The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-09-08
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This Is Roosevelt; . aiming In
Speech at St. Paul.

We ARE RECKLESS SPenDERS
Deals With State and Federal Control
Of Waterways-ExpIains How Crest
Conservation Fight Has Been Won.
Special INTERESTS Must 30 Controlled.
st. Paul, Sept. 6.-Americas reputa-
dOn for efficiency stands deservedly
high throughout the world. We are
efficient probably to the full limit that
any nation can attain by the methods
hitherto used. There b great-reason to
be proud Of our achievements and yet
no reason to believe that we cannot
excel our past. Through a practically
unrestrained ipdiYidualtsm we have
reached pitch Of literally unexam-
pied material prosperity, although the
distribution of this prosperity leaves
much to be desired from the standpoint
of justice and fair dealing.
But we have not only allowed the in
free hand, which was in the
main right; we have also allowed great
corporations to act as though they
were individuals and to exercise the
rights Of individuals, in addition to
using the vast combined power Of
high organization and enormous
wealth for their own advantage.
This Development Of corporate &C.
ton, it Is true, is doubtless In large
part responsible tor the gigantic de-
velopment Of our natural resources,
but it is not less responsible for waste,
destruction and monopoly on an equal
Iy gigantic scale.
The method Of reckless and uncou-
trolled private use and waste has done
for us all the good it ever can, and it
Is time to put an end to it before it
does all the evil it easily may. We
have passed the time when needless
waste and destruction and arrogant
monopoly are any longer permissible.
HencefOrth we must seek national
efficiency by a new and better way,
by the way of the orderly development
and use. coupled with the preserva-
don of our natural resources, by max
ing the most Of what we have for the
benefit Of all of US, instead Of leaving
the sources of material prosperity open
to indiscriminate exploitation.
These are some Of the reasons why
It is wise that we should abandon the
old point of view and why conserva-
ton has become a patriotic duty.
Watsrways.
One of the greatest Of our conserva-
ton problems is the wise and prompt
and use of the waterways
Of this nation. sHE-'
The Twin Cities, lying as they do at
the headwaters Of the Mississippi, an
not upon the direct line of the pro
posed lakes to the gulf deep waterway
Yet they are deeply interested in its
prompt completion, as well as in the
deepening and regulation Of the Mis-
sissippi to the mouth Of the Missouri
and to the gulf.
The project for a great trunk water
way. an arm of the sea, extending
from the gulf Of Mexico to the great
lakes, should not be abandoned. The
lakes to the gulf deep waterway and
the development Of the rivers which
low into it should be pushed to CON-
pletion vigorously and without delay.
But we must recognize at the outset
that there are certain conditions with
out which the people cannot hope to
derive from It the benefits they have
Z right to expect. -
In nearly every river city from St
Paul to the quit The water front = con-
tzolled by the railways. Nearly every
artificial waterway in the United
0tatss. either directly or Indirectly, Is
under the same control. ~
Il goes without aylng that unless
de people prevent It b advance the
railways will attempt to take control
o( our waterways as fast as they are
improved and completed, nor would
hDame them II we. the people. are su-
p1ne tn the matter. ..=
We must see to it that adequate
terminals are provided in every city
and town on every improved water
way, terminals open under reasonable
to the use Of every citizen
and rigidly protected against monopo-
y. And we must compel the railways
10 cooperate with the waterways con-
ttnuously. effectively and under rea-
eonable conditions. I
/ Unless we do SO the railway lines
WI refuse to deliver freight b the
boat lines, either openly or by impos-
ing prohibitory conditions, and the wa
terways once improved will do com
paratively little for the benefit Of the
people who pay the bin.
The National Forests.
The people Of the United StaAss b.
Move In the complete and rounded de-
vsaopment Of inland waterways Tor III
ths useful purposes they can b mads
% serve. They believe also in forest
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