Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-02-18

alton CT irish babies have grown UP
things are looking up for their de-
pendent ladyships. 1t was only the
fact that we had on this side the
they could not readily be all coopercd,
that put the landlords and landladies
of Ireland in such straits. Now that
we are learning to turn the trick of
Conservation for Individuals Only"
on this side OF the water, the rack
rented Irishman does not find it SO
much question of Between the dew
il and the deep sea" as between the ii
tied "Conservator" at home and the
untitled "Conservator" over here. He
finds that Guggenheim. who has
gathered UP all the coal lands, all the
silver mines and all the water-ho1es
of a country, smells just as sweet
without coronet as he would with
one.
When Mr.. Taft touched the button
that opened the water gates Of the
Gunnison tunnel last summer and
smiled broadly and grandiloquently
on the prospective fertility of the
landscape, he may have been blissfully
unconscious that while the whole peo-
pie are being taxed for the building
CT these reclamation works, the ben
efits that inhere in them go primarily
to the comparative few who can buy
out the natural resources they con-
serve, and so take tribute from the
multitude who will actually put them
pable a man as Mr.. Taft may talk a
eood deal without saying anything
definite and specific. Nobody knows
where Mr.. Taft stands as to "conser-
vatien for the People"
Mr.. Pinchot talks as If he saw all
the bearings OF the Conseryatios psin-
ciple: and had nc wish to disguise aay
Of them. He tells the public that:
The issue is whether this country
shall be managed by Men for human
welfare or by Money for profit. II is
. tremendous moral issue," he says.
"and it lies Between the People and
their representatives on one side aad
the Interests and their representatives
on end 'is r. o.hsr e',wfea special privilege
says. the supreme ,es. is the s..; Welfare re
Of the plain people"
That then is the "Cosservation"
question.
In the parlanee Of the Georsites. it
looks As II Mr.. Pinchot had really
seen the cat" In Mr.. Taft's case, Il
he has found the feline he is probably
waiting with true political sagaeity
to see which way she Jumps.
But what the people need to know
is that it is one thing to conserve the
forests against forest fires and game
destruction, to dam food waters and
construct levecs with the peoples
money. And it is quite another thing
to adopt such legislative measures
vantagcs of the earth, which are of
no mans making. shall be available
| On equal terms to every man of each
generation; that the = cut al value of
every such natural advantage shall be
taxed into the public treasury for the
benefit of the whole people; for the
purposes OF government; in short, to
| use the phrase of Thomas Jefferson.
that the earth may belong in usufruct
(use) to all the living"
1t looks a little odd perhaps that
in this great. broad, new Republic
and in the little pinehed and over
crowded Monarchy of Great Britain
a. phrase lately used by Mr.. Pinchot
should be so equally applicable. Mr..
Pinchct says Of the present status of
the Conservation policy in the United
States: The conservation of natural
| resources and the conservation Of
popular government are both at stake
The one needs conservation no less
than the other"
Mr.. Stead. writing in the February
Review Of Reviews says: The one
dominant issue is the question whesh-
er the People are to govern them
selves or be governed BY the Peers"
This means that over there in Brit
ain an hereditary House of Lords,
whose membership owns practically
the Ian darea Of the islands. with all,
the coal and mineral as we'll as all
the agricultural fertility il contains,
shall use its veto to stop any iegisla-
tion that conflicts with their monop-
oily of those natural resources; shall
tell the popular representatives of the
people. chosen by vote, that no tit i.
CT this monopoly revenue shall be
taxed into the national treasury.
In these United States a small body
Of incorporated and unincorporated
miliionaires (made so by past monop-
olistic privileges) uses the bribing
power Of that wealth in one way and
another to defeat any legislation that
aims at limiting Of their monopoly
advantages.
We do not need to put eoronet on
Joe Cannon to give him the prestige
Of a Lord Lansdowne or King Ed
ward. He has it now in the backing
of the predatory class, who see their
advantage in titles to coal lands, not
in hcraldic insignia.
While the above article has been
standing in type waiting the appearance
Of more pressing local news. one of the
most extraordinary stops in the direction
Of advancing tho principle Of the single
tax has been made by Mayor Gaynor Of
New York city. 1t would seem that
since coming into offiee Mayor Gsynor
has seen new lish. in the matter Of the
absurd. confused and utterly equiyeeal
mode Of taxation now in vogue. cailirg
the law crude, and its results grotesoue,