Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-09-14
Senators severidge and DoIliver, Sec.
rotary Of Agriculture Wilson, Pres. /:
McVey Of N. .. y. and James -
J. Hill Speak


more than the two metropolises that
opened arms to the former president.
There was scarcely a city, town or
village in the entire adjacent North.
west that was not represented in that
throng which lined miles of streets. and
filled every chair in the big st. Paul
auditorium where Col. Roosevelt de.
livered his principal speech of the
day before the conservation congress.
Attacks Corporations.
Placing himself squarely upon the
side Of the opposition to the Estates
rights" conservation program Col.
Roosevelt attacked corporate inter-
ests and leveled his most scathing
criticism in the direction of the stage
upon which sat James J. Hill, in the
second session of the national conser-
walton congress-
IF it had not been for corporate
interests, especially those which may
be described as predatory, we would
never have heard of this question of
states rights" he declared.
The former president had his fight
ing clothes on. He took stand directly
in opposition to the Western COVER
nors. He urged governmental control
of the waterways and asked that the
people see that the railroads do not
control them. He INDUCED in a spir.
tied attack upon James A. Tawney.
chairman of the committee on appro-
priations, with whom the former pres
ident had quarreled during his term
of office.
The audience apparently was in
sympathy with his address, although
there was an, absence of prolonged
applause at any point. Now and then
an enthusiast in the audience would
yell out an encouraging remark which
would be acknowledged by a CLEAN
Of teeth behind a Rooseveltian smile.
Biting and sharp came the coloneps
utterances, while touch Of fdmor
would creep in now and then which
would be accumulated by an apparent
ly deliberate slip in the voice.
In his attack on Congressman Taw-
ney, Colonel Roosevelt did not men,
ton the First district congressman's
name, but he described him in such
a way that there could be no doubt
as to the man intended.
The colonel deviated from his pre-
viously prepared speech, but in the
main kept pretty close to the text.
He ignored the regular order of his
set address, but would come back to
the original text at times.
Referring to the matter of state
rights, he said the grasping ones had
interstate affiliations, that their only
interest in the matter was to escape
control, thus placing himself on all
fours with the Pinchot- Garfield policy
of conservation so far as national con-
troll is concerned. The attack on Con-
gresham Tawney was not entirely un-
expected. Mr.. Tawney as chairman of
the committee on appropriations OPP
posed the president. This was espe.
cially true in the matter of secret
service appropriations, and when the
colonel arrived in Minnesota, he just
quietly took the big Stick out of
it's packing and proceeded to try to
even up little.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge of In
diana was the star on the Wednesday
program, speaking on his favorite
child-labor subject. Others were:
President McVey OF the University of
North Dakota. on Rational Taxation
of Resources" and President Finley
of the Southern railway on "The In
terest of the Railways of the South in
Conservation"
In the afternoon the first speaker of
prominence was Secretary of Asri-
culture Wilson. Mr.. Wilson's sub
ject was Farm Conservation" and
was full of meat, as invariably are the
utterances of this expert. Senator
Dolliver addressed the congress on
Cattle, Food and Leather" James
J. Hill, the venerable railroad mag.
nate, held the close attention of the
delegates in his talk on "Soils, Crops,
Food and Clothing"