The San Francisco call., 1910-02-18
PARDEE TELLS OF
fight FOR PEOPLE
Addresses College Students on
Need OF Maintaining Policy
of Conservation

OAKLAND. Feb. l7.-Former Cover
nor George c. Pardee delivered an al
dress this evening at California co
Iese on What Is Conservation? /
the course Of his talk Doctor Parde
said.
u there is one public matter which. far
more ihau anything else. engrosses the at
ieEtou II the people Of The United States
ii is The question OF the conservation of thar
T'finH az the ma tural resources of this
country which have NOT get fallen into pri-
wasted and dissipated.
Much elimination and recrimination has
been aroused by il and its discussion has
aroused much feeling both for aud against
lr d IS safe however 20 say that the
great mass of the American people believe
thoroughly in the policy Of conservation.
which WAS FIRST made a burning national
issue by former President Roosevelt.
SHOULD BE GUARDED
OF what do the national resources of this
country cOnsiSIt To euumerate them all
would he 20 give a list of all those things
which have been given us by nature, and
which having made us the wealthiest ana
most prosperous nation the world has ever
hnoNn- SHOULD not be either DESTROYED or
wasted or he permitted 10 fail into the
hands u monopoists for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of Tie few al Tie expense OF the many
our own state, young as il Is. can furnish
evidence against the destroyer Of the forest.
Eel river, lu Humboldt county. goes on the
sea acres ot fertile land. The axe has eaten
into the redwood forests which line the
banks of is upper reaches, and the rains. no
longer held back 10y The forest hunus. run OF
ln unrestrainec foods and ravage and de-
Ot Tie fate Of the san Joaquin and Sscra-
mentO valleys. where the irrigating ditch
furns The dry acres into gardens, when the
forests are gone from the mountains. whence
come the rivers and streams which now down
past Sacramento and stockton, it j not
necessary ts speak The irrigation bitches
~ chesc great valleys viii be as dry as the
brook ~ kcaron. once the Sierra forests are
destroyed and the great central valley Of cur
state wii be as uninhabitable as Sre those
parts of Spain where The forests have been
stripped from the mountains.
TRIED TO SAVE COAL
In Alaska there have been discovered
vi-hiu tle last few years enormous beds OF
COAL oE this coal the mQnopollsts have cast
-reedr eyes They want it. And in order
10 ger i they have caused perjuries and
other crimes 30 be committed by the whole
SALE Il.is coal belongs 20 al the people Of
lle United states Who bousiit Alaska from
El~s.a n 1sG7. for S7.2J0,ou0 Seeing what
lad followed the giving away Of all the coal
tu lie Iuired STATES proper. former President
Roosevelt succeeded in getting congress 50
ra change she law that the Alaska coal land
sauid he used Tor the heneht of the people.
ir- can uQfhe monQpolzed, wasted or 50
used as to prey upon the necessities OF the
people.
Alaska coal ont of the hands of the monopo-
lists has not entirely discouraged the monop-
aliSrs They are 700 eager to turn this prop
erIy ~ all die people into enormous fortunes
frr themselves % Quit reaching Tor II SO long
a- llere is 81 possibility Of getting H. So
-rsr are besie-ing congress now 70 Uho9
what Roosevelt did Tor MS IN the Alaska coal
fields matter and TO make ii possible Tor
them 20 ger hold ot Il for themselves as
rIrir brother monopoiists have gotten hold OF
aisaut All The coal m tie nited states
proper. This generation ~ American cltl-
zels as well as the coming generation. is
F-tally Interested iu seeing thar the monopo-
lists do NOT succeed
BUST SAVE WATER POWER
The cheapest and best source Of electricity
D. falling water turning electric generators
d noU- Tie forests are destroyed. the
streams which supply the falling water VIII
De destroyed and there ean be no electricity
fn tne summer time when there VIII be no
falling water Therefore, Roosevelt ana
Ilfrrllaf dfa = mighty wise thing when they
sol aside fhe national forests and said thar
rley should DC kept for the use OF al the
people for all time.
Fortunately not all the water powers in
California are privately owned Many OF
r.cm are in the national forests. which.
fr.-rt-s ro Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford
I,luclar are sriu owned by all the people.
So long ss those powerhouSe sites IN the
uariguai forests belong TO all the people
however California and all other states
fear ara electricity monopoly II the desires
al Roosevelt and PinehOt arc carried out.
Conservation means much 10 you and those
who come after you. Roosevelt and Pinchot
arc fghtfng YOUR battles. are striving 70
r.ro-acr Won from those who would rob you OF
-,,r- -r,r6rertv. those natural resources which,
belonging TO al the people, belong 10 YOU,
and should therefore he used only Tor your
heliafr and the benefit # those who come
after you as American citizens.