The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-18

speaker when he mentioned the name
of Theodore Roosevelt.
1.-The conservation movement" said
Mr. Taft, loves it's beginning to Theo-
dore Roosevelt prolonged applause).
Go it again. You don't enjoy that any
more than / do. Who was it inspired
Clifford Pinchot with his wonderful ac
tivity of mind and body in forwarding
the conservation movement? Cap
plause). And of Withholding it where
it does not belong.
There are people in the house and
the senate, conscientious. hard working
prominent statesmen, who look at the
question Of conservation as it might
have been looked at 20 or 80 years ago.
They still favor letting out the land
and getting the settiers-instead of
"a careful method of conservation and
preservation. / am not critlcising
them. They say that ] don't under
stand that we in the east don't un-
derstand the situation because we don't
breathe the atmosphere of the west
Well, / think We are convincing a
good many of them that we are In
the right and they are in the wrong;
but there are some who are perfect
ajaxs in debate that say that they will
continue to debate this question and
will stand against the conservation
program as long as their shoe leather
lasts.
What | want is an act of congress
validating all the Withdrawals of land
that have been made and giving me
power of making such further with
| n lie, RI ha
congress has determined the proper
disposition of those lands
| Meeting With Opposition.
| The president said he was meeting
opposition from those who wish an
immediate disposal of land and those
who question the constitutional power
| of the president to make Withdrawals.
Speaking Of his withdrawal of 100000
acres OF oil land in California, the
president continued:
! 81 want to enable congress to make
proper rules for the acquisition Of titles
! to these lands, and with reference to
| the prospecting over them, to find oil.
Now, some gentlemen-and they are
always the gentlemen with the long
purses, who can do that sort of thing
because they can stand litigation-are
! locating on that oil land although l
have withdrawn it.
1.-The little fellow does not do so
because he does not want to face a
lawsuit. We are apt to get into liti-
cation over lands withdrawn and if it
is decided the withdrawal power does
not exist, you can see where the en-
barrassment VIII be, because if the po-
wer does not exist and the squatters
have right to fix title to the land.
we will wake up to find a great deal
of that land gone, when now by act
of congress We can keep it in the
public domain and relieve ourselves
from any such embarrassment"
Address to the Irish.
President Tafts address at the BAN
quet of the Irish Fellowship club was
as follows:
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of
the irish Fellowship club:
1T is two years since l tasted the
fine flavor of your hospitality at
luncheon, where my stay was only
too short for my pleasure. When your
honorable committee visited me, there
fore, / yielded to the temptation and
agreed to again become your guest
when you should meet to celebrate
the day that awakens the heart throbs
of every true son of Ireland.
" st. Patricks day in the morning.
L never quite understood the signifi-
canoe of the last three words of the
phrase unless they meant the bright
ness of the morning did not wear away
until long into the night of the day
rxl,n
to the anniversary.
"On such an occasion as this, ones
mind turns back naturally to the his
tory of that beautiful island-'wlth her
back toward England, her face to the