The Glenwood post., 1907-06-22
PUBLIC LANDS
MEETING OVER
Resolutions Passed Endorsing Pres
ident ROOSeveIt'S Forest Re-
serve pOIlCy---OppOSeS
Lease Law
PROMINENT OFFICIALS PRESENT

The public lands convention held at
Denver this week was an interesting
affair and to the extent of bringing
the people of various sections together
and securing an interchange of views
it was valuable but so far as accom-
plishing anything of real value to the
farmers and stockmen it was inst like
nearly all of the other meetings held
for the same purpose have been barren
of results. While it is trne the call
issued by Governor Buchtel contem-.
plated general discussion of all the
public land laws it has been we'll
known for some time that a special
effort would be made to especially
attack the government forest reserve
policy and this arrangement was we'll
carried out.
While some cattlemen from all over
the western country and some of their
newspaper men who have pretended to
champion their cause loudly claimed
that every thing would go their way
are greatly disappointed at the results
of the meeting it is difficult to under
stand how they could expect any other
outcome.
Certainly the opponents of the ad
ministration were given every possible
chance to present their case and win
a victory had the question been alto
gether ones sided affair as they
seemed to think. They had some of
the brainiest orators in the country as
their champions-men who have
scarcely done anything else for years
than fight the government of state
and nation-and ably did these men
present the claims of those cattlemen
who profess to believe that they are
terribly oppressed.
But the meeting soon developed the
fact that the stoCkmen-even the Colo
RADIO stockmen were far from a unit as
to their wants or purposes 1t is
much as one of the stockmen expressed
it who said that of all the stoCkmen
present there were scarcely Two men
in the convention who could agree as
to what they wanted There is great
Inference of opinion and 1t is an hon
est difference as to the merits of the
forest reserve system, the laws for
acquiring government lands and the
executive orders withdrawing these
coal lands from entry. Hon. James
r. Garfield, secretary of the interior,
Hou. R. BallingeI, commissioner of
the general land office, and Hon
Clifford Pinchot were present as the
direct representatives of the president
and the government, and these gen
tlemen gave considerable information
as to the workings of their depart
ments and they were we'll received.
With such speakers as Congressmen
Bonynge of Colorado, Mondell of
Wyoming, Senators Teller and Pat
terson of Colorado, Clark of Wyoming
and Carter of Montana ex Congress
man Shafroth and many other lesser
bat brilliant lights, the meeting
could not fail of interest and enter
talnment.
The Denver Post sums up the gis,
Of the resolutions in the following
words:
Do not denounce landlordism on the
part of the government.
Oppose any change in existing laws
on grazing outside forest reserves
Non -committal on Roosevelt's pol
icy of grazing permits.
Reasonable charges and regulations
asked for grazing in forest reseIv yes
Release from reserves of land moi
tmbere and not necessary to conserve
water rights.
Favor homesteading inside the for
est reserves with reasonable precau
tions but less red tape.
Asks state control of non -navigablt
streams.