The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-06-08
BURKE OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN.
Continued from first page.)

! to the people. His initiative and per-
suasive advocacy has given US the
/ Corporation Tax Law under which
a substantial government revenue will
be raised by taxes levied, not upon
the masses of the people but upon
| the corporations of the country,
! which are better able to bear them
In addition to those and to many
other important measures that he mas
advocated in behalf of the people,
President Taft has proposed and con-
gress has passed a revision of the tar
| if law. The revision OF the tariff
has given rise to practically all the
criticism that has been made of the
administration. This is nothing new
in tariff legislation. No tariff measure
ever was enacted in this or any 9TH
er country that did not give rise to
bitter criticism when it was first
passed"
Judge Burke briefly took up the
subject of conservation, saying in
part:
Talks OF Conservation.
conservation Of natural resources
as a public movement is in greater
danger of shipWreck from oVeizeal-
Gus and intOlerant advocates than
| from its out and out opponents. The
movement that goes by the name of
conservation of our natural resources
! is passing through a stage common to
every reform in history. All reason
able persons are opposed to the waste
full ond monopolstic use of our for
ests, our coal, our water powers. and
other natural resources. They are in
favor of the right use of the boun-
ties of nature as against a boarding
Of them in their natural state.
"But some well meaning conserv-
ationists are SO fearful that if the
settlers are given an opportunity to
develop the natural resources of the
country, waste and monopoly will
follow as a necessary sequence. and
that in consequence future ages &.ill
be deprived of the patrimony that
rightfulIy belongs to them. on the
other hand there are those who con-
tend that the policy of our govern
ment, under which that great empire
extending from the Mississippi river
to the Pacific ocean has been opened
to settlement, developed, built up in
to great states, should be continued
without alteration or modification.
Those who take this view leave out
Of account the great changes in eco
nomic conditions which have taken
place since our general land law
went into effect. They do not seem
to realize that the new conditions
call for a change in the law to meet
and cope with them. Between these
two extreme views the wisest and
safest course to follow is the one
which, while encouraging individual
effort and enterprise on the one hand
safeguards on the other the public
against monopoly or imposition"
CriuciZeS Forestry.
Judge Burke criticised some phases
of the conduct of the forestry bureau
under the Pinchot brand Of conser-
walton. In effect Judge Burke de-
clared himself a conservationist with
reservations and unalterably opposed
to confscation under the name of
conservation.
Explains Railroad Connection.
Referring more directly to his own
campaign issues, Judge Burke said
Some good people among those
who have no personal acquaintance
with me are troubled because at one
time | was attorney for railway
companies. 1t is true that in the
course of my professional life I had
at different times two railroad COM
panies among my clients. But there
never was anything in that connec-
ton that was not honorable to my
self and useful to the community IN
which | lived and to the whole state.
THE story of that connection is Il
simple one and may be briefly told.
For the first fifteen years of my life
in Seattle | had to fight the only
railroad then in western Washing
ton. Under its early management the
Northern Pacific sought to wipe Sc
attic off the map and as the people
of that community We're not the kind
to submit tamely to such a process or
to injustice of any kind at the hands
OF railway managers, or any other
body of men, we all joined together
and for fifteen years fought to pro-
tect and to preserve the commercial
life of our little city The struggle
at times was an unequal one. We
But | early foresaW that if we We're
to succeed we must have independent
transportation by land us well as by
water.
B:f'd New Road.
And so few Of us organized the
/ Seattle, Lalcshore & Eastern railroad.
10 build a railroad to Spokane and a
/ branch up the coast to a connection
1 with the Canadian Pacific. | raised
| 10y subscription Quitting up a good
| part of it MYSELF the sum of $500
TO enable Mr.. u. II. Gilman to go
east to raise the capital for this en-
/ tcrprise, for we We're all poor and had
no money to build railroads. After
/ more than a years negotiations he
succeeded in cnIisting some capital
lists in the enterprise. | was called
east to close up the deal. The firm
! OF brokers who had the matter in
hand said to me: You have given us
a glowing picture of the great re-
sources and future promise of the
territory of Washington (the state
was then teritoly) and we have
mo- foubt that you firmly believe in
its future, but deeds speak more con-
/ vincingly here than words and we
want you to subscribe $4,000 worth
of the stock
Want stock Subscription.
Il answered at once that | never
! had 10000, hadn't it then and
didn't know that | ever should have
it. Very wen, them said the broker.
You have some land out there ana if
YOU are not willing To risk $4,000 in
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