Show TAFT ON OX oN oNI I am sett T feat the time terse ha has eon f fr r a Malt halt In general ge eral rAp rhapsodies ewer r conservation staking the rite were went mea R every known ku good In n U Ute the world werM rN for tor after otter the tb pub public lic Ie atte hoe IMM born e a mooed suet eh appeals appals a s arc are of oC dou zI tiNt and do e not Dot direct the pub 1 lic te to the Ute pacific n urH that the rho people peep to le b uld take tak or have hare their take tak In order enter te to ore Bre mote the tit cause ea of oC conservation The rousing of emotions on oa a Ilk Mke thin which has hoe only dim eu a IB la 11 the tile minds Inda of the people after arter a cease ellAM o a es to he Ite woeful useful HeC and the whole move eat will If It promoted ea en the lines linos II die fer far want waat of P r I and ef of f demon te to t Ufe t that rae orae reform are Intend ed President Tart Taff at Paul Patti address President conservation speech Itt at St Paul was wu r clear and concise statement of at conditions ta as they thoy exist ewt today and aDd a up of what has haa been done dono in the tho put post and what It Is la proposed ed to do In the future There Thero Theres Is s no appeal ap aJ to passion or er prejudice and no Imputations reflecting upon tho the rood good d Intentions of or any state go b corporation or individual It is la the habit ef or the Ute President oen by bT long ianI years rears ears of or upon tho the bench to study the facts presented carefully before arriving at a i icon don con and expressing an au pinion opinion His Hta speech pooch on conservation boars evidence that he ho has bos net not departed from his hta usual custom castora Dividing his hilt into lato s seven yen ven parts Mr Taft Tatt fin first takes up agricultural lands enumerating the Ute principal laws Jaws under tracts tract ef of t lands maybe may maybo maybe be bo obtained sad aad reaching the efon sion that there Is te no crying need for radical reform in Is the UM method ef of dl ls rosins ef of what are really agricultural lands Janda ruder Yoder this head kead the te President takes top tp p the ef of and In Ind dreel d the action ef K at the tho thola I la t session In ill providing for tor the lesu anre anI of oC bend te to complete te the Ute projects om 01 e hand band at the same MIRe Urae U putting his hili tnt font down upon the proposition that th t h government appropriate money mency for tor forti tl ti l drainage drat of or swam ewa op lands now In to InI I ownership Th Tho President also alee speaks a good seed TV for UM Ute emerged reed 4 law Jaw lawN N f th h the ef K c whisk Senator r smoot t of or state MMe h lied Hl mM much tIek h t to do de doun dolin un lin 1 l expresses u the Ute opinion that tho the act hil 1111 I 1 the MI farm farming farming ing I of nf h lands n Vi ta In tl Ute the e regions region Tin tome stone and Umber law Jaw Mr Cr Taft Tan b Y ves 8 be M repealed Taking up the subject ef of mineral lend laws law the UN pret concI tit that the rules naMe of or ownership and ami di aw j p lUon baring YI been by b custom in the th west before fore they 01 wore were written Ian 1 t the books it would world not t be wi wise wIH e to 0 attempt to 0 change them Mr Kr Taft Tart dues rat net It would W be wlee wIM to te i lease INUre MOB mineral eral loads Ja and antl impose royalties r He u H ides also a the opinion ion Jon that the apex BC theory of oC tracing title liUe to Co a lode lotio now ROW embodied in to the lax law should bo be allowed to te stand Forest Fort lands hinds I next the atten attention attention tion Uon of DC the Ute executive The Tho conserva conservation tion Uon question arose over O the Ute disposition tion of those these loads lands Mr Taft TaCt agree a e that in fa times time poet PMt the tho tOC forests wore ruthlessly destroyed and aI I that It is n to safeguard them in hi the fu f tare Lure According to the given the States lItte owns 1014 MW acres aces of f fore forest t loud lands exchange of oC Alaska JuIca ca caThen These Then loads lands are IU now under trader the eT of t the Ute bureau and the Ute President proposes to advocate the re zoO repeal peal pal of or the law Jaw which 1 prohibits the Uto reservation of oC any aa more MON forest kind ands In Oregon Washington Idaho Idabo Montone Mon Montana Montana tana tone Colorado Mid and At the tho solve am time three th he b calls can attention to the th tact fact that hundred of or thousands of acres of oC lauds lands are aret being t e las td front from the tho reserves IN INand and restored to M entry 1 thereby t allay much m uCh of oC tho rho Irritation to In the tho states where whre these thew land ands are located of oC the Umber Uber In Iii the tho United mates Mate Is In private ownership only X I per cent of which wb h Is property en I red for reI under the modern In idea Of oC forestry The Th federal fede government t b lnE without XI Mr Taft fait te lit teof of tf the tit opinion that the th Mate aate teals tures tur should l take each such action as a lies Ms within their power Owr The Prudent doe not DOt so the utility of ot further federal legislation t for far the u purpose of oC bettor better ur pro pre prot pret t eting the UM timber against fire ai and vesting venting the tile Uv tiro with fall power t to masks make forest reservation Thin TIaIa power was wag exercised by Mr IX D Doubt haying ha arisen a an to the validity of tf suck such withdrawal Congress C vested the th f hI authority in Ja Mr air Taft Tatt TattI imitations I m being hot set In la certain states teL The Th nets acts of or Mr were sab tee by President Tail Taft hn led all the withdrawal made Ia g It as on nn n of or the most meet mo t Im irn Important t II u to bo b In with Pa P t tj raft Tift j rt takes tAk up the subject t of coal lands Jande landsi J i iv i 1 a 4 d 1 States Statin an and l Alaska After the tho laws las as aJI applied to coal coa lands Mr Taft advocates the leasing I system In future Instead of granting I absolute title As Aa the government owns of or the tho coal supply considerable revenue might be raised In this thin way President Taft TaCt good goes go into Inte detail en on the subject of coal oeal lands lande In Alaska and concludes that the laws Jaws of such tends lands are badly in need of amendment Stating that prior to the withdrawal of the tile Alaska lands tends by the previous administration chime had been filed most mo t of them said Ild to be illegal Mr Taft specific specifically ally mentions m tho the Cun Cunningham claims claim He does dOM not at attempt att attempt tempt t to 18 predict what will be the ro re result rolt rosult sult lt of ef the investigation now n w pending but Ht wants wanta it u distinctly understood that no private claims for fer Alaska AI ka coal lands land 14 have as yet t been allowed or por per perfected and also alee that whatever the re result result sult as to the pending g claims the ex ax existing WIng coal oeal land tend laws law of Alaska are most and should be radically amended an opinion in which most people will be Inclined to agree OH Oil and gas lands are next treated As In the cone case of coal cod Utah as an on extensive oil on area These lands have havo boen boon withdrawn from entry and tho President favors a loosing law tew In Instead stood stead of parting with the lands abo abao absolutely The Thee sixth of or the subjects taken up relates to phosphate lands Utah again being one of tho the states in which the rock rook Is la found Tho President believes that in the coming years ears there will win be an enormous de demand d demand I Imand mand for phosphate for fertilizing purposes and would conserve oon erve tho the supply by leasing the lands instead of selling them Next GOmes comes the tho subject of or water waterpower waterpower power sites altes It has bas been boen charged that an as attempt was being made to mo monopolize all aU such sites Kites t ts In the country and this is the basis bels of a good many inan demands that the government step atop in and them under control In response to such demand dem nd the government gov government government has made land withdrawals covering rivers in eleven states President Taft does not agree that the government being the proprietor of the tho riparian lands has no author authority ty 17 with reference to the disposition of tho the water power in such fivers In other words ho he does not believe It would bo ho a violation of or states rights if It absolute control wore claimed and aDd by the federal government I Ho JIo takes notice of tho the contention that control of or the waterpower sites epee and anti the water should be vested ested In the states and disposed ed of for tor develop development mont ment to private lessees leSlee under certain restrictions to prevent p nt extortion and the abuses of monopoly Without expressing an opinion as II to toUte the Ute merits menta of ot the controversy over fed fod federal federal eral or er state control tho President an announces his intention to submit the whole matter to te Congress and urge that one or er the other of or the two plane plan be Ife adopted I The speech ape ef of President Pre Taft puts I him in the front rank raak as a At the same name time It cannot i truthfully be said eald that he te is S inclined l to te run wild on the subject He n be believes lIev S in conservation but not to the I point of oC stifling g development Sum Summing Summing um I ming ining up p at the conclusion of or his hili ad address dries dress ho says 78 R Real conservation MUon involves wise ue use in the Ute present p t pen gea f with every possible means mean of or preservation for tor succeeding dl g genera generations ge generations era and though the Ute problem to se secure a acure cure this end may be difficult the burden is Js ea en Ute the present generation promptly to solve it and not to run runaway runaway runaway away from it sus M cowards lost lest in the tho attempt to meat meet it we wo may mo make some mistake As Ae I havo have said the problem Is te hew to save and aDd how to utilise how to conserve and aDd still develop for no sane MIle person erwen oan aan con contend contend tend that it te ItI I for the tho common good that natures ble blessings should be stored Mored Moredo only o ly for unborn generations H |