Preparations for Peace; an Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Ninety-Seventh Convocation of the University of Chicago, December 21, 1915, and ... Club of Chicago on January 27, 1916
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Address On Alaskan Problems
Walter Lowrie Fisher
Govt. Prnt. Off., 1911
Technology & Engineering; Mining; Alaska; Coal mines and mining; Technology & Engineering / Mining
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Walter Lowrie Fisher was United States Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft from 1911 to 1913.
Background
He was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, the eldest son of Daniel Webster Fisher and Amanda D. (Kouns) Fisher. His grandfather was third in descent from his first ancestor in America--John Fisher. Walter's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, was president of Hanover College, Indiana, for many years.
Education
Walter entered the preparatory department of Marietta College, Ohio, in 1879, and the following year transferred to Hanover College, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1883.
Career
Admitted to the bar in 1888, he was appointed that same year as a special assessment attorney for the city of Chicago. In 1889 he retired to engage in the private practice of law, and for some time thereafter took little part in public affairs.
In 1901 he was appointed secretary of the executive committee of the Municipal Voters League of Chicago, in which capacity he served until 1906, when he became its president. As the directing head of this organization he conducted a vigorous offensive against the "gray wolves, " a term which he used to characterize corrupt aldermen. So successful was it that soon two-thirds of the members of the city council were elected on pledges drawn up by the league.
A crusading reformer who labored hard to secure a better city government, Fisher knew how to meet politicians with their own weapons, a knowledge that measurably increased his effectiveness as a reformer. In helping to solve Chicago's transit problem, which had been aggravated by corruption, bad management, and public indifference, he rendered another important service to his adopted city.
Edward F. Dunne had been elected mayor in 1905 on the issue of immediate municipal ownership of street railways, and the following year Fisher was appointed traction counsel for the city. He put forward a plan for a franchise grant to the companies, subject to termination through purchase by the city on specified terms at any time that the municipal government could raise funds for the purpose.
Accepted by the city council, the plan was approved by the voters on a referendum vote. Later, he served as attorney without pay to the commission appointed to investigate dishonesty and waste in municipal expenditures. He conducted with marked skill the examination of witnesses before the commission, whose chairman was Charles E. Merriam.
Following the retirement of Richard A. Ballinger, who had been accused by Pinchot and others of friendliness to special interests in Alaska, and with indifference to the whole conservation movement, Taft appointed Fisher secretary of the interior, and he took oath of office on March 13, 1911, serving until the end of the Taft administration two years later.
As he had been an adviser of Pinchot in his controversy with Ballinger, his selection won the general approval of those who had criticized his predecessor's administration.
As secretary, Fisher evidenced a keen interest in the problems of Alaska and the government's conservation program; he also encouraged the development of the national parks. Taking over the department when it was much in the public eye, he proved an able administrator. In 1913 he returned to Chicago and resumed the practice of law.
Several addresses and articles by him were published, among them Alaskan Coal Problems (1911); "Waterways and Our Transportation System" (Journal of Political Economy, July 1915); "Preparations for Peace" (University Record, January 1916); and "A League to Enforce Peace" (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 1917). He died at his home in Winnetka as a result of coronary thrombosis.