Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — PLEADS FOR CONSERVATION. [ARTICLE]

PLEADS FOR CONSERVATION.

Magaitne Sara Work of Saving N*. tlonal Domain la Urgent. The cause of forest conservation, with its colossal problems, must not be allowed to become a football of factional or personal ambitions, says the' Century; it needs all the friends it can win, of all shades of party or parparticularly in congress, to which now falls the great responsibility of en acting into law the unmistakable demands of public sentiment. Much of this work is urgent. Legal safeguards should be established to prevent such worngs as the endeavor to take up coal lands worth $2,000,000,000 by one person by means of proxies; the use of water power should be so defined and regulated as to preserve the right of the people without impairing the normal development of the west; the reclamation service, which is making the desert blossom as the rose, Should be carefully fostered and protected against political and private greed; the whole system of river and harbor development should be placed on a business Instead of a political basis; and last, but not least, let us repeat It, the president, congress and the governors and legislatures of the states should address themselves at once to the need, so often set forth in these columns, of a co-operative plan to save from destruction the forests of the upper reaches of the whole Appalachian range.