Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 293, 29 August 1910 — Page 8

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TIIE RICHMOND PAZXA DIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, 4 AUGUST 29, 1910.

D0 DECIDES TO UIDEI11 STREETS Improvement on West Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Streets Next Year. TO MAKE MODEL HIGHWAYS

OFFICIALS ARE TO VISIT A SPRINGFIELD STEAM HOLLER FACTORY SOON WITH A VIEW OF SECURING ONE. Resolutions for the widening of West Seventh, Eighth and Ninth streets, from the National road, to Main street, were adopted at the meeting of the board of works this morning, t The final hearings on the improvement resolutions were held a week ago, and one property owner protested against the improvement. The board made an investigation and decided to do the work as proposed, notwithstanding the remonstrance. The street! were originally laid out with thirty-three foot roadways, but there has been a general sentiment among the property owners for the last year to widen them. For this - purpose Ave feet on each side Of each street was donated by the property owners, but the city decided to con- - demn even more land in order to . make fifty foot streets. Eight and a half feet on each side was required. ! It Is believed the property owners will be greatly benefitted by the Improvement. Probably the sereets will not be made until next year. A primary assessment roll for the Improvement of an alley by cement roadway, from- North Eighth to Tenth street, between North O and H streets was adopted. A resolution for the building of a sanitary sewer from North West Second street to North West Fourth streets. In the. alley between the right of way of the Pennsyl- . vanla railroad and Chestnut street, was passed by the board. The tm- . provement will probably not be made until the first of next year. H. L. King, representing the Kelly- , Springfield company, of Springfield, O., manufacturers of steam rollers, was before the board of works and Invited the members to visit the factory at 8prlngfield and also the one at, Marlon, O. The board la contemplating purchasing a new roller, but It has not yet decided whether It will do so 'before the first of the year. Steam rollers cost between $1,700 and . $5,000, according to size and style. Some favor the gasoline roller. The board will visit the Kelly factory within the next few days. JEW WEIGHT RECORD Mads with the 56 Pound Shot Yesterday by Matt .McGrath of Y. HURLS IT SIXTEEN FEET (American News Service.) Chicago, Aug. 29. Matt McOrath representing the New York Athletic club established a new world record of 16 feet, 64 Inches in the fifty-pound ' weight for height yesterday at the first annual outdoor track and field meet of the Chicago Irish-American Athletic club. Martin Sheridan, John Flanagan and Mellville Shepherd also took part In the meet, which was won by the Chicago Athletic association with a score of 41 points. President Browne of the National A. A. U who was referee, had the McOrath feat certified for registration, McOrath was the lone star of the New York Athletic club. The New York Irish-American club was third, and the promoting club second. Flanagan won the hammer throw with a mark of 174 feet. 10 Inches, which lacks 10 feet of the world's record held by him. 8herldan was too heavily handicapped In the discus throw to qualify. Shepherd was an easy winner in the special 600-yard race. In 1:16.2, Just six seconds slowtr than the record he made In the .east last week. Tbm I ae ta dicta m safe aad at the um t.'we pteatMt to teke m Dr. Caldwell's Syrup kvPl. tfce poaKtoe eur I rt an dtMaaa ajitts? atimftch trouble. The price Is very rea sv dSl. -Horse SenseVJhzt la a Dorse Worth Without (A2!a. Cctb 6 Csb Feed) Ccttcr csoV Ghccpcr Tfesn Cera ; Yea Cca Get It el

CONSERVATION IS He Is Amused by the Pleas V

tteuver, Aug. 20. This Country has shown definite signs of waking up to the absolute necessity of handling its natural resources with foresight and common sense. The conservation question has three sides. In the first place the needless waste of the natural resources must be stopped. It Is rapidly becoming a well settled policy of this people that we of this generation bold tbo land in part tor the next generation and not exclusively for our own selfish enjoyment. Just as the farmer is a good citizen if be leaves his farm Improved and not Impaired for bis children and a bad citizen if he skins the land In his own selfish interest, so the nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets wblph it mast tarn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value and behaves badly If it leaves the land poorer to those who come after us. In the second place, the natural resources must be developed promptly, completely ami in orderly fashion. It is not conservation to leave the natural resources undeveloped. Development Is an indispensable part of the conservation plan. Tho forests, the mines, the water powers and the land itself must all be put to use. Those who assert that conservation proposes to tie them up. depriving this generation of tbeir benefits in order to hand them on untouched to the next miss the whole point of the conservation idea. Conservation does not mean depriving the men of today of their natural rights in the natural resources, of the land. All It means is that we of this generation shall so use our rights as not to deprive those who come after us of their natural rights in their turn. In the third place, so far as possible these resources must be kept for the whole people and not handed over for exploitation to single individuals. We do not'lntend to discourage individual enterprise by unwisely diminishing the reward for that enterprise. On the contrary, we believe that the men of exceptional abilities should have exceptional rewards up to a point where the reward becomes disproportionate to the service, up to the point where the abilities are used to the detriment of the people as a whole. We are for the liberty of the Individual up to and not beyond the point where it becomes Inconsistent with the welfare of the community. Thus our consistent aim is to favor the actual settler the man who takes as much of the public domain as he himself can cultivate and there makes a permanent borne for his children who come after him. But we are against the man, no -matter what bis ability, who tries to monopolize large masses of public land. State and Federal Control. Now, to preserve the general welfare, to see to It that the rights of the public are protected and the liberty of the Individual secured and encouraged as long as consistent with this welfare and curbed when it becomes lncon slstent therewith, It Is necessary to invoke the aid of the government There are points in which this governmental aid can best be rendered by the states: that is, where the exercise of state rights helps to secure popular rights, and as to these I believe In state rights. But there are large classes of cases where only the -authority of the national government will secure the rights of the people, and where this I the case I am a convinced and a thoroughgoing believer in the rights of the national government. Big business, for instance. Is no longer an affair of any one state. Big business has become nationalized, and the only effective way of controlling and directing it and preventing abuses in connection with it is by having the people nationalize this control In order to prevent their being exploited by the individuals who have nationalized the business. All commerce on a scale sufficiently large to warrant any control over it by the government is nowadays intestate or fru'elgu. commerce,

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THE ROOSEVELT TOPIC 1 of the Corporations Who Seek Must Keep U. S. Coal Lands.

ana on.- z.,a Ijct is heartily acknowledged and acted upon by both courts and legislative bodies, national and; state alike, the interest of the people will suffer. In the matter of conservation. 1 heartily approve of state action where under our form of government the state, and the state only, has the power to act. I cordially Join with those who desire to see the state, within its own sphere, take the moot advanced position In regard to the whole matter of conservation. I have taken exactly this attitude In my own state of New York. Where the state altue hed power to act 1 have done all I could to get it to act in the most advanced manner, end where the nation could act I hav done all I could to get national action In the same direction. . Unfortunately in the east we have II this matter p:iid the penalty of-not having our forest land under national control, and the penalty has been se vere. Most of the states, although they are old states, have not protectee! their forests, each failing', to act bj itself, because the action was reall.v the common concern of all. and where action is the common concern of all experience has shown that it can onlr be profitably undertaken by the nn tlonal government. As a result of tho impossibility of getting' such wise action - by the several state governments in the east we are doing our best to get national legislation under which the national government, at the expense of millions of dollars, shall undertake to do as regards the Appalachians and White mountains of the east what It is bow doing in ' the Rocky mountains here out west. Water Power. - Take the question of the control of the water power sites. The enormous Importance of water power sites to the future Industrial development of this country has only been realized within a very few years. - Unfortunate ly the realization has come too late as regards many of the power sites, but many yet remain with which our hands are free to deal. We should make it our duty to see that hereafter the power sites are kept under the control of the general government for the use of the people as a whole. 'The fee should remain with the people as a whole, while the use is leased on terms which shall secure an ample reward to the lessees, which shall encourage the development and use of the water power, but which shall not create a permanent monopoly or permit the development to be anti-social, to be in any respect hostile to the public good. The nation alone has the power to do this effectively, and it is for this reason that you will find those corporations which wish to gain Improper advantage and to be freed from efficient control on the part of the public doing all that they can to 6ecure the substitution of state for national action. ( There is something fairly comic in the appeal made by many of these men In favor of state control when you realize that the great corporations seeking the privileges of developing the water power In any given state are at least as apt to be owned outside that state as within it. In this country nowadays capital has a national and not a state use. The great corporations which are managed and largely owned in the older states are those which are most in evidence in developing and using the mines and water powers and forests of the new territories and the new states from Alaska to Arizona. I have been genuiuely amused during the past two months at having arguments presented to me on behalf cf certain rich men from New York and Ohio, for instance, as to why Colorado and other itocky mountain states should manage tbeir own water power sites. Now. these men may be good citizens according to tbeir lights, but naturally enough their special interest obscures tbeir sense of the public need, and as their object Is to escape an efficient control, exercised in the interest of all the people of the country, they clamor to rr.t tir.der the state in

TODAY AT DENVER to Control Water Power Sites

stead of uiiuVr tue uaJ'ou. If we are foolish enough to grant their requests we shall have ourselves i to blame when we wake up to find that we have permitted another privilege to intrench Itself and another portion of what should be kept for the public good to be turned over to individuals for purposes of private enrichment. . During the last session of congress bills were introduced to transfer the water power sites in the national forests and the public domain to the control of the states. I cannot state too strongly my belief that these measures are unwise and that it would be disastrous to enact them Into law. In substance tbeir effect would be to free these great special interests from all effective control. The passage of such a bill would be a victory of the special interests over the general welfare and a long backward step down the bill of progress we have of late been climbing. . Coal Lands. ' The same principle applies with peculiar force to the coal lands, and especially to the coal lands in Alaska, whose protection and ownership by the federal government are So necessary both for full and free Industrial development in the west and for the needs of our fleet ia the Pacific. ? The coal mines should be leased, not sold, and those who mine the"5 coal should pay buck a part of Ibe profit to the people. It Is the right and duty of the people to demand the most vigilant trusteeship on that part of that branch of the federal government In charge of the fuel resources of ihe United States. The Neutral Ground. Remember also that many of the men who protest loudly against effective national action would be the first to turn round and protest against state action if such notion in its turn became effective aud would then unhesitatingly invoke the law to show that the state had no constitutional , power to act. Long experience has shown that It is by no means impossible in cases of constitutional doubt to get one set o. Judicial decisions which render it difficult for the nation to act and another set which render H impossible for the state to act. In each case the privileged beneficiaries of the decision Invoke the aid of those who treat the constitution uot as a .healthy aid to growth, but as a fetish to prevent growth, and they assail the advocates of wise and cautious progress as being opponents of the constitution. As I have said before, 1 am a strong believer in efficient national action where such action offers the best hope of securing and protecting the interest of the whole people as against the Interest of a few. But I am emphatically in favor of state action where state action will best serve this purpose, and I am no less emphatically In favor of cordial and hearty co-operation between the nation .and the states where their duties are identical or overlap. If there is one thing which is more unwise than another it is the creation by legislative, by executive or by judicial action of a neutral ground in which neither the state nor the nation has power and which can serve as a place of refuge for the lawless man, and especially for the lawless man of great wealth, who can hire the best legal counsel to advise him how to keep his abiding place equally distant from the uncertain frontiers of both state and national power. The Open Range. I am here at the invitation of the Colorado Live Stock association, and 1 desire to express my appreciation of its steadfast stand for decency and progress in the handling -of publiclands and national forests. It has met and overcome the unrelenting opposition of some of the most Influential stockmen of the state. It has won because it has been right. I want to express also my appreciation of the work of the American National Live Stock association. It has been one of the really important forces working toward effective railway regulation, while its support of the policy of .federal r:ri control has given 4S

It a i national affaiVaL I do not believe that a single acre of our public lands should hereafter pass into private ownership except for the single purpose of homestead settlement, and I know that the stockmen stand with me In their desire to remove every obstacle from the path of the genuine homesteader and to . put every possible obstacle in the pathway of the man ; who tries to get public lands by misrepresentation or frauds This is absolutely necessary on the agricultural lands. It Is at least equally necessary on the mineral lands. It would be a calamity whose baleful effect on the average citizen we can scarcely exaggerate If the great stores of coal and other mineral fuels still owned by the people in Alaska and elsewhere should pass into the unregulated ownership of monopolistic corporations, j The Forest Service. v Too progressive stockmen have stood heartily by the conservation movement, and with you have stood many others throughout the west, to whom large credit is due, snch as the lumbermen in Washington and Oregon, the irrigators in California and the supporters of the country life move

ment in and around Spokane. I want to make my acknowledgments in particular to the Colorado Forestry association, which has supported the forest work of the government with such unselfish zeal. The forest service has enemies because It is effective. Some4 of its best work has been met by the bitterest opposition. For example, it has done a real service by blocking the rocd against the grabbers of water power and again by standing like a rock against the demands of bogus mining concerns to-exploit the national forests. . I have always done my best to help the genuine miner. I believe that one of the first duties of the government is to encourage honest , mining on the public lands. But it is equally Important to enforce the law firmly against that particularly dangerous class which makes its living off the public through fraudulent mining schemes. Much ot the opposition to the forest 6ervlce,x like much of the opposition to conservation, takes the form of direct misrepresentation. For example, the cry is often heard that the national forests inclose great areas of agricultural land which are thus put beyond the reach of settlement. This statement seems plausible only till the facts are known. In the first place, congress has specially provided that whatever agricultural land there may be in any national forest shall be open, under proper safeguards, to homestead settlement, and in the second place, when the opponents of conservation are asked to point out the great stretches of inclosed agricultural land on the ground and In the presence of experts instead of in speeches in a hall they fall. '. The Reclamation Service. The national irrigation congress is to hold a session In the city of Pueblo late in September. I am keenly sorry that I could not have accepted the invitation to be present. I must, however, be in the east at that time. But since I cannot be present then to express my keen, long held and deep felt interest in the reclamation of arid lands by the federal government I desire to do so now. - There is . no more effective instrument for the making of homes than the United States reclamation service, and no government bureau while I was president had reached a higher standard of efficiency, integrity and devotion tr th nubM" welfare. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.

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LARGEST LAUD DEAL In the History of the Human Race Being Made in the Mexican Republic. IT INVOLVES TIMBERLAND

(American News Service.) San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 29. Robert R Buchanan, an Englishman, and fiscal agent of a France-German syndicate of capitalists centered in Ber lin and Parts, is now in Mexico City for the purpose of consummating the largest land transaction ever record ed. He is buying grazing and timberland in, the -Mexican republic to the value of $200;000.000 gold, and will buy more later on. Mr, Buchanan is buying everything that comes to his notice, large or small, and in some In stances tracts at fancy prices in order to insure contiguity, y' " ' ! Outside of land acquired by conquest, cession or international agreement, there is no other instance In which so large a tract has ever chang ed ownership. Some of the land bought sold at at little as 30 cents per acre. a ' ' Mr. Buchanan, in a newspaper advertisement, is authority for the statement that he wishes to acquire the land for the purpose ot controlling the export cattle trade of Mexico, Central America and Brazil. Whether he' intends to buy land to the same extent in the other countries mentioned is not known. ' ' ATTENTION OWLS. Please be present at the next meeting Tuesday evening, Aug. 30th. Business of importance will be transacted. Also election of trustees. 27-3t . A. F. Kain, Sec'y. HAY FEVER! Don't suffer this season. Let us show you the merits of the Vapor-OI Treatment No. 7, especially prepared , for Hay Fever. We guarantee it to be absolutely harmless and free from Injurious drugs, also to give you relief or refund the money. . PHARMACY v THE New Grand Hotel Indtssspclis, led. : - American Plan... $2.50 to $4.00 European Plan... $1.00 to $2.5 The only hotel with running Hot and Cold Water , and Phones in all rooms, outside tk ClaypooL Same management aa 4 THE westcott;

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Brussels, Aug! 29 The annual con- . ference ot the Interparliamentary Union, a gathering of peace advocates from the world over, was formally opened in Brussels today to continue until the end of the week. Th Amrt can delegation, of which i. Representative Barthold of St Louis is chairman, will have a conspicuous part in the proceeding. The delegation will present several . resolutions looking to-: ward the establishment of permanent -peace among the nations of the world. The most important ot these resolutions Is one asking the conference to request Governments which are sly natory to - The Hague Peace Conference and the London Naval Confer ence to sanction tbe American proposition that the International Prise Court be invested with the jurisdiction of an international court - of arbitral justice. . FIRE INSURANCE - E. B. KKOLLENBEBG Room 6. Knollcnkcra Aax For upto-tfcdfninuto Office Outfitters See Nicholson & Dro. Agents for tho Macy & Weiss Filing Appliances Have returned from my v vacation. - Dr. E. J. Dykeman, ; . Dentist. A A eV 44 44 ...aaaaa f LdDAKIS For the next 90 days, we will make a specialty of short time loans; on furniture, pianos, livestock, etc., in amounts, ranging from $10 to $100 on from three to six months time. Weekly monthly or any kind of payments to suit the borrower. We will absolutely guarantee a much lower rate than that charged by any similar concern in the city. Inquiry will prove that we can and will save you money. Confidential. IndianaLoarXo. . . ' . . 40 Colonial Bldgn City. -'Phone 1341. IB IE IR IMF fej, Bte. A Ftf FJTU A L SALE dD,

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