. Conservation. Forests and forestry. A CHAPTER OF CONSERVATION HISTORY 497 venting the waste of soil, in preserving the forests, in thrifty use of the mineral re- sources of the country for the Nation as a whole rather than merely for private monopolies; in working for the betterment of the condition of the men and women who live on the farms, then they will unstintedly condemn the action of every man who is in any way responsible for inserting this pro- vision, and will support those members of the legislative branch who opposed its adop- tion. * * * The Republican platform last year said: &
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. A CHAPTER OF CONSERVATION HISTORY 497 venting the waste of soil, in preserving the forests, in thrifty use of the mineral re- sources of the country for the Nation as a whole rather than merely for private monopolies; in working for the betterment of the condition of the men and women who live on the farms, then they will unstintedly condemn the action of every man who is in any way responsible for inserting this pro- vision, and will support those members of the legislative branch who opposed its adop- tion. * * * The Republican platform last year said: "We endorse the movement inaugurated by the administration for the conservation of natural resources * * * the obligation of the future is more insistent and none will result in greater blessings to ; The Democratic platform said : "We repeat the demand for internal development and for the conservation of our natural resources, the enforcement of which Mr. Roosevelt has * * * ; My successor, the President-elect, in a letter to the Senate Committee on Appropri- ations, asked for the continuance and sup- port of the Conservation Commission. This Conservation Commission was appointed at the request of the governors of over forty states, and almost all of these states have since appointed commissions to cooperate with the National Commission. Nearly all the great national organizations concerned with natural resources have been heartily cooperating with the Commission. With all these facts before it, the Con- gress has refused to pass a law to continue and provide for the Commission; and it now passes a law with the purpose of prevent- ing the Executive from continuing the Com- mission at all. * * * But I call the attention of those who are responsible for putting in this provision to a fundamental fact which is often ignored in discussing and comparing the action of the Executive and the action of the legislative branches of the Government: Neit
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