Arizona republican., 1910-08-30

Denver, Aug. 29-Theodore ROose- welt arrived in the city this morning from Cheyenne to address the Colorado Live Stock owners association in re- sponse to an invitation rendered him during his absence in Africa.
 Colonel Roosevelt was met on his arrival bv many of his old comrades at-arms, the Rough Riders, who formed a parade with their old commander at the head. After his entertainment by the cowboys he was given a luncheon by the Denver Press club, among whose guests were Governor Shafroth and Mayor Speer.
 A little later he met the assembled cattlemen at the Auditorium and ad- dressed them on the subject Of cOnser- Nation. Colonel Roosevelt said:
 This country has shown definite signs of waking up to the absolute ne cessity of handling it's natural re- sources with foresight and common sense. The conservation question has three sides. In the first place, the needless waste of natural resources must be stopped. It is rapidly becOm- ing a well settled policy of this people that we of this generation hold the lead for the next generation. and not exclusively for eur own selfish enjoy ment. Just as he farmer is good citizen if he leaves his farm improved and not impaired for his children, and a bad citizen if he skins the land in his own selfish interest, so the nation behaves we'll if it treates the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation, increased and not impaired in value. and be- hayes badly if it leaves the land poor. CT to those who come after us
 Tn the second place, the natural resources must be developed promptly, completely. and in orderly fashion It is not conservation to leave the nat ural resources undeveloped.
 DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIAL.
 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 conserva- ton proposes to tie them up, depriv- ing this generation of their benefits in order to hand them down untouched to the next, miss the whole point of the conservation idea. Conservation does not mean the depriving of the men of today of their natural rights in the natural resources of the land. All it means is that we of this gen. eration 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 possi- ble. these resources must be kapt for the whole people and not handed over for exploitation to single individuals. We do not intend to discourage indi- ViduaI enterprise by unWisely dimin- ishing the reward for that enterprise. On the contrary, we believe that the men of exceptional abilities should have exceptional rewards up to point where the reward becomes dis proportionate to the service, uP to the point where the abilities are used to the detriment of the people as whole. We are for the liberty of the individual up to and not beyond the point where it becomes 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 d dren who come after him; but we are against the man, no matter what his ability, who tries to monopolize large masses of public land.
 WHICH SHALL CONTROL?
 Now. to preserve the general well fare. to see to it that the rights of tl,e public are protected, and the lib ertv of the individual secured and encouraged so long as consistent with his welfare. and curbed when 1t be- comes inconsistent herewith. 1t is nee essarv to invoke the aid of the gov ernment. There are points in which this governmental aid can best be rendered bv the states. that IS, where the exercise of states rights helps to- secure popular rights; and as to these I believe in states rights. But there arc large classes of cases where only the authority of the national govern ment will secure the rights Of the neople and where this is the case am a convinced and a thorough going believer in the rights of the national government. Big business, for m stance is no longer an affair of the state. big business has become nation aliezd. and the only effective way oi controlling and directing it and pre- venting abuses in connection with II, is by having the people nationailze tbis control in order to prevent their heing exploited by the individuals who have nationalized the business All commerce on scale su1flcleh'iy