Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-03

I country. Our forests, our sources Of
water supply, our arabic and our min
teral lands. our navigable streams and
all the other material resources with
which our country has been 10 lavishly
endowed, constitute the foundation Of
-FOUR national wealth. Such additional
IleE1slAtion as may DO necessary to
prevent their being wasted or absorbed
by special or privileged interests
should be enacted and the policy Of
their conservation should be rigidly
adhered to.
The public domain should be admin
istered and disposed Of with due regard
to the general welfare. Reservations
should be limited to the purposes
which they purport to serve, and not
extended to include land wholly un-
suited therefore. The unnecessary
withdrawal from sale and settlement OF
enough tracts of public land upon
which tree growth never existed and
can not be promoted, tends only to re-
tard development. create discomfort
and bring reproach upon the policy Of
conservation.
The public land laws should be adj
ministered in a spirit Of the broadest
iiberality towards the settler exhibiting
bona-f1de purpose to comply there
with, to the end that the invitation Of
this government to the landless should
be as attractive as possible; and the
plain provisions of the forest reserve
act permitting homestead entries to be
made within the national forests
should not be nullified by administra-
tive regulations which amount to a
withdrawal Of great areas Of the same
from settlement.
Immediate action should be taken
by congress to make available the vast
and valuable coal deposits of Alaska
under conditions that will be a perfect
guaranty against their falling into the
hands Of monopofizing corporations.
associations or interests.
We rejoice in the inheritance Of min
eral resources unequaled in extent, va
riety or value, and in the development
Of a mining industry unequaled in its
magnitude and importance. We honor
the men who in their hazardous toll
underground. daily risk their lives in
extracting and preparing for our use
the products Of the mine, so essential
to the industries, the commerce and
the comfort of the people of this coun-
try. And we pledge ourselves to the
of mines in every way appropriate for
national legislation with view of
safeguarding the lives of the miners.
lessening the waste OF essential re-
sources and promoting the economic
development of mining, which. along
with agriculture, must in the future,
even more than in the past, serve as
the very foundation Of our national
prosperity and welfare and our inter-
national commerce.
Agriculture.
We believe in encouraging the de-
velopment of modern system Of agri-
culture and q systematic effort to i'm
prove the conditions Of trade in farm
products 40 as to benefit both the con-
sumers and producers. And as an eff
clent means to this end we favor the
enactment by congress Of legislation
that will suppress the pernicious prac-
tice Of gambling in agricultural pro-
ducts by organized exchanges and
others.
Merchant Marine.
We believe in fostering by constitu-
tional regulation OF commerce. the
growth Of a merchant marine, which
shall develop and strengthen the COM