Arizona republican., 1910-09-07
COL. ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS
Before the Conservative Congress. An Unqualified Declaration By Him In Favor of National Con trol of Natural Resources

st Paul, Sept. 6.-The doctrine of the new nationalism" which Colonel Roosevelt enUnciated in his speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, was set forth more clearly Dy him in his speech to- day before the national conservation congress. He declared emphatically for government control of the cOuntrys resources.
 If it had not been for the corporate interests. especially those which may be described as predatory. we would never have heard of this question of states rights" he declared.
 He said: It is not really a question of state against nation. It really is question of the special corporate in- terest against the people" He said the corporations were anxious to have the states take up work that they might escape all effective control.
 Great outbursts of applause greeted Colonel Roosevelt as he delivered his speech in the auditorium. Everywhere he went about the twin cities, masses of people lined the streets to see and cheer him. and when he arrived at the capitol a presidential salute of twenty one guns was given.
 Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Minne- apolis at o'clock, and after breakfafst he came by automobile to St. Paul, made his speech at the conservation congress and then went to the state fair grounds, where he addressed the largest crowd of the day on the sub ject of good citizenship. He left to- night for Milwaukee.
 Speaking of the federal control of corporations, he said:
 Tn addition to the fact that the fed eTal government is better able to exact justice from the corporations, I also believe it is less apt in some gust of popular passion to do injustice to them"
 When Colonel Roosevelt came to- speak of the national conservation commission he made what was inter preted here as a sharp thrust at Con gressman James A. Tawney. He urged a further extension Of the powers of the forestry bureau and more generousI support of the national conservation commission. In the course of his re- marks on national control he said:
 one of the most important cOnser- vaticn questions of the moment" said he. relates to the control of the water power monopoly in the public interest. There is apparent to the judicious Ob- server a distinct tendency on the part of our opponent to cloud the issue by raising the question of state as again federal jurisdiction. We are ready to- meet that issue if it is forced upon us. But there is no hope for the plain peo- pie in such conflicts of jurisdiction The essential question is not one of hair splitting legal technicalities. It is simply this: Who can best regulate the special interests for the public good ? Most of the predatory corporations are interstate or have interstate affilia- tions. Therefore they are largely out of reach of effective state control, and fall of necessity within the federal jur isdiction.
 one of the prime objects of those l among them that are grasping and greedy is to avoid any effective con trol either by state or nation; and they advocate at this time state control sim 1 ply because they believe it to be the least effective In the great fight of the people to drive the special inter | ests from the dominion of our govern | ment. the nation is stronger and its jurisdiction is more effective than that of any state. The most effective weap- | on against these great corporations. | most of which are financed and owned on the Atlantic coast. will be federal laws and the federal executive. That is why I so strongly oppose the demand to turn these matters over to the states. It is fundamentally demand against the interest of the plain people, of the people of small means, against the in terest of our children and our chill drens children; and it is primarily in the interest of the great corporations which desire to escape all government control.
 One of the difficulties in putting into practice the conservation idea is that the field to which it applies is constantly growing in the public mind It has been no slight task to bring before 90,000,000 people a great conception like that of con servatiorL and convince them that it is right. This much We have ac- Complsihed. But there remains much to be cleared up. and many misun- derstandings to be removed. These misunderstanding are due in part at least to direct misrepresentation by the men to whhose interest it | it is that conservation should not prosper. For example. we find it constantly said by men who should know better, that temporary with