The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-30
Parade on Streets Is Unique
and Its Features Enjoy
ed By City's Guest
CONSERVATION SPEECH
MADE At AUDITORIUM
Protection of the Country's Re-
sources and Necessity of Guard
ing From the Greedy

Denver, August 29.-The salute of cam
non welcomed Colonel Roosevelt to Dem
yer as his special train drew in at the
union station. A great crowd had gath
cred ut the station and set up a wild
cheer as the ex-PresiGent appeared on
the platform of his car. He bowed his
Acknowledgements of the noisy welcome
ana stepped into a carriage to take part
in the parade.
Governor Shaffroth, Mayor Speer and
M. X. Pearsons, president of the Colo
rado Live Stock association, were in the
carriage with him.
| From the time the parade started till
ii ended there was uproar of welcom-
ing shouts from the multitude.
The city was mass of flames and bunt-
ing with pictures of colonel Roosevelt
| bearing the words, Welcome Teddy"
and "Dee-Lighted
During the last mile of the parade the
first two divisions dropped out of line and
stood at attention Roosevelt, who
! headed the third DIVISION, passed by.
From the reviewing stand the colonel re-
| viewed the parade.
An Accidental Shot
As the parade passed Eighteenth and
| fremont streets the horse ridden by j. H.
|
| OF sheriffs, became frightened and Will
| iams' revolver was jo1ted from his hos
| tier The weapon exploded as 1t fell to
| the ground. Williams was riding behind
| Colonel Roosevelt and Tor moment the
police feared an attempt had been made
to assassinate the former President. The
| bullet struck Williams in the leg but
DID not wound him seriously. He was
lifted from his horse and the parade
went on.
The passage of the Rough Rider division
was one of the most picturesque fea-
lures of the entire parade.
The colonel took off his hat, OCCASION
ally recognizing men he had known In the
| Cuban campaign.
| He made a marked effort to show at
tention to the Indian war veterans and
the -Timerss associa ton gs
| Quickly taxing or his hat when men,
bers of the Grand Army appeared, Colonel
| Roosevelt left the automobile from which
he viewed the parade and going into the
street shook hands with the veterans.
| When the last organization had passed
| Colonel Roosevelt went 10 his room at
| the Brown Palace hotel, preparatory TO
| going to Overland park. where chuck
wagon lunch was served by the Denver
| Press club.
Acts of the supreme court of the United
States were sharply criticised by Theo-
| dore Roosevelt in an address In the state
capitol before the Colorado legislature.
| The former President cited two deci-
sions nv the supreme court which he de-
clared we're contrary to the principles OF
democracy and he said emphatcally that
IL those decisions indicated the perma-
nent attitude of the court the entire
American system of popular government
would be upset
reception In more ways than one when he
reached the Auditoriuns, where he was
scheduled to deliver an address
The great hall where the democratic
national convention of 1903 was held con-
tsined nearly 1900 persons, many or
whom had waited for hours in the sum-
rer heat When the former President
anneared on the platform the great audi
erce arose and cheered him heartily, wav-
ing handkerchiefs anc cries or Hello.
Teddy" greeted the colonel as he stepped
forward.
ROOseveIt's Address
Colonel Roosevelts speech was as
follows:
"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 need
less waste of the natural resources
must be stopped. 1t is rapidly becom-
ing a we'll settled policy of this peo-
pJe that we of this generation hold the
land in part for the next generation
and not exclusively for our own selfish
endowment Just the farmer is
good citizen If he leaves his farm i'm
proved and not impaired for his chill
dren and a bad citizen II he skins
the land in his own selfish interest,
so the nation behaves well II 1t treats
the natural resources as assets which
n
alton increased and not impaired IN
value and behaves badly If 1t leaves
the land poorer to those who come af-
ter us.
I'm the second place the naturai re-
sources must be developed promptly.
completely and in orderly fashion. 1t
Is not conservation to leave the nat
ural resources undeyeloped-
development 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 con-
servation proposes to tie them up.
depriving this generation of their ben
efits in order to hand them on I'M
touched to the next miss the whole
point of the conservation idea. Conser-
walton does not mean depriving the
men of today of their natural rights
in the natural resources of the land
All it means is that we of this gen
Grafton shall use our rights as not
to deprive those who come after us of
their natural rights in their turn.
The Peoples Resources
in the third place, so far 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 indi-
vidaul enterprise by unwisely diminiSh
ing the reward for that enterprise ON
the contrary, we believe that the men
of exceptional abilities should have
exceptional rewards up to a point
where the reward becomes dispropor-
tionate to the services, up to the point
where the abilities are used to tho
detriment of the people as a whole We
are for the liberty of the individual up
to and not beyond the point where II
becomes inconsistent with the welfare
OF the community. Thus our consistent
aim is to favor the actual settler--the
man who takes as much of the public