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Show ROOSEVELT AND TAFT DIFFER. Theodore Roosevelt, in his speech before the Conservation Congress Con-gress in St. Paul today, asserted that the federal government should aid in the reclamation of the swamp lands of the South. William Taft, in his address of yesterday, said ho had wearied of these rhapsodies rhap-sodies on conservation which were made to cover everything, and he is opposed to the general government intermeddling with state affairs af-fairs to the extent of redeeming swamp lands. Here arc diametrically opposite views. Mr. Taft docs not oppose reclamation of the arid reigons, because it is a good thing, but he docs object to government aid in the reclamation of swamp lands because that is an unconstitutional and unwarranted act. The President evidently is laboring under considerable mental strain in trying to appear not unfriendly to conservation in the west, while, calling a halt on any further effort at extending government aid to reclamation schemes. Here Roosevelt's nationalism and Taft's strict construction of constitutional limitations clash. Roosevelt is the practical man who does things; Taft the lawyer, over cautious and restrained by precedent. pre-cedent. i |