The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-19
PINCHOT'S VIEWS
 BRING APPLAUSE
Forest Expert Talks Before the
 Commercial Congress
CARING FOR RESOURCES
Clifford Pinchot and John w. Noble Speak of the Conservation of the Natural Resources of the
 United States.

Denver. Col, August 1S.-Gifford Pin cnot chief forester of the United States department of agriculture, and Thomas F. Walsh, millionaire mine owner, ex- changed bon mots today before the trans Mississippi congress. As a concluding note in the harmony of the session. the delegates loudly cheered Mir. Pinchots address.
 The so-called 'enemies of Pinchot'' said they were satisfied with the conservation ideas of the speaker and joined in the cheering as Justify as did the adherents of the chief forester.
 Mir. Walsh, in presenting MT. P1nchot' referred to the latter as patriotic young American, who rich in his own right, Is devoting his life to the service of his coun- try, and whose mistakes, if there were any, are those of the head and not the heart.
 In return Mir. Pinchot spoke of the mine magnate as a soldier of the common good" and wished for more of his kind.
 In this mood the congress listened with evident satisfaction.
 Based on the Roosevelt policies MT. Pinchots address dwelt on conservation as a practical business policy. He said that the loss Or injury of one great staple will not only injure that particular busi- ness, but will strike at the heart of many allied interests. He paid his compliments to Roosevelt.
 John W. Noble, former. Secretary or the Interior also spoke on conservation He said in part:
 'NThe statutes relating to and authoriz- ing forest reserves and the reserve Of reservoir sites, either in letter or spirit, confined them to the close limits insisted upon by some, but used broad terms suitable to the nature of the subject mat ter in hand"
 And the more recent acts," he con- tinued, did not contemplate the relin- punishment of reserves and giving them back to private settlement where they were needed or useful for a sufficient supply as contemplated as by their orig inal selection or segregation.
 Tt thus appears clearly that there is no substantial ground to criticise the reservation as made
  grown up public opinion almost univer- sal in nature that showed not only an intelligent but a determined purpose that the country's natural resources, believed to be essential to the nations vitality and progress should be protected from pri- vate and particularly from corporate greed and monopoly and shoudl be controlled for the public welfare now and hereafter.
 It was apparent, the speaker continued, that these great benefits if they are al lowed to fall into the hands of individuals and particularly corporations would be administered for the greatest pecuniary gain possible to the owners. He said that if the nati&nal government or the several state government, where they had obtained similar reserves and were ad- ministering them" allowed the reserves to become monopolized by individuals or combinations, they would be deemed to have abdicated the very seat of govern ment.
 General Noble said that the very least that could be expected of the government would be to keep ultimate control of all rates and regulations so that the minis tration of the peoples trust could not be successfully perverted.
 There was no session of the congress this afternoon, owing to the general &C., ceptance of an invitation by MT. Walsh president of the congress, to a reception in their honor at Woolhurst, the home of MT. Walsh.