The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-29
CONSERVATION
BY STATES IS
NOT EFFECTIVE
Problems Are Too Large to be
Limited by the State
Boundaries IN
CONSERVATION IS PROPER USE Of
RESOURCES WITHOUT DESTRUCTION

Should be So Utilized That They
Would Be Passed to the Coming
Generations Unimpaired.
Denver, Aug. 29.-The rear of artil-
lery booming out salute of twenty-one
guns greeted Theodore Roosevelt 40
the train bringing him from Cheyenne
into the city limits of Denver this
morning and told the expectant thou
sands packed before the railway sta
ton and along the line of march of
the Spanish veterans parade that the
VESTS hero, statesman, soldier and
''bully good fellow" is in the Colorado
capital.
It was q soldier that Denver first
geeted the former president. Upon
his arrival at 1O:40 this morning he
entered carriage and lead the pa
rade Of his old comrades in arms, the
veterans Of the Spanish war. who are
holding the national reunion this
week. Among them are many of the
colonel's famous rough riders and
there was strong personal element
IN the greeting which he received in
Denver today.
A great crowd had gathered at the
station and set up wild cheer as the
ex-president appeared on the platform
Of his car. He bowed his acknowl-
edgements Of the noisy welcome and
stepped into carriage to take part in
the parade.
Gov. Shafroth, Mayor Speer and M.
K. Pearsons, president Of the Colorado
Live Stock association, were in the
cariage with him. During the entire
distance OF the line of march, two
miles and half, the sidewalks were
packed with a solid mass of people
who pressed at the ropes which had
been put up to keep them from the
streets and were. kept back only by
the constant efforts of the mounted
policemen, cowboys and cavalrymen.
From the time the parade started till
It ended there was an uninterrupted
roar of welcoming shouts from the
multitude. The cowboys gave their
yell, whistles were footed and bells
we're rung. The streets were mass
Of colors. From the buildings flags
and bunting hung out on ropes sus-
pended across the streets, banners
were hung with pictures of Roosevelt
with words Welcome Teddy" and
"Dee-lighted."
Col. Roosevelt delivered an address
upon the question of conservation,
speaking in part as follows:
Roosevelt's Speech.
Denver, Colo, Aug. 29.-Theodore
Roosevelt delivered the following
speech in this city today.
"This country has shown definite
signs of waking up to the absolute
necessity of handling its natural re-
sources with foresight and common
sense. The conservation question has
three sides. In the first place the
needless waste of the natural resource
es must be stopped. 1t is rapidly be-
coming well-settled policy of this
people that we Of this generation hold
the land in part for the next genera
ton, and not exclusively for our own
selfish enjoyment. Just as the farm
Or ia good citizen II he leaves his
farm improved and not impaired for
his children, and bad citizen If he
skins the land in his own selfish in
terest, 90 the nation behaves we'll IL
it treats the natural resources as as
sets It must turn over to the next
i generation increased and not impaired
IN value and behaves badly If 1t leaves
the land poorer to those who come
after US.
I'm tho second place. the natural
resources must be developed prompt
", completely, and In orderly fashion.
It is not conservation to leave the
natural resources undeveloped. De-
velopments is an indispensable part
Of the conservation plan. The forests,
the mines, the water powers and the
land itself, must all be put to use.
Those who assert that conservation
proposes to tie them up. depriving
this generation Of their benefits in or
der to hand them on untouched to the
next, miss the whole point Of conser-
vation idea. Conservation does not
mean depriving the men Of today Of
their natural rights in the natural re-
sources of the land. All It means is
that we Of this generation shall so
use our rights as pot to deprive those
who come after us Of their natural
rights in their turn.
"In the third place, so far as pos
sible these resources must be kept for
the whole people and not handed over
for exploitation to single individuals.
We do not intend to discourage in
dividual enterprise by unwisely d.
minishing the reward for that enter
prise. On the contrary, we believe
that the men Of exceptional abilities
should have exceptional rewards up
to a point where the reward becomes
disproportionate to the service, up to
the point where the abilities are used
to the detriment of the people as q
whole. We are for the liberty of the
Individual up to and not beyond the
point where 1t becomes inconsistent
Tha Eaue ~ ~