The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-28
HoNEsr coNElscATIoM


President Taft is a good lawyer and
therefore as q statesman looks al both
sides of political question Mr.
RoaseYets now Nationallsm does moi
meet with Mr. raits approval because
il concentrates 100 much power ID the
hands u The executive ana the gener.
al government The states would thus
De rests tea in The conservation Of
EtherhEsoarces which constltuti0naily
Fare thef own affairs BY what line
OF reasoning rresident TAFT arrived at
that conclusion is not reported, but
probably be knows more about the IN
side facts as To where New National.
tism Is eventually intended TO lead us
than other people have been able to
gather.
Ordinary folk are compelled TO take
Mr.. Roosevelt's word as to what New
Nationalism really stands for, and
then try and read between the lines to
discover It's true inwardness. Mr.,
Roosevelt has been defending his New
Nationalsm, defining ii as nothing
really new and nothing radical. In
his speech at Bristol he said: What
mean by the New NationaIism is
simply an efficient application OF the
old moralities TO new ard changed
conditions That is rather indefinite
and the balance of the speech fails 70
indicate into what unknown waters
Mr. Roosevelt would pilot the ship Of
state. He talked about the square
deal and crooks, and good and bad cor
porations, etc, nothing new In all
that, for all honest people are in favor
OF honesty
The true doctrine of New National
ism must be looked for in Mr.. Roose-
velt's Osawatomie speech where he de-
clared, says the New York Evening
Post, that The New Nationalism re-
CARDS the executive power as the stew
ard Of the public welfare;" also that:
the betterment we seek must be ac-
complished mainly through the ma
tional government" for the doctrine
that governmental interference with
social and economic conditions should
be so extended as to permit fortune
to be enjoyed in peace molly under con-
dition that IL is "honorably obtained
and well used" and that the gaining
of II has represented benefit to the
community"
II IS fair to interpret all of this
as a demand Tor taking away the
power that the states now have over
corporations and their natural re-
sources. and handing 1t over to the
President Of the United States and the
general government to be used for the
general benefit by "the steward of the
public welfare" Mr.. Pinchot explain
ed in his speech at Los Angeles how
far this New Nationalism proposes to
go in interference with social and
economic conditions. He says the rail.
roads and others must be made to dis
gorge the lands they have acquired
which contain minerals and oil, except
ing coal and iron. He, ike Mr.. Roose-
welt, declares that such pronerty must
not be enjoyed In peace, for presum-
ably II was not honorably obtained and
is not being well used.
AS most Of such mineral and oil land
has passed from the railroads or 9th
ers who obtained ii from the Fed
eral government or from the states,
and Is now In other hands, mostly
many times removed from the original
purchaser 10 upset sHch titles would
IN most eases be q eonfscation from
the present owners. Some rogues
might be made to dlsgorge, but to ac-
conpish il thousands OF people would
be despoiled OF property which they
had purchased in good faith.
Mr., Roosevelt can we'll defend his
moral platiiudes of the Bristol speech
as the New Nationalism, ana but few
viii say him nay but in his Kansas
speech he proposes to centralize all
power in the hands OF the resident
and the general government, and the
eonfiscatlon of the property of those
who Mr. Roosevelt thinks did not hon
orably obtain it is not equity-it is
anarchy