson.
the ovation lasted thirty seconds. -
The expression on the prestdentsu.
face was marked seriously ana
thoughtful az Archbishop ireland
prayed. God biess our president The
burden is heavy: the honor 10 often
times dark. often the polar star from
which guidance may come In iost
w
may do Thy. will with rectitude OF
purpose"
Governor A. O, Eberhart, Of Min
nesota, in the opening address, de-
clared that farmers of the United
States We're every year, by pocT
farming. wasting the income Of 435,
600. 600. He said he did not blarn4
the farmer boy, who, seeing the farm
running to ruin, sought fortune Iii
tina ri Np{fhnr ~ 49,
girl on the farm who might get $50
month for work in the city, but who.
If she remained in a declining farm
Ing district, might marry a $z5 -
month man and lose all the beautiful
times of life.
Applause Lasts Ten Seconds.
Governor Eberhart's mention of
President Taft brought forth a den1- Il
onstration that lasted ten seconds.
An eighteen second demonstrators
followed the Introduction of President
Taft.
The president in his speech befora
the Congress said in part:
Conservation as an economic and
political term has come to mean the
prevention of our natural resources for
economical use. so as to secure fhe
greatest good to the greatest numbof. 81
In the development of this country. n u
the nardships of the pioneer, in the
energy of the settler, in the anxiety II
of the investor for quick returns, thcro /
was very little time, opportunity. a. 81
desire to prevent waste of those 70. n
sources supplied by nature which
could not be quickly transmitted into
money; while the investment Of capi~ M
tai was so great a desideratum that s
the people as community exercisod
little or no care to prevent the trann- 81
fer of absolute ownership Of many ~ S'
the valuable natural resources to ri n
Vate individuals. without retaining
tome kind of control of their use. sss
The impulse of the whole new com
munity was 10 encourage the coming 81 II
population, the increase of settlements
and the opening up Of business. and ~
he who demurred in the slightest de- 81
gree to any step which promised Id
ditional development of the idle ~ h
sources at hand was regarded aa M
traitor to his neighbor and an obstruf2 III
tor to public progress, N II III
THE danger to the State and to th0 NJ
people at large from the waste ~ $E
dissipation of our national wealth AG31
not one which quickly impresa0U ft%
self on the people of the older com
munities, because its most obvious III N
stances do not occur in their netRk q
borhood, while in the newer part az fh&fS
the sympathy with expaumto
and development is so strong that IN
danger is scoffed at or ignored. Amox
scientific men and thoughtfuI a.
servers. however, the danger has G19l
ways been present: but II needed s0lzS7
one to bring home the crying need fn1i
a remedy of this evil so as To imprc
Itself on the public mind and lead 41
the formation OF public opinion 11
action by the representatives of
people. sS$
As President OF the United StAta0
have. as it We're, inherited this po1f<
from Theodore Roosevelt, and IK6
otce In my heritage. The mention
President Taft of Theodore Roo9o
rs the champion Of cons0rvAk
,aused an ovation that lasted nnN1
sixty seconds. / prize my high Or
unity TO do all that an Exec
can do to help a great people
re great national ambition. nj
liz national II n
avery man or Us. every Woman.
shIld. What I can do In 4he 1i
shall do NIT as President ~ ~
,ut as President nf the whcfa ~
Conservation Ii not que&(
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