Show I 1 0 R k te I 1 1 I 1 I 1 r 1 4 I 1 1 1 I li 1 J I 1 11 I 1 4 7 F T SEND 6 MESSAGE accompanying REPORTS OF THE conservation CONGRESS 1 7 URGES NEEDED legislation I 1 document in a magiure is 1 a do 0 tense fene 0 of the retiring administration duty of tha present generation to its if descendants pointed out obligation of urgent need for fair the development of the can arys ry water power Washington With the C t of tle the report of the th national cons commission and papers president roosevelt also went sent a message age to congress the following lj Is a c om com preben sive synopsis yn of 0 the document the president declares declarer hla his entire concurrence with the statements and con clu alona of 0 the report and proceeds it la Is one ot of the not most fundamentally important documents ever laid before tile the american ra people XI it con consalus cont aliis talus tile the first inventory Yon tory of its ita natural resources ever P nada ade by any nation in condensed form it t presents s statement ot of our available capital irk in material mate ilal resources which are the means of progress and 0 calls ila attention to the essential condit condition one u upon pon which the perpetuity aa safety fety and welfare of this nation now rapt and must always continue to rest the facto set forth in this report con an imperative call to action the tha 0 n they disclose a demands that we 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 07 r 1 4 1 t I 1 11 Z n Z I 1 1 N 11 I 1 r I 1 I 1 I 1 1 ti I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 41 11 1 r I 1 I 1 0 r I 1 11 I 1 11 I 1 2 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 lv I 1 k I 1 president it neglecting tor for ft a time it need be smaller ana vital questions shall concentrate an effective part of our attention upon the great anat material erial of national existence progress and prosperity I 1 alio farst ra t of all considerations Is tile the permanent r welfare of our people and true moral welfare the highest form of welfare elfare ti an not permanently exist cave on a firm and lasting foundation of material well being in this 1 respect our situation I 1 la x far from satisfactory aster after every possible allowance has been made and when every hopeful indication hats haa been riven given its full weight the facts still give reason for grave concern it would be unworthy of our history and our intelligence telli gence and disastrous to our future to shut our eyes to these theme facts or attempt to laugh them out of court the people should and will rightly demand that the great fundamental questions quent lons shall be given attention by their representatives I 1 do not advise hasty or ill C considered on action on disputed points but I 1 do urge where tho the facts are known where the public interest Is in clear that neither indifference and inertia nor adverse private in interested teres tx shall be allowed to stand tn in the way of the public good the great basic facts facto are already well known we know that our population Is now adding about one fifth to Us its numbers in ten years and that by the middle of the tha present century P perhaps I 1 no americans and by its end very many millions more must be b fed and clothed thed from the products of our wil toll we know now that our rivers can and should cut be made t to 0 serve our people et ef fictively in transportation but that the vast expenditures expenditure for our waterways have not reoul resulted ted in maintaining m mu much h less if is in promoting inland navigation therefore let us take immediate steps to al albain tain the reasons and to prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan tor for inland wa waterway wate t erway gaviga navigation t ion that will result in giving the people the benefits for which they have paid but which they have not yet tt received we know now that our f ore orests are fast disappearing that less than ban one fifth of them are being conserved and that no good purpose can be met by falling failing to provide the relatively small sums needed for the protection use ue and improvement of all forests still owned by the tha government and to enact laws to check the wasteful of the forests in private hands there ther are differences differenced of opinion asao as in ninny many public quer tlona but the american people stand nerry nearly ner ry as an ft unit u n 1 I 1 tor for waterway development for and for t forest 0 rest protection we know now that our mineral resources once exhausted are gone for evor and that the needless needle waste of them costs u bunar hundreds as of human lives and nearly W Axx ow A year therefore let us undertake delay the ln in noce osary before our people will be in position through state action or otherwise to put an end to this huge loss loan and waste and conserve both chur mineral resources and the lives of the men who take th them m r from om the earth rhin administration has achieved some things it hau has sought but has not been able to achieve others it has ha doubtless made mistake akes but all it has ban lone clone or attempted has ham been in tile the single consistent effort to me e cur and enlarge the ilia rights and opportunities tuni tunit ties lex of the inen and women of the united states we are trying to conserve what Is rood good in our social system and we are striving toward this end when we endeavor to do away with w hat Is in and Sise cess may be made too hard for some if it la Is made too tasy easy tor for others othera the rewards of common industry and thrift may be too small it the ano rewards for others and on tile the whole less les qualities are j made too large and especially if 1 the i rewards reward for qualities which are really the public standpoint undesirable are ra permit to b barome gnome tou larr I 1 ga our alm Is IR v far as s possible to provide tuch much condition that there shall hau tee be equall equality tY ot of where there to Is equality ot energy en egy n and intelligence when there 1 Is al r 4 I 1 equality 4 of opportunity wl 1 y the all 1 of rewards reward will take cars car of itself in allm unchecked cd 1 of 1 monopoly 1 afi 9 incompatible w with ith quality equality ot of opportunity the reason for tho the exercise of government control monopolies la in to equalize opportunity we are arc fighting against privilege it was wad made unlawful for corporations corcora corvo rations tlona t to 0 contribute money for election exo expenses P e brex in order to abridge th lie e power of poc lal privilege lesa at t the polls po ila rail nail road rate cort control frol in 1 an attempt to so e curp cure an n equality aliby of opportunity for all men affected d by ralf rait art and that means all of us u tho h ta j anthracite coal strike wait settled tt led and the pressing danger ol of a ovill famine averted because we recognized that tho the control ot at a publio public necessity involves a duty to la the people and that pub public lic intervention in n the affairs of IL a pub publia to service corporation ld IS neit neither lier to he resented rosen ted us al pation nc yat u r 7 acted milted BB as A privilege by billit ah corpora t tlona lona but on tile the to be accepted RH a duty duly and exercised as a a r by ha g ament in tho th in of all tile the goopin the tin citney ot of the admy and the navy has bus been increased so no that our people nay may follow in deaca the great work oi 0 country a better belter puca for fat americans americana to live in anil and our otar navy WAR wan sent dent round tho the world tor for the rostro ultimate purpose all the sets acts taken hy tho g government during the last seven years and all the policies now b being pursued by the government fl fit in n as part of a consistent whole the enactment of a pure food law wag a recognition of the fact that hint th public c welfare outweighs the right la t private privat 0 gain and that no man way may poison the people for his private profit the employers liability bill lecog nel ned the controlling fact that while the employer usually has hag at tako alake no more than his profit the stake of the employed Is living tor for himself and hla his family W WB n are building the Ian panama ams canal a and nd this means that we are I 1 in n the klent engineering laff feat of 0 alt all time we are striving to add in all ways way to the habitability and beauty ht bf our country WA are striving to 0 o hold in the public lands landa the remaining supply of coal tor for the protection and benent of all the people we have taken the first steps toward the it is conservation 0 of our natural r ro com and the betterment of if country un life and the improvement of our waterways waterway wo stand fund for the right of every child to a child childhood free from orrin dInK toll toil and to nn all education for acor the civic responsibility and decency of every citizen for prudent fore night in public I 1 matters and tor for fair play in every relation ot of our national anil and economic lle life in international matters we apply a system of diplomacy which puts the obligations ot of international morality on n level those that govern the actions of tin nn honest gentleman in dealin ir with ilia his fellow men within our own border bolder we stand for truth anti and honesty in public and in private life and we war sternly against wrongdoers wrong doers kif f every gradac all these theme efforts nr are integral parts ot of the same attempt tho the attempt to enthrone justice and to secure freedom of opportunity to fill of our citizens now and hereafter and to set the ultimate interest ot of all of us above the temporary interest Inter cut of nt any individual clasa or group the nation its government and its resources exist first of all tor for the tha american citizen whatever ilia hla greel race or birthplace whether ho he be b rich 0 or r poor or ignorant provided only that ile he to Is ft a rood good citizen recognizing ills his to the nation ti n for or the rights and opportunities which he owes to the nation the obligations and not the rights 0 ct citizenship e Inc realie in proportion to the increase of ft mans wenith or power the time la is coming when a man will be judged jud gred not by what he has haa succeeded in getting betting for himself from the common store but by how well lie he has done hta his duty as aa A citizen a orld nd by what the ordinary ilten has gained in freedom of opportunity be callao 0 of f life his service for thi the common rood good the highest value we know Is that of the individual citizen ant and the highest justice Is to give him fair ra play in the effort to realize alg I 1 the arst t there Is in him tile the tasks tanks this his nation has to to do are great tasks they can only lie be done at all by our citizens together irr and they can be done best ot all by the direct anti and simple tion alon of homely common sense te application of common sense to common problems for the common good under the guidance of the principles upon w which aich this republic was bused based and by virtue of which it exists spells perpetuity tor for the nation civil and inaura trial liberty for its citizens and freedom of 0 opportunity in the he pil pursuit I 1 of f happiness happl nesa for the plain american for whom this nation was wait founded found rd by whom it was preserved and through whom alone it can be upon this platform larger than an any y party differences higher than class claim prejudice broader than any question of profit and ancl boax lo gothere there Is room for every american who realizes real lieg that hut the con co ninon anon good stands first accompanying the message are explanations pla nations and recommendations of work to be dona for the future rood good 0 of the country the president ways says it la Is especially important that the development of water power should be guarded with the utmost care both by the national government and by the states tn in order to protect the people states the of monopoly and to insure to them a fair share in tile the benefits which will follow the development develops of this great asset asket which blon belon 98 to the people and should be controlled by them 1 I urge that provision be made tor for both protection and more rapid development ot of the national forests otherwise either the increasing use of these forests by the people must be checked or their fire must be dangerously dane weakened it we compare the actual tiro fire damage onisim on similar areas on private and national forest lands during the past bast year the government fire patrol saved commercial timber worth as an much so AS the total cost of caring for all national foresta at the prevent present rate for about ten years 1 I especially commend to congress con fres the he facts facto presenter by th t commission comal a an aa to the relation between fo forests 1 and flow in its berrini upon the importance of the forest lands landa in national without an understanding of this ultimate relation ro lation the conservation ot of both these natural resources must munt largely fall the time has fully arrived for rec in the law the responsibility to the community the state and the th nation which rt upon the private ownership of private lands tha th ownership of forest land Is a publio publeo trust the man who would handle his bin forest all to cause erosion ero dort and to injure e stream flow oust must be not onty only educated but he ha must bo 11 in conclusion the president pre aldert urges upon congress congre the desirability of a national nation fil commission on the tha of the resources of the country ile ho a hilda adds dds r would also advise that ajl appropriation 0 of at 41 least be hadit to cover the 4 ca aj pens pen s of the national conservation for neon imry rent assist anen ance and tra velinir ehilt expunges this la is a very small nall xum I 1 tinoi know of no other way in which the 3 of at 90 0 o gnall a airo ai ro would re result R alt in 0 0 0 large la arze a beneat to tse the whole nation al A |