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II the nsose salssut fsstuvss 70 lie
ssadsss. Up 10 the psesses tisse
sAs Psopls II laree have co@passely
failsd - GssAp ths vssl sigai6cssce
ii Tie sd0is'sesstioa policy in dis
p0sal II oar wsser, oar r1a0e aaA
the la0acy H nsssral wealth With
which each sGaAe - snAousd. Ii has
in fsca hsss . co0plete sssessal OF
the psectiOe and psinciplss Of q cen
tsry, Not bst sAsi most men
bslisse the pssssdsat and his sdvis-
oss ossa vsll sso~GA, but they 20
tally tnal - snAssseand the sitsation
q elss. understanding, they have
kscoase % inbssd With bavsau,rat-
ic aad pssersal motions that they
neaa to govern ~ for our own
good" whether or No.
For lns4sRce, no one accusea the
presidsnt Of Intentional wrong lie
says he wants TO do the very thing
the rest Of US want, namely, 10 favor
the small owner and the home
steader. The great majority Of the
convention simply believed that in
stead of working 10 that end, his
policies would do directly the con-
trary and continue to drive our set
tiers TO Canada.
1t is because of this belief in the
presidents good intentions, that
most people have been content to let
things slide and no study has been
devoted to the profound questions
involved, except by limited few.
Even the Denver papers have
bsen afraid to tackle the subject
Paul TheimAn. editor Of the Denver
Post, admitted up to the week before
the convention that he didn't know
q thing about it. During and since
The convention, however, these ps-
paeu hsvs hsen fall u ~ matter,
aad psaoticallly without sscsPtion
take their stand in oppositioa to
Pinchot's schemes. 1t 10 the first
time they have been agreed upon
any subject since 1896.
The same is IT, however, of
nearly every public man west of the
Missouri. As they s,ndy the ques-
tions, they are, If not swayed by
blind partisanship or some personal
motive inevitably forced into opposi-
tion to the new and strange and
dangerous departures proposed and
actually in operation.
The majority of the convention
was composed of men who were
convinced of the Justice of their de-
mands and tho truth of their prop
ositions. They firmly believed, as
the News-Chompion has contended
since it started the agitation thirty
months ago, that the administration
schemes only needed to be brought
vividly to the attention of thinking
men Of the west to receive almos.
unanimous condemnation
The question of unjust charges
for grass. water, etc, upon forest re-
serves was not touched upon as
thoroughly as most of us would
have liked at the Denver convention
Pinchot has time and again lodged
the cases. which had been brought
up to scare poor cattlemen, on some
slight pretext, as soon as the cattle
men gave evidence of being in a
fighting mood. However, COM
mittee appointed by the Colorado
Cattle and Horse Growers Association
and consisting of f. N. Ammons,
T. S Harper and W. A. Gillaspey,
waited upon Mr.. Pinchot and sue
ceeded in getting from him a written
agreement to prosecute cattleman
for not taking ont permit when
his cattle might possible stray upon
the preserves and to carry the case
to the United States supreme court.
Fred Light Of Aspen agreed to be
the victim and rs Mr.. Pinchot' s
agreement was signed before a
notary we have hopes that he will
not be able to slip out.
The resolutions printed last week
mean even more than they say. The
plank against leasing, for instance,
while merely affirming belief in the
plan which has worked so success
fully for hundred years, was vio-
lenrIy opposed by the administration
wing, which offered straight leas-
ing substitute, that in effect empow-
cred the president to appoint COM
mittee presumably Of men who be-
lieved as he did who would go
down to Washington and sit with the
president and frame up plan to
lease six hundred million acres of
exornrnmAnf Land To than aelres