Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-12
Theodore Roosevelt Likewise
Placed at Head Of Movement
Which Has Yet to Find a
Name,
CONSERVATION SERVES
AS POLITICAL CREED
Former Forester Denounces
Trusts and Point Out Where
interests Were Favored IN
Framing New Tariff Law.

liyy Morning journal Special Irahed Wifet
ct. Paul Mimi, June 11.--Former
Forester Clifford Pinchot and former
Secretary Of the Interior James r,
Gm field were guests Of honor at q
reception and banquet given by the
st. Paul Roosevelt club at the Ryan
hotel tonight.
The decorations of the speaker 5
table consisted of miniature noun
tains, forests waterfalls and roads
With q miniature train propelled by
electricity whizzing past.
Justice T.. a. Jaggard of the Mime
sofa supreme court was toastmaster.
Introducing Judge Jaggard, President
Habort Ci the Roosevelt club awak-
cned the enthusiasm of the headquar-
ters by 4 reference to an unnamed
new party, some Of the leaders of
which," he said, Were present He
said IN part
The Roosevelt club has consis-
tently stood for the conservation of
ideals and the conservation of men
and against plunder and graft.
This country has lived on its cap
ital. but at last has awakened to the
fact that 1t viii soon exhaust its nat
mal resources by the inequitable dis
tribution of its wealth in direct viola
ton Of the lasv Of equal oDportunitN
cf IS citizens. 1'his condition has
brought about the formation of a new
p9ii without name, but not without
On issue.
That party may he unnamed, but
its leaders are Theodore Roosevelt
and our honored guests. Clifford Pin
chot and james r. Garfield
Nj. Garfield talked on the "ulti-
mate Results of Conservation.
Mr.. Garfield began his address by
referring to the Minnesota swamp land
ais, ute with the national govern
ment which has been pending for
Years. and which ~ the efforts Of
Governor Johnson before him as sec
retary OF the interior, had been set
tied in twenty minutes by the proper
recognition Of state rights and the
admission on the part of the state OF
federal control
I'll the men Of the different parts
Of the country win get together in a
friendly spirit there will be no diff
Guilty in settling these questions,' said
Mr. Garfield LAS a nation We must
take up these problems seriously. II
does not mean that the states viii be
compelled to give up their rights.
We must recognize that in dealing
with water rights that all have voice
IN deciding what shall be done with
them You in Minnesota who have
within your state the beginning OF
three of the greatest courses in the
country cannot say that YOU alone
have the right to dictate what shall
be done with them.
The states below have an equal
right to the disposition of the water.
Ii is the same with coal. Coal is coal
to many states. yet it is the entire
nation which is dependent on coal for
lbs fuel IT, as 4 nation, VIC shall give
to any state right to control the coal
deposits of Alaska, we as people
shall have betrayed a trust for when
posterity shall hold our members To
account.
Under the old laws public domain
was given over to private individuals
who ranged their cattle wherever they
wished and so long had they held this
privilege that they came to believe
they had right to hold ii forever
Nov we demand that not one acre ct
coal land shall be sold. We have
right to mine that coal. We demand
that the forests of our public land
snail be cut in the same manner as
We would have our coal mined. We
demand that the titlp of these lands
snail remain in the state, hut that the
nse of the product shall be accordlns
w buT necessities. N G utIlduu thtAA
anyone who can form company to
mine coal and to cut timber shall he
atle to acquire the lands for the needs
Of his company and shall not be
barred by the Interference OF greater
one
This is not revolutionary. This is
not a dog in the manger policy, but
II is following a pclicy which VIII
hand down to the next generation our
forests and coal lands and our water
power better conserved for their use
and enjoyment
The chief opposition to conserva-
ton comes from men who haye been
stopped from doing that which was
wrong.
And what is more wrong
lhan stealing coal and timber
iards and water power The
man who will steal public prop
eriy should be treated the same as
lhe man who steals private property.
The evil of the men who steals these
lhings is vastly greater than the crime
OF the individual against an individual
ahc the man who pollutes the water
'nurse and is the means Of permitting
Nphoid germs in the drinking water
supply of p community is equally
murderer with the man who shoots ms
,neishhor. The man who steals pun
iie franchise is equally a thief with
me man who steals chicken. and We
must learn that a corporation man
.ser who steals from the public Il
"niN iit for the penitentiary.
conservative means the wiping out
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