The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-09-01

which this governmental aid can
best be rendered by the states. that
is, whore the exercise of states
rights helps to secure popular rights:
and rs to these | believe in states
rights. But there are large classes of
cases where only the authority of the
national government will secure the
rights of the people; and where this
- the case am "a convinced and a
thorough-going believer in The rights
Of the national government Big bus
mess, for instance, is no longer an
affair of any one state; big business
has become nationaIized and the
only effective way Of controlling.
and directing it. and preventing
abuses in connection with it
is by having the people nationalize
this control in order to prevent their
being exploited by the individuals
who have nationalized the business.
In the matter of conservation
heartily approve of state action,
whore under our form Of govern
ment the state only has the power to
act. cordially join with those who
desire to see the state, within its own
sphere, take the most advanced posi-
tion in regard. to The whole matter
of conservation | have taken ex-
actly this attitude in my own state of
New York
Water Power.
Take the question OF the control
OF the water power sites The enor-
nous Importance of water pow or
sites TO the future Industrial devel-
Cpment Of this country has only been
realized within a very few years. Tn
fortunately, the realization has Come
too late as regards many OF the pow
or sites; but many yet remain With |
which our hands are free to deal |
We should make it our duty to see
that hereafter the power sites are
kept under the control OF the general |
government for the use OF the pco-
pie as a whole The Zee should re- /
main with the people as a whole, |
while the use is leased on terms
which shall secure an ample reward |
to the iessees, which shall encourage |
the development and use of the wat |
or power, but which shall not create |
permanent monopoly or permit the
development to be anti-social, 10 be |
in any respect hostile TO the public |
good. The nation alone has the |
power to do this effectively, ana it |
is for this reason that yoI will find
these corporations which wish to
gain improper advantage and to be |
freed from efficient control on the
part of the public, doing all that they
can to secure the substitution of
state for national action.
State Control.
bills were introduced to transfer the
water power sites in the national for
ests and the public domain to the
control of the states. cannot state
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measures are unwise ana ina. it
would be disastrous to enact them
into law. In substance their effect
would be to free these great special
interests from all effective control
The passage of such a dill would be
a victory of the special interests over
the general welfare, and long
backward step down the hill of prog
ress we have of late been climbing
Il do not believe that a single acre
of our public lands should hereafter
pass into private ownership except
for the single purpose OF homestead
settlement, and l know that the
stockmen stand with me in their de-
sire to remove every possible OBJ
stacle from the path OF the genuine
and to put every posi-
BILE obstacle in the way of the man
who tries to get public lands by mis-
or fraud. This is abb
necessary on the agricul-
tural lands. 1t is at least equally
necessary ON the mineral lands.
The Forest Service.
You progressive stockmen have
stood heartily by the conservation
and with you have stood
many others throughout the west to