New-York tribune., 1910-09-07

. done Of course without injury to the tim
/ Der, which has a value of at least 'ho"-
sand million dollars
Moreover. the national forests protect the
waer supply Of thousand Sa 1r6ects 9ss and and
more nots>t than 500 power protects. not counting
! the use of water for these and other puI pua+
! poses by individual settlers, I think tnat
/ hereafter We may safely disregard any
! statements that the national forests are
! withdrawn from settlement and use
A Country Life Institute.
Commission have led the farmers OF this
country tc realize that they have not been
getting their fair share of progress and al
! 5ne Middle West have made marvellous
s' eRe1T 1ne other nd "G are not
beyond Improvement. while much needs ~
he done in some other sections TO improve
country life, AS yet we know compara:ttiive-
ton. The means for better farming we
nnVe , stqaed h M @ GaT bsts1 3nt 10 or the
farm the farmers themselves have given
scant attention. One of the most urgent
themselves should undertake to get for
themselves better knowledge along these
lines, and then to apply it: Sir Horace
tIeman and now devoting himself in Ire
land to the country life problem there; has
suggested in his recent book on The Coun-
of country life institute a. q centre where
the work and knowledge of the whole world
gether. for the use of every nation. I am
strongly in sympathy with this idea, and |
hope to see it carried out with the Co
operation and assistance Of our own people
Lest spring. while visiting the capital OF
Hungary, Budapest, l was immensely i'm
pressed by the Museum OF CountrX Lites
containing an extraordinary series or
studies in agriculture, in stock raising. IN
forestry, in mining the exhibits were of
the utmost practical Importance and were
also intensely interesting and Instructive.
| greatly wish We had such museum II
Washington. and some of Your farmer
Congressman ought TO get full and de
tailed report of this Budapest museum TO
be printed for distribution in a public /
document.
Human Efficiency.
AS a people we have not yet learned to
economize. One Of the virtues we Ameri- |
cans most need is thrift It Is q mere tru-
ism to say that luxury and extravaganza /
are not good for q nation. So far as they
be beyond COMPUTATION But in the ma !
terial sense there is loss greater than Is |
caused by both extravaganza and luxury |
and excessive. loss to our people from pre-
mature death and avoida BILE diseases.
ing and the wretchedness Which they cause.
the material loss each year has been cal |
culated at nearly twice what it costs to /
to % the @ state ate and city Health oficers and
organizations there is urgently needed a /
federal bureau Of health. to act, so far as !
the national government properly may, to /
relieve our people from this dreadful bur |
den.
National Conservation Con1n1i ission.
One Of the most important meetings in
our recent history was that of the gov
ernors in the White House, in May, 1905, !
to consider the conservation question. BY |
the advice Of the governors the meeting
was followed by the appointment of a Ma
tional Conservation Commission. The meet /
ing of the governors directed the attention
of the country to conservation as nothing
else could have done, while the work of the
commission gave the movement definiteness
and supplied it with a practical programme. |
But at the moment when the commission
was ready to begin the campaign for put
ment to the sundry civil service bill was
introduced by a Congressman from Min
nesota with the purpose of putting stop
to the work so admirably begun. Congress
passed the amendment. Its OBJECT was TO
put end to the work of d number of
commissions which had been appointed by
the President and whose contributions to /
the public welfare had been simply meal
culable Among these were the commission
for reorganizing the business methods of
the government, the Public Lands Com
mission. the Country Life Commission and
the National Conservation Commission it
self When | signed the sundry civil ser
vice bill containing this amendment I
transmitted with it, as my last official act.
a memorandum declaring that the amend
stitutionaI interference with the rights of
the Executive, and that II | were to re-
main President l would pay to il no at
tention whatever
The National Conservation Commission
thereupon became dormant. The suspen-
sion of its work came at most unfortu-
nate time. and there was serious danger that
the progress already made would be lost.
At this critical moment the National Con-
servation Association was organized. It
took up the work which otherwise would
not have been done. and it exercised most
Ir1rir al
ton. in securing the Introduction of better
conservation measures al the last session of
Congress and in promoting the passage Of
support of every cluzen interested in the
wise development and preservation of our
from passing into the hands of uncontrolled
monopolies. It joins with the National
Conservation Congress in holding this
of both.
an-Ameriean Conservation.
When the government os the United
States awoke 10 the idea of conservation
time in communicating the advantages of
the new point or view 70 its Immediate
neighbors among the nations. \ North !
American conservation conference was held
I'm Washington. and the cooperation of
Canada and Mexico. in the great problem
Of developing the resources of the conti- |
nent for the benefit of its people, was asked |
and promised. The nations upon our north !
ern and southern bounda ries wisely realized !
that their opportunity 10 conserve the nat |
ural resources was better than ours because !
with them destruction and mOnOpolization |
had not gone SO far as they had with US. !
So it is with the republics of Central and |
South America. Obviously they are on the !
verge OF period Of great material prog |
ress. The development of their natural re- |
sources-their forests, their mines. their |
water and their soils-Will create enormous |
wealth. 1t is to the mutual interest of the |
United States and our sister American re
rublics that this development should be |
wisely done. Our manufacturing indus |
their natural wealth and raw material |
while they will increasingly desire to meet !
that demand in commercial exchange. The |
more we buy from them the more we shall |
sell TO them Their prosperity is insepa- |
rably involved with our own. Thank Heav- /,
en-, We of this continent; are now beginning |
to realize what in the end the whole world /
will realize, that normally 1t is a good thing |
for nation to have its neighbor nations !
prosper We of the United States are !.
and prosperity In Canada, in Mexico and IN |
South America.
IT IS clear that unless the governments |
o. our Southern neighbors take steps in the |
rear future, by wise legislation to control I
tha DEVELOPMENT and use of their natural re-
hands of concessionaires and promoters |
whose single purpose. without regard to the !
permanent welfare of the land in which !
thew work will be to make the most posi- j
BILE money in the shortest possible time !
There will he a shameful waste destructive !
loss and short sighted disregard Of the tut !
lIrn as we have learned by bitter eNrsfi- |
ence here at home.
Unless the governments of all the Ameri- |!
can republics. including our own, enact in |
natural wealth and promote their legitimate |
reasOna bic development. future genera