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Plaindealcr X ; fhitoilshed by F. G. 8CHREINER. M c H E N R V , ' • " r I L L I N O I S How would you like to bethe mail «UTier? „ Those eggs from ittr-RtoM«> vartwiv StllJ Hits is the Idnd of winter wo We all eupposed to like. ' The monorail train is tl*e only rlral tfee flying machine has. J : Bar tabs may feel haavenly, they look like the dickens. The Furnace to the Man of the Rouse--You may begin firing when- .$|er you are ready. URGES THE NATION'S RESOURCES * hk ^ < • WW * * - ' t, " •>£ ' ̂ J' M % President Taft Sends Special Message to Con- gress Recommending Prevention of Land ' rands, Control of Water Power, Fos tering of Soils and Kindred Subjects -4 •1 .r fv Age caniiot stale the thfiplte variety of embezzlement An 8T-year-old em­ bezzler has been discovered at Rock- ford, 111. ' III New Jersey a chrysanthemum fete been picked 16 inches In diame­ ter. Pretty fair for a little rant like Strmy.-i; - Strawberries at one dollar a quart Are on sale in Texas- The Texas ahcrtcake must mean all ,, the same ttnpliea. «, Those anxious to escape the moTlng pictures can find refuge in tbe Coli- •eum at Rome. You're not allowed to see am there. .... , <c/ That was indeed a tfrave off ens# ref which a Chinese viceroy has been de­ posed--misconducting the funeral of the dowager empress. A Lake Erie freighter with a cargo Of flaxseed, has foundered. Many a Buffaionian with a boil oil his Back will await relief In vain. N-'«- The gold production of this cntw- try just about equals the candy output. Unlike almost everything else, candy i« never subject to overproduction. Here is a problem pleasanteT til work on than the "twice zero" enig­ ma: How long does it take a cake of butter to melt between two hot buck­ wheat cakes? ' Doubtless many a married fnsn will clip out and » take home a Chicago judges ruling that a wife has no real right to warm her eoid feet on .fear husband's back. A woman in Milwaukee was operat- «di on to remove a sponge left in her body by a careless surgeon.. The first operation was evidently one of an ab­ sorbing nature. According to tbe Charleston News and Courier a man is at his best at 33. Undoubtedly he is, only some men are' 13 at 21, others not until they are 60. and some men never are 33. Oovernment scientists are planning to> rob the unripe persimmon, of its astringent qualities. Doubtless they will next try to make a palatable breakfast food out of wild oats. A divorce play which had created a sensation in Paris was a fiat failure In New York. It was too much like putting on a play with, the cooking of an ordinary meal as the main theme. The new administration in Turkey IM decided that Mussulman women must not appear unveiled in the streets of Constantinople. Evidently things over there have begun to backward again. A big batch of members of the Black Hand is said to be planning to leave Europe for America. Some of them have been expelled from ronn- trlts where they have been carrying <on operations and are represented to be seeking a more promising field liere, But our authorities have been duly warned, the immigration official* are keeping a sharp lookout and •hould the Black Handera arrive they will get anything but the glad hand. Those melancholy days have come. fa borne respects the saddest of the year, when the English tailor reaches out yearningly to make the American man. There are already plates In the papers of the threatened British styles. Condescendingly we are told that Americans are really, though gradually, learning how to dress. An approach to the feminine wasp waist to suggested in the London design as a atep further in the right way. file world is ffull of men who would feelp others, in a charitable or reli­ gious way, but do not know t.ow to go abou. It. They are willing to give their money if they knew the actual .need, or to lend a hand if the object of their care would be really benefited. In lieu of a definite call to duty, in which one ms* have absolute conudence, > there Is a suggestion to be made, wfttcb 1b, that a manly, upright hope- fu.. righteous life is itself a powerful promoter of good In a community. Although it is well known that oysters •re planted, it seems tunny that It is the department of agriculture that is to inspect all the oyster beds and the stations from which the bivalves are shipped. The yearly output of oysters on thf Atlantic coast is valued at nearly $20,000,000. A very great part Of the trade being interstate, the traf­ fic becomes subject to federal regula­ tion aud inspection. We may expect to see the oyster swell with pride and become more cleanly than ever in his person and surroundings as a special fmrd of Uncle Sam. ^ t r ' A Cornell university professor has mathematically ascertained that the Average lifetime Is lengthened one year each century. This does not add much to the length of a .man's life who lives less than a century. j--/A singular incident occurred in New York city the other day. when a pa Herman captured a supposed burglai to< sent a bullet through his own fin­ ger, the Ltall then entering the body of £14 captive. That suggests the old story of the gun Oy* oould sixxH around a corner* • ?• „ "J i ' A Yale alumnus offers $100,000 for an adequate remedy for tuberculosis. While appreciating his generoslty it, would be cheap at the price. ^. * Washington, Jan. 14 --Following is the complete text of tbe special mes­ sage on tbe conservation of the na­ tion's resources sent to the senate and house ot representatives by Pres­ ident Taft to-day: , / To the Senate and- Houqe of Representa­ t i v e s : * » - < . • < In my anJra&l message I reserved the subject or the conservation of our na­ tional resources (or disposition in a spe­ cial message, as follows: . ( In several departments there t« pre­ senter the necessity for legislation look­ ing? to the further conservation of Our national resources, and the subject Is one of such importance as to require a. more detailed and extended discussion than can be entered upon In this communica­ tion. For that reason t Khali take an early opportunity to send a spwlal mes­ sage to congress on the subject »f the improvement of our waterways, upon the reclamation and irrigation of arid, aenni- arid and swamp lands: upon the preser­ vation of our forests and the re-foresting of suitable areas; upon the re-classlfica- tfon of the public domain witti a view of separating from agricultural settlement mineral, coal and phosphate lands and sites belonging to the government bor­ dering on streams suitable for the utili­ zation of water power. In I860 we had a public domain of 1,065.- 911,288 acres... We have now 731,^4,081 acres, confined largely to the mountain ranges and the arid and semi-arid plains. We have. In addition, 36H.U3&.976 acres of land In Alaska Disbursement of Public Lands. The public lanflii were, during the earli­ est administrations, treated as a national asset for the liquidation of the public debt and as a source of reward for , our soldiers and sailors, r-iter on- they were donated 1n large awioutiis in aid of the construction of wagon roads and rail­ ways. in order to open up regions in the west then Almost inaccessible. All the principal land statutes were enacted more than a nunrter of a centurv aco Thu homestead act. the pre-emption and Um­ ber-culture act, the coal land and the Mining acts were among these.' The rapid disposition of the public lands under the earlv statutes, and the lax methods of distribution prevailing, due, I think, to the belief that these lands should rapidly pass into private owner­ ship, gave rise to the Impression that the public domain was legitimate prey for the unscrupulous and that It was not contrary tj good morals to circumvent the land laws. This prodigal manner of disposition resulted in the passing of large areas of valuable land and many of our national resources Into the hands of persons who felt little or no responsi­ bility for promoting the national wel­ fare through their development* Fraudulent Titles. The truth Is that title to million^ of acres of public lands was fraudulently obtained and that the right to recover a large part of such lards for the govern­ ment long since ceased by reason of stat­ ute* of limitations. There has developed In recent years a defy concern in the public mind respecting the preservation and proper use of our natural resources. This has been particularly directed toward the conservation of the resources of the public domain A vast amount of discussion has appeared in the public prints in generalized form on this subr Ject, but there has been little practical suggestion. It has been easy to say that the natural resources In fuel supply, in forests. In water power, and in other public utilities, must be saved from waste, monopoly, and other abuses, and the general public is In accord with this proposition, as they are with most trtiisms. The problem, however, is how to save and how to utilize, how to con­ serve and still develop, for no sane, per­ son can contend that it is Tor the com­ mon good that nature's blessings are only for unborn generations. Noteworthy Reforms. Among the most noteworthy reforms Initiated by my distinguished predecessor were the vigorous prosecution of land frauds and the bringing to public atten­ tion of the necessity for preserving the remaining public domain from further spoliation, for the maintenance and ex- .cns.or. of cur forest resources, and for the enactment of laws amending the ob­ solete statutes so as to retain govern­ mental control over that part of the pub­ lic domain In whleh there are valuable deposits of coal, of oil. and of phosphate, i.nd. In flilditlAfi tn nrAooruo -- trol, under conditions favorable to the public, of the lands along the streams in which the fall of water can be made to generate power to be transmitted in the form of electricity many mileB to the point of its use, known as "water power" sites. The investigations Into violations of the public land laws and the prosecution of land frauds have been vigorously con­ tinued under my administration, as has been the withdrawal of coal lands for classification and valuation and the tem­ porary withholding of power sites. Since March 4, 1909, temporary withdrawals of power sites have been made on 107 streams and these withdrawals therefore cover 229 per cent, more streams than were covered by the withdrawals made prior to that date. The present statutes, except so fax as they dispose of the precious metals and the purely agricultural lands, are not adapted to carry out the modern view of the best disposition of public lands to private ownership, under con­ ditions offering on the one hand suffi­ cient inducement to private capital to take them over for proper develop­ ment, with restrictive conditions on the other which shall secure to the public that character of control which will prevent a monopoly or misuse of the lands or their products. The power of the secretary of the Interior to with­ draw from the operation pf existing statutes tracts of land, the disposition of which under such statutes would be detrimental to the public interests, is not clear or satisfactory. This power has been exercised in the interest of the public, with the hope that congress might affirm the action of the execu­ tive by laws adapted to the new condi­ tions. Unfortunately, congress has not thus far fully acted on the recommen­ dations of the executive, and the ques­ tion as to what the executive is to do is under the circumstances, full of difficulty. It seems to me that it is the duty of congress now. by a statute, to validate the withdrawals which have been made by the secretary of the Interior and the president and to use the secretary of the Interior temporar­ ily to withdraw lands pending submis­ sion to congress of recommendations as to legislation to meet cohdiUons or emergencies as they ari««. Properly to Classify Lands. "/One of the most pressing n».'edf.i «,tn matter of public-'and reform ;is th*t lands .shotHd be classified accord 'ing to their principal value use. This ought to be done by that or department whose force Is best adapted to that work, ft should be done by tl<~ inter tor department through the geological survey. Much of confusion, fraud, and contention which has exist'"!; in the preisent has arisen from the lack of an official and determinatl-'e classlfi cation ot the public lands and their contents. It is now proposed to dispose of ag­ ricultural lands ns sych. and at the sfonie time to reserve for other disposi­ tion the treasure of coal, oil, ashphal- tum. natural gas and phosphate con­ tained therein. This may be best ac­ complished by separating the right to mine from the title Jo the surface, giving the necessary use of so much of tne latter as may be required for the extraction of the deposits. The sur­ face might he disposed of as agricul tural land under the general agricul­ tural statutes.-while the coal or other mineral could he disposed of by lease on a royalty basis, with the provisions requiring a certain amouftt of develop­ ment each year; and in order to pre­ vent the use and cession of said lands with' others of similar character so as to constitute a monopoly forbidden by law, the lease should contain suitable provtslon .subjecting to forfeiture the Interest of persons participating in such monopoly. Such law should ap ply to Alaska as weli as to the United States. Statute Difficult to Frame. It is exceedingly difficult to frame a statute to retain government control over a property to be developed by private capital in such a manner as to secure the governmental purpose and at the same time nof frighten away the investment of the necessary capital. Hence. It may be necessary by laws that are really only experi­ mental to determine from {heir prac­ tical operation what is the best method of securing the result aimed at. The extent of the value of phosphate Is hardly realized, and With the need that there will be for It as the years rolt on and the necessity for fertiliz­ ing the land shall become more acute, this will be a product which will prob­ ably attract the greed of monopolists Public Land Along Streams. With respect to the public land which lies along the streams offering opportunity to convert water power into transmissible electricity, another important phase of the public land question is presented. There are val­ uable water power sites through all ;the public land states. The opinion is held that the transfer of sovereignty from the federal government to the territorial governments as they become states, included the water power in the rivers except so far as that owned, by riparian proprietors. I do not think it necessary to go into discussion of this somewhat mooted question of law. Tt seems to me sufficient to say that the man who owns and contrcijs the land along the stream from which the power Is to be converted and trans­ mitted, owns land which is indispens­ able to the conversion and use of that power. I cannot conceive how the power in streams flowing through pub­ lic lands can be made available at all except by using the land Itself as the site for thf construction of the plant by which the power is generated and converted and securing a right of way thereover for transmission lines. Un­ der these condition, if the government owns the adjacent land--Indeed, if the government is the riparian owner--it may control the use of the water power by imposing proper conditions on the disposition of the land necessary in the creation and utilization of the water power. Value of Water Power. ' The development in electrical appli­ ances for the conversion of the water power into electricity to be transmitted long distances has progressed so far that It Is no longer problematical, but it is a certain Inference that in the future the ; power of the water falling in the streams to a large extent will take the place of natural fuels. In the disposition of the domain already granted, many water oower sites have come under absolute ownership, and may drift into one own­ ership. so that ail the water power under private ownership shall be a monopoly. If, however, the water power sites now owned by the government--and there are enough of them--shall be disposed of to private persons for the investment of their capital in such a way as to prevent their union for purposes of monopoly with other water power sites, and under conditions that shall limit the right of use to not exceeding thirty years with renewal privileges and some equitable means of fixing terms of rentat and with proper means for determining a reasonable grad­ uated rental, it would seem entirely pos­ sible to prevent the absorption of these most useful lands by a power monopoly. As long ss the government retains con­ trol and can prevent their Improper union with other plants, competition must be maintained and prices kept reasonable. Soils Must Be Conserved. In considering the conservation of the natural resources of the country, the fea­ ture that transcends all others. Including woods, waters, minerals, is the soil of the country. It is incumbent upon the gov­ ernment to foster by all' available means the resources of the country that produce the food of the people. To this end the conservation of the soils of the country should be cared for with all means at the government's disposal. Their productive powers should have the attention of our scientists that we may conserve the new soils. Improve the old soils, drain wet soils, ditch swamp soils, levee river over­ flow soils, grow trees on thin soils, pas­ ture hillside soils, rotate crops on all soils, discover methods for .cropping dry land soils, find grasses and legumes for all soils, feed grains and mill feeds on the farms where they originate, that the soils from which they come may be en­ riched. A work of the utmost Importance to in­ form and instruct the public on this chief branch of the conservation of our re­ sources is being carried on successfully in the department of agriculture; but It ought not to escape pubMc attention that state action in addition to that of the de­ partment of agriculture (as for instance in the drainage of swamp lands) Is es­ sential to the best treatment of the soils in the manner above indicated. The act by which. In semi-arid parts of the public domain, the area Of the home* stead has been enlarged from ISO to ISO acres has resulted most beneficially In the extension of "dry farming" and In the demonstration which has been made of the possibility, through a variation.4$ the character and mode, of culture. Of raising substantial crops without the presence of such a supply of water as has been heretofore thought to be neces­ sary for agriculture. But there are millions of acres of com­ pletely arid land in the public domain which, by the establishment of reservoirs for the storing of water and the irri­ gation of the lands, may be made much more fruitful and productive than ih« ture comes from the clouds. Congress recognized the importance of this method of artificial distribution of water on the ||arid lands by the passage of the reclama- t.tlon a<ft- The proceeds of the public Stands creates the ft$nd t "> build the works "^needed" to store and furnish the neces­ sary water, and it was left to the secre­ tary of the interior to determine what ! projects should be started among ihose ; suggested and la direct the reclamation ; service, with the funds at hand and through the engineers in its employ, to construct the works. No one can visit the far west'and the country of arid and semi-arid lands with­ out being convinced that this Is one of the most important methods of the con­ servation of our natural resources that th# government has entered upon. It would appear that over 30 projects have been undertaken, and that a few of these are likely to be unsuccessful be­ cause of lack of water, or for other rea­ sons, but generally the work which has been done has been well done, and many important engineering problems have been met and solved. Funds Inadequate for Service. One of the difficulties which has arisen Is that too many projects In view Of the, available funds have been set on foot. The funds available under the reclamation statute are inadequate to complete these projects within a reasonable time. And yet the projects have been begun: settlors have been invjted to take up and. in many in­ stances. have taken up, the public land within the "projects, relying upon their prompt completion. The failure to Complete the projects for their benefit is. in effect, a breach of faith and .leaves them in a most distressed con­ dition. I urge that the nation ought to afford the means to lift them out of the very, desperate condition in which they now are. This condition does not Indicate any excessive waste or any Corruption on the part of the reclamation service. It only indicates an over-zealous desire to extend the benefit of reclamation to as many acres and as many states as possible. I recommend, therefore, that authority be given to issue, not exceeding $30,000,000 of honds from time to time, as the secretary of the Interior shall find it necessary, the proceeds to be applied to the comple­ tion of the projects alrfeady begun and their proper extension, and the bohds running ten years or more to be taken up by the proceeds of returns to the reclamation fund, which returns, as the years go on. will increase rapidly in amount. There is no doubt at all that if these bonds were to be allowed to rnn ten years, the proceeds from the public lands, together with the rentals for water furnished through the completed enterprises, would quickly create a sinking fund large enough to retire the bonds within the time specified. I hope that, while the statute shall pro­ vide that these bonds are to be paid out of the reclamation fund. It will be drawn in such a way as to secure In­ terest at the lowest rate, and that the Credit of the United States will be pledged for their redemption. I urge consideration of the recom­ mendations of the secretary of the interior in his annual report for amendments of the reclamation act, proposing other relief- for settlers on these projects. New Law'Requisite. Respecting the comparatively small timbered areas on the public dopialn not Included in national forests because of their isolation or their special value for agricultural or mineral purposes, it is ap­ parent from the evils resulting by vir­ tue of the imperfections wf exisltlng laws for the disposition of timber lands that the acts of June S, 187R, should be re­ pealed and a law enacted for the dispo­ sition of the timber at public sale, the lands after the removal of the timber to be subject to appropriation under the agricultural or mineral land laws. What I have said is really an epitome of the recommendations of .the secretary of the interior in respect to the future conservation of the public domain in his present annual report. He has given close attention to the problem of disposi­ tion of these lands under such .conditions as to invite the private capital necessary to their development on the one hand, and the maintenance of the restrictions necessary to prevent monopoly and abuse from absolute ownership on the other. These recommendations are incorporated In bills he has prepared, and they are at the disposition of the congress. I earnest­ ly recommend , that all the suggestions which he has made with respect to these iands snaii be embodied in statutes and, especially, that the withdrawals already made shall be validated so far as neces­ sary and that doubt as to the authority of the secretary of the interior to with­ draw lands for the purpose of submitting recommendations as to future disposition of them where new legislation is needed shall be made complete and unquestioned. Disposition of Forest Reserves. The forest reserves of the United States, some 190,000,000 acres in extent, are under the control of the department of agriculture, with authority adequate to preserve them and to extend their growth so far as that may be practicable. The Importance of the maintenance of our forests cannot be exaggerated. The possi­ bility of a scientific treatment of forests so that they shall be made to yield a large return in timber without really re­ ducing the supply has been demonstrated in other countries, and we should work toward the standard set by them as far as their methods are applicable to our conditions. Upwards of four hundred millions acres Of forest land in thts country are in pri­ vate ownership, but only three per cent, of tt is being treated scientifically and with a view to the maintenance of the foreats. The part played by the forests In the equalization of the supply of water on watersheds ts a matter of discussion and dispute, but the general benefit to be derived by the public from the extension of forest lands on watersheds and the promotion of the growth of trees in places that are now denuded and that once had great flourishing forests, goes without saying. The control to be exer­ cised over private owners In their treat­ ment of the forests which they own Is a matter for state and not national regu­ lation, because there Is. nothing In the constUutlon that authorizes the federal government to exercise any control over forests within a state, unless the forests are owned in a proprietary Way by the federat government. Improvement of River. I come now to the lmproveme'nt of the Inland waterways. He would be blind indeed, who did not realize that the peo­ ple of the far west, and especially those of the Mississippi valley, have been aroused to the need there Is for the lm-: provement of our Inland waterways. The Mississippi river, with the Missouri on the one hand and the Ohio on the other, would seem to offer a great nat­ ural means of interstate 'transportation and traffic. How far. if properly improved they would relieve the railroads or eup» plement them In respect to the bulkier and" «heaper commodities Is a matter of conjecture. No enterprise ought to be undertaken the cost of which is not def­ initely ascertained and the benefit and advantage of which are not known and assured by competent engineers and other authority. When, however, a project Of a definite character for the Improvement .of a waterway has been developed ao that the plans have been drawn, the coat definitely estimated, and the traffic which will be accommodated is reason ably probable I think It is the duty of congress to undertake the project and make provision therefor !r> the proper £p> pfonHfj-tlftfi 1)111. One of the projects which answers the description I have given 1s that of intro­ ducing dams into the Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo, so as to maintain at all seasons of the year, by slack water, a depth of nine feet. Upward of seven of these dams have already been conr st rue ted and six are under construction, while the total required is 50. The re- maining cost is known to be J63.fl00.000. It seetns to me that in th%deveSopment of our inland waterways If would be wise to begin with this particular project and carry It through as rapidly as may be, I assume from reliable information that It can be constructed economically In ten years. I recommend, therefor®, that the public lands, in river and har­ bor- bills, make provision for continuing contracts to complete this improvement^ a,nd 1 shall recommend in the future, it ft be necessary, that bonds be issued to carry it through. What has been said, of the Ohio- river is true in a less complete way of the Im­ provement Of the upper Mississippi from St. Paul to St. Louis to a constant depth of six feet, and of the Missouri, from, Kansas City to St. I^ouis to a constant depth of six feet and from St. Louis to Cairo of a depth of eight feet. These projects have been pronounced practical by competent boards of army engineers, their cost has been estimated and there is business which will follow the im­ provement. As these Improvements are being made, and the traffic encouraged by them shows itself of sufficient importance, the im­ provement of the Mississippi beyond Cairo down to the gulf, which iq now going on with the maintenance of a depth of nine feet everywhere, may be changed to another and greater depth If, the neeesr Sity for it shall appear to arise out of the. traffic which can be delivered on the river at Cairo. u Cheap Rail Rate Necessary. , I am informed that the investigation by the waterways commission in Europe shows that the existence of a waterway by no means assures traffic unless there is traffic adapted to water carriage a£ cheap rates at one end or the other of the stream. It also appears in Europe that the depth of the streams is rarely more than six feet, and never more than nine. But -It is certain that enormous quantities of merchandise are transported over the rivers and canals in Germany and France and England, and It is also certain that the existence of such meth­ ods of traffic materially affects the rates which the railroads charge, and it Is the best regulator of those rates that we have, not even excepting the govern­ mental regulation through the interstate commerce commission. For thts reason, I hope that this congress will take such steps that It may be called the Inaugu- rator of the new system of inland water­ ways. For reasons which it Is not nec­ essary here to state, congress has seen fit to order an investigation in'o the in­ terior department and the forest service qf the agricultural department. The re­ sults of that Investigation are not needed to determine the value of, and the ne­ cessity for, the new legislation which I have recommended In respect to the pub­ lic lands and in Respect to reclamation. I earnestly urge that the measures be tak­ en up and disposed of promptly without awaiting the Investigation which has been determined upon. WILLIAM H. Nothing that waa worthy in the pa|§ departs--no truth or goodness by man ever dies, or can die r th* Z5 "Guar**! Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief--PemaMBk Cant CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS new kiL Purely veget­ able--act *urdjr but gently oa die liver. Stop after (Smw-- ciseindw CASTERS MILS. L present eoaee^ .Ifm have eQOVA' the UaM _____ Wtiiit home* totakavptbfe land." B«m& 70,000 Aaerism will cnterind nuke their home* la Western Canada this year. 190» produced aaatber l»r*e crop of wheat, oats and barley. 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