Valdez daily prospector., 1911-10-06
P|kCROT TALKS
 ID VALDEzANS
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 end to them.
 One thing has struck me very fUrcibly. You are agreed on nothing except that you have not had justice. The differences in opinion between the men who come here from the outside are as nothing compared to the diff fcrcnccS l find among yourselves here in Alaska.
 The strongest impression have gathered of Alaska is that it is d place for permanent settlement, a place where, as Mr.. Hubbard says, there is going to be d great stable community of prosperous people, for whom Alaska will be home. In my Judgment, far too much of the agitation about Alas ka has been carried forward from the point of view of the man who wants to make his stake here, and get out as soon as he has made It. The men who have not loyalty enough to Alaska to intend to live here, but merely want to get rich and get out, are not the men who have the first right to bc listened to when It comes to prupnSnG methods to settle the Alaska question. II Is from the point of View of the men who mean to stay and live here that. these questions l,I i,l, n I,, permanent AIaSkamS should come first. Anyone who has seen even as much of this country as have knows that 1t is going to be able to support a large permanent pop ulatiOn.
 1 have heard so many mistakes and miS-StatementS about the conservation work that l want to talk for d few minutes on what conservation really means. In the first place, anybody who knows at all what the leaders of con scrvatiUn have held from the be- ginning, knows that the very first principle of conservation is de- velOpment, that the conservation iStS are not now, and never have been, trying to bottle up the nat ural resources for some future generation. have heard and read over and over again that that is what We were trying to do. That is sheer nonsense.
 Let me speak very plainly. 1 have been ill this fight for a good many years. We have had the same kind of misunderstanding and misrepresentation as to the national forests i'll every state in which forests have been created. l know how exceedingly hard it is to get people informed as to what d national forest means, how to use 1t, and what the reg ulaLlDnS are. l want you to un- derstand clearly that there have been from the beginning, and there are still, men whose per- SOnal interest it is to misrcprr- sent what the national forests are and what the conservation move mcnt means. False stories start cd by such men get into the news paper exchanges, and come to be believed ill absolute sincerity by many thousands of people. We cOnScrVatiOniStS never intended, never desired, to lock up anything. All we mean to do is to see that the natural resources are used reasonably and without undue waste, and for the benefit of the many, and not solely for the ben eft of the few. hava not thing to apologize for as to the part | have taken in the conservation work.
 In developing the resources of Alaska, the cOnscrvatiOnists hold --and this is important-- that they should not be developed sole ly from the point of view of the men and women who are in Alas ka now. Alaska ought to be de- VclOped for you first, but any con- tcntiOn that the men and women who are here now are the only people to be considered falls to the ground the moment you con- sidcr how few people are here now, and how many there are go- irE tn bc. Your rights come first, but those coming after you have rights to be considered as we'll as yours, and they undoubtedly will b" considered. We have ut more right tO disregard the future prn. pl" Of Alaska than you who arr ia'h"rS and mothers have a right