Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-19
BALLIXGER SPEAKS
EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS BE-
FORE R. |. CLUBS.
Secretary Believes Real Conservation of
Resources Is Good Thing-Says
Natural Resources Should Not Be
Bottled Up-Opposes Some Extreme
Notions of Others.

IrObiOho VI OtuClo
Providence, r. l., Jan. 30.-Secretary
Ballinger, speaking last night before
the Conservation Club of Rhode Island
and the Economic Club of Providence,
which met together to hear him, gave
his views on conservation of national
resources and declared that conserving
them does not mean bottling them up.
Some people, l fear" declared Mr.
Ballinger, "have a notion that to con
serve our natural resources we must
pickle them or bottle them up. All
kinds of extreme notions are likely to
be advanced by those who take an i'm
practical view of the subject. / was
confronted recently by the suggestion
that the government build homes on
the remaining public lands, stock them
and rent them to applicants and become
the landlord Of the public domain.
cit is all right to place reasonable
restraint upon the use Of our natural
resources TO prevent the mischiefs
which result from monopoly and greed
and extortion, but when you attempt
to regulate a man Is private business or
declare how he shall use his property,
SO that he can no longer exercise a
reasonable independence over it, he
may as well surrender his business and
his property TO the state and let the
state operate il.
Individuality and incentive for in
dustry viii certainly disappear under
any system Of public regulation and
control that imposes a strictly govern
mental guardianship over the citizen.
The American system Of government
contemplates the freest possible exr-
else Of individual liberty consistent
with the public good, and in discussing
the conservation Of our natural re-
sources and the supervision, regulation
contemplates the freest possible exer-
cised by federal or state authority this
principle should be constantly recog
nized.
f" After an the question Of conserva
ton is o question Of practicing witt
our resources frugality and economy
Profigacy and Wanton waste Of oui
Inheritance in this particular, Of course
Is 40 be restrained whenever and WAer
ever the power exists and particularly
when fhc loss affects the future happI
ness of mankind
"our nation p future "a the highest
degree b involved in fhe perpeiuatiou
of our wealth and the ability of ouI
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