The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-08-29
Speech AT Denver Concerned
With Conservation Of Natio.
nal Resources...Greeted by
Hundred Thousand.

Denver, Col. Aug. 29.-What
Cheyenne left undone for Colonel
Rbosevelt in the way of strenuosity,
was supplied by Denver, with a good
measure of overflow, when he ar
rived this morning. He is to remain
over for "a hours. IL is estimated
that fully 100, 900 persons, the big
gest crowd that has yet greeted him.
were on hand to welcome him this
morning. Governor Shafroth and
Mayor Speer, and civic and state
organizations welcomed him on his
arrival and a salute of "a guns an
nounced his coming.
In the course OF his speech Mr..
Roosevelt said:
This country has shown definite
signs of waking up to the absolute
necessity of handling its natural re-
sources with foresight and common
sense. The conservation question has
three sides. In the first place, the
needless waste of the natural re-
sources must be stopped. 1t is rap
idly becoming a well settled policy
of this people that we of this gener-
alton hold the land in part for the
next generation and not exclusively
for our own selfish enjoyment.
Conservation does not mean de-
priving the men of today of their
natural rights in the natural re-
sources of the land.
"All 1t means is that we of this
generation shall so use our rights as
not to deprive those who come after
us of their natural rights in their
turn.
These resources must be kept for
the whole people and not handed
over for exploitation to single indi-
viduals.
I'VE are for the liberty of the in
dividual up to and not beyond the
point where it becomes inconsistent
with the welfare of the community.
Thus our consistent aim is to favor
the actual settler-the man who
lakes as much OF the public domain
as he himself can cultivate and
there makes permanent home for
his children who come after him.
But we are against the man, no
matter what his ability. who tries
to monopolize large masses of pub
lie land.
There are points in which this
governmental aid can best be reu-
dered by the states; that is. where
the exercise of state rights helps to
secure popular rights, and as to
these | believe in state 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
and a thorough-going believer in the
rights of the national government.
Take the question of the control
Of the water power sites. The enor-
nous Importance of water power
sites to the future industrial devel-
opment of this country has only
been realized within a very few
years. Unfortunately the realization
has come too late as regards many
of the power sites. but many yet re-
main with which our hands are free
to deal. We should make 1t our
duty to see that hereafter the power
sites are kept under the control of
the general government for the use
of the people as whole.
THE fee should remain with the
people as a whole. while the use is
leased on terms which shall secure
an ample reward to the lessees,
which shall encourage the develop
ment and use of the water power.
but which shall not create a perma-
nent monopoly or permit the de-
to be anti-social, to be in
any respect hostile to the public
good.
"The nation alone has the power