The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-08-25
is TROUBLE BREWING FOR TAFTY

cabinet Having joined issue with |
Secretary OF the Interior BalIinger
On the question of the conservation of
the nations resources. Mr.. Pinchot
has got himself 10 the point Of pro-
claiming in terms that he is waging
warfare for the maintenance of the
Roosevelt policies, thereby implying
that Mr.. Ballinger a member OF Pres
ident Taft's official family and pre-
sumably an exponent OF Mr.. Taft's
views. is standing for something very
different and, Of course, according to
the Roosevelt philosophy, that means
something very horrible. The stu
alton is exceedingly interesting from
the political viewpoint and may de-
yelop into one OF great deHcacy Tor
Mr.. Roosevel's successor and ap.
pointed heir Should the conflict Of
opinion be pressed by Mr. Pinchot-
as il appears now that it will be-
TO the point where Mr.. Taft may have
to take hand in support OF his sec
rotary against the onslaught of the
forester, Mr. Pinchot may easily as
sumo to himself the role of the first
Roosevelt martyr Of reactionary adj
ministration. and give the signal for
raising the amer of revolt and
sounding the cry for restoration of
1912. That is what many are look
ing for, and it is not at all without
the bounds Of possibility that we
may see, when Mr. Roosevelt re-
turns. al the end Of two years, laden
with trophies Of the chase and wear
ing the lamels Of the lyceum, a full
grown movement for his restoration
to power on the contention that his
chosen successor has shown himsel.
incapable Of carrying forward the aa
cred work Of reform, so far advanced
during The seven years OF Roosevelt
tism
Mi Pinchoi has followed his adj
dress before the irrigation congress
at Spokane in which he led an at
tack upon Secretary Ballinger's poll
icy of conservation, with another
address before the Trans mississippi
congress at Denver, emphasizing his
view ana defining it in terms as the
i genuine Roosevelt view Il can con-
ceiye OF no higher plane of duty he
declared, than that we conserve our
waste resources along the lines of the
Roosevelt policies. and to these poll
cies I am committed" Now, Mr., Bal
lnger is as stanch a conservationisJ
as is Mr. Pinchot, but he is not SO
impatient of the law as is the forester.
He would like to see as many acres
as Mr. Pinchot hopes for set aside to
the public uses, but he is Of the
opinion that 1t may not be done under
the law, and that private parties may
find it possible to obtain some OF the
choice tracts and, perhaps, to waste
portions OF the national resources.
1t is very sad, no doubt, says Mr.
BalliEeer. but alas il is he law. And
it is Just there that Mr. Pinchot
arises 10 waive the Roosevelt ban
ner What is the Law, indeed. in the
face OF the desideratum, He is CONF
matted TO the Roosevelt policies. which
conceive OF no law Ii seems net to
have occurred to either OF the gentle
men that the law might be amended
to meet the necessities, which IS
wholly natural in the case OF Mr.
Pinchot for that would not comport
well with the Roosevelt policies, bur
1t is rather peculiar that NIr Bal
Anger should not have suggested i'll
and sriven for it. and in that TACT
Turks the least suspicion of reaction
ism and a slight appearance Of un-
fortunate favor to individual interests,
which, OF course, may he dispelled by
further lights.
/ However the situation remains to
be developed and the developments
may have large and exciting political
possibilities and Mr.. Taft may be
coming into his appointed troubles
rather early in the game.
That Pittsburg strike is proving a