Show I UV fAN LIFE AS ASNA NA NATIONAL ASSET MIf d De rr-of rr Criminal Negligence of Corporations Deplored PRESIDENT IS AROUSED Cause of the People to Be Urged By Roosevelt At Notable M Meeting eting Washington April 12 Human Human life lite Is the tho greatest resource and tl asset et of this country but ut the destruction of It b by the criminal negligence of ot mine owners the operators of ot steam and electric railroads and burning of flimsy buildings Is one of the things that demand immediate late rectification by the government t. t That will be the text of an address to be made by the tho President at a meeting to bo be held here duming the we week lc of ot May 13 13 to l provide ro llIo ways and means to conserve the natural re resources resources resources re- re I sources of the country countr r. r This meeting Is to be a 3 notable one It has been een called to meet at d atthe atthe the White House b by the President the governor of every y state will attend attend at at- tend the members of the United Slates States Supreme court the members of or the W r avs commission and rind n Jam James s J. J Hill and Grover Cleveland I William J. J Bryan Andrew Carnegie and John Mitchell will participate Soil minerals water and forests are arc 1001 looked ed upon as the thie four great will add resource but the President to this a n fifth fifth fifth-a a man LorI Lord Ix rrt s 's Epi Epigram nm Lord statesman and coiner of epigrams said during the German Franco war In 18 1870 1370 O The They had defenses the fortificatIons fortifications I Ions and inner lines but of tho the instrument In in- In Instrument strument called a 3 man tho they could not I produce a tu single specimen Germany had Von Moltke and a 3 afew afew few tew other specimens and against them could not the newl newly Invented machine prevail It is of man the fifth and greatest re resource of ot the country and the tho waste of him that President ent Roosevelt it is understood will chiefly speak saying Is that In no other othor civilized country the conservation of human lifo so greatly needed nowhere else Is tho the sacredness of human life liCe so little regarded regarded re regarded re- re nowhere else in Christendom Is It so wasted and slaughtered Tune Time Tor Vor An ui Accounting Shocked b by conclusive proof that thoo who operate the great division regard human life uro of ot commerce now lightly antI and look upon the man-ma- man ohi hil r ri as 38 cheat and easily cosily replaced d. d P President fd nt Roosevelt will tell tho dele dele- delegates delegates gates that the time has come come to appraise appraise ap ap- ap- ap praise a life and create creato a plan whereby accountable accountable account account- those responsible can bo be held able ablo for all lICo wasted Ho He will ask that tho the railroads be he prevented from niri 11 n. n fin v ft Ihl of f I human be- be L. L D I Ings every twelve months that conflagrations con con- In bo be no longer allowed to snuff out 1000 men women and children every year ear and that coal l miners be bo made mado to see tho the wastefulness wasteful wasteful- ness of ot destroying men dunn during durin tho the working hours of a year ear It Is a reckless waste of or mone money to kill men menu even even if it no higher humanitarian thought be bo allowed to enter into the Continued on lage l'age H HUMAN MAN LIF LIFE IS NATIONAL ASSET lied front from l o One Oman consI consideration of the subject Some of or the most conservative Q life Insurance insurance ance companies of or the old oM world worl havo have placed a cash value of or on a a. human l being In 1 1007 07 the tle Jives Jive's of or men women women wo wo- vo- vo men and an children len were sacrificed through in iii the seventy principal cities of or the countr country Sacrifices of or Present Ire Y UI The Tile year 1008 1908 started off as aR though de destined to surpass the thin fire firo horror record of ut 1 ll 07 the theater lire In January Januar totaling totaling- victims an and the public school at Ohio In Iii March a adding tho timo names of or little one to the rapidly growing muster roll iou oC or victims to greed an and m n sa sg Fireproof bUll buildings can be hulI built and are arc being by men who value human life higher than limn the they do to Insure six per pel cent return on the capital invested The lh coal mine dila disasters lers ar are fow fewer r than the building conflagrations but every one omie Is ll surrounded ed b by by- almost in- in cr horrors In December at Monongah Va Vo occurred the largest in the history of the tile world worM with the single exception of or that at the tie Cour- Cour mine In f Trance France when 1000 mon inon lost their lives The fhe number of or victims vIe vic thus tims In tile the Monongah mine horror was In excess s of t tot ot ot a a. miner In the tile pit lilt escaping The rhe President ent will point to this awful aw aw- ful ul UI waste of life on railroads in mines I an and by hJ an and urge that somo time i anti and measure be devoted to safeguard I the time greatest resource of or the tho country country- the lives aves of ot the people |