The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-11

pressed Appreciation Of the Life ans
Work OF Joel Chandler Harris
Warns the South TO Guard Wei it
Mineral Water Power L F'orestT,
Resources.
(By the Associated PreSs.)
Atlanta, Ga, Oct, 8-Theodore Roos-
evelt tonight disclalIneu any RESPONSE
bility for the tariff plank in the New
York State Republican platform. IL
doing so he replied to criticisms which
have been directed against him, par
ticularly by some of the so-called In
%surgent" Republicans in the West, &c
the effect that he talked one kind OF
politics in the West and another kind
in the East. This criticism was based
largely on the fact that while he did
not endorse the Payne tariff law in any
plank of the New York Republican
platform commended the bill.
Colonel Roosevelt made it clear IN
his speech tonight that he had not
endorsed the Payne law, and that he
did not agree With the New York tariff
on his speech as temporary chairman
Of the New York Republican Conven-
ton, in which ne commended parts
of the Payne law, but did not endorse
1t as q whole.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech was de-
livered at the Uncle Remus Day cele-
bration here. He began his address
with an appreciation of the life and
works Of Joel Chandler Harris, author
of the Uncle Remus tales Then he
turned to his recently ~enunciated oc-
trine of the new nationaliSm.
n Warm Welcome.
Theodore Roosevelt came into
Georgia today and found awaiting him
a welcome which was as warm as that
which he has received in any section
of the country during his recent tr2v-
els. On his arrival in Atlanta he was
greeted by crowds which blocked the
streets, needless OF the pelting rain,
and Cheered him as he rode at the
head OF a parade through the bust
ness streets of the city.
Earlier in the day he spent several
hours at Rome, Ca, in inspecting the
Martha Berry School for poor noun
tain boys II girls, and in speaking to
another throng OF cheering Georgians.
Made Three Speeches.
Col. Roosevelt made three speeches
in Atlanta. His first was at the south
ern Conservation Congress-. After
taking dinner with Mayor Maddox, he
spoke at the Uncle Remus Day ce1e-
bration, which is being held to raise a
fund to purchase the lone of the late
Joel chandler Harris, author of the
Uncle Remus stories, and preserve it
as a memorial to his work. After
ris, Col. Roosevelt talked on New
Nationalism," Then he talked to the
negroes of Atlanta in q negro church.
Speaks on Conservation.
Col. Roosevelt began his address at
the auditorium with a reiteration OF
his faith in the conservation move
ment.
II believe in conservation with all
my heart he said. Il believe that
the time has passed in this country
when it is possible for reasonable men
longer to permit the waste OF natural
! believe that nation and
state can cooperate in this great
movement, and there are only one or
Impressions which ] think we
should endeaVor to remove from the
public mind.
"Here and there and notably in
the West, you will find men who say
that our purpose is to lock up the
natural of the country.
is just as absurd as If a private
should say that the farmer
was e~ndeavoring to lock UP the natu-
raj of his farm when he
ecine to till his land in such ways
it permanently lost it's fertility.
do not intend to lock up a single
resource, but We do intend that the
esources shall be used without waste.
"N hlle it is our duty to give every
proper reward to the proper exercise
Of individual initiative, it is also our
duty to see that the men of excep-
tional ability displays that ability in
our interest and not against our in j
terest. +,
Certain of the papers which are
edited in the shadow of Wall street t
regard the doctrine which I have !
enunciated as smacking Of anarchy. {
[ think it is really the height of CON- S
| hin it will help the {
aonest men Of influence and wealth +,
when we iScriminat in tbo Shornoct =