The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-07

ment must hinder healthy general de-
velopment No temporary state poll
tics compelled by the wealthy few
must impair permanent national
craftsmanship for the general good
Of all
Had We kept the natural resources
OF all the people and made private in
terests pay the people just return
for exploiting those resources, the
Nations income thus derived would
now pay most of the Nations expen-
ses; those resources would have been
wisely used and not exhausted; and
our whole grawth wauld have been
rational and sound instead of unbal-
anced and defective. We wauld have
enjoyed all of the benefits from our
natural resources, and yet our child
rem would have inherited clossal ma
tional wealth and small national bur.
dens instead of private interests en-
joying all the benefits of our natural
ing clossal private wealth and small
private burdens.
The Nation must keep and admins.
ter for all the people those natural
resources belonging to all the people,
Every State should aid and not him
der the Nation in doing this great
duty. The State should preserve for
the public good the resources belong
ing exclusively to it, the municipality
the resources belonging exclusively to
1t; and both should help the Nation in
doing the same thing with resources
belonging to all
For example, some of New York's
swollen fortunes have been expanded
by corrupt councils selling for song
to private owners water fronts and
other real estate Of great present value
and almost inestimable future value
Had New York kept the property
which belonged to all the American
people instead of abandoning most of
them to cunning. strength and greed,
our progress would have been somder
and more sure.
Cooperation of municipality, state
and Nation to correct past mistakes
and preserve and administer for the
general good Of all the people the ma
tural resources yet remaining-this
is the policy Of common-sense and
common honesty. Strife and division
to the end that the reign of waste
and pillage under the falseness of de-
velopment shall go on and the feverish
upbuilding of private wealth upon the
ruins OF the peoples resources shall
continue-this Is the policy of private
avarice and private plumber. Forests
and coal. water powers and phos-
phates-all the wealth that belongs
to all the people-must be kept and
developed for the benefit Of all the
people.
This great policy for the welfare
of all the people is now well under
way. Let us beware how we hinder
or retard 1t. 1t is another step in
the glorious process of the building
OF the Nation. Already it has saved
the people much that remains of their
resources. Honor to whom honor is
due"-let us not forget that the man
who in thought, deed and word has
championed this vast and historic re-
form until today he is it's personifica.
ton, Is that courageous. pure. unset
fish young American, the President
sion. Clifford Pinchot. For years he
has fearelssly fought and ceaselessly
toiled to save and protect for the peo-
pie the property of the people; and
In that nationwide battle has been
the field officer of the man who first
made this mighty movement a perma-
nent and practical policy of American
craftsmanship. Theodore Roosevelt.
The soul of our prosperity as a
people, our very life itself. depends
upon the idea that our unity and our
MISUNDERSTANDING, state and
Nation each working within its pro
vince for the common good Of all the
people. instead OF municipality. state
and Nation within its province con.
niving ut the perilous enrichment OF
the few to the injury and impoverish.
ment Of ALL The economic and honest
care Of the peoples common welfare
means the just advantage to which in.
dividual ability. industry and thrift
are entitled: the uneconomic and i'm.
moral upbuilding of special interests
by the sacrifice Of public wealth means
the denial OF that just advantage to
which individual ability. enterprise
and thrift are entitled. This il a gov.
eminent Of all the people: Il should
be conducted for all the people.
The duty Of the young men today
In working for themselves is to think
and act for what the Constitution
calls ''the general welfare" OF the Ma.
tion ~ q whole. Only as the entire
Nation 10 prosperous can any State
be really prosperous. Only as the
entire Nation IL powerful can any
state DO really safe from foes. foreign