Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-18
.NO BACKWARD STEP, SAYS
 MIR. P|NCHOT
Chief Forester, Facing His Col orado Critics, Declares the Service Has No Apologies to Make

DENVER Mar. 17.-IuVading the | heart Of the country which has been opposed to the policy of the Govern ments Forestry Service, Clifford Pin chot. Government Forester In an ad- dress today before the legislature og Colorado. vigorously defended his ad- mnistration from the assaults made against #. After declaring that he had no apologies to make for the policy of the Forest Service, Mir. Pin chot stated that no backward step would be taken in any salutary policy adopted
 Mir. Pinchot's address was in re- sponse to an invitation from the Joint Assembly. His opening state ment was replied to by state Senator Elias M. Ammons, an opponent of the policy Of the Forest Service. Mir. Pin chOt made a rejOinder to Senator Am mons address. Tn his opening declaration, NIT. Pin chot said that the Forest Service is anxious for cooperation with every | interest not antagonistic Co the pub i lie welfare which uses or can use the national forests. He had come out hero, he stater. not only to de clare his principles but 10 state also that he proposed to stand by them. He said that he would treat every complaint made with view to avoid ing misunderstanding prevent inius | tice. promote development and carry i forward in cooperation with the peo- | pie of Colorado a policy which means Sc much to them and future genera 1 tioEs. If tae regulations arc found to work badly he pointed out. they should lse changed. and # the law isl unjust 1t should be amended. but un- tii it is amended the. Fcrest Service , is bound to exccuto it iu the best way 1t can"
 ! Mir. Psschot declared that he was aUthOTizea by the new administration | to say that the general policy of creating and maintaining national for ests may be regarded as definitely
 and finally fixed and that tle general lines of policy for which the Forest
 Service stands are endorsed and will
 be supported by PresIdeu Taft.
 What l have come here to do is to establish such relations with the | people of Colorado who use the Ma tional Forests and are affected by i them, as will be for the best interests Of th State and the Nation
 1 The Forest Service exists not only ' to protect the National Forests It i exists just as much 10 develop the i National Forests and the states in | which they lie. and it has no stronger desire than 10 promote and foster the 1 the development of Colorado and every other western state. No more ! complete mistake about the National 1 Forests mas ever been spread abroad l then that they arc shut against devcf- tOpmeut and use.
 | or the total amount received from 1 those who received direct benefits | from the use of the varied resources of the National Forests Of Colorado I last year % per cent or 9,T61.2S was turned over to the state to be
 used in the development and main i tenancc of roads and the public school lsystem.
 Tn the immense amount of business transacted over so large an area, it
 was inevitable that mistakes should
 be made. l do not doubt that iG iso- lated cases injustice has been done. and wherever such injustice has been
 drought to my attention, it mas been lcOTrected."
 During the last fiscal year. tim Der worth more than six millions of
 dollars standing on invalid mining
 claims was saved to the people of the United States by the examinations Ot mining claims. The Forest Service has no apologies to make for having defeated the men wlO tried to get
 this timber under color of mining
 laws
 There is a certain kind of opposi lti0n to the National Forests which cannot and ought not to be removed. lif there were 10 opposition whatever | Co the Forest Service it would be the | dearest possible indication that the IserFice is not doing ifs duty. In the lcxercisc of the duty imposed upon iL the Service has time aud again pre- vented certain men or certain inter
 ests from getting things taey wanted. but ought not to have. and from these men and these interests the bitterest and most persistent part of ne oppo- sition has steadily come. Such iu- lterests are found. for example, in
 some of the great sheep men who ob- ject to making room for the small set
 tier, or to such reduction in the num-
 Der of their stock as IS necessary to
 protect the irrigation interests and from men who are engaged in the for irnation of 8 great water power trust.
 For the opposition it has excited from these interests. the Forest Service has Inc apologies whatever to make. ft proposes to stand resOlutely by the jpolicy of preferring to help the small
 man make living than to help the Large man make a profit, and 1t will
 not abandon the policy of government
 control of the water power to prevent
 monopoly. If the attitude of the
 Service in these matters leads to irri-
 tation and denunciation, then let the opponents of the Service make the
 most of them Neither in this nor in
 any other salutary policy adopted
 and maintained by the Forest Service
 will there be a single backward step.V GSO-Lerd De Ia WsrF started on