The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-08
III UUHIW BHuHAO
Delegates to the Conservation
Congress Are Growing Weary.
Effort Will Be Made to End the
Session Tonight.
PLEA FOR THE BIRDS.
Secretary of Audubon Society
Asks for More Protection.
Ravages of Insects Cost the
Country Billion Yearly.

st. Paul, Sept. SIT is possible that
the national conservation congress
which by the program should continue
tomorrow will close tonight. President
Baker said he would crowd the program
as much as possible to this end and
perhaps hold a night session. 1t has
been a strenuous convention and dele
gates and visitors want a rest
The presidency is expected to go to
J. B. White, the present chairman of
the executive committee. Clifford Pin
chot, who is president of the National
Conservation association, told his
friends that he would not be a candi-
date.
Members of the resolutions commit
tee met early to draft a platform T.
Gilbert Pearson, of North Carolina, sec
retary of the National Association OF
Audubon societies, introduced plank
for the protection of wild birds.
THE wild Birds he declared, "con-
stitute one of the most valuble natural
assets in our country"
He stated that the losses to the ag-
riculture and forestry interests of the
United States annually amount to one
billion dollars through the ravages OF
insects and that this per cent in on the
increase owing to the decreasing num-
bers of birds which constitute one of
the chief natural enemies of injurious
insects. The Audubon society interest
ed Col. Roosevelt, while he was preSl-
dent, in setting aside 81 national reser-
vations as bird refugees and these reSer-
vations are today guarded by the ward
ems of the Audubon society. 1t has also
secured the enactment of laws in 81
state prohibiting the killing of insect
eating birds.
The great stumbling block in secur-
ing better laws for the protection of
H., r-ra6 int IN, fIn
try who have large sums invested in
birds is the great influence welded by
the handling of game and in the sale
of feathers for women's hats. We can
never hope for the protection the birds
rightly deserve until these great cor
porate interests can be controlled by
statutory enactment" said Mr.. Pear
son.
w d. simmons addressed the con-
gress as follows: "a
Simmons Address.
We of this generation have develop
ed a distinctly new type in our Ameri-
can citizenship-one which has no pro-
totype in the history of any other peo-
ple-one which has become a most
potent and influential factor in our
daily affairs-our modern high-class
commercial traveller.
To this development, 1 attribute my
having the honor of addressing you to-
basis of our business, because the or
ganization Of which 1 am president en-
ployS probably the largest corps of such
representatives in the country, and has
through them the best system of keep
ing accurately informed regarding all
matters that affect business.
take it therefore as a compliment
not to myself alone, but to this new
type among our citizens, and as an evil
dent recognition of those admirable
qualities which have raised this fra
ternity from the old-time drummers of
questionable methods, to men of high
character who have earned the conf
dence, respect and friendship of our
merchants in every nook and corner
of the land.
Among the qualifications necessary to
the success OF the commercial traveller
is that he must be resource-ful.
From conclusions based largely upon
the observations of the commercial
travellers of this country, I will en-
deavor to outline to you what 1 believe
to be the relationship between our bus
mess interests and this question of nat
ural resources, and I believe this phase
of the question is most vitality import
ant to the people in whose interest you
have gathered here from every state in
the Union.
The primary reason for that belief
and the one on which all others hinge
is that we are a nation in trade-a
whole people engaged in business.
Eighty odd per cent of our people are
directly or indirectly dependent for their
living on business conditions The busi-
ness interest therefore is the greatest
interest-collectively- the country.
Anything which affects the living of
the majority of our people is not only
worthy of our most earnest attention,
but should be approached with due
consideration. We should be especially
cautious about experimenting with leg
islation that may interfere with the
natural laws of trade. When this is
more generally recognized and the peo-
pie begin to understand that their in
dividual daily incomes are at stake.
they will nut stop to using the busi-
ness interests of this country as a foot
ball for politics.
Not only does there appear to me to
be direct relation between our natural
resources and our business, but as I
view it, our resources are the founda-
tion of our business-they constitute the
capital upon which our business is
done.
Get Rich Quick Schemes.
In business we endeavor, by industri-
Gus and intelligent use of our capital.
to produce as the fruit of our efforts.
an annual return without inpairing the
capItal-without touching the principal
or jeopardtzing it in any manner In
private enterprise, the man who as
sumes the headship of a business or
ganization In which the funds of 9TH
ers are invested as capital, and who then
makes a show of prosperity by drawing
on that capital to pay what he repre-
sents as dividends is charged with run
nlhg a get rich" scheme, and in most
states IS by law, held personally liable.
commend to your consideration tha
consistency of applying that principle
Where there is involved the CAPITAL of
All the people-the nations resources.
II we are people in trade, and mean
to continue to be. and If of,r reso,,re.s
arc our capital, can there be anv doubt
apout the vision of handling that capi-
tal according to the rules of good bust