Congressman E. A. Morse: conservationist

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Congressman E-a-Morse Conservationist



MODERN IRRIGATION—Raising and lowering the gates at the Main Truckee Canal at the opening of the Truckee—Carson Project

Congressman E. A. Morse   Conservationist-Lecturer
THE RECENT revelations with regard to the timber monopoly, the control of the coal beds and iron ore beds by the Steel Trust, the control of the natural gas and petroleum by the Standard Oil Company, and the gigantic water-power combination now in process of forming, taken in connection with the Guggenheims' effort to capture Alaska, is enough to challenge the attention and earnest thought of the whole American people.  Congressman E. A. Morse, of Wisconsin, has a message to give.  He is a nationalist, and believes strongly in the doctrine of national government control of these store houses of wealth which should be used for the benefit of all of the people, and not for the selfish benefit of a chosen few.

The pictures he uses to illustrate his lecture are the best that can be secured anywhere on earth.  His information is largely secured from government sources and is, therefore, accurate.  He has been assisted in the preparation of his lecture by Mr. Gifford Pinchot, who has helped him in the treatment of the subject of Forests; Dr. Holmes, Director of the Bureau of Mines, who has helped him secure lantern slides and data of general interest on this branch of the subject; Mr. Blanchard of the Reclamation Service has assisted him in the preparation of the part of the lecture dealing with the reclamation of the arid lands of the west, the construction of the great dams, canals and water-powers, and the facts he uses in discussing the water-power combination has been secured largely through Hon. Herbert Knox Smith, Director of the Bureau of Corporations.  The pictures and data used in his treatment of the conservation of natural gas and petroleum were secured for him by Hon. Charles E. Creager of Oklahoma; and President Van Hise, President of the University of the State of Wisconsin, has assisted him in securing the material from the State of Wisconsin that he uses in discussing the question of the water-power trust.

He has been studying the subject of Conservation carefully for years.  He has spoken on it many times in Congress, and before audiences at Chautauquas and College and University Courses.  He is one of the highest authorities on this vital question in this country and his lecture, therefore, is distinctly worth while and fills a place on the Lyceum platform.


An Irrigation Ditch Thro' a Desert—A Case of Reclamation






The Cliff-Dwellers Understood Irrigation and Reclamation when Rome was Young

The Conservation of Our Natural Resources

Paragraphs from The Lecture
While throwing the Pictures of the Ruins of the Cave Dwellers on the Screen:


An Apple Tree—Grown in What Was Formerly a Desert


American irrigation was old when Rome was in the glory of its youth.  The ancient aqueducts and subterranean canals, extending for thousands of miles, once supplied great cities and irrigated immense areas.

The wonderful buildings of the cliff dwellers, perched eyrie-like in the deep canyons, and the long lines of their canals choked now with the wind swept drift of centuries, give mute and pathetic evidence of their architectural and engineering skill.

In Speaking of the Conservation of Mineral Resources—

The nations that have coal and iron will rule the world, and the people who control the coal mines and iron mines will control the nation that rules the world.

In Speaking of the Transformation of the Desert into Farms—

The beacon of hope shines brightly in the west, it beckons the landless man to the manless land.

There is congestion today in many of our cities, and the menace of a great population underfed and poorly housed grows each year more dark and threatening.

An All-wise Providence has planted in every breast a 'land-hunger.'  What is the use of preaching love of home and country if we offer nothing but crowded tenements to the toiler who desires to own a home?

The Reclamation Service is transforming 'the land that God forgot' into a garden that blossoms like a rose.





Congressman E. A. Morse   Conservationist-Lecturer

A Destructive Forest Fire


Congressman Morse Here.—
Congressman E. A. Morse delivered a lecture in the city hall Wednesday night.  His subject was The Conservation of Our Natural Resources, and it was an interesting and instructive subject.  Mr. Morse is naturally a fluent orator, but the way he handled his subject last night showed study and preparation.  Mr. Morse treated the subjects under four heads,—conservation of our waters, lands, forests and minerals.  He draws a very vivid picture of the criminal waste that has taken place heretofore, and with the aid of one hundred and fifty views illustrating all the different resources of the country, from the coal mines in the east to iron mines in the west, many points of interest were shown.—
Mellen Weekly.


Shawano.—
Next Friday evening Congressman Morse is to talk Conservation at Music Hall in the City of Shawano, illustrating his talk with lantern views which disclose even more plainly than words can disclose the criminal waste of the years that are gone and the progress that has been made in recent years in the husbanding of our natural resources of minerals, waters, timber and lands.  Mr. Morse was here Saturday night, and an audience of about three hundred assembled at the Opera Hall to hear him and he was accorded that close attention which speaks more emphatically than does noisy applause of the interest in which a discussion is held.  We earnestly urge Shawano people to go and hear him and see the pictured story of our nation's laborious and expensive climb upward from the slough of insane wastefulness,—an expensive climb only in the first cost, for the years are proving that the national investment thus made supplies incentive for private and corporative investments along similar lines and that all such investments are ultimately returned to the investor with heavy interest of one kind or another added thereto.  We don't recommend attending for mere pleasure sake.  It's not an amusing lecture, but it is an eye-opening, instructive, entertaining.—
Advocate.



Shoshone Dam—Note its height compared with the Capitol Building at Washington




The Outlook
287 Fourth Avenue
New York

Office of Theodore Roosevelt

February 27th, 1911.

Mr dear Mr. Morse:

I do not know any special Bureau to whom to give you a letter, but I will be more than pleased if you will present this letter to any one of them.  I know of your interest in the matter of Conservation, and your services in Congress; and I believe that you could give lectures both interesting and important.

With regard, Faithfully yours,
T. Roosevelt

The Hon. E. A. Morse, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

GIFFORD PINCHOT
1917 RMODE ISLAND AVENUE
WASHINGTON D C

February 25, 1911.

Hon. E. A. Morse, House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Morse:

I am exceedingly glad to learn that you are going on the lecture platform this summer to speak on the Conservation of our Natural Resources.  Nothing could be better for the work we both believe in so thoroughly, and I want to send you my heartiest wishes for your success.

Sincerely yours,
Gifford Pinchot


Real Conservation of Our Forests



Wasteful Destruction of Our Forests


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