The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-08
JAMES J. HILL IS AGAINST
THE NEW IDEA.
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tween real and fanciful conservation"
'.'rhe national machine IS too big and
too distant. slow. cumbrOus and costly
Irrigation would have been more
cheaply done II turned over 10 private
enterprises or committed to the several
Coal mining must be carried on up
on a large scale 10 be commercially
while we lament the exhaustion OF
our coal supply. we maintain a tariff
that compels us 70 draw upon II con-
what the United states needs is
neither reckless destruction or an en-
barge upon our splendid western COM
monweaiths by locking up a consider
q bic portion OF their available area
The west believes I'm forest Droserva-
tion. practically. and not theoretically.
THE use Of water within a state rs
the property Of the state and cannot he
taken from e..
The worst scandals OF rtate lnnd
misappropriatiOn are Insignificant wien
compared 10 the record Of the nation
Soil source OF All Wealth.
The soil is the ultimate employer
81 an industry and the great source or
Tn 1905. the excess Of American ex-
ports over imports was Se66. 000. 900. by
1910. it had fallen TO S1S7.0O0.o0o."
Impending misfortune. only the con-
scrvatfon Of a neglected soil and all
avert"
tion must face at last the same law
and the same penalty"
ANY conservation movement worthy
OF tle name must place hign uron its
credit from the raUaCious hands OF
Socialist well as monopo-ist-'
a tariff on any raw material for
bids the conservation Of similar natural
resources here"
Whoever attempts to make conser-
walton the bone Of a personal contro-
aPy faction into power or popularity. is
its worst enemy"
Iowa Mnn Digs at HIN.
Henry Wallace OF Des Moines. who
followed Mr.. Hin. took issue with most
OF the latter's statements. lie referred
20 my old friend Hill" and made sew
eral digs at him. as empire builder"
and the latter chuckled heartily.
IT our government is 70 continue as
70 has been for some years pasta gov
eminent by great corporations for tho
benefit Of great corporations. 10 mat
tcrs little whether our resources are
managed by Congress or by the leveral
states.
In either case they will be stolen
and used TO Cypress our children and
our children's children. But ~ I'm time
20 come Il IS to be really a government
for the people. then the representatives
OF the people I'm Congress are the proper
persons to prescribe the method by
which our resources are to be conserved
and utilized I'm the future.
To say that this cannot be done as
the nations OF Europe do e.. as Canada
does %. and as Australia does IT, is to
say that Republican institutions are
failures. Even 20 doubt that II can
be done is infidelity TO democracy or
government By the people as distinct
from oligarChy or plutOcracy or gov
eminent by great combinations Of cap
ital."
other speakers today were w W.
FINLEY. president Of the Southern Rail-
way company. Frank X. MacVey, presi-
dent or the University Of North Dakota /.
John B. White or Kansas City. DIT Ed
ward p. Craighead. president OF Tulane
university. New Orleans. ID. Austin
T.atchaw OF the Kansas City Star. and
Mrs. Emmons Croker Of Massachusetts.
chairman Of the conservation DEPART
ment 81 the General Federation Of
Women's clubs.
That n meeting OF western couser-
] walton congress undoubtedly viii be