The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-09-06
MAKES PLEA FOR
CONSERVATION
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either by state Or nation; and they
advocate at this time state control
simply because they believe it to be
the least effective. In the great
fight of the people to drive the spe-
clal interests from the dominion of
our government, the nation is
stronger and its jurisdiction is more
effective than that of any state. The
most effective weapon against these
great corporations, most of which
are financed and owned on the Allan
tic coast, will be federal laws and
the federal executive. That is why l
so strongly oppose the demand to
turn these matters over to the states.
1t is fundamentally demand against
the interest of the plain people, of
the people of small means, against
the interest of our children and our
children's children; and it is pri-
marily in the interest of the great
corporations which desire to escape
all government control.
The Conservation Fight.
"One of the difficulties in putting
into practice the conservation idea is
that the field to which it applies is
constantly growing in the public
mind. 1t has been no slight task to
bring before 100000 people a
great conception like that of conser-
walton, and convince them that 1t is
right. This much we have accom-
plished. But there remains much to
be cleared up, and many misunder-
standings to be removed These
Misunderstanding are due in part
at least to direct misrepresentation
by the men to whose interest it is
that conservation should not prosper
For example, we find it constantly
said by men who should know bet
ter, that temporary withdrawals.
such as the Withdrawals of coal
lands, will permanently check devel-
opment. Yet the fact is that these
Withdrawals have no purpose except
to prevent the coal lands from pass
ing into private ownership until con-
gress can pass laws to open them to
development under conditions just
alike to the public, and to the men
who will do the developing. If there
is delay, the responsibility for =
rests, not on the men who made the
Withdrawals to protect the public in
terest, but on those who prevent con-
gress from passing wise legislation.
and so putting an end to the need for
Withdrawals.
1T is our duty and our desire to
make this land of ours better home
for the race, but our duty does not
stop there We must also work for
a better nation to live in this better
land. The development and conser-
walton of our national character and
in hand with the development and
conservation of our natural re-
sources, which the governors confer
ence so we'll called the foundations
of our prosperity. Whatever progress
We may make as nation, whatever
wealth We may accumulate, however
far we may push mechanical develop
ment and production, we shall never
reach a point where our welfare can
depend in the last analysis on any
thing but honesty, courage. loyalty,
and good citizenship. The homely
virtues are the lasting virtues, and
the road which leads to them is the
road to genuine and lasting success.
What this country needs is what
every free country must set before
it as the great goal toward which it
works-an equal opportunity for
life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
niness for every one of its citizens.
To achieve this end we must put a
stop to the improper political do
minion, no less than to the improper
economic dominion, of the great spe-
cial interests This country, it's
natural resources, it's natural advan-
tages, its opportunities and its insti-
tutions, belong to all it's citizens.
They cannot be enjoyed fully and
freely under any government in
which the special interests as such
have voice. The supreme political
task of our day, the indispensable
condition of national efficiency and
national welfare, is to drive the spe-
cial interests out of our public life"
Notice to Voters.
Notice is hereby given that the