Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-12

tho nation have developed. also that
they should enjoy speeial privileges
\ wise supervision of the activities Of
conservation OF the nation.
Il believe | am right in saying that
many of these corporations have been
a great controlling influence I'm our
political life. They have held a great
Influence in controlling our public Of
fcials / do not know whether 1t is
thc same in Minnesota. but | know
that ii is so in other states.
mo man or corporation can be
greater than the sovereign state
we have for -four years demanded
legislation of congress which would
conserve the coal Of Alaska and pre-
vent it's being stolen. We have not
been needed, and we have reason to
believe that there arc great Interests
which do not desire that legislation.
It now behooves YOU people TO leave
those men at home who do nor heed
the public will and to send progres-
siVc men To congress who will serve
the public interest
we have presented to congress
during the last four years definite ana
concrete recommendations regarding
the conservation Of our water pow
ers We have been called vislonarlcs
and idealsts with no conservative
at the doors of congress with DEF
mite purposes to regulate corpora
tions and they have gone unhecded.
we have gone beyond the time when
mere criticism viii suffice and nov
w. must send TO congress men who
represent our ideas
I'VE have had enough of that cry,
Don't disturb the interests and oi
that policy of Let well enough alone.
I g. ~ nnnnla
not content to let things drift. We de-
mand constructive conservation leEis-
lation and we demand that our pubic
officers take the lead in securing IT,
The set address of the evening was
that by Mr. Pinchot, who spoke on
Our National Resources and How
40 Conserve Them. Mr. Pinchot
said
Conservation has captured the ma
tion. Its progress during the last
twelve months is amazing. Official
opposition to the conservation move
ment, whatever damage IL has done
OF still threatens to the public inter-
est has vastly strengthened the grasp
OF conservation unon the minds and
conscience Of our people. Efforts to
obscure or belitte the issue have only
served to make it larger and clearer
in the public estimation. The con-
selvation movement cannot be
checked by the baseless charge that
it win prevent Developments or that
every man who tells the plain truth
is either 4 muck raker OF dema-
eogue. It has taken firm hold on our
naticnal moral sense. and when an
issue does that it has won.
The conservation issue is moran
issue, and the heart of 1t is this: For
whose benefit shall our natural re.
sources be conservcd-for the benefit
OF us all or for the use and profit
OF The few? This truth is so obvious
end the question itself so simple that
the etttudc toWard conservation of
any man in public or private life in
dicates his stand in the fight for pub
lie rights.
All monopoly rests on the unregu- |
lated control or natural resources and |
natural advantages, and such control
by the special interests Is Impossible |
without the help Of politics. The al |
liGnce between business and politics is /
the most dangerous thing in our po- |
litical life. 1t is the snake that we |
must kill The special interests must |
get ont Of politics, or the American |
people will put them out of business. |
There is no third course.
Because the special interests are in
Dt'llitS, We IS T. nfAttfli nave lpSt tbH-
in congress This is n seri-
Gus statecmnt to make, but it is true.
II does not apply of course, to the
men who really represent their con-
stiWcnts and who ere making so fine
q fight for the conservation of self
AZ soon as these men
have won their battle and consolidated
thei victory, confidence in congress
viii return.
Bat in the meantime tho people Of
the United states believe that, as q
whole the senate and the house no
longer represent the voters by whom
they were elected, but the special in
trests by whom thcy are controlled.
They believe so because they have SO
often seen congress reject what the
people desire, ana do instead what the
interests demand And of this there
could he no better illustration than
the tariff
The tariff, under the policy of pro-
lection, was originally means to
raise the rate OF wages II has been
made tool TO increase the cost of
living. The wool schedule processing
to protect the wool-grower, is found
To result in sacrificing grower and
consumer alike to one of the most ra-
pacious of trusts.
The cotton cloth schedule was in
creased in the face of the uncontra-
dicted public testimony of the manu-
facturcIs themselves that it ought to
remain unchanged.
The steel interests by n trick Sc
cured an indefensihle increase in the
tariff on structural steel.
The sugar trust stole from the gov
ernment like q petty thief, yet con-
grcss, by means Of @ dishonest sched-
ule. continues to protect it in bleeding
the public,
At the very time the duties on man
ufactured rubber were raised, the
lender of the senate, in company with
the Gusgenheim syndicate. was or
ganizing an international rubber
trust. whose charter made it also q
holding company for the coal and
copper deposits or the whole world.
For a dozen years the demand Of
the the nation for the pure food and
drug bill was outweighed in congress
by the interests which asserted their
tight TO poison the people for "a
profit
Congress refused 10 authorize the
preparation Of q great plan of water
WY Development IN the general in
terest. and for ten years has declined
to Dsss the Appalachian and White
national forest BILL al
though the people are practically
unanimous for both.
The whole nation IS IN favor of pro-
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