East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-05
Big Gathering Of Foremost
Americans Will Thresh Out
Nations Great Problem.
PRESIDENT TAFT PLEADS
FOR PEACE IN ADDRESS
Much Formality Marks Welcome to
Nations Chief Executve-Air Is
Surcharged With Intense Feeling
Roosevelt Expected to Start Some
thing Tomorrow-Govern Eber-
hart Opens Congress and Introduces
President.

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. with the
Broad Smile from Beverly on the pro-
gram today, the Big Stick from Oyster
Bay due tomorrow, and scores of other
earnest and famous gentlemen eager
to unburden burning thoughts on the
subject, conservation will be a live
topic of conversation during the next
few days.
Although President Tafts opening
address at the National Conservation
Congress today was, to some extent,
a plea for peace, it is yet evident that
the convention is divided between the
followers of Ballinger and the dis
ciples of Pinchot, and, when freed
from the alarming influence OF the
presidential presence, this difference
Of opinion may be productive of ruc-
tons. There are those among the
delegates claiming to have some mys-
terious source of inside information,
who say that Col. Roosevelt's address
tomorrow will not be as oil upon
troubled waters.
There will be no meeting between
the former and the present chief ex-
ecutives of the nation. While the
observation-disclosures is speeding st.
Paulward from Fargo tonight. the
president-that-is will have turned his
face toward the rising sun.
In addition to the "big guns" of the
congress, many other rapid-fire ora
tors, divided about evenly between
those who hold that the Pinchot
brand of conservation is a blessing and
those who denounce it as blight, will
shell the convention with the hot shot
of facts, figures and statistics.
In the welter of conservation con-
versation, one fact sticks out like
sore thumb. The country must and
shall be saved. Whether the nation
is to be saved from the fanatics who
are seeking to rob the western states
of the control of their national re-
sources" or from the Corporation
robbers who are attempting to steal
the heritage of the people" will prob
ably be as far from decision when the
congress ends as it is today.
Meanwhile, the St. Paul hotel keep
ers are busily conserving.
Much Formality.
Although the delegates cheered
when President Taft entered the con-
vention hall today, formality marked
every feature OF his reception after he
reached the platform. He looked SER
ious while Archbishop Ireland word
ed the invocation which opened the
congress.
When the president arrived TO-
600 people were at the station. The
president went Immediately to the re-
viewing stand where he watched the
Labor day parade in which twenty
thousand laborers marched, and af-
terwards went to the hall. Governor
Eberhart of Minnesota delivered the
opening address. After declaring
poor and uninntelligent farming is
costing the nation twenty-five billion
dollars annually and asserting too
many of the farmer boys go to the
city he introduced the president
There was much cheering and then
Taft delivered his address.
Rumors that eastern and western
delegates are ready to split are cur
rent today. 1t is reported the west
ern delegates will bolt if an attempt
is made to force the recommended
tions for federal control of forests
through.