The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-06
LOOK OUT FOR TRUST INFLUENCE
This Is ROOSeVeIt'S Warning h
 Speech at Sf. Paul.
WE ARE RECKLESS SPENDERS

Conservation Fight Has Been Won
 Special Interests Must Be Controlled
 St. Paul, Sept, 6.-America's reputa tion for efficiency stands deservedIJ high throughout the world We are efficient probably to the full limit that any nation can attain by the methods hitherto used. There is great reason to be proud of our achievements and vet no reason to believe that we cannot excel our past. Through practically unrestrained individualism we have reached pitch of literally unexam- pied material prosperity, although the distribution of this prosperity leaves much to be desired from the standpoint of justice and fair dealing
 But we have not only allowed the in d1vidual free hand, which was in the main right; we have also allowed great corporations to act as though they were individuals and to exercise the rights of individuals, in addition to using the vast combined power of high organization and enormous wealth for their own advantage
 This development of corporate ac- tion, it is true, is doubtless in large part responsible for the gigantic de velopment of our natural resources. but it is not less responsible for waste, destruction and monopoly on an equal ly gigantic scale.
 The method of reckless and uncon- trolled private use and waste has done for us all the good 1t ever can, and it is time to put an end to it before it does all the evil it easily may. We have passed the time when needless waste and destruction and arrogant monopoly are any longer permissible.
 Henceforth we/must seek national efficiency by new and a better way, by the way of the orderly development and use, coupled with the preserva- tion of our natural resources, by mak- ing the most of what we have for the benefit of all of US, instead of leaving the sources of material prosperity open to indiscriminate exploitation.
 These are some of the reasons why it is wise that we should abandon the old point of view and why conserva- 1on has become a patriotic duty.
 Waterways.
 One of the greatest of our conserva- tion problems is the wise and prompt development and use of the waterways of this nation.
 The Twin Cities. lying as they do at the headwaters of the Mississippi, are not upon the direct line of the pro- posed lakes to the gulf deep waterway Yet they are deeply interested in its prompt completion. as well as in the deepening and regulation of the Mis- sissippi to the mouth of the Missouri and to the gulf.
 The project for a great trunk water way. an arm of the sea, extending from the gulf of Mexico to the great lakes, should not be abandoned. The lakes to the gulf deep waterway and the development of the rivers which flow into it should be pushed to com pletion vigorously and without delay But we must recognize at the outset that there are certain conditions with out which the people cannot hope to derive from it the benefits they have a right to expect
 In nearly every river city from St. Paul to the gulf the water front is con trolled by the railways. Nearly every artificial waterway in the United States, either directly. or indirectly, is under the same control.
 It goes without saying that unless the people prevent it in advance the will attempt to take control of our waterways as fast as they are improved and completed, nor would I blame them if we, the people, are su- pine in the matter.
 We must see to it that adequate terminals are provided in every city and town on every improved water way, terminals open under reasonable conditions to the use of every citizen md rigidly protected against monopo- y. And we must compel the railways 70 cooperate with the waterways con 7inuously. effectively and under req sonable conditions.
 Unless we do so the railway lines will refuse to deliver freight to the boat lines, either openly or by impos- ng prohihitory conditions, and the' wa ,erways once improved will do com little for the benefit of the people who pay the bill.
 The Nation9I Forests. The people of the United States be- ieve in the complete and rounded de- veIopment of inland waterways for all l he usefT3 purposes they can be made o serve. They believe also 1n forest | and forest extension. The fight tor our national forests in | he west has been won. After a cam | 1aign in which the women of Min | lesota did work which should secure | o them the perpetual gratitude of their ] state Minnesota won her national for l st and will keep it, but the fight 10 ] reate the southern Appalachian and | hit a+aiV, C& 1C lot yet over. The bill has passed the house and | will come before the seEate for a vote | next February. The people of tht | United States regardless of party oi | section should stand solidly behind il | and see that their representative dc l likewise. If any proof were needed that forest A1.OfanfinHa ia