Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-09-08

sources. The provincial idea was that
the natural wealth belonging to all the
American people should be handed
over for nothing to special interests.
This was done under the plea of en-
couraging individual enterprise and
Fastening of local development.
"And SO forests which once be.
longed to all the people have been
ruthlessly felled and upon their ruins
have risen the empires of our Lumbar
kings. Priceless deposits of coal, irt n
ore and copper, which once belonged
to all the people, have been surren-
dered freely to special interests and
these sources of the peoples revenue
which should have flowed into the
people treasury to pay the expense
of the people e'ssg0vefnment, have been
diverted by the ditch dug by the pro-
vincial idea into the treasury of multi
millionaires until a. the peril of the
swollen fortunes is one of the prob
lens confronting American statesman
ship.
"And all of this waste and robbery
of the peoples wealth must be
stopped. No ancient and provincial
Interpretation of states rights must
prevent the enforcement of the peo.
ple's rights. No special plea for hasty
local development must hinder
healthy general development. No tenn
porary state politics compelled by the
wealthy few must impair permanent
national craftsmanship for the gen.
eral good of all.
Revenue Would BE Enormous.
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 ma.
tton's income thus derived would now
pay most of the nations expenses;
those resources would have been wise
ly used and not exhausted and our
whole growth would have been ra-
tional and sound instead Of unbal-
anced and defective. We would have
enjoyed all of the benefits from our
natural resources and yet our children
would have inherited colossal national
wealth and small national burdens in
stead of private interests enjoying all
the benefits of our natural resources
and their children inheriting colossal
private wealth and small private bur-
dens.
"The nation must keep and admin
lister for all the people those natural
resources belonging to all the people.
Every state should aid and not hinder
the nation in doing this great duty.
The state should preserve for the pub.
lie good the resources belonging ex-
clusively to 1t, the municipality the
resources belonging exclusively to it,
and both should help the nation in do
ing the same thing with resources be-
longing to ALL
."Had the nation conserved the re-
sources which belonged to all the
American people instead of abandon
ing most of them to cunning strength
and greed our progress would have
UCcu 6OuAu0Ay anu AAVA . Qua %
Praise for Clifford Pinchot.
"Co-operation of municipality, state
and nation to correct past mistakes
and preserve and administer for the
general good of all the people the nat
ural resources yet remaining-this is
the policy Of common sense and COM
mon honesty. Strife and division to
the end that the reign OF waste. and
pillage under the falseness of DEVELOP
ment shall go on and the feverish mp
building Of private wealth upon the
ruin OF the peoples resources shall
continue-this is the policy Of private
avarice and private plunder. Forests
and coal, water power and phosphates
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 howwe hinder or
retard it. It Is another step in the
glorious process Of building Of the
/ nation. Alread q Il has saved the peo-