The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-30
work for with single aim; but we
should be willing to take little bit at
a time rather than to get nothing at
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SAME DIN SHE'LL GAME.

j invitation or the Colorado Live Stock
u Association, and he told its members
4 and the bystanders exactly what they
1 to the conservation Of the forests, this
! water powers, the coal lands, the dry
| ing of wet places and the wetting OF
Edry places. He told them that he hoped
| the East will follow the example OF
| the West; that the States should
look after their own affairs, and that
they shouldn't, that the Nation should
control and then, again, that 1t
shouldn't, that the natural resources
of the country should not be handed
over for the exploitation of single in
dividuais, but that individual enter
prise should not be discouraged. that
men of exceptional abilities should
have exceptional rewards UP to the
point where tho abilities are used to
the detriment OF the people as a whole;
that there are points where govern
mental aid can best be rendered by
the States" but that II am convinced
and thorough going believer IN the
rights of the National Governments;
that big business has become national.
ICED, and the only effective way OF
controlling and directing 1t, and pre-.
venting abuses in connection with 1t,
is by having the people nationalize
this control in order to prevent theit
being. exploited by the individuals who
have nationalized the business: II
heartily approve of State action, where,
under our form of government, the
state only has power to act" but EEK
perience has shown that 1t can only he
probably undertaken by the National
Government" And there you are; you
pays your money and you takes your
you'll be damned If you do
and you'll be damned If you don't.
If you invest your capital in reclama-
ton projects, You are to be cNcep-
ticnally rewarded, but you muse not,
make more out of your enterprises
than other people, who have not in
vested n cent, or the State or National
Government, neither of which has had
the energy or business foresight to i'm
prove any of the wasting resources
of the country, determine that you
shall make. Individual enterprise
should be encouraged by all means,
but individual enterprise must be con-
trollcd. The State is the thing, and
then, again, the State is not the thing.
The Nation is the thing, and, then.
again, the Nation must respect the
rights of the State, which are to be
regarded so long as they do not me
into conflict with the rights of the
Nation; for while 81 believe in Staten
rights" u am convinced and q
thorough going believer in the rights
of the National Government" Big bus
mess that has been nationalized by in
dividual enterprise acting within the
controlled by the Nation; for don't you
see "ali commerce on scale suilicient-
ly large to warrant any control over
II by the Government is nowadays
y,
IL is as plain as the nose on your face
that the Nation must control, even in
those matters in which the States have
the right of control
The Colonel was equal to his oppor-
tunity of saving an infinite deaf Of
nothing about nothing in particular.
playing, according to his habit, both
ends against the middle, and with the
greatest success. until the Live Stock
Association begin TO read what he said
and try to find out what it was all
about. The speech was wholly char
acteristic of it's distinguished. author
who said, among other things, in a
most impressive way: II believe" IT
am convinced and thorough going
believer II heartily approve" II cor
daily join Il have done all could"
Il have been genuinely amused"
Il am emphatically in favor Of"
Il am no less emphatically in favor
Of" Il do not believe" ~ know" II
have always done my best" II am
kecniy sorry" II hore that the West"
81 don't think" 81 am"
These are but a few of the
really important things the Col
.onel said yesterday; but this brief
analysis OF his mastery Grafton,
one of the strongest and best state
ments of his case ever heard ~
Denver, would not be complete should
we fail to quote this telling period
from his address: There is no MORE
effective instrument for the making OF
homes than the United States Recla-
nation Service, and no Government
Bureau while I was President had
reached higher standard OF efficiency,
integrity and devotion to the public
welfare" "As / have said before"
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KEEPING STEP.
Tho Front Royal Impartial Reporter
says: although the cause Of better
roads did not fare as well at the
hands OF the last Legislature as many,