The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-09-09
PRESIDENT TAFT'S UNDER
STANDING OF CONSERVA-

PRESIDENT TAFT'S UNDER
STANDING OF CONsERVA-
TION.
President Taft's two addresses de-
Ivered at st. Paul yesterday are en-
titled to careful perusal by those
who wish to be well informed on
current topics. Neither will be
found burdensomeIy long or in
volved, especially as the conserva-
ton speech has been carefully d.
vested of extraneous subjects and
reduced to the questions that strict
ly relate to local interests. Com
parisons are usually odious and are
besides generally useless, since the
only comparison that counts is that
which each makes for himself and
not that which someone else makes
for him. 1t will be found though,
we believe, that President Taft
knows more about conservation, In
it's essential relations, than Roose-
welt and Pinchot put together, be-
cause they seem to ignore facts and
conditions while President Taft is
combining himself to facts and con-
ditions. This leads him to say that
the newness of the problems to be
met is such that we may have to at.
tempt first one way and then an
other. The Roosevelt-Pinchot dog
ma has resented any such sane con-
clusion and demands that its way.
and no other, be submitted to.
From this one contrast alone self
governing citizens can determine
which is the wise counselor and the
safe magistrate.
President Taft throws new light
on the power-site entanglements.
The states own the streams and the
national power owns the adjacent
lands, neither of which is available
for generative purposes without the
other. The prevailing proposal has
been to tie up the lands under a
, leasehold that would carry with IT
; requirements as to the use of the
product from the water President
+ Taft doesn't know whether such an
indirect control over the states SOW.
ereign right to dispose of its waters
would be valid. He suggests the
). difficulties and asks congress to sur
v mount them If it can. The reader
r must again draw his own conclu
r sions as to whether President Tai
IT is a sound and prudent ruler II
g frankly facing an organic dilemma
v like that, or whether he is a molly
II coddIe, a nature faker, and a male
e. factor of great wealth.
lie President Taft says there ar
Is within the forest reserves of tn
A. United States 166,O0O,OO0 acres, bu
d of these 100000 acres belong t
At the states or to individuals. TIL
ID %, 900, 900 acres we reasonably IN
ID fer comprises the 18th and 36t
" school sections which inhered in tn
lie states with the act of their admi'
Id sion. Inc hoooeNoiC-H ihShO' PAoP'
TX ganda has denied the right of tn
er states to their school endowment
tv granted by congress, and for Pres
It. dent Taft to ignore thrifty efforts
If cover back into tho NAV of the TO
ce est fires this inheritance of II
,r- schools will call for further labor
wv Gus mental processes in determine
n the relative character of the tv
is lines of political thought.
ut Some, at least one, of Preside
he Taft's proposals will not suit Il
We west. There are plenty of 9th
Ter things, for that matter, that do n
is suit the west. But the fact is tn
is the president is doing his best, wi
tn. kindly and far-seeing eyes, to 6
lgs things down to some sort of wor
i've ing basis. How he is going to cor
ire out and how the west is going
to come out one cannot tell. There
for good deal to indicate how he
,ed going to come out, and that is t
way Grover Cleveland did, both v
Id Tins of the same sort of leadersh
Mr.. at the head of the same sort OF |
the dent, impulsive and illusioned
He cruits who fancy themselves patrit
rye and deliverers Enough of tn
CO. will be sobered and chastened befC
his the great test has come, as tn
30? were in the parallel days of 49,
ex- but that will hardly save Taft, a
18th more than it saved Cleveland.
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