The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-06-16
CONSERVATION
HAS AN INNING
in ST. PAUL
Pinchot and Garfield
Guests of Honor at
Banquet.
FOR NEW PARTY
FOR NEW PARTY

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New Party Is Needed
For Reforms.
st. Paul.-Fo!lowing an informall
reception to Clifford Pinchot and Jas.
r. Garfield here Saturday evening,
about five hundred members and
friends of the st. Paul Roosevelt club
held a banquet as a tribute to Pinchot
and Garfield in recognition Of their
work in assisting Roosevelt in his eff
forts for conservation.
Governor Eberhardt, Mayor KEEL
Ter, President Hugh T. Talbert of the
club, and several Yale alumni friends
of Pinchot were speakers at the table.
The decorations Of the speakers
table consisted Of miniature noun
tains forests, water falls and roads
with a miniature train whizzing past.
Justice e. A. Jaggard of the Min
nesota supreme court was tOastmas-
ter.
Garfield spoke for the cooperation
between the sites and national gov
eminent in conservation, and said in
dealing with the coal properties and
the waterpower rights, all must have
a voice in their disposition. In deal
ing with the progressive" %conserva-
ticn policy he said: "The chief OPP
position to the conservation comes
from the men who have stopped from.
doing that which is wrong
Speaking of the fight to conserve
Alaska's coal and prevent it's being
stolen, he said: cit behooves you peo-
pie to leave these men at home who
do not heed the public will and send
progressive men to congress who will
serve the public interests
Pinchot's Address.
Mr.. Pinchot in part, said:
CONSERVATION has captured the
nation. Its progress during the last
twelve months is amazing. Official op'
position to the conservation move
ment, whatever damage it has done
or still threatens to the public inter-
ests, has vastly strengthened the
grasp of conservation upon the minds
and conscience of our people. Efforts
to obscure or belittle the issue have
i. only served to make it larger and
clearer in the public estimation. The
!. conservation movement cannot be
checked by the baseless charge that
it will prevent development, or that
every man who tells the plain truth
is either a muck-racker or a dema-
gouge. It has taken firm hold on our
: national moral sense and when an Is
j. sue does that it has won.
"The conservation issue is a moral
| issue, and the heart Of it is this:eFor
e whose benefit shall our natural re-
. sources be conservation the bene-
: fit of us all, or for the use and profit
of the few? This truth is SO obvious
and the question itself so simple that
i the attitude towards conservation OF
t any man in public or private life In
dicates his stand in the fight for pub
g lie rights.
Y "All monopoly rests on the unregu.
= lated control Of natural resources and
natural advantages, and such contro,
a by the special interests is impossible
0 without the help of politics.
e A New Life.
l. ga new life is stirring among the
It dry bones Of formal platforms ant
d artificial issues. Morality has broker
n into politics. Political leaders, trust
r bred and trust-fed, find 1t hard
II er and harder to conceal theil
actual character. The hrass-bount
x collar of privilege has become plail
p upon their necks for all men to see
n They are known for what they are
70 and their time is short. But whel
q they come to be retired 1t will be o
1t little use to replace an unfaithfu
le public servant who a the cola
y by another public servant with tn
n- same collar around his neck. Abov
all. what we need in every Office !
&c free men representing q free people
IL The motto in every primary---in es
1T cry election-should he this: N
watch dogs Of the interests need AZ
ply.
ar The Remedy.
II "To drive the special interests on
rk OF politics IL a vast undertaking, Il
in politics lies their strength. II the