. Conservation. Forests and forestry. HOME-BUILDING FOR THE NATION 5-\S us it has no significance that the Gen- eral Electric interests are acquiring great groups of water-powers in va- rious parts of the United States, an-1 dominating the power market in the re- gion of each group. And whoever dominates power, dominates all indus- tr\-. Have vou ever seen a few drops of oil scattered on the water spreading until they formed a continuous film, which put an end at once to all agita- tion on the surface ? 1die time for us to agitate this question is now, hefore the separate circles of centralize
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. HOME-BUILDING FOR THE NATION 5-\S us it has no significance that the Gen- eral Electric interests are acquiring great groups of water-powers in va- rious parts of the United States, an-1 dominating the power market in the re- gion of each group. And whoever dominates power, dominates all indus- tr\-. Have vou ever seen a few drops of oil scattered on the water spreading until they formed a continuous film, which put an end at once to all agita- tion on the surface ? 1die time for us to agitate this question is now, hefore the separate circles of centralized con- trol spread into the uniform, unhroken. nation-wide covering of a single gi- gantic trust. There will be little chance for mere agitation after that. No man at all familiar with the situation can doubt that the time for efifective protest is verv short. If we do not use it to protect ourselves now, we may be very sure that the trust will give hereafter small consideration to the welfare of the average citizen when in confiict with its own. The man who really counts is the plain American -citizen. This is the man for whom the Roosevelt policies were created, and his welfare is the end to which the Roosevelt policies lead. As a nation, we are fortunate at this time in this fact above all others, that the great man who gave his name to these policies has for his successor an- other great President whose adminis- tration is most solemnly pledged to the support of them. I stand for the Roosevelt policies be- cause they set the common good of all of us above the private gain of some of us ; because they recognize the live- lihood of the small man as more im- portant to the Nation than the profit of the big man : because they oppose all useless waste at present at the cost of robbing the future; because they de- mand the complete, sane, and orderly development of all our natural re- sources, not forgetting our rivers; be- cause they insist upon equality of op- portunity and den
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