Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-08-08

SerNatlon and reclamation OF natlonal
resources. We must conserve our soil,
our forests, our mines, not only for
our own benefit but for the benefit of
our children and descendants. "The
public should not ALLEVIATE its fee in
the water-power which will be of in
calcMlable value as source of power
in the immediate future,o and "we
should undertake the complete develop
ment and control of the Mississippi as
national work, just as we have I'M
dertaken the work Of building the Pan
ANA canal.''
Alaska.
"1n Alaska the government has an
opportunity Of starting in what is an
almost fresh field, to work out various
problems by actual experiment. 1t
should at once construct, own, and
operate all the railways in Alaska; it
should keep the fee of all coal fields
and allow them to be operated by les
see with the condition in the lease
that uon-use shall operate rs a forfeit;
system of land taxation should be
tried which promotes the actual use of
land and discourages the holding Of
land for speculation; the telegraph
LINES should be owned and operated by
the government.
International Affairs.
n "In international affairs this coun-
1 try should behave towards other ma
| tons exactly as honorable private cit
!, izens.n Our small army should have
large efficiency; the navy must be
steadily built up until sit proves pos
sible to secure by international agree
ments general reduction of .arna-
Z ments;D the Panama Canal must be
, fortified. Panama Canal tolls on deep
r water commerce should be uniform tt
. all nations, including ourselves; Amer
g lean coastwise vessels should pass
$ through the canal free, for this would
4 be no discrimination against foreign
, nations and would give US reasonable
: competition with trans-contlnenta
: railways. No foreign treaty should b.
: entered into which we do not meal
i serupulousiy to observe in every par
e ticular.
J. Conclusion.
t In summing up the scientific poll
e cies exponnded in his address MI
l. Roosevelt spoke as follows:
"Now, friends, this is my confessio
of faith. l have made it rather lon
r. because 1 wish you to know just wha
It my deepest convictions are on the grea
e questions of today, so that If 20
- choose to make ME your standardized
IS err in the fight, you shall make you
% choice understanding exactly how
y feel-and if, after hearing me, yo
20 think You ought to choose someone els
l. l shall abide loyalty by your decision
G. The convictions to which l have con
l. have not arrived as the result of stud
e. in the closet or in the library, but fro
Is the knowledge 1 have gained throue
b. hard experience during the many yea
1t in which, under many and varied CO..
le ditions, have stTiven and toiled wit
ir men. I believe in a larger use OF ii
TO governmental power to help rened
If governmental wrongs, because it n
~ been borne in on me that without "a
81 exercise of that power many of Il
lie wrongs will 60 unremedied. l belie'
d. in larger opportunity for the Poop
in themselves directly to participate
r. government and to control their 60
is ernmental agents, because long expe
es fence has taught me that without SUI
We control many Of their agents will re
ne resent them badly. By actual expe
e. fence in office l have found that, as
Il, rule. l could secure the triumph OF Il
as causes in which I most believed, n
g. from the politicians and the men vi
it claim an exceptional right to speak
We business and in government, but
I'd going over their heads and appeali'
directly to the people themselves.
am not under the slightest delusion
q. to any power that during my polite
Mt career l have at any time possesse
be Whatever of power l at any time "a
o. l obtained from the people. ! cou
II. exercise it only SO long as, and to t
u.s. extent that, the people not merely I
he lieved in me, but heartily backed
in up. Whatever I did as president l v
st able to do only because had the bac
all ing of the people. When on any poi
/ did not have that backing, when
any point differed with the Poop
# it mattered not whether / was rig
IN. or whether l was wrong, my pow