Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-18
PRIEST. }. NJ. WILSON'S TALK.

| PRIEST. J. VI. WILSON'S TALK.
Delivered Powerful Speech on Cues
tons vitality Important To Sheepmen.
! II want TO congratulate the wool
growers In national convention assem-
| bIed on the continued prosperity of
| their business. The past year has been
| one probably of the greatest years In
| increase of business and of general pros
| perity that the world has yet seen, and
| am glad to be able to say that | be-
| lleve the sheep man has got his fai.
| portion. There are a great many sub
| 1ects that will come up for discussion
| here-subjects that IL not rightly set
\ tied mean not continuation of pros
| perity for the sheep man, but the very
| reverse. And l trust that In all our
discussion that while we talk hard and
harshly OF principles. that we will keep
| away from all personalities. As
| Shakespeare says, 81 would have you
| love the offender. but detest the Of
| Tense" In doing this we will get bet
ter results-will have better right to
| ask for results than If we continued in
| a spirit of Jealousy and bitterness. This
| Sheepgrowers' convention Is for the
| benefit of each and every fockmaster.
| To-day is day of combination. All
| industries are combining for mutual
| help and protection. and If the sheep
| men stand idly by or trust to a few to
| do the work, they VIII waken up later
| and find their mistake when 1t Is too
| late. AS said. there are many matters
| of general interest that win come up
| and be discussed fully, and all l ex-
pect TO do now is merely to call atten-
| ton to them.
| THE FOREST QUESTION.
zone of these will be forest reserves,
and we have the chief forester of the
| United States here with us. l believe
| the present method of handling forest
| reserves to a great extent wrong. Mr..
| Pinchot and l can't agree, and the moro
| we try to agree, the further apart We
appear to get. because the forest re-
| serves of Wyoming have taken 100000
l acres from the grazing area OF the
| state. AS matter of course, they al
| low a certain amount of stock on that,
but 1t is SO little in proportion to what
| the balance of the state has to carry
| as to be hardly noticeable. Last year
| l believe there were something like 3g3,-
900 sheep on 100000 acres for two
months. As matter of course, they
| say there Were cattle on IL. Will adj
| NIT that, and probably horses; so were
1 there cattle and horses in the rest Of
the state. And yet the rest of the en-
| tire state less than $4,000, 900 acres, car
ried these $4,000 sheep the other 10
| months of the year and over 100000
| head for ~ months And II the forest
| reserve policy is to be carried out on
the rest of the public domain, l feel we
| might Just as well declare this conven-
| tion adjourned sine die. (F'rom the au-
| dience That's right.") And quit doing
anything. prolonged applause) But
1 as said. only intend in a general way
| TO call attention to these things. Now,
| you know IN Wyoming we are awfully
| proud of some things. and there are
| probably some things we are not proud
| of, but ] viii tell you of some of the
| things we are proud Of wyoming is
| proud of her delegation in Congress.
| In the United States senate there aye
| seven great coFhmittees-enumerat
| them as you will-ways and means, ju-
| dietary, military affairs. and l can't
tell the rest, but there are seven great
| committees, and the only state in the
| entire Union that holds the chairman
| ship to two of these Is Wyoming zap
| plause) Se"qtor Warren, your presl-
| dent being hartman of the committee
| oil military relations. and Senator Clark
| the chairman of the committee on jul
| dietary, the first time that chairman
| ship has ever come west of the Missis-
| sippi river; committee formerly pre-
I, sided over by men like Clay, Calhoun
/ and Webster. Then we have another
| one there. We don't hear much of him,
| but | am going to make every sheep
| man here love him as soon as / read
| this telegram. You know, politicians.
as a rule, are awfully afraid of COM
hitting themselves. and especially to a
| convention OF this kind. before the con-
ventlon has decided what It ought TO
| do.
| ON FEDERAL CONTROL.
wyoming has only one congress
| man, but he is not afraid, and here Is
| the message that he sent to the Wy
| oming woolgrowers. 1t Is just as APP
| propriate at this convention. He says:
| Il congratulate the woolgrowers of
| Wyoming. in convention assembled on
| the prosperous condition of their indus
| try. which condition / believe will con-
| tinue so long as we maintain an ade-
! uuate tariff Ga thing that interests the
| sheepmAn) and don't further restrict
| the use of our range mot some on
| elses range) but don't restrict the use
| of our range by federal supervision
| and control (Applause.) wish you
a pleasant meeting. etc He believes
| that prosperous conditions shall con-
| tInue 50 long as we maintain an ade-
| aunte tariff and what Is OF much nsDre
| Importance, don't restrict the use OF O ~
| range by federal supervision and con-
| troll.
They are going to do something with
! the Iands--ease them. You konw there
! has been a great deal of land stealing
1 out west. don't know how II affects
| you people here In Utah and In Idaho.
| but j KNOW "a man VINO steals muGn
| government land In Wyoming is poor
| on account OF II, and know that In
the central part OF Wyoming there has
never been one single acre OF land
| aliennted from the government that the
| government has not got value received
| for--not an acre. There IL not today, l
| believe ~ the state or Wyoming, 100
| acres Of government land that any man
| could 90 on and be able to stay there
i've years and make AN honest living.
| and n he had 70 take and fence that
and put cattle on II, 10 head of cattle
would starVe TO death on ID inside OF a
year. And yet that is the land they
arc going to control and take care Of
! thing that has never been known IN
| the history OF the United States. We
! have always had frontier and the
men going out there 10 make homes
have always had the benefit OF FREE
range until now. when the best OF II is
all gone and they come IN and tell us
| that We ought TO get together and hx
| this. because they are going 10 do some