Arizona republican., 1913-03-30
Let n0ne taltey Wh0 Thinks he IS right.
 --.AbYQhQW Lincoln.
Senator Smith on Conservation

We lately received and read with deep interest. speech by Senator Marcus A. Smith the bill authorizing the Connecticut River com pany relocate and construct dam across the Connecticut river. the consideration of which pied so great a part of the time presenting a history of this proposed legislation
 Briefly. the Connecticut River company asked permission to raise the dam to a greater height for the purpose of creating power for an electric plant. The secretary of under the clause of the constitution refused permit this improvement unless the company should give the federal government control over the power to be produced A bill embodyng such contract brought into the and it in oppo- son the recognition of the federal governments control that MT smith addressed the because he said the proposed law establishes precedent so far reaching and so disastrous in it's effects the people of the western states
 Mir. Smiths presentation of his views very able one, supported by many decisions which he introduced, gradually leading discussion of the entire conservation policy the government, and closing with vigorous attack upon it.
 But think Smith long jump from the Connecticut river dam matter to the conservation policy it is enforced in the west. He erred also, in the assertion, all supported by facts, that the policy is retarding the development the public states. This is the assertion made recently by the politicians of Colorado; it is the same that made by the power trust when its activities were arrested by the conservation policy and it is the that is made by the oil, power lumber and land monopolists.
 We believe that in this matter. Mir. Smith is not in sympathy with majority o the people of this state. He is certainly in sympathy with the stockmen in his attack upon the federal
  sympathy with the farmers this valley. would regard with dread adoption of policy that would threaten the destruction of the shed which has vastly improved under federal control
 Since delivering this speech, MT Smith has been appointed chairman of the committee conservation that will be in position to wield influence in a movement to change or reverse the governmental policy; utterly destroy
 But we do not believe that the policy will be reversed destroyed long as President Wilson sits in the White House; it will be developed and strengthened faith in the future of the policy is based upon ire quent utterances and especially the following, which we quote again from article in the Worlds Work appearing shortly before in- suguraton:
 What is our fear about conservation?
 The hands that being stretched
 monopoze forests, to prevent the
 of great power producing streams
 the hands that being stretched into
 bowels of the earth take possession the
 great riches that lie hidden in Alaska
 and elsewhere in the incomparable domain
 of the United States, are the hands of
 opoly. Are these continue stand
 st the elbow of government tell
 ourselves-from themselves?
 You settle the question of
 vaton while monopoly is close the
 of those who govern. And the question of
 conservation is great deal bigger than
 the question of saving forests and our mineral resources and waters; it is
 big the life and happines and strength
 and elasticity and hope of people,
 It is not the people who urging change in the conservation policy, who telling con Sressmen that the natural wealth of the country is being locked up against The who Standing the elbow of government to tel how ourselves-from themselves ar the monopolists who looking with longing eyer upon the forests the power