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THE GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE 



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health's sake. Vox popiili is calling for the 

 prevention of this waste for manufacturing 

 purposes, for electrical purposes, for dam 

 purposes, for commercial purposes for all 



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CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN 



Govs. Noel, Dineen and Johnson 

 Secretary Shipp at center in rear 



of these purposes. And vox Dei and vox 

 popull together shall be heard, and must be 

 heard, or else we will get a tribunal that 

 will listen to the demand of this great 

 American Nation, as year after year we 

 come here, urging our members to do their 

 duty to the great land in which we live to- 

 day. (Great applause.) 



"Men, Governors, Governors of the great 

 \\est, our members have stood by you in 

 your forest preservation ; we have stood by 

 \"u in your irrigation acts (applause) ; we 

 have stood by you in every single thing for 

 the upbuilding and the glory of this great 

 Xatinn in which we live. And ruining to- 

 day, voicing the people's voice, the voice of 

 Maine, Xew Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con- 

 necticut, Massachusetts; voicing the senti- 

 ment of Pennsylvania, \\Y~t Virginia. Vir- 

 ginia, Xorth Carolina, Temn- nth 

 Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, I 

 plead with you ami beg of you ti> (-..me to 

 our relief and join with u> in helping to 

 save the country from thi- waMe and de- 

 vastation. \Vc will plant our crops, we will 

 plant our grasses; but. sir. as long as floods 

 continue to come tearing and rushing down 

 our steep, unforeMcd heights, into the val- 



ley-, .,nd rivers, the crops which \\e may 

 plant are absolutely won!,]. 



"In conclusion, I want to re- 



mark of Speaker Camion, and that v. 

 that there ou.uht to \<> n m 



the \\liite .Mountains, and in the .\\- 

 lachian chain, and that we oii.uht not t,, 

 help of the Union that confederation ou 

 to be the means by which this wa 

 stopped. 



"i cannot answer for Xew Hani] 

 Rhode Island or Massachusetts, but 1 can 

 answer for the South. We tried confedera- 

 tion once, and it did not pay (great ap- 

 plause). You told us to come into the 

 Union, and then to ask for anything we 

 wanted; and now that we have come into 

 the Union, and make our request, do not 

 rebuff us the first time we come and ask you 

 tor relief. (Great applause.) 



"Thank God, as was said yesterday, that 

 there is no North, no South, no East, no 

 \\ est. A Confederate son and soldier 

 stands before you, who would die for his 

 country and his state because he loves it. 

 And that Confederate soldier is just as true 

 to the Union as any man born in the North 

 could possibly be." (Great applause.) 



Following Governor Glenn, Hon. 

 James O. Davidson, Governor of Wis- 

 consin, spoke along the same lines. 

 He said that to no state in the Union 

 is the question of conservation of nat- 

 ural resources more vitally important 

 than to the state of Wisconsin. Only 

 a few decades ago, he said, the north- 

 ern and eastern parts of Wisconsin 

 were one broad forest, broken only by 

 occasional stretches of prairie land. 

 Pine, hemlock, oak, and maple grew 

 in such abundance that it was the 

 state's proud boast that Wisconsin 

 alone could supply the whole country 

 with timber for a century. Amid ii- 

 great forests were swamps and hun- 

 dreds of small lakes, from which deep, 

 swift streams rushed to f"nn the riv- 

 ers that added their volume to the 

 Mississippi, nut. with its great for- 

 est wealth and its immense water 

 power. \\ is(-i iiisju. like its S]\UT ..ta: 

 lived only in the immediat- nt. 



rnor 



Davidson, "inspirid only by an . nthusiasm 

 and a greed which knew i; . at- 



tack -d the- in a mad race 



eaoi , to market its lum- 



ber first, and then to move forward and 

 continue the destruction. Xo tree was re- 

 garded -mall t e cutting. 

 Trunks six inches in diameter were cut for 



