Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-18

NOTE--White we are sole agents
for Vinol In Salt Lake City, 1t Is now
for sale at the leading drug store in
nearly every town and city in the coun-
try. Look for the Vinol agency in
your town.
either in q convention, where we shall
probably not reach any definite conclu-
sion, or far better induce the men from
different regions to deal directly with
the forest officers who are here (and
there will be about twenty-five of them
at this meeting) and let us take these
things up together and talk them out,
and find out whether things are right
or wrong, ] have always found If |
could get in the same room with a man
and look him III the eye and have him
tell me exactly what he thought, and
have me tell him back exactly what /
thought, it wasn't very long before we
could get together. We should either
come to an understanding that we did
understand each other or that we
didn't, and at least we got a working
basis.
FOR SQUARE DEALING.
Now. there is a good deal of general
conversation going around on this for
est reserve proposition. What | would
like, while we are here. would be to
down 10 the particular case each of
you men are interested In. Let US find
out whether injustice has been done to
YOU. We know that in some cases it
has. could give you. probably, more
cases of mistakes made by the forest
service than any dozen men In this hall.
We haven't yet had control of the for
est reserve for two years. and that area
isn't very far from the size of the
original l3 states, and 1t is something
of chore to take hold of that large
amount OF land. varied by so many and
so various interests, and get II all right
at once. We fall to get 1t all right at
once. We have made mistakes. We
have made honest mistakes, and doubt
less will make more mistakes; but /
want to just simply assure you of this
that while we do make mistakes, as all
men do, and while we may make mora
than our fair average share of mis-
takes, we mean to handle this In the
way 1t should be handled. We propose
to give you a square deal. Where we
are wrong we propose to admit 1t,
am particularly sorry that Mr.. Walsh
is away, because ! could use him as an
example of Just that case. We did two
things in handling the sheep of the
company with which he is associated
which were mistakes-rather bad mis-
takes. too, and as soon as we found out
what they were We corrected Them
and those mistakes will not happen in
that region again.
FOR ALL--NOT A FEW.
Now, / guess that is about all I have
to say. Let us talk these things up.
We will try and do what is right on our
side, and you will on yours. But let
me ask you to remember this: The for
est reserves have more interests to con-
slider than are presented in this con-
vention-the entire convention. We deal
not merely with grazing. That is one
of the various interests. We deal with
irrigation, with mining, wit numbering.
Our whole organization is fundamental
ly intended to promote home making,
and that is why every time we will put
the livelihood of the small man ahead
OF the profits of the big man,
and that very often does not
satisfy the man whose po-
sition is less strong Oh the basis of that
statement. We have TO consider the
general welfare; not the welfare of any
single class; and / can give you as an
illustration of this fact that the only
delegation that has called on me since
] came to Salt Lake was q delegation
of irrigators, whose complaint was that
their watersheds were being overgrazed
by sheep. Now. there are places where
that is the greatest consideration. and
1t Is in the instance i am quoting.
There are other places where the Sheep
mans interests are first, and still other
places where IL is the lumberman or
miner. In each separate instance the
forest service will try TO give that first
interest the first consideration, without
reference to whether II is sheep or cat
tie or lumber or mining or what. In
other words, In dealing with this
matter. we are, as DR.. Wilson said.
"The servants of the whole people"
We shall try to give each ono of you
square deal, but we shall not give
to any single interest consideration
which will prevent us from giving ev-
cry attention to the other interests,
large or small, with whose welfare we
are charged. / want to make that as
clear as possible. We don't want the
forest services position today msun-
derstood In this or any other matter.
CONFERENCE INVITED.
And finally. i ask you again TO bring
your complaints To us. Let us reason
together, and see whether they cannot
be set clear, We believe that the man.
agement of the reserves Is better this
year than last. We believe that II will
be better next year than this; but the
prime consideration in the improve
ment IL getting your cooperation. II
you VIII accept, and / know most OF
you do, that the forest reserves are
here to stay, and viii help us to Inn
prove their administration, then II will
be good for you ana good for us. II Is
the old story, United We stand, divid-
ed We fall"