The Glenwood post., 1909-12-11
P|NCAO1'S FAULTS
NOT ALL TOLD
". G. N. Stone, President Of
State Forestry Associa.
ton, Says So
he ENUMERATES SOME

The president of the Colorado Stale
forestry association sees some traits
in Chief Forest ter Pinchot which have
not been mentioned in the public prints,
according to the following letter to the
Denver Republican:
Denver, Dee. 3.-tTo the Republican,
Mr.. Pinchot has his faults. He has
too many and they are too big. What |
am about to say is suggested by your
editorial in this friday morning s
issue, under the caption: "1s 1t Per
sonal or Professional?' I shall not
try to answer your query. but stick to
my own subject, "The Faults of Mr.
Pinchot.''
He has been openly charged with
quite number | heard him publicly
acknowledge some of them. and say
they should be corrected as soon as
possible. These particular faults are
growing less. and the public is finding
that some of which he is charged, are
not so enormous as at first reported.
Many contain good deal of second
hand matter. However. it is not these
] have in mind.
He has some faults that have been
kept in the background. They have no.
been made public. at least they have
not been urged against him as they
should have been. They are of char.
acter that would preclude any defense.
He could not answer them, nor even
deny them They should be given gen
!. oral publicity. and depicted with a bol1,
aorid pen that could portray the truth
to life. ] can only touch the edges,
but hope that what I fail to say can
be read between the lines.
Mr.. Pinchot's faults are too many.
too great and too evident to be passed
in silence. For example: He knows too
much. | do not refer to rgotism, but
mean just what I say. He spent too
is in. Probably not another man in the
United States is guilty of doing what
he has in this direction. His knowledge
is too extensive and too accurate. He
knows too well how things ought to be
done what to do and when to do them.
Think how much more valuable it
have an ignoramus in that office! And
it would be comparatively easy to find
one. Think what a glorious service
President Taft could do his country to
spend little time hunting for man
of less calibcr. less knowledge and less
energy, and then demand of Secretary
Wilson his appointment
Again, Mr.. Pinchot has too much care
for the public veal. If he would taia
less interest in the welfare of his coun-
try and more in his salary it would be
more to his personal advantage. Can-
not man be found for his place who
is less patriotic, and who would MOI
>care n rap who of us might get away
with the forests. and coal lands, and
water powers? I think so.
Further. Mr.. Pinchot does too much
entirely too much. He is too good an
organizer. See what he has accomplish
ed in the last five years organizing the
forest service! See how thoroughly nc
has done it. to the number of several
thousand people selected outside of pol
tiles without the help of politicians
and in finding specific work for every
last John Smith of them! Now if We
had a man less capable, less energetic
who could not do what he has done
think what an improvement it woul1
be!
If he would sit around more. hand
out more cigars and spend more time in
his office at Washington talking abou,
the mound builders or the old Egyptian
art of preserving mummies. It would
save n lot of hard work on his par,
and some friction, out west. not con
nected with the north pole. Now if he
had done moro work of that sort we
would never have been troubled witi
the forest service. Do you see?
Yes, Mr.. Pinchot has done and il
still doing too much. I'm sure som'
one might be found who would be self
sacrificing enough to do less.
A word and I'm done. I don't wan
to be classed among the muckrakers
But in this case the public should know
Oknore about Mr.. Pinchot and his faults
such - I have enumerated. Il has NO