Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-20
What Is Wanted Is a Practice
Policy Permitting Development
OF Natural Resources.
CHAMPIoNED VESTS CAUSl
Legislation ON subject Must be o
Basis Western Citizenship Is Honest,
Law Abiding ana Intelligent.

want b. q sane. practical Couservatio
policy. under reasonable regulation
permitting the development OF our M
turai resources Ia accordance with n
natural laws Of progress and indus
trial growth" declared senator Bora
in addressing the senate today durin
consideration OF conservation iegisla
ton
Mr.. Borah spoke as the champio
OF the west 1T would be msgnih
cent scheme. indeed nc exclaimcl
TO compel the whole great west I
hold It's vast resources in idleness, ID
priyc rs people OF their enjoymen
and use and compel them to pay trih
ute TO those resources OF which 20
have taken possession here IN GA
east and developed 90 your own ire
will"
Contending that IL was violation q
every principle of tho Constitution
Withhold power sites from the use %
the western states MI Borsh in
CURED: "If Illinois or Msssachusett
receives thousands or. even millions q
dollars as a revenue FOR their watc
power and idaho; receives nothing
but on the other hand pays million
into the federal treasury, IL Their
equality among the states?" He sait,
that the contention that natural SC
sources in state belonged to an th
people OF the United states was al
right In theory but that m practlg
II was utterly untrue. b.
POWER SITES
"Our power sites do not in any sens
of the term belong to the people ol
1 NssHf
cd the senator. They are TO be utilz
/ ed by those who make themselvc
| citizens OF the state and join witt
| others In trying To build up com
| monwcalth" lie argued that II neve
| had been tho theory OF the govern
| ment that these resources should b
| utilized as a revenue producing prOpo
sition hut that they We're FOR the benz
| NJ of all the people but he said
! the people must come within IN
state In order To- avail Themselves d
the use and benefit"
Mr. Borah said Congress-. could M
promote conservation by treating pow
or sites, which To utilise was to con.
serve. as Il did coal beds which &
utilize was To consume. As TO unde
veloped natural resources he said tina
after Congress had adopted laws &
| prevent waste. extravaganza and mo
| uopoly so as TO insure their economic
and bona fide use by the people. IL wa
about as far as the United states gov
! eminent could go. He added that az a
| timber there always should be the on
/ couragement and aid Of reforestatiol
4 as that was something that could be re
| produced. .
we have reached. II seems, tina
| pit,able. indefensible position accord
| ing TO those who would tie up our re
sources. whore we are willing 10 con
fcss before the world that as law
4, Isl
traitors worthless. and that our citizen
ship is so brazen and corrupt that WI
| can no longer do business. but out %
sheer impotency. must shut up shoH
I denounce such n theory as lbd
upon our citizenship. manufactured
and well-dlstTibuted libel upon th'
west and for Interior and selfish mo-
tives."
WESTERN CITIZENSHIP.
Senator Borah declared that any leg
| islation upon the subject Of conservatioi
| must he upon the basis that western
| citizenship was honest law-abiding an@
intelligent; that western people apll
preciated the value OF their resourcel
| and proposed TO protect them: and thai
they were loyal to their states and
to the nation as whole.
The conservation policy which,
| teaches the farmer the science OF farm
! ing how to vary his crops. protect
| them from insects and his stock frou
| disease, how to make IS bushels oil
wheat grow where only 90 grew beford
| which retorests those timber land
which will produce nothing but tim ber
which will adopt policy ~ regulation
and control admitting OF use and del
velopment everywhere. is a true con
servation policy" he asserted. "Bu
the policy which withholds the agricul
tural land from production and hinderl
d L.. ~.
zen into "A city or a foreign cline fol
lands. is not only short-sighted anc
unwise. but il II a hlunder. which. ID
| legislation. Is even worse than a crime
Il prophesy that such a policy VIII
be rejected In the end, What we wan
Is more farmers and better farms
moro homes and better homes" he add
ed,
The west has her hght 20 make i
| the Industrial world said Mr.. Borsl
In conclusion. she has TO take care O
| her people and furnish prosperity FOL
those who come among us. Taxes mus
be raised 20 sustain county and staff
governments With one-third of oul
/ state In "A forest reserve, with on
settlers being driven from our staff
| into Canada. with our power sites tied
| up, with the resources which belont
10 those who are willing TO take hold
OF them and develop them taken fron
| us the outlook is not encouraging. II
| YOU say to as that conservation meanl
! the holding OF those lands and powei
| sites indefinitely with a Wow OF secur
! ing permanently the highest possthl,
! revenue 60 the government we vii
! oppose that policy TO the end. But Il
! means an honest effort 10 protect thosi
| resources TO an economic and safe us
| by the people. free Of extravaganza an{
| waste, we will join you. But we havi
grown weary Of this universal and