The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-01-17
THE SHEEP MEN and THE ADMINISTRATION.
(Salt Lake Tribune. J

The National Wool Growers convention Helena opened wit
decided hostility toward the presidents forest
grazing policies The note Of discomfort with those pocie
ndetone OF the convention Of the National Wool Grower
which was held this city year But the president through
his personal representatives and because of his tremendous peg
that time (Which has materially waned since) able sothe
opposition obtain modification Of the resolutions adopted
by their original and pronounced form If
may judge from the opening proceedings of the present convention
in Helena there will be opportunity squelch the ouspoken op
position this year resolutions Of condemnation may confidently
be expected Vice President Wilson Of Wyoming gave
preston the opposition the wool growers both the forest
and grazing policy Of the administration by separating the
propositions He admitted the benefit Of the program pre-
the forests and conceded that the creation of that
end proper but he opposed the grazing having ea
ton best only the kind Of relation forest peserva
ton He stated Of knowledge that vast
Of land devoid Of timber been included the
with the scarcely disguised purpose of applying them to the pet
scheme Of the officers Of the forestry bureau get
OF the grazing lands defiance of the will Of the people and Of
congress"
This practically what Tribune conending all
along The forest laid do follow the lines of for
esaon but include large Of land which there tim
Der and which there any They include large
OF ocaed timber lands the value
where has apprecabe relation the conservation of the
of the The great difficulty throughout this whole
business the lack of coordination between what desired and
those things applied to the purpose of eectng that desire 1t
desirable preserve the forests of desirable to
include forest vast that have nothing do with
forests And where the deab of preserving the
coded there logical connection between that and the collection
Of grazing under the regulation of federal supervisors rangers
and the regulation of the number kind livestock that may be
paured upon the public ranges No wonder Mr. Wilson denonces
the presidents policy of paternasm mad" Under
the forest supervisors the of stock that they pas
ture just head given range and they determine
year the number of stock they will permit be grazd
the various socaed forest 1t though tremendous
land dealing with were managing their
affairs for them though they able manage these
themselves 1t this odous intrusion into the private affairs
people tins pense OF caring for forests where there forests
this claim of guarding the headwae the various streams with
view to dsmssing the carly spring floods retention of
the water where nothing of the kind possible that dsgusts
people with the whole administration program respect these
forest reserves Under the of caring for the
theory that conceded be are forests and of
eorestaon where there have been forests
side shows put into operation making bug pretense of the
whole matter and that what dsgus the people 1t the lack of
application OF intelligence practical conditions bamewor
for all the friction that exists If the reserves simply included
the forests the eforestaon oaed fact eorestation
and amounted to anything extent then there would be no dis
content among the people with regard the administrations policy
m this respect especially would this be the the admnistra
ion did not under the pretens of caring for the forests take charge
large OF grazing land where there forests and never
ave been any the nconseque claim that they are doing one
hing when in fact they doing another quite different thing
md the inconsistency of tracing effects impossible causes that
AVE sunk the administration policies in these matters to very low
epths in the public estimation