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Show ROOSEVELT TAKES ISSUE WITH PRESIDENT TAFT Hot Springs. Ark.. Oct, 10 Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt look issue with PresL dent Taft on the subject of reclamation reclama-tion of swamp lands, in a speech which he delivered here today at the Arkansas State fair. Colonel Roose-elt Roose-elt declared that the national government gov-ernment would do all ii legitimately could do to a-ssii-t In draining lN.se lands. Presdent Taft, In his speech :it tho rational conservation congress In St IV-: I, September said he was opposed op-posed to the Idea of having th- government gov-ernment do this work. He was speaking on the millions of acres of fertile land whii b must be drained In order to be susceptible to cultivation, and in which the drainage drain-age ipiestlon l"ng has been an Issue of public Interest. |