Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-09-28
FOR FARMERS GOOD
Leading Topic in Conservation
Congress at Kansas City
TAFT SPEAKS THIS EVENING
President VIII Defend His conserva.
ton Policy in Alaska-Many Emil
nent Men VIII Address
the Convention.

| hausas City, MO-, Sept. 25.-Tht
nearness of the 1912 presidential!
campaign, the attitude of the admin
istratlon on the conservation ques
ton, especially in Alaska, as a politi
cal issue, and President Tafts an
nouncement that he would defend the
governments Alaskan policy before
the convention, have aroused intense
interest among the many prominent
men gathered here to attend the
three days sessions of the third ma
tional conservation congress, which
opened in Convention hall today
President Taft's address is to be de
livered this evening. The data for his
defense of his national conservation
policy has been gathered by Score.
tary of the Interior Walter Fisher in
the course of his extensive trip
through the Alaskan coal fields.
Aside from the political signifi.
canoe that attaches to the convention
by reason of the attendance of men
of such widely divergent political
opinions as President Taft, Woodrow
Wilson, w. ]. Bryan, Champ Clark,
and others, its deliberations will
prove of great benefit to those en-.
gagged in agriculture in the United
States, by reason of the scientific
farming experts that have accepted
President Wallaces invitation to
speak before the convention.
Mostly for the Farmers Benefit.
Particular attention will be paid at
this convention to the reclamation Of
the soil; cooperation among farm
ers; the postal service and railroads;
the health of the people; live stock
and good roads. Each of these topics
will be the subject of speeches by ex.
perts, Herbert Quick, editor of the
Farm and Fireside, taking THE Farm.
er and the Railroads." Joseph L.
Bristow, United States senator from
Kansas, "The Farmer and the Postal
Service" DR.. Frederick B. Mumford,
the subject Of live stock and soil fer.
tility, while Curtis Hill of Jefferson
City, Mo-; w. A. Beard of Sacramen.
to, Cal, and DR.. Walter Page of New
York deal with what Good Roads
Do for the Farmer" Cooperation
Among Farmers" and 1.-THE Country
School,"
A novel feature of the farm phase
of the congress will be an address
by Mrs. Harriet Wallace Ashby of
Des Moines, Ia, on 1.-THE Farmers
Wife," Mrs. Ashby will deal with
the social status of the farmers wife,
her daily life and the advantages
and disadvantages Of rural life for
women.
A further innovation from the rou-
tine discussions of. the congress will
be the address of DR.. Warren H. Will
son, superintendent of the board OF
home missions of the Presbyterian
church, New York, on "The Country
Church" The object of this address
will be an exposition of social life
in rural communities with a view to
dissipatng the popular belief that
farm life is an unbroken monotony
DIR. Wilson, in the pursuit of his dut-
les, has covered most of the farming
territory in the United States.
Opening of the Convention.
The convention opened at $3.50 this
morning with an address of welcome
by ]. c. Lester, president of the
Commercial club of Kansas City, for
the commercial and Industrial inter-
ests, and one by Darius A. Brown,
mayor of Kansas City, for the city.
Governor Herbert S. Hadley welcom-
ed the delegates for the state of Mis-
souri,.
The addresses of welcome were re-
sponded to by Henry Wallace, presi-
dent of the National Conservation
Congress.
In addition to those named, the list
Of speakers includes Vice-President
James S. Sherman, Speaker Champ
Clark, Secretary of War Henry l..
Stimson, Secretary of Agriculture
James Wilson. William Jennings Bry-
an, Governor Wilson of New Jersey,
Secretary of the Interior Walter L.
Fisher and Henry Wallace, president
OF the congress, besides senator's, rep
resentatives, agricultural experts and
prominent men from all parts of the
United States.