The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-19
TRADE MEETING
GIVES PINCHOT
WARM WELCOME
Delegates TO Trans=Mississippi
Congress Cheer His Views
on Conservation
Chief Forester Insists Timber
Famine Is Inevitable Unless
Destruction Is Checked

DENVER. Aug lS.-Ginord Pinchot.
chief forester Of the United States de-
partment of agriculture. and Thomas
r. Walsh. millionaire mine owner, ex-
changed bon mots today before the
Trans Mississippi commercial congress.
and. as concluding note in the har-
mony OF the session, the delegates
greeted Pinchot's address with a
round of applause that shook the
auditorium
The so called enemies of Pinchot-
ism" 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.
EXCHANGE OF AMENITIES
Walsh. in presenting Pinchot re-
ferred TO the latter as patriotic young
American. who, rich in his own right.
IS devoting himself TO the service of
his country, and whose mistakes, if
there are any, are those of the head
and not the heart. In return Mr.. Pin
chot spoke of the mine magnate as
a soldier OF the common good" and
wished for more Of his kind
Based on the Roosevelt policies.
Pinchot's address dwelt on conserva-
tion as a practical business policy. He
said that. the loss or injury of one
great staple viii not only iniure that
particular business. but viii strike at
the heart Of many allied interests
Before Pinchot spoke a number of
resolutions were offered. The citizens
o. Arizona backed a resolution de-
handing separate statehood for their
territory. and shippers advocated a
resolution asking that railways be not
permitted TO increase rates without due
application 10 the interstate commerce
commission There was also A demand
Tor more industrial schools broadcast.
CoNSERV ALTON NATIONS DUTY
That the national duty lies in the
direction of conservation there is no
doubt" Pinchot said Il can conceive
Of no higher plane OF duty than that
We conserve our vast resources along
the lines Of the Roosevelt policies. and
10 these policies ! am committed"
This brought a round OF cheering.
and the allusiOn TO Roosevelt gained
applause for the former president.
IT IS folly for US to say there is
land i'm plenty and forests in plenty
when Ne know that our forests are be-
ing depleted far more swiftly than it
D. possible for rs TO reforesj We have
forests liz plenty for the present gene
ration and perhaps for the next, but
Ia the years 10 come there viii be fam
inc aplenty If we do not now take the
stitch in time.
Conservation on the lines laid down
by Roosevelt viii not only keep our
present forests. but viii give us lum-
her when we need il most. To save
these forests now may require much
self denial. but il viii give the coun-
81 try resources in the years to come"
Following his plea for the forests he
urged reclamation. and said il lies
with the west to make fertile with its
own labor the vast tracts which other
wise would be lost He promised the
aid or the government in every meri-
torious enterprise looking toward con-
servaIion.
DEFENDS ROOSEVELT POLICY
John " Noble. former secretary Of
The interior, spoke on conservation Of
forests and water rights. He said in
part:
'fhe statutes relating TO and au-
thorizing forest reserves and the re-
serve Of reservoir sites. either in let
Ter or spirit. confined them 10 the close
limits insisted upon by some, but used
broad terms suitable TO the nature of
the subject matter in hand And the
more recent acts did not contemplate
the REIMBURSEMENT OF reserves and
giving them back TO private settlement
where they were needed or useful for
sufficient water supply as contem-
plated By their original selection or
segregation"
General Noble pointed out that there
rad grown up a public opinion almost
universal in the nation that showed
not only an intelligent but a deter
mined purpose that the country's nat
urai resources. believed 10 be essential
10 the nations vitality and progress
should be protected from private and
particularly corporate greed and mo-
nopoiy and controlled for the public
welfare now and hereafter
ADVISES PUBLIC VIGILANCE
fl was apparent. the speaker con-
tinued, that the great benefits TO be
derived from power development and
land grants, if they were allowed to
faH into the hands Of individuals and
particularly corporations would be
administered for the greatest ne
cuniary gain possible to the owners
he said that II the national govern
ment or the several state governments
where they had obtained similar re-
serves lightly allowed them to become
nonopolized by individuals or com
bipatlons they would be deemed 10
have abdicated the very seat of gov
eminent that after having for so long
pretended TO protect the people, at last
turned them over cribbed and penned
10 their oppressors. He said that the
very least that could be expected of
The government would be to keen
Ultimate control Of all rates and regula-
tions, so that the ministration of the
trust could not be successfully per
verted.
Vice President Stricken
DENVER, Aug. 1s.-Newell G. I.ari-
more of Larimore, y. D., second vice
president Of the Trans Mississippi com
rnercial congress, now in session here
IS critically III Of pneumonia Lari-
more contracted a cold while at the
Seattle exposition. which develoned
into pneumonia during the trip from
the coast TO Denver. Larimore is
known rs the wheat king of the pa
kotas and is close friend Of James I