The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-31

against evasion, and increasing rapidly
in amount with the size of the estate.
The people of the United States sur
fer from periodical financial panics to
a degree substantially unknown among
the other nations which approach us
in financial strength. There is no rea-
son we should suffer what they escape.
1t is of profound Importance that our
financial system should be promptly
investigated, and SO thoroughly and eff
factively revised as to make it certain
that hereafter our currency will no
longer fail at critical times to meet
our needs.
1t is hardy necessary for me to re-
peat that I believe in an efficient army
and a navy large enough to secure
for us abroad that respect which is
tithe surest guaranteed Of peace. Justice
and fair dealing among nations rest on
principles identical with those which
control justice and fair dealing among
the individuals of which nations are
COMPOSED: with the vital exception
that each nation must do its own part
in international police work. National
friendships like those between men,
must be founded on respect as we'll
as on liking, on forbearance as well
as upon trust. In all this 1t is pecu-
liarlv the duty of the United States to
set a good example
Meaning of Conservation.
OF conservation shall speak more
| at length elsewhere. OOIS6l NdblOAl
means development as much as it does
protection. I recognize the right and
| the duty of this generation to develop
and use the natural resources of our
| land, but do not recognize the right
to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful
| use, the generations that come after
MS The natural resources must be
used for the benefit of all our people
and not monopolized for the benefit
of the few That is one of the funda-
mental reasons why. the special inter
| ests must be driven out of politics. OF
all the questions which can come be-
| fore this nation, short of the actual
| preservation of it's existence in a great
war, there is none which compares in
| importance with the great central task
of leaving this land even better land
1 for our descendants than it is for us,
and training them into better race
| to inhabit the land and pass 1t on.
| Conservation is great moral issue.
| for it involves the patriotic duty of
insuring the safety and continuance
of the nation Let me add that the
health and vitality of our people are
! at least as we'll worth conserving as
! their forests, waters, lands, and min
erals, and that in this great work the
| national government must bear a most
| important part.
have spoken elsewhere also of the
| great task which lies before the farm
ers of the country to get for them
|
dren not only the benefits of better
farming, but also those of better bust
| ness methods and better conditions of
life on the farm. The burden of this
! great task will fall, as it should. main
" upon the great organizations of the
| farmers themselves. am glad it will,
for 1 believe they are well able to
handle it. In particular there are
| strong reasons why the departments
| of agriculture of the various states.
the United States department of ag
/ .riculture. and the agriculture colleges
and experiment stations should extend
! their work to cover all phases of life
on the farm instead of limiting them
selves, as they have far too often linn
tied themselves In the past, solely to
the question of the production OF
crops.
ProDerty and Human Welfare.
Nothing is more true than that ex-
cess of every kind is followed by re-
action: a fact which should be ponder
; ed by reformer and reactionary alike
, We are face to face with new concep-
tions of the relations of. property to
human welfare chiefly because certain
advocates of the rights of property as
against the rights of men have beer
nushine their claims too far. The mar
who wrongly holds that every human
right is secondary to his profit mus
now give way to the advocate of hui
man welfare, who rightly maintain:
that every man holds his property
subject to the general right of tht
community to regulate its use to what
ever degree the public welfare may re
ouire it. But think we may go still
further The right to regulate the us'
| of wealth in the public interest i
universally admitted. Let us admi
also the right to regulate the terms ans