The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-07
National Control of Country'S Natural Resources Is Fa- :
 Vored At St. Paul
IMMENSE CROWD GIVES
 WELCOME TO THE SPEAKER
Roosevelt Places Himself Directly In Opposition To Advocates Of States Rights In Conserva-
 ton Of Resources

St. Paul, September 6.-The doctrine of new nationalism, which former Presi- dent Roosevelt enunciated in his speech at Osawatomie, Kan, last week was set forth still more clearly by him in his speech today before the National Con- servation congress here.
 He declared for government control of the country's natural resources, and in doing so placed himself directly against the advocates of "state's rights,'' whose opposition to the principles which he laid down has furnished the liveliest debates of the conversation congress.
 '1f 1t had not been for corporate in terests, especially those which may be de- scribed as predatory, we would never have heard of this question of states rights" he declared. and later he said: 'It is not really question of states against snation. It is really question of special corporate interests against the people,"
 He said the corporations were anxious tc have the states take up the work that they might escape all effective con trol
 Throughout his speech Colonel Roose- welt emphasized the need of giving over to the national government the task of carrying in the main part the work for conservation.
 James J. Hill sat on the platform close to Colonel Roosevelt and on one occasion when the colonel was speaking of feder- al control of corporations, he turned directly toward the railroad builder and addressed him.
 MT. Hill attended the luncheon given to 70 li Iof,a liar field, Clifford Pinchot, Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture. Govern or Norris of Montana, Governor Hay of Washington Govefhor Brooks of Wyo- ming and Senator Mason of Minnesota.
 When Colonel Roosevelt reached the Htate fair grounds he found what he said was the largest crowd he had seen on his western trip, waiting to hear him speak. The grand stand, which holds an immense crowd, was filled, and the ground in front of 1t and to both sides of the platform on which the colonel stood, was crowded with throng which extended back further than the colonels voice could be heard.
 T thoroughly enjoyed my trip through the west,' he said. But this Is the most extraordinary audience I have yet seen.' When he appeared on the platform the people who first caught sight of him be- gan to cheer. The cheer was caught up by others and in instant the throng of people were upon their feet waving their hats, throwing cushions into the air and uniting in a deafening roar of welcome.
 Good Citizenship
 The colonel talked for half an hour on good citizenship. He said that the people should keep their prosperity and that the chief concern should be to see that the fruits of prosperity were dis tributed fairly. He said that corpor- ations should be rewarded only as they served the people as whole.
 ''The corporation is creature" he continued "and we must see that the created does not become greater than the creator"
 His advice on the subject of good citi- zenship he summed up thus:
 Let each man hold up that particular corner of the nation that is under his own roof. Let him do that, and then let him join in the general uplift of all of us.'
 When he was half way through his speech, which he was addressing to the crowd in the grandstand, the people on the other side of him began to call out that they wanted to hear some of his remarks.
 The cries became so loud that he could not continue with his speech. He turned to one side and said few words, where upon those on the other side shouted louder than ever. When he turned that way the shouts of protest from the crowd behind him in the grandstand made 1t impossible for anybody to hear. The col onel handled the situation as well as he could. but 1t kept him busy turning from one part of the crowd to another and speaking few sentences to each in turn. You see I had to play both ends against the lniddle,' he said when the crowd at last grew quiet.
 There was no speackmaking at the din- ner tonight. Colonel Roosevelt left for the train as soon as 1t was over.
 The coloneps speech follows:
 RooseveIt's Speech
 "Anerica's reputation for efficiency stands deservedly high throughout the world We are efficient probably to the full limit that any nation can attain by the methods hitherto used There Is great reason to be proud of our achievements, and yet no reason to be- lieve that we cannot excel our past Throught a practically unrestrained in dividualisnA we have reached a pitch of literally unexampled ma terial prosperity; although the distribu- ton of this prosperity leaves much to be desired from the standpoint of justice and fair dealing. But we have not only al lowed the individual free hand, which was in the main right; we have also al lowed great corporations to act as though they were individuals, and to ex. ercise the rights of individuals. In addi- tion to using the vast combined power oi high organization and enormous wealth for their own advantage. This develop ment of corporate action, 1t is true. is doubtless in large part responsible for the gigantic development of our natural re. sources, but 1t is not less responsible fol waste. destruction and monopoly on an equally gigantic scale.
 "The method of reckless and uncon trolled private use and waste has done for us all the good it ever can ant 1t is time to put an end to it before if does all the evil it easily may. Ws have passed the time when needles. waste and destruction, any arrogan monopoly. are any longer permissible Henceforth we must seek national eff