New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-19

Speaks on Conservation at Trans
Mississippi Congress.

Denver Aug 1s-GiTord Pinchot. Chief Forester
of the United States Department of Agriculture.
and Thomas F. Walsh millionaire mine owner, ex-
changed compliments to-day before the TRANSMITS
sissippi Congress AS concluding rote I'm the har-
mony of the session the delegates loudly eheered
Mr.. Pinchot's address.
Mr. Walsh in presenting Mr. Pinehot. referred to
the latter as patriotic young American. who, rich
in his own right was devotng himself to the SER
vice of his country, and whose mistakes. IL there
were any, were those OF the head and not of the
heart.
In return Mr.. Pinchot spoke of the mine owner
as a soldier Of the common good" and wished
for more of his kind And I'm this mood the con-
gress listened with evident satisfaction.
John b. Leeds of Colorado. in presenting resolu-
ton TO the congress protesting TO see Japanese
fleets and armies swarming down on the capital at
washington. suggested that the capital be removed
10 Denver
That the national duty lies in the direction or
conservation there Is doubt said Mr. Pinchot
Il can conceive OF no higher plane OF duty than
that we conserve waste resources along the
lines of the Roosevelt policies and 10 these policies
| am committed.
1T is folly for to there are lands In plenty
and forests In plenty when we know our forests
are being depleted far more swiftly than It Is
possible for TO reforAst. We have forests In
plenty for the present generation and perhaps for
the next but in years to come there will be
famine aplenty if we don't at this time take the
stitch in time
Conservation on the lines laid down by Roose-
Welt Will not only keep present forests. but will
give us lumber when we need II most. To save
these forests may require much seIt-deniaI
but It will give the country resources In the years
come"
Following his plea for the forests. Mr.. Pinchot
urged reclamation. and said II lay with the West
10 make fertile with it's own labor the tracts
that otherwise would he lost He promised the aid
of the government in every meritorious enterprise
looking toward conservation.
Before Mr.. Pinchot spoke a number Of resolutions
offered In the citizens OF Arizona de-
ma nded separate statehood In another shippers
urged that railroads be not permitted 10 Increase
rates without due application TO the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Still another demanded
more Industrial schools
John W Noble former Secretary cf the Interior.
in an address pointed out that there had grown
up a public opinion almost universal In the nation
10 preserve the country's natural resources These
resources. essential 10 the nations vitality and
progress should protected. he said. from private
and particularly from corporate greed and mon
opoly and controlled for tile public welfare
and hereafter
Last night the Colorado delegation was working
20 have ex-senator kenry VI. Teller made chair
man 81 the resolutions committee. Mr. Teller is
pronounced In his opposition Mr. PinchOt and
many OF his policies. and but for the fear that his
antagonism Mr. Pinchot might revive the
Bailinger-Pinchot controversy TelIer's popularity
would win for him
Seattle Aug ls-seyeraI Western irrigation men
scheduled TO address the first National Conserva-
ton Congress To be held here August % q and
d have written the executive board OF the
Washington Conservation Association. under whose
auspices the congress will be held. that they de-
sire 20 reopen the Ballinger- Pinchot controversy.
started at the irrigation congress in Spokane last
week