The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-16

ST. Paul, Mimi, March 16.-"The
insurgeat movement is something like
a fantasy and the Ballinger-Pinchot
hearing is of less Importance in the
east than in the west Secretary Bal
Iinger, who is here to address the
Minnesota CONSERVATION Convention.
thus expressed himself today. When
yon are riding on the plains a cow on
the horizon looks forty feet high, bat
when you come up to it, it's one ordi-
nary cow" he added. Speaking furth-
er of the investigation of the CLAWS
charges, Mr.. Ballinger said: so far
nothing aas been brought to light,
but suspicious. inunendo and intima-
tions. and this | will dispel as soon
as my evidence is in
BaIIinger's Address.
St Paul, March 16.-As ardent an
advocate of wise conservation as tne
most radical. was the way in which
Secretary Ballinger, of the interior
Department, in a special today before
the State Conservation Convention,
expressed his policy in regard 10 the
public land question. But" he added.
lit must be wise conservation to ap-
peal to me"
Secretary Ballinger declared him
self out of sympathy with those radi-
Gals who fear taat all natural resourc-
es are being used up witaout any con-
sideration for future generations.
Our country" he said, lis the
richest of all in natural resources. Its
soil, its minerals. its coal, its iron.
nd &c
climate possesses immea surable
wealth, and, if properly utilized. con-
tain sufficient resource to care for all
probable increase in the population of
our country in the years to come"
He said that while ''the doctrain-
aries figure that the coal deposits of
the United States and Alaska win be
exhausted in a period of about one
hundred years, the fact is that, ac-
ccrding to the production of coal in
the United States at the close of 1908
only a of l per cent of the original
supply or coal enough to last, as
some claim. for period of 1000
years"
After long indifference on the part
of the people as to the public do
nain," ne declared, % a deep concern
aas suddenly arisen respecting the
remnant of the national estate, with
4 wholly exaggerated notion of what
should be done with it by the govern
ment There is much talk about the
conservation of our national resourc-
es, and nebulous theories that sound
good to the ear, but are impossible
of practical application to existing
conditions, are advanced. Between
rhe hysteria that exists on the one
side and the tendency of despoil the
public domain on the other, we will,
1t is hoped. be able to find the true
policy of the government"
He expressed the opinion that "A
greater obligation rests upon the
states than upon the general govern
ment to inaugurate laws to prevent
waste in the utilization of national
resources" There has been a grossly
| exaggerated notion among some peo
pie, he declared, as to what the gener
al government can do in conserving
the natural resources that lie in the
deposits of minerals, and are contain
| ed in the soils and the streams. Fol
the most part, he pointed out, they
nave passed into private ownership
and are under the municipal owner
ship of the States.
1T seems to me that we should no
try to impose the whole burden o
conservation on the general govern
ment but leave il to the states and Il
the municipalities to work out, excep
in SO far as national interference Il
necessary to protect national inter
ests; and I want to be understood a
opposed to the theory that, becaus
the state has not exercised to the full
its powers in the matter of reforms
ipso facto the national governmen
must exercise them.
The national government canno
enter the state and dictate the mean
or method of the development of it