Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-05

ST. PAUL. Sept. 5-"Conservation as
an economic and political term has
come to mean the preservation of our
natural resources Cor economical use.
so as to secure the greatest good to
the greatest number" declared Presf-
dent Taft in opening his address before
the second National Conservation Con-
sress In this city. The principal part
or the long adds ess was devoted to an
exposition of the advantages which
would accrue to the people at large by
leasing the government coal. oil. gas
and phosphate lands. instead of ceding
them outright to private owners. This
pollcy would, he said, afford an easv
way of avoiding private monopoly. OF
controlling expectation of products
needed in this country. and of retain
ing to the national government ade-
quate means of retaining supervision
over the conservation of natural re-
sources.
Inc President got most demonstra-
i've welcome at the conservation con-
gress' Clifford Pinchot who had been
III ot' Paul for two days, was not pres
ehe' ne went into Representative
James A. Tawney's district today to
oeuVer speech in favor of Mr. Taw-
heys opponent. The former forester
VIII be back in the city tomorrow to
greet Colonel Roosevelt. James r. Car
Held also comes tomorrow.
The President reached ST. PAM a+ O
a. m'' ana was met at the Northwest
ern station by Governor Eberharr
Senator nh ID
dent Baker, of tn conservation con-
gress, and a local committee. He was
escorted through crowded street, to a
reviewing stand in front of the Fifth
street entrance of the postoffice, where.
after walt of three-quarters of an
hour, he reviewed the Labor Day
parade. The President was erected
with applause and occasional cheering
as he was driven from the statjon to
the reviewing stand
Immediately after the parade he pro-
ceeded to the Auditorium to address the
conservation congress.
In his address, President Taft said:
Presidents Speech.
Conservation is national. 1t af-
fects every man of us. every woman,
every child. What l can do In the
cause L shall do, not as president of
a party, but as president of the whole
people. Conservation is not question
of politics, or of factions, or of per-
sons. 1t is question that affects the
vital welfare of all of us-of our chill
dren and our children's children. The
problems are of very great difficulty
and call for the calmest consideration
and clearest foresight. Many of the
,NI1o
are new in this country, and it is pos
sible that in their solution we may
have to attempt first one way and then
another
There is no crying need for radical
reform In the methods of disposing of
what are really agricultural lands. The
laws have worked well.
I'm these days there is disposition
to look too much to the Federal gov
ernment for everything.
"I am liberal in the construction
the Constitution with reference to
Federal power; but l am firmly con,
yinced that the only safe course for
us to pursue is to hold fast to the
limitations of the Constitution and to
regard as sacred the powers OF the
States.
Nothing can be more important In
the matter of conservation than the
treatment of our forest lands. 1t was
probably the ruthless destruction CT
forests in the older States that first
called attention to halt in the waste
Of our resources. This was recognized
by Congress by an act authorizing
the executive to reserve from entry and
set aside public timber lands as ma