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Show CONSERVATION CONGRESS OPENS President Taft Appeals to Practical Common Sense in Dealing With Conservation Problems. Minneapolis, Minn. After speaking at the conservation congress in St. Paul Monday morning and at the Minnesota Min-nesota state fair grounds, outside this city, Monday afternoon, President Taft left for Beverly Monday night by way of Chicago. In his conservation address the president won a quick response from his thousands of hearers by an appeal to practical common sense in dealing with conservation problems. In the opinion of many who heard him he also made answer to the recent agitation for a "new nationalism," or a federal centralization of power, by declaring that the only safe course to pursue was to hold fast to the limitations lim-itations of the constitution, and to regard re-gard as sacred the power of the states, |