The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-29
ASKED TO EXPLAIN

The Manufacturers Record Baltimore requo,ng from the
Courier Journal paragraph from recent editorial in The Citizen
entitled Development, Exploitation asks that the editor Of The
Citizen explain what he conservation OF and
reply attempts subject by rdcung
stating that those who put forth such ideas have yet
The would say the Manufacturers Record
place that neither rdcue dogmatism evidence
Of sound thinking the part Of one who sit judgment
other peoples mental But In CITIZEN does not
wish be accused Of using the methods Of its critic
the place. il than paragraph from editorial
had been quoted read position would have been easily
understood second editorial the subject closely following
the quoted sufficiently explicit give little for mis-
understanding or neutrality-suspicious.
That explicit definition Of
the editorial question due to the fact that after
Roosevelt and the work Of Clifford Pncho and the
we concluded any ordinary
what and especially the editors Of technical trade
journals And ground for favong policy Of conservation for
we'll for the nation the for
favorng preventive as we'll as curative medicine
We will illustrate: The national and just recently
the state of Kentucky buying large tracts OF deesed and
and dnuded lands and beginning the Of efores'aion
medicine IL admission the part OF the
there devastation and exploit
s,on And along with this policy Of rebuilding has
policy OF preventing the necessity Of rebuilding
the Of unused the
Of these under certain regulations
To be still specific year the editor passing
through district Kentucky where mining had carried for
good many years and by friend locality
perfectly that the deades the and the
dons the country population nfod than when the
opened Asking Why the coal
gone gone the left having
sold their mineral and timber rights for the beginning and
hired themselves out miners long they could get
employ subs they could the regions
left destitute by the capitalists who had with their hoardngs
from the state
The operations this very district heraded few
development the operations OF the multi million
dollar coal corporations Eastern Kentucky heradd And
all The CITIZEN doing the fear that like
ditions would prevail in these regions.
what the Elkhorn Fuel Company
pued absolutely hundred thousand Of land
Letcher Pike Counties do for the development Of
that DISTRICT Is going practice scientific forestry removing just
only should be each because
limit growth has been injured by omss And
will seek resock it's land timber each fast the tim
the be resocked with coal
regulate the output what important
STILL uiing that the state shall share justly Nth ii in its in
The activity Of the lobby of the coal barons
Frankfort which killed proposed bill placing
tonnage a coal to the last question.
Furthermore when the coal and there timber
the hills what does the do with its landY
Will hold control the land barons Of England do
dung the position OF tenant and not free
hoderf
The Manufacturer Record surely will hardly endorse such
policy this but this in fact just what the
doing No employee within the whole three hundred thou
sand Of land And ultimately this land devoid
its chief value the chance purchaser who is left
than the beginning fall into the hands Of the
for rebuilding be held perpeuy by the corporation
alternative Manufactures Record could
presume to think at all possible.
And this is not all We shall have to say