The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-09-06

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IL fundamentally a demand against
the interest OF the plain people. OF
the people of small means. against
the interest of our children and oui
children's children; and il is pri-
nlarily in the interest of the great cor
porations which desire to escape all
government control.
The Conservation Tight.
One OF the difficulties in putting
into practice the Conservation idea Is
that the field to which II applies is
constantly growing in the public
mind. Ii has been no slight task To
bring before 9O.OOO,OOO people great
conception like that OF Conservation,
and convince them that II is right.
This much we have accomplished. But
there remains much TO be cleared up,
and many misunderstanding TO be
removed. These Observation-Disclosures
are due in part at least to direct mis-
representation by the men to whose
interest il is that Conservation should
not prosper.
Abuses committed in the name OF a
Just cause are familiar 10 all of us.
Many unwise things are done and
many unwise measures are advocated
i'm the name of Conservation, either
through Ignorance, or by those whose
interest lies not in promoting the
movement, but i'm retarding 1t. Fo:
example, 20 stop water power devel-
opment by needless refusal to issue
permits for water power or private
irrigation works on the public lands
inevitably leads many men, friendly
to Conservation and believers in its
general principles, to assume that its
practical application is necessarily a
check upon progress. Nothing could
be more mistaken. The idea, widely
circulated of late. that Conservation
means locking up the natural resourc-
es for the exclusive use OF later gen.
erations is wholly mistaken. our pur-
pose is to make full use of these re-
sources, but to consider our sons and
daughters as well as ourselves; just
as a farmer uses his farm in ways to
preserve its future usefulness. Con-
servation is the road to national eff
flciency, and it stands for ample and
wise development
Good Progress Made.
But in spite of these difficulties,
most of which are doubtless inevi-
table i'm any movement of this kind.
Conservation has made marvellous
progress Il have been astounded and
delighted on my return from abroad
at the progress made while l was
away. We have a right to congratu-
late ourselves on this marvellous pro-
gress; but there is no reason for be-
lieving that the fight is won. In the
beginning the special interests. who
are our chief opponents In the Con
servation fight, paid little heed to the
movement, because they neither un-
derstood it, nor saw that II 1t won
they must lose. But with the pro-
gress of Conservation i'm the minds of
our people. the fight is getting sharp
er. The nearer we approach to vic
tory, the bitterer the opposition that
we must meet, and the greater the
need for caution and watchfulness.
open opposition we can overcome, but
warn you especially against the
men who come to Congress such as
this, ostensibly us disintcrested citi-
zens. but actually as the paid agents
of tho special interests. ] heartily
approve the attitude of any corpora
ton, interested i'm the deliberations of
meeting such as this, which comes
hither to advocate, by its openly ac-
credited agents, views which 1t be-
lieves the meeting should have I'm
mind. But I condemn with equal
readiness the appearance of a corpor-
ate agent before any convention who
does not declare himself frankly as
such.
II is our duty and our desire to
make this land of ours n better home
for the race. but our duty does not
stop there. We must also, work for n
better nation to live in this better
land. The development and conser-
walton of our national character and
our free institutions must go hand
In hand with the development and
conservation of our natural resources,
which the governors conference so
well called the foundations of our
prosperity.
Cream City Awaits Roosevelt.
Milwaukee, Wis Sept. EVERY
thing is In readiness for the reception
of ex-Prcsident Roosevelt. who is due
90 arrive i'm Milwaukee at 7:4O tomor-
| row morning. The entire day will be
| spent here. and during that time the
ex-Presidont will visit the trade
| schools and other institutions of the
city. drop In on the convention of the
| American Public Health Association,
confer with some OF the promi-
ncnt public men of the city and state
and take dinner as the guest of the
| Milwaukee Press club. Following the
| Press club dinner he will address q
public gathering in the Auditorium.