The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-05-23
meeting, and In diplomats language

meeting, and In diplomatic language
told the gathering that they were
set OF blamed fools and did not know
What was good for them as well as
the people did In Washington. When
congress passed law that there
should not be any more forest re-
serves established without an act OF
congress President Roosevelt took an
unfair advantage Of the people which
would have resulted In the impeach-
ment OF the chief executive twenty
years ago. lie held up this act OF
congress as long as the law would
permit before he signed IL, and In
the meantime attached his signature
TO proclamation which threw In
10 forest reserve over seventeen mil.
lion OF acres of the public domain.
There he nullided the acts OF the
representatives Of the people To carry
out one Of his hobbies. which no has
ridden To death.
By a shrewd and disrepntable trick,
which the ordinary ward politician
would not be guilty Of, the president
again Informed the representatives OF
the people, by the signing OF this
proclamation, that wo are not capable
of self.eoyernment ana need the
strong guiding hand OF a dictator.
Is IL not surprising that some men,
who three months ago were circnlat.
Ind petitions to retain their inalien'
able rights. that are today fawninp
al the feet OF the one who may srIite
them again should the opportunit,
present itseltg
IL Pinohot comes here next month
he viii no doubt tell US that the oh.
jeet OF the administration In estab
fishing the Salmon River Forest Re
serve Is 10 conserve the timber II
tho mountains for the rising gener
alton, and also To conserve the source,
of the water supply. Every resIden,
OF salmon knows full we'll that ther,
Is not enough OF understandable thu
Ter In the mountains adjacent 10 Sal
mon 10 supply the actual home con
sumption. Every citizen of Salmon
also knows that there Is millions o
inches OF water going To waste ever,
season. and will continue to DO "
should every acre of laud that Is pos
sihle of Irrigation be placed undo
; water. The usual rules which main
taincd when the hrst tracts wer'
placed IN ths reserves will not appl!
In this case.
IL Is simply one OF the many hob
hies which tho president has whiel
I, is worked to death, aud the psopl
are the sufferers, Tie people VIII
: came 10 this section forty years ago
vent through the bardships of pho
neef life, built reads through th
, mountains, and made u possible 10
o the ekistencs aud gaining compel
: cney for those who came later, az
now permitted 10 have no say, or I
reap no benefits from the results q
a their toll. In place of heing perml,
4 ted 10 go "a the bills and get lea
= Of wood should their necessities II
!, quire u, they must Erst bow at IN
= feet Of forest reserve rider, the
"a take what he chooses to give then
/. after paying Tor the privilege.
This Is remnant Of the feuds
n days OF England when the great Tor
q and master set aside the great foI
II ests, which the common people IA
}. no say, as game preserves IL th
d f1rest reserve IN this locality, as
'e relates Ia the benefit OF future genel
/. ations played any part there could b
e. no protest, but u Is simply hobb
oi OF the man with tile big stick and {
Q. furnish employment TO the hangers
Oi on OF grea. political party. Tn
D. forest reserve, as IL Is TO be conduct
Is ed In the Salmon river country Is &c