Arizona republican., 1910-08-30

i large to warrant any control over ] it by the government is nowadays interstate or foreign commerce: and until this fact is heartily acinowl- edged and acted upon by both courts
 and legislative bodies, national and state alike, the people will suffer
 WHERE STATE SHOULD ACT.
 "In the matter of conservation, I heartily approve of state action where, under our form of govern ment, the state only has the power to act. I cordially join with those who desire to see the state. within it's own sphere, take the most ad- vanced position in the whole matter of conServation. l have taken ex- actly this attitude in my own state of New York. Where the state alone had power to act, I have done all I could to get it to act in the most advanced manner; and where the na- ton could act. I have done all I could to get national action in the same direction. Unfortunately, in the east we have in this matter paid thepenalty of not having our forest land under national control; and the penalty has been severe. Most of the states although they are old states have not protected their forests. each failing to act by itself. because the action was really the common con cern of all; and where action is the common concern of all, experience has shown that it can only be properly undertaken by the national govern ment
 AS a result of the impossibiIity of getting such wise action by the several state governments in the east, we are doing our best to get national legislation under which the national government, at the expense of millions of dollars, shall undertake to do as regards the Appalachian and White mountains of the east what it is now doing in the Rocky Mountains here out west It would be both a calamity and an absurdity for the national government now to do in the west the very thing that at heavy pecuniary cost it is trying to undo in the east By actual experi- ence in the east We have found to our cost that the nation, and not the several states, can best guard the in- terests of the people in the matter of the forests and the waters, and that if it fails to attempt this duty at the outset it will later on have to pay heavily in order to be all lowed to take up the work, which, because it is done so late, cannot be so well done as if it had been begun earlier
 WATERPOWER SITES.
 Take the question of the control of the water power sites The enor- nous importance of water power sites to the future industrial development of this country has only been real iZed within a very few years. Un- fortunately, the realization has come too late as regards many of the pow CT 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 gov ernment, 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 development and use ol lIle water poNtTs Dul WHICH shall not permit a permanent mo- nopoly nor permit the development to be anti-social, to be in any respect hostile to the public good. The na- ton alone has the power to do this effectively. and it is for this reason that you will find these corporations which wish to gain improper advan- tage 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 ac- tion-
 ADVOCATES OF STATES RIGHTS
 There is something fairly comic in the appeal made by many of these men in favor of state control, when you realize that the great corpora tions seeking the privileges of devel- | oping the water power in any given state are at least as apt to he owned outside of the state as within it.. In this country, nowadays, capital has national and not state use. The great corporations, which are man. aged and largely owned in the older states. are those which are most in evidence in deveolping and using the mines and water power and forests of the new territories and the new states, from Alaska to Arizona. I have been genuinely amused during the past two months at having argu- ments presented to me on behalf of
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