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Show WHAT IS THE OBJECT T The stand patters and the insurgent in the Bepubliean party are all predisposed to stand by the conservation plan of Mr. Roosevelt as it is continued con-tinued by Mr. Taft. A fair proposition always appeals to the American people, bnt we have re- paaXedly asked. aad-iong.waitedfor some sage uf the conservation school to tell us what the object can be In tying up 'the coal measures of this country. coun-try. The gold, the silver and the baser metals that have been at the bottom of the forward march, of th United Stat for tha last fifty years have all been unearthed by frontiersmen, prospectors. It is that gold and silver and copper and lead which haa given value to eastern farms and given eastern east-ern manttfaaturera the money through which to ' expand their industries. What ia tha thought now behind the Abstractions which the government is placing in the path oft the frontiersmen as they . ' go oat ta develop the land t They have not grown so very rick as to excite envy, and toen who ia to be .besetted by all this fuse and all this heart burning which haa been created t Is there any ., scarcity of eoalt Is H better to tie up a water power by a reservation and permit its waters to go on idle to the seat Ia there any tenae hi aay-. aay-. in to the aettler, "Ton nay not in the old way ' ' take up coal lands, because they are for the nse . of the people!" low are tha people going to use ' themf According; to the geological survey, if aa much eoal should be used annually in the future aa haa been in the past, it would take some 20,000 years to exhaust the eoal meaaurea already discovered. discov-ered. What 'is' the' anxiety about drawing lines about themf Then a man cannot go and take up 160 aeras of eoal land ami develop .tt unless he ' has got behind bim at least 100,000 to work with. - ? It is hard to convince a good many people that the ;object is not after ill in the interest of soma eoal : barons who after while1 intend, when tha right ; time cornea, to appropriate these lands and own them in spite of the people. In sou t ham Utah I there is' o much Iron that were Iron mountain to be placed on the deck of the deposits there it would look like a hencoop on the deck of Cunard , steamer. That iron will have to be worked one of these days. It ia just possible that someone has . "said) '.'Tie np tha coal until we get ready to work that Iron in southern Utah. Then we ean afford to pay a good price for ceaL" It ia hard to convince con-vince rnrn who have titles in eoal lands that ia, who have titles as far aa they ean get until the lands are surveyed that it is not all a game in the interests ef men who already have so much noney that they are a menace to the safety of the United States. |