The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-20
VILE. ADDRESS THE
ST. PAUL CONGRESS

ST. PAUL. June 19-EX-P President
Roosevelt has announced his inten~
tion OF attending the meeting OF the
national conservation congress in St
Paul during September and Of deliv-
ering another message to the United
States ON the need of conserving nat.
ural resources. This is one of the
few engagements MI Roosevelt has
definitely made and one in which he
is most vitality interested.
Ever since that day in 1907 while
hunting in the canebrakeS of MiSSiS-
sippi when the idea for great con.
servation movement came To him
and which resulted subsequently In
a message making recommendation
for its advancement, Mr.. Roosevelt
has pleaded that the nations re-
sources be saved from the spoilers
AT the notable conference OF gov
crnors at the White House in May,
1908, Colonel Roosevelt >urged coop
Grafton. In his message to congress
in the spring of 1905 he said:
THE conservation OF our natural
resources and their proper use constf
tute the fundamental problem which
underlics almost every other problem
Of our national life We must main
tain for our civilization the adequate
material basis. without which that
civilization cannot exist. We must
show foresight We must look ahead
The reward Of foresight for this ma
tion is great and easily foretold But
there must be the look ahead there
must be n realization the fact that
to waste, TO destroy our natural re-
sources, to skin and exhaust the land
instead of using IL so as to increase
its usefulness, Will result in under
mining In the days of our children the
very prosperity which We ought ny
right, to hand down TO them ampli-
fed and developed
When Clifford Pinchot. the deposcd
chief forester. met Colonel Roosevelt
in Europe recently and told him that
the national conservation congress
would hold its next meeting In ST
Paul, the former president said.
Tell them that ! Will be there The
first week in September would sdit
me best" Accordingly, the commit
tee which has charge of the congress
decided to await his return to Ameri-
father of conservation" permit him
TO set the date for the meetings
Many persons are now Speculatlng
on whether or not Mr. Roosevelt Will
wait until that congress meets 10 eX-
press his views OF President Tafts
action in removing Mr. Pinchot from
the office of chief forester II VIII be
remembered that men who had
taken the lead in the conservation
movement Throughout the country
met with DR. Charles w. Eliot. presI-
dent-emeritus OF Harvard university.
last July and organized the national
conservation association DR. Eliot
was made president Under his lead
crship the association at once met
with hearty response. It's first bull
letin called attention to the situation
the Alaskan coal lands
which have since achieved such
prominence through the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy. In that bulle-
tin, which Was issued IN November,
DIR, Eliot, speaking ol the associa-
ton. said
The national conservation associa-
ton Is convinced of the urgent need
OF immediate measures to prevent tae
control of the great sources of heat
and mechanical power in tho United
States from being seized by monopc-.
listIc organizations and TO secure tho
best development of these sources In
the interest Of the whole people.