The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-16
UTAH GATHERS
FIRST PRIZES
]. R. Allen of Draper and w.
{. Hansen of Collision Make
Fine Showing at Helena.
WOOL MEMS CONVENTION
scATHING SET OF RESOLUTIONS
BEING PREPARED.
WOOL MEMS CONVENTION

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g Helena, Mont, jan 15.-Robert 9
/ Z. Taylor of Abbott Neb., was &,
8 awarded the silver cup offered By g
| q the association for the best gen. @
Z: eral display of sheep. as well as 9
| 9 first prize for Hampshire sheep. g
&, Other first prize winners included o
4 G. j. r. Allen of Draper, Utah, on e
q Cotswolds; F. 5. King Of Wycm- .
g ing on RambouiIletf bucks. and q
@ w. E. Hansen Of coIIiHston, Utah, Q
6: on lambs.
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Helena. Mont. Jan. 15.-While
neither J. K. Walsh. chairman, nor
any other member of the committee
on resolutions of the National Wool
Growers association VIII give any in
timation of the report of that bodys
labOrs tonight, il is stated on the au-
thOrity OF one who is closely in touch
with the situation that the COMMITTEES
viii tomorrow morning ask the con-
ventiOn to adopt a set Of most scath-
ing resolutions against the administra-
tons policy relative TO public lands
IN fact, it is the intention OF the ASSOC
citation to send to Washington during
the present session of congress three
I
bitter war on the proposed legislation
regarding grazing lands in the west.
Because of his support of the presi-
dents action, Senator r. Z. Warren,
present head of the organization has
lost all his former supporters except
the Wyoming delegation. and even in
that there are dissenters. At the cleo
ton tomorrow it is more than prcbao-
BILE that the association will choose as
/ L = rEo
Wyo., western vice president and act
| ing chairman.
Senator carter's Address.
The policy of the national adminis-
tration with reference to pubic lands
was again attacked today, Senator
Thomas H. Carter of Montana being
the spokesman through an intermedia-
| ~. he being unable TO be present He
based his utterances not upon any
political beliefs but rather that the
president had been Inisinfornfed. and.
that conditions had changed greatly
since he was q resident OF this state,
Senator Carter said:
/ The Teasing of the public ra1:ge does
not present question involving party
/ politics in any sense whatever. The
subject never has been considered in
the national councils of any party. In
| consequence I do not feel any sense of
! party restraint when I elect TO take is
sue with the announced policy of Pres
| ident Roosevelt in favor of leasing the
public domain or granting permits TO
individuals or associations DESTROYS Of
pasturing stock on the Incorporated
public land of the United states
Roosevelt Led Into Error.
According to my view the president
has been uneonsciously led into an err
| roneous conception of the relations of
the government to the people engaged
| in developing new states OF the west
The error may be traced TO the con-
fused idea that an analogy exists be-
tween public land suitable only for
| homestead settlement and timbered
| land chiefly valuable for forest pre-
! servation and production.
THE president, impressed with the
/ idea that the ranges We're being de-
stroyed by those who occupied them.
that settlers were being oppressed by
nomadic herdsmen, that commotion
and blOodshed marked the contentious
of rival claimants on the range. ap-
proved the policy proposed by the
chief forester but expressly disclaimed
| revenue raising as a primary purpose.
In his letter of Feb. II, 1907, 10 Sen
| atOr Warren, the president said that
! the grazing fee should be a small one
di iTSI, ana l0al any surplus should
go to the state or territory where the
fees were collected. And there would
be no surplus. as the object was to
supply an unlimited demand for ex-
pense money He favored local control
of the range in conjunction with fed
eral authority, and asserted that re-
sponsibiiity should not he so defined
that no one could be held responsible +
which meant that in the last ANALYSIS
the officer or agent of the federal gov
eminent should exercise supreme cen
| troll.
Vicious Features.
Herein rests the vicious feature of
the proposed policy It viii be OBJ
served that all proposals made have
contemplated lease or permit leaving
the determination OF the method to be
employed to the officers of the govern
ment, and I think it is fair TO saw
, that, judging BY the forestry policy.
the permit system would predominant.
Under that system every stock own
er outside of forest reservations would
be placed in precisely the ssSne posi-
ton as stock owners inside he forest
reservations In other words. 4fs ageIt
Of the government from whdse decf
sion there would be no anpeak excef,f
to the officer under whose dirA.tfofss
he proceeded would determine arsi.-
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