Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-09-09

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Governor Of Minnesota Delivers an
Address Outlining His Ideas Of What
the Movement Means and Can Ac,
! complish-Rresident Baker Calls
Meeting to Order, Archbishop Ire.
land Gives Invocation and Mayor
Keller Welcomes Delegates.
St. Paul, Sept. 5.-The second Ma.
tional Conservation. congress was
called to order in the Auditorium by
President Baker and Archbishop Ire.
land gave the Invocation. Governor
Eberhart welcomed the delegates on
behalf of the state of Minnesota. He
was followed by Mayor Keller, who
welcomed them in behalf of st. Paul.
Then the delegates heard the speak
er of the day-William Howard Taft,
president. of the United States. The
presidents address was followed by
that of United States Senator Nelson
Of Minnesota, the subject of whose ad-
dress was "Our Public Land Laws" A
conference of governors attending the
congress and addresses by them com.
pleted the days programme. Gov.
ernor Eberhart said, in part:
The conservation of natural re-
sources does not consist merely in
the preservation of these resources
for the benefit of future generations,
but rather such present use thereof
as will result in the greatest general
good and yet maintain that productive
power which insures continued future
enjoyment. While it is true that ex-
haustible resources like mineral
wealth cannot be conserved for both
future and present use, except by
economic regulations and the proven
ton of wasteful methods, conservation
deals with their distribution in such
a way as to prevent their control by
grasping corporations and individuals,
who would monopolize them for their
own exclusive benefit at the expense
of the general public. :
It follows necessarily that any the
ory Of conservation which does not
provide for the present as we'll as the
future does not cover the entire field
and cannot possib bly, bring the best re-
suits. From every economic stand
point it is desirable that the present
generation should be preferred, since
future discoveries and inventions may
render present resources of less
value and Importance to the coming
generations.
Scope of Movement Widened.
In it's broadcast sense the conserva-
ton movement is not limited merely
to the consideration of natural re-
sources. Every great convention
called to consider the problems in
volved has widened the scope of the
movement so that today it includes
the elimination of wasteful methods
in almost every field of human actfv-
ity and the conservation of all human
endeavor so as to confer on all man.
kind the greatest blessings that a
bounteous nature and twenty CEN
turtles of enlightenment can bestow.
The subjects for consideration by
this congress should, therefore, in
clude not only the restoration and in
crease of soil fertility, the protection
and development of forests, mines and
water powers, the reclamation of arid
and swamp lands by irrigation and
drainage, the forestation of areas un-
suited to farming, the control of rivers
by reservoirs so as to prevent flood
ing, as we'll as the elimination Of
waste in the use of these resources.
but also the problems of public COM
fort, health and life that are so in
timately connected with all material
and intellectual development. Many
of these questions will concern home
attractions and management. indus
trial education in the public schools,
public highways, state advertising and
settlement, pure food, public health
and sanitation.
BY far the most important of all
natural ~resources is the soil, and the
maintenance and increase of it's fer
tility must, therefore, be given the
greatest consideration. AS long a:
food is necessary to human life, agri.
culture must continue to be the most
vital industry of man, and the farm
will be the most general and in
dispensable theater of his activity.
We must have manufactures, art,
schools, churches and government to
round out our sphere of civilized ex-
istence, but the foundation of them all
is the farm From the earth come all
the materials for manufactures, the
commodities of commerce, and ulti-
mately the support of all human in
situations During the half century
just past our country has devoted it's
energies to the development of manu-