Conservation Congress at St Paul Addresses Federal Control
The second National Conservation Congress in St Paul drew President Taft and former presidents, state executives, and notable figures. Debates centered on federal versus state control of natural resources, with resolutions favoring federal leadership, reclamation, and Alaska coal lease plans, while urging cooperative water power debate and avoiding partisan rancor.
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United States
Federal Control
Roosevelt
Pinchot
Reclamation Service
Appalachian Crest
Alaska
Congress
Taft
The
Conservation Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft argues for present and future conservation as a public good
President Taft urges nonpartisan conservation emphasizing use of natural resources for current benefit while preserving future productivity. He cites Minnesota’s erosion and farming gains, soil fertility lessons from Europe, and calls for forest protection, drainage, roads, and irrigation. Secretary Wilson adds soil health as key to farm conservation and notes federal irrigation efforts.
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Congress
Colonel Roosevelt Calls Congress to Weigh Trust Influence in Public Lands
Roosevelt urges the Conservation Congress to guard against private interests in public lands and natural resources. He stresses overlapping jurisdictions require cooperation to ensure effective public regulation and supervision for the common good.
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Conservation Congress
Why Interests Oppose New Order of Things
James R. Garfield discusses The Federal Government's Relation to Conservation. He argues the conservation problem aims to prevent monopolistic control by big interests over timber water fuel and phosphates and criticizes land law enforcement and state rights rhetoric as excuses to shield public land theft.
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James R. Garfield
Interior
Garfield
Forest Service
United States Army
Mr. Wiseman
Chicago Record- Herald
Soil care urged to protect fertility in rainfall districts
A call to action notes that new lands are scarce in the thirty inch rainfall districts and urges citizens to focus on soil stewardship to ensure national prosperity through careful cultivation and preservation of soil fertility.
Beveridge Urges National Sovereignty of Natural Resources
Senator Albert J Beveridge of Indiana argues for federal control of natural resources over state rights. He condemns local haste development and calls for using the nation's resources for the public good, praising Pinchot and Roosevelt in a critique of provincialism.
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United States
Albert, Beveridge
Indiana
America
Spain
Beveridge
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Commission
Sion
Theodore Roosevelt
Pinchot Outlines Broad Conservation Policy
Gifford Pinchot former U S chief forester and conservation pioneer speaks on The Conservation Programme. He argues opposition to conservation when it harms public welfare and private profits and calls for public ownership of essential resources and limited leasing to prevent monopoly.
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Gifford Pinchot
United States
Federal control of natural resources urged in resolutions
A set of resolutions advocates federal oversight of natural resources drawing on Roosevelt and Pinchot ideas. They push for water power federal control, public land classification, grazing rights for settlers, and safeguarding phosphate and coal resources while restoring public lands for agriculture and forest protection. The piece also notes a moral essay about children's logic on prayer.
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Roosevelt
Pinchot
Theodore
United States
Federal control of water powers opposed amid utilization critique
The argument rejects federal control as illegal and impractical. It calls for large scale coal land leasing to avoid monopoly and argues state ownership of waters resists removal for federal use. It cautions against slow costly national management and emphasizes distant, cumbersome operation.
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West
Conservation and state sovereignty clash in national policy debate
A speaker from a board of directors denounces federal overreach while urging genuine conservation. He stresses that true resource preservation hinges on consumer demand rather than broad governmental actions and warns against escalating national power at the expense of states.
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Babies J Fill
Chin Ftan
Mac A Ern Road
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Innis
Leaving a Man Helpless
A veteran newspaperman recalls a sensational, racially charged anecdote about a dispute between two presidents’ "colored men" over the best thing in the world. The men bet a dollar, then a fight ensued ending with the Cleveland man dragging Smith’s man and using a racial slur as he assaulted him.
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Cincinnati Times-Star
Cleveland
Hoke Smith
Rascal
A Red In Pickle
A poignant dialogue shows Mrs Goodsole Why urging Johnny to return home as his mother fears for his safety. The scene hints at a family crisis with a mother near the end of her concern.
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Mrs. Goodsole
Johnny
Cardui praised by Mrs Etta A Smith for women's tonic relief
Mrs Etta A Smith recounts severe symptoms including heart pain and left-side distress, claiming Cardui restored her health. The advertisement urges women to take Cardui during illness or as a preventive tonic and notes druggists stock it with Chattanooga Medicine Co contact details.
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Etta A. Smith
Mrs. Smith
Cardus
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
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