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DIXIE WELCOMES
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
FORMER PRESIDENT DELIVERS
THREE ADDRESSES IN THE
CITY OF ATLANTA.
makes conservation talk
Ex-President Makes Speech at Cele
bration to Raise Funds for Uncle
Remus Memdrial. v
Atlanta.—Theodore Roosevelt came
into Georgia and found awaiting him
a welcome which was as warm as
that which he has received in any
section of the country during his re
cent travels. On his arrival in At
lanta he was greeted by crowds which
blocked the streets, heedless of the
pelting rain, and cheered him as he
rode at the head of a parade through
the business streets of the city.
.Earlier in the day he spent several
hours at Rome, Ga., inspecting the
Martha Berry school, for poor mount
ain boys and girls, and in speaking
to another throng of cheering Geor
gians.
Colonel Roosevelt made three
speeches in Atlanta. His first was at
the southern conservation congress.
He urged the people of the south
to take care of their natural wealth,
and said if the country's resources
should fall into the hands of a mo
nopoly the people would revolt. Af
ter taking dinner with Mayor Maddox
he spoke at the Uncle Remus Day cel
ebration, which is being held to raise
a fund to purchase the home of the
late Joel Chandler Harris, author of
the Uncle Remus stories, and pre
serve it as a memorial to his work.
After speaking of the achievements of
Harris, Colonel Roosevelt talked on
new nationalism. Then he talked to
the negroes of Atlanta, in a negro
church.
Colonel Roosevelt began his ad
dress to the conservation congress
with a reiteration of his faith in the
conservation movement.
“I believe in conservation with all
my heart,” he said. ‘I believe that
the time has passed in this country
when it was possible for reasonable
men longer to permit the waste of
natural resources. 1 believe that na
tion and state can co-operate in this
great movement, and there are one or
two impressions which I think we
should endeavor to remove from the
public mind.
“While it is our duty to give every
proper reward to the proper exercise
of individual initiative, it is also our
duty to see that the men of excep
tional ability display that ability in
our interest and not against our in
terest. 1 want to give him all the
reward to which he is honestly enti
tled, but want that reward to go to
him because he serves, and not be
cause he swindles us.
“Certain of the papers which are
edited in the shadow of Wall street
regard the doctrine which I have
enunciated as smacking of anarchy.
I think it is really the height of con
servatism. 1 think it will help the
honest men of influence and wealth
when we discriminate In the sharpest
manner between them and their dis
honest brothers. Now it is peculiarly
necessary to do that in connection
with natural resources, the ownership
of which, if allowed to go into one
hand or the hand of one great cor
poration, may establish a peculiarly
oppressive monopoly. Let us then
make it the business of the govern
ment, national or state, as the case
may be, to see that the mineral re
sources so far as we still have power
over them, that all similar powers
are ssed under such governmental
regulation as will allow ample profifit
to the users and at the same time
guarantee the public at large in its
rights.
‘1 think that is an essential posi
tion for the government to take. 1
do not believe that we can afford
longer to allow of shrewdness and
sometimes with a lack of scrupulous
ness to get possession of the natural
resources of the country and then
treat them as purely their own to
do with them as they choose. If' such
a system of monopoly is permitted
to grow up in extent sooner or later
the peonle will revolt against it, and
when they revolt against it under
such conditions that revolt will be
very apt to have mixed along with
righteousness of attitude, and the
then holders of the privileges would
run great risks of suffering the ef
fects of an improper severity because
their predecessors had been treated
with an improper leniency.”
Colonel Roosevelt then spoke of the
necessity of preservation of the for
ests, and continued:
“I hope that congress will pass the
blli for the creation of the great Ap
palachian forest reserve. The waters
which rise in them often go through
more than one state and it should
HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
peculiarly be the work of the sational
government to see to their preserva
tion. I hope therefore that your rep
resentatives in congress will bestir
themselves in this matter.
“No portion of our country is go
ing to show a greater rate of devel
opment than the south will show in
the course of the next 30 or 40 years.
I ask you to see that this marvelous
development of the south takes place
in such fashion that it will represent
not a mere feverish growth in wealth
and luxury, or a honey-combed foun
dation of morality and good judg
ment, but that it will represent a
solid and abiding and enduring pros
perity.”
ROOSEVELT DISOWNS
N. YJARIFF PLANK
EX-PRESIDENT IS NOW SQUARELY
IN LINE WITH THE IN
SURGENTS.
NATIONALISM IS HONESTY
Colonel Roosevelt Asks to Be Judged
By His Speeches, Not By New
York Platform.
Atlanta. —Theodore Roosevelt dis
claimed all responsibility for the tar
iff plank in the New York state re
publican platform. In doing so he re
plied to criticisms which have been
directed against him, particularly by
some of the so-called “Insurgent ’ re
publicans in the west to the effect
that he talked one kind of politics in
the west .and another in the east.
This criticism was based largely upon
the fact that, while he did not indorse
the Payne tariff law in any of his
western speeches, the tariff plank of
the New York republican platform
commended the bill. Colonel Roose
velt made it clear in his speech that
he had not indorsed the Payne law,
and that he did not agree with the
New York tariff piank. He said that
he- would stand on his speech as tem
porary chairman of the New York re
publican convention in which he
commended parts of the Payne law,
but did not indorse it as a whole.
Colonel Roosevelt’s speech was de
livered at the Uncle Remus Day cele
bration here. He began his address
with an appreciation of the life and
works of Joel Chandler Harris, author
of the Uncle Remus Tales. Then he
turned to his recently enunciated doc
trine of the new nationalism.
“In speaking to you of the new na
tionalism,” he said, “I want at the
outset to answer publicly a question
put to me this evening by a couple
of your journalists as to one feature
as to what I had spoken of as the new
nationalsim, concerning which they
thought I had spoken differently at
different times. These gentlemen
asked me just how I reconciled what
I had said in the west with the tariff
plank in the New York state republi
can platform. 1 answered them that
I did not reconcile it; that on that
particular platform 1 must refuse to
be judged by what the platform said,
but what I myself said.
“You probably know we had quite
a lively time at Saratoga. 1 was
elected temporary chairman and serv
ed as such with reasonable efficiency
before the platform was adopted.
There were a number of men who
voted for me for temporary chair
man who were in harmony with me
on all of the most vital points at is
sue, who yet disagreed with me on
certain points, on one or two that 1
regarded as of great importance. And
so my speech as temporary chairman
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put my position as accurately used
language could put it, and on any
point where what I said in my ad
dress differs from what what was
said in the platform it must be under
stood that I personally must be
judged by what 1 myself said in this
matter of tariff plank,
‘That fight, as 1 regarded it, was
primarily a fight for the great fun
damentals of citizenship. It was a
fight against corruption, against what
is the absolute negation of democ
racy, and that is against bossism and
a fight for genuine popular rule. We
carrnied the issue to a triumphant
conclusion and in our platform em
bodied all three planks and on that
platform, sa a crandidate, we put a
man of unflinching courage and high
and stainless character.
“To achieve that great good 1 work
ed with many men who on one or more
other points did not agree with me.
We laid no emphasis on our condi
tions as regards the points that in
that particular district were minor
because it was absolutely essential to
good citizenship that we should win
on the vital Issues.”
HON. GIFFORD PINCHOI
TALKS OF CONSERVATION
HE SAYS THE SOUTH IS VITALLY
CONCERNED IN CONSERV
ING RESOURCES.
FARMERS ARE CONSERVERS
President Barrett of the National
Farmers’ Union Addressed the
Conservation Congress.
Atlanta. —Gifford Pinchot, at the
meeting of the southern conservation
congress held in this city declared
that the south is as vitally con
cerned with the movement for the
conservation of the nation’s natural
resources as is* ai section of the
country and ne wMPned the southern
ers that the big corporations already
were actively working to secure a
I monopoly of the resources of this
! section.
“Your water power resources here
in the south are so completely in the
| hands of the Duke interests and of
i the General Electric interests,” he
* said, “that it w ill be almost impossi
ble for independents to break into the
water power market.’’
Mr. Pinchot said in part:
"Conservation ought to appeal more
vigorously to the south than to any
ouier part of the country. Some
places in the west have a larger field
for conservation, but altogether there
is no place where questions of con
servation are more pressing than in
the south. You have natural re
sources in the south in superabund
ance. You have a body of southern
men determined to carry conservation
principles into practical effect and
their numbers, character and deter
mination makes the outlook for re
sults most hopeful.
‘Practical problems facing conser
vation,” Pinchot enumerated, ‘is wa
ter power, forestry and erosim of
soils.” Of water power iie remarked:
'Your water power resources here in
the south are so completely in the
hands of the Duke interests and of
i ihe General Electric interests that it
HON. GIFFORD PINCHOT.
will be almost impossible for inde
pendents to break into the water
power market.”
Mr. Pinchot predicted, however,
that ultimately water power rights
will be distributed for the benefit of
the entire population.
As the representative of more than
2,000,000 farmers, Charles S. Barrett,
president of the Farmers’ union, be
fore the southern conservation cos
gress, stressed the necessity of con
serving men first .rather than the re
sources of the soil. “If you conserve
the nation’s raw resources and neg
lect the nation’s men, you will meet
disaster and ultimate defeat in your
undertaking,” he said.
He said the government should
spend fifty million to one hundred
million dollars annually to check the
trend from the farm to the city by
providing commos school and scien
tific agricultural facilities in every
county, in easy reach of the farmer's
children. He would provide against
the contamination of the corrupt
alien strains that sow seeds of unrest
and dieruption that may ripen into a
ruinous harvest.”
IgERUHA
Kpyspepsi||
MEAN INSINUATION.
Miss Lively—lsn’t it strange that,
baseball players are seldom sun
struck?
Mr. Fussy—Not necessarily. Sun
stroke is an affection of the brain.
Managing a Husband.
Men are like children; they want
managing, although you must never
let them dream that you think so. No
child likes to be ordered about, no
man will endure coercion. But man
aging! It is an art so subtle, so elu
sive, that few women understand even
the rudiments of it. Sisters mine, let
us reason together, says
Life. In every human being there Is
a spark of the divine; it is yours to
fan that spark injo a flame —.that js
managing a man—lt is to get the very
best out of him there is to have, and
not two women in ten can do It.
Do not think that there is anything
unworthy In managing a man—to
bring out the best Is a high vocation.
Only let us see to It that we are
worthy of It. There are women who
have made angels of men, but at the
cost of their own divinity. There Is
room for more than one unselfish per
son In a family.
He Came by It Honestly.
“Lend me your pencil, Johnny.” The
small boy handed It over and teacher
continued to correct the exercises of
the class. When she finished she suf
fered a sudden lapse of memory and
laid the pencil away in her desk. As
she stood up to excuse the class she
encountered the scornful gaze of John
ny's eyes. Rising in his seat he fixed
her with an accusing forefinger and
uttered the single word “Graft!"
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“I am positive this actress buys her
puffs.”
“Which ones—newspaper or hair
dresser’s?”
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