Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-09-05
COMMON SENSE
THE SOLUTION
President Taft Defines His
Attitude on Conservation
of National Resources
GIvENMAGNIFIGENT RECEPTION
Clifford Pinchot Organizes Ma
tional Commission to Syste-
matize State Work.

st. Paul, Sept. President Taft
in an address before the national con-
servation congress here today made
plain his position on the subject of
conservation. The speech was exhaus-
tive and had been prepared with great
er care than any public utterance Mr..
Taft has made since his Inauguration.
The central note of his address was
for an appeal for the practice of COM
mon sense in conservation.
The time has come," he declared,
"for halt in the general rhapsodies
over conservation, making the word
mean every known good in the world,
for after public attention has been
aroused such appeals are of doubtful
utility and do not direct the public
to the specific course that people
should take or have their legislators
take, in order to promote the cause
Of conservation. Real conservation
means wise, non-wasteful use in the
present generation with every possi-
BILE means of preservation for future
generations. The problem is how to
save and how TO utilize, how to con-
serve and still develop" President
Taft announced he would submit to
Congress a solution of the problem of
adjusting the control of water sites as
between states and the general gov
crix
? most demonstrative welcome.
No PaternaIism for Taft.
Mr.. Taft gave repeated credit in his
speech to Colonel Roosevelt for work
on conservation, but apparently took
fling at ''the new nationalism,"
when he said: 'In these days there
is a disposition to look too much to
the federal government for everything.
am liberal in the construction of the
constitution with reference to the
federal power, but l am firmly con-
qinced that only the safe course for
us to pursue is to hold fast to the
limitations of the constitution and re-
Taft Addresses Farmers.
The magnitude of this state fair and
the immense throng of people in at
tendance are convincing evidence of
the greatness of Minnesota as an agri-
cultural state. This is labor day, a
day given over to emphasizing the
Importance of manual labor in our
civilization and to properly exalting
its dignity. The two classes in the
community that are most important
are its farmers and workingmen and
this occasion and this date suggest
thoughts of both.
Proper farming, according to mod
ern ideas involves a knowledge and
understanding of the chemical quail
ties of the soil and the scientific meth
DDS of it's treatment, so that instead
of being mere manual vocation as it
was years ago, it has now become a
scientific and practical profession.
This has been recognized by the gen
eral government in the establish
ment of a department of agriculture,
wherein its bureaus of research, the
secrets of nature have been revealed
in the possible development of mod
ern farms, and proper publicity has
been given SO that those who till the
soil may take advantage of the new
discoveries.
Experiment stations have been es-
tablished the country over; free lee
lures have been given at the expense
of the government for the benefit of
farming communities; and everything
that wise craftsmanship could suggest
has been afforded by the general gov
ernment within it's jurisdiction for the
production of greater and better
crops. All this legislation has been
in the interest of the farmers and
might be characterized as class legis-
lation, but !, so great is the general
public interest in the promotion of
agriculture that it cannot be termed
unduly privileged or Objectionable.
So on the other hand, take the
workingman. The government has
created a bureau of labor in which
statistics are gathered and investiga-
tions are had into the conditions pre-
vailing in all classes of labor, includ-
ing child labor, with view of max
ing clear the remedies needed,
whether by state or national legisla-
tion.
The head of the bureau of labor
and the chairmen of the interstate
commerce commission, under what is
known as the Erdman act, intervene
officially in every dispute between in
terstate commerce railway compa
nies, and their employees; and the
amount of good in the settlement of
controversies and the stopping of
strikes that has been done by Com
missioner Neil and Chairman Knapp
cannot be overestimated.
Again with respect to the employees
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