The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-01
ROOSEVELT FOR
FEDERAL CONTROL
Believes Government Should Gen.
orally Be Leader in Con-
servation.
SAD EXPERIENCE IN EAST
Addressing public Meeting In Denver,
Ex.President Discusses Water Pow
err. Coal Lands, Ranges and Forests
Powerful Plea for Conservation.


Denver. Colo. Aug. 29.-Colond
| Roosevelt arrived In Denver from
| Cheyenne this morning, and after a
parade in which representatives of the
state and city the Live Stock asso-
citation and the Spanish War Veterans
took part, was the guest of the Den
yer Press club at cowboy luncheon
at Overland park. In the afternoon
he delivered q public address at the
Auditorium and later spoke to the
| Spanish War Veterans, and then he
was the guest of honor at round
up" dinner at Eljebel Temple.
Talks on Conservation.
Mr.. Roosevelt's main address was
on conservation, and was as follows:
This country has shown definite signs
OF waking up to the absolute necessity of
| handling its natural resources with fore
| sight and common sense The conscrva-
| ton question has three sides. In the first
| place, the needless waste of the natural
| resources must be stopped. II Is rapidly
| becoming n wcll-scttled policy OF this peo-
| pie that we of this generation hold the
| land In part for the next generation, and
not exclusively for our own selfish enjoy
ment. just as the farmer Is good cit-
| Ten IL he leaves his farm improved and not
| Impaired for his children, and a bad clt-
ten II he skins the land In his own selfish
interest. so the Nation behaves well II 1t
treats the natural resources as assets
which IL must turn over to the next gen
grafton increased and not impaired In
value, and behaves badly II 1t leaves the
land poorer to those who come after us.
In the second place. the natural re-
sources must be developed promptly.
| completely, and in orderly fashion. 1t is
| not conservation to leave the natural re-
sources undeveloped. Development is an
| indispensable part of the conservation
plan. The forests, the mines, the water
powers. and the land itself. must all be
put to use Those who assert that con-
tervation proposes to tie them up, depriv-
ng this generation of their benefits In
order to hand them on untouched to the
next, miss the whole point of the con-
| Bervation idea. Conservation does not
mean depriving the men of today of their
natural rights In the natural resources of
The land. All It means Is that we of this
generation shall so Use our rights as not.
to deprive those who come after us OF
their natural rights in their turn.
In the third place. so far as possible
| these resources must be kept for the
whole people and not handed over for
exploitation to single individuals, We do
not intend to discourage individual enter
| Prise by unwisely diminishing the reward
|
| believe that the men OF exceptional abil-
ties should have exceptional rewards up
| 20 point where the reward becomes dis
| proportionate to the service, up to the
| point where the abilities are used to the
| 1etrlment of the people as n whole. We
are for the liberty of the individual up to
| and not beyond the point where II be-
zones inconsistent with the welfare of
| the community Thus our consistent aim
| Is TO favor the actual settler-the man
| who takes as much OF the public domain
as he himself can cultivate. and there
| makes a permanent home for his children
| who come after him: but we are against
he man, no matter what his ability. who
tries to monopolize large masses of public
land.
| State and Federal Control.
Now, to preserve the general welfare
to see to II that the rights of the public
are protected. and the liberty OF the indl-
| g'dual secured and encouraged az long as
consistent with this welfare. and curbed
when II becomes Inconsistent Herewith II
| Is necessary 10 invoke the aid of the
| government There are points In which
| this governmental aid can best be rem
| iered by the states that is where the
exercise Of states rights helps to secure
| popular rights: and % to these I bnliove
| In states rights. But there are large
| ,lasses of cases where only authority
| " the National government win saoure
tho rights of the prNrl"; and where this g
| the case I am a convinced aud a thor
| 0rgh- going believer In TIVE rights of the
| National government. b. business fn~
| Instance IL no longer m anfair of ANY ono
| gate; hlg business hnS he"Nrlc nntionNl
| ICED and the only effective way of con
| trailing and directing IT. and preventing
| abuses In connection with II. is nv having
rho people nationali2c this control IN order
to rrevent their being exploited bv tho In
| diViduals who have Eatioual'7ad tho bust
ness All commerce On scplN suffi sent
| w large TO warrant any control over II nv
TIE government Is n0'vodovs t-te--stn'a -
foreign commerce, and until this fact Is
heartily acknow'aagrd and acted upon by
both courts and legislative bodies Ma
tionai and state alike the interest of the
people win suffer.
In the matter Of conservation. heart
Ily approve of state action where under
our form Of government the state. and the
state only, hrs the power to act cor
daily join With those who desire to see
the state, within its own sphere, take the
most advanced position In regard to tho
! whole matter Of conservation have
taken exactly this attitude in my own
state % New York Where the state alone
had power to act. have done all could
TO get II to act In The most advanced
manner; and where the Nation could act.
/ have done all ! could 10 get National
| action in the same direction. JTnfortun-
!
paid the penalty OF not having our forest
land under National control; aud the pen
atty has been severe. Most OF the states
| although they are old stntes-hnve not
prntected their forests. each failing to
act by itself, because the action was real
ly the common concern Of all; and whore
action Is the common concern of ALL CN-
| per'ence has shown that n can only be
proftablY undertaken by the National
| government.
A result of the inpossib'llty of get
ting such wise action by the several state
| governments I'm the cast we are doing
| our hest 10 get National legislation under
which the National government, at the
| expense OF millions of dollars. shall under
| take 10 do as regards the App1lachians
| and White Mountains Of the east what n
| Is now doing In the Rock Mountains here
| out wesr. II would ne both calamity
! and an absurdlty for the National govern
| ment now to do In the west the very
! thing that at a heavy pecunlary cost II Is
| trying TO undo In the east BY actual ex-
| peI!ence In the east we have found to
| our cost that the Nation, and not the sew
| ,ral states, can best guard the interests
VI the peoiAH in the matter OF the forests