Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-05
TAFT WANTS ACTION
AND LESS NOISE
PRESIDENT IN CONSERVATION
)PEEcH TAKES RAP At
COME ADVOCATES.
APPEALS FOR COMMON SENSE
IN PRESERVING RESOURCES
Shows Intimate knowledge Of Facts
Regarding Coal and Forest Lands
and Water Power Sites-Taft Of
feialIy Received by Minnesota State
Officials.

Officials.
st. Paul. Sept. 5.-Leaden skies and
rainsoaked bunting greeted President
Taft when he stepped from the train
here this morning. However. great
crowds gathered at the station and
along the streets to welcome the presi-
dent.
The arrival Of Tafts train was sig
nalized by firing a presidential salute
by battery. AS soon as the train
stopped Governor Eberhart and other
members Of the reception committee.
composed Of Senator Clapp, Represent
atives Stevens and Nye and President
Northrup, Of the University Of Minne-
v-,a, and other potables. boarded the
car, "Mayflower," to extend the city's
and states greeting. President Taft
and Governor Eberhart and party
walked br1skly to automobiles. and
then. with mounted police ahead, fol-
lowed by infantry. and two squadrons
Of troops from Fort Smelling, proceeded
at a rapid pace along the designated
route to the reviewing stand at the
postofice, where Taft was to review
the labor parade.
Taft Talks Plainly.
President Taft, in his address before
the national conservation congress to-
day made plain his position on the
whole subject Of conservation. The
president showed an exact knowledge
Of the subject which surprised many Of
his hearers. The central note Of his
Rn~
common sense conservation. He said
In part:
Gentlemen of the National Conser-
walton Congress: Conservation as an
economic and political term has come
to mean the preservation of our natur-
al resources for economical use, so
as to secure the greatest good to the
greatest number. In the development
OF this country, in the hardships Of the
pioneer. In the energy Of the settler.
in the anxiety OF the investor for quick
returns, there was very little time,
opportunity, or desire to prevent waste
Of those resources supplied by nature
which could not be quickly transmitted
into money; while the investment Of
capital was so great a desideratum
that the people as a community exer-
cised little or no care to prevent the
transfer of absolute ownership Of
many Of the valuable natural re-
sources to private individuals. without
retaining some kind OF control Of their
use The impulse Of the whole new
community was to encourage the COM
Ing Of population, the increase Of set
tlement. and the opening up of busi-
ness; and he who demurred in the
slightest degree to any step which
promised additional development OF the
Idle resources at hand was regarded
as a traitor to his neighbors and an
obstructor to public progress. But
now that the communities have be-
come old, now that the flush Of en-
thusiastic expansion hcs died away,
now that the would-be pioneers have
come to realize that all the richest
lands in the country have been taken
up, we have perceived the necessity
for change of policy in the disposition
of our national resources so as 60 pre-
vent the continuance Of the vast which
hc, characterized our phenomenal
growth in the past. Today we desire
10 restrict and retain under public conf
troll the acquisition and use by the
capitalist of our natural resources.
Danger Pointed Out.
"The danger to the state and to the
dissipation of our national wealth Is
not one which quickly impresses itself
on the people of the older communities,
because it's most obvious instances do
not occur In their neighborhood, while
in the newer part of the country the
sympathy with expansion and develop
ment Is so strong that the danger Is
scoffed at or ignored Among scientific
men and thoughtful observers, how
ever, the danger has always been pres
ent; but it needed some one to bring
home the crying need for a remedy of
this vii so as to impress itself on the
public mind and lead to the formulation
Of public opinion and action by the
representatives of the people. Theo-
dore Roosevelt took up this task in
the last two years Of his second ad-
ministration, and well did he per-
form It.
An Inherited Policy.
"As president of the United States
/ have, as it were, inherited this pol
icy, and 7 rejoice II ::y heritage. 7
prize my high opportunity to do all
that an executive can do to help great
people realize great national am
bition. For conservation is national.
It affects every man Of US, every wo-
man, every child. What can do in the
cause shall do, not as president OF
party. but as president of the whole
people. Conservation is not a question
of politics. or of factions, or of per-
sons. It is question that affects the
vital welfare Of all Of us-of our chill
dren and our children's children. I
urge that no good can come from
meetings Of this sort unless we ascribe
t. those who take part in them. and
who are apparently striving worthily
in the cause, all proper motives, and
unless we tudicialiy consider every
measure or method proposed with a
view to its effectiveness in achieving
our common purpose, and wholly with
aut seaard to who proposes it or who