Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
CLIFFORD PINCH0T
is GIVEN OVATION
Chief Foresters Defense of Roosevelt
Policy of Conservation Loudly
Applauded at Denver.
FOR PROTECTION OF FORESTS
His Reiteration of Stand Taken at
Spokane Provokes Enthusiasm.
RESOLUTIONS ARE INTRODUCED
Delegation from Arizona Asks Sep
arate Statehood for Territory.
ADDRESS BY GENERAL NOBLE
Former Secretary Of Interior Dis
cusses Importance OF Protecting
National Wealth from Cor
pOrato Monopoly.
His Reiteration of Stand Taken at
Spokane Provokes Enthusiasm.
RESOLUTIONS ARE INTRODUCED
Delegation from Arizona Asks Sep
arate Statehood for Territory.
ADDRESS BY GENERAL NOBLE

DENVER. Colo, Aug. 1s.-Gfford Pin
chot with a plea for the conservation Of
natural resources, based on the Roosevelt
policies brought burst Of enthusiasm
from the delegates 70 the TransmissisSippi
congress this morning when he reiterated
his stand taken at Spokane for the pro-
lection Of the national forests.
Before Mr.. Pinchot spoke a number OF
resolutions were offered. The citizens Of
Arizona backed a resolution demanding
separate statehood for their territory and
shippers urged a resolution asking that
railroads be not permitted to Increase rates
without due application to the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Also there was
q demand for more industrial schools.
Mr.. Pinchot was given hearty ovation
rs he began TO speak.
That the national duty lies in the di-
rection OF conservation there is no doubt, "
he said. Il can conceive Of no higher
plane Of duty than that we conserve our
waste resources along the lines Of the
. Roosevelt policies and to these policies /
am committed"
This brought round Of applause and
the allusion TO Roosevelt gained applause
for the former president.
1T is folly for us to say there is land in
plenty ana IoIeSlb III plenlyt Nnel We
know that our forests are being depleted
far more swiftly that 1t is possible for Us
TO reforest. We have forests in plenty for
the present generation and perhaps for the
next, but In the years to come there will
be famine aplenty IL we do not at this
time take a stitch in time.
Conservation on the lines laid down by
Roosevelt will not only keep our present
forests, but win give US lumber when we
need it most To save these forests now
may require much self-denial but it will
give the country resources in the years
to come"
Following his plea for the forests he
urged reclamation and said It lies with
the west to make fertile with its own labor
the vast tracts which otherwise would be
lost. He promised, the aid OF the govern
ment In every IneritoriOus enterprise look
ing toward conservation.
Demand for Conservation.
General John w. Noble former secre-
tary OF the interior, in an address at to-
days session of the congress pointed Out
that there had grown up public opinion
almost universal IN the nation that showed
not only an intelligent but a determined
purpose that the oountry's natural re-
sources believed to be essential TO the ma
tion's vitality and progress should be pro
teoted from private and particularly cor
porate greed and monopoly and controlled
for the public welfare now and hereafter
The speaker showed the present benefits
and future prospect from forest and waite.
reservations. He discussed the matter o.
y protecting the reservations from infringe
ment and their being gradually pared dowr
by the claims of individuals and small
local communities who asserted that thu
reservations were too large and that GOV
cred areas, which might be of use 70
grazing, should be turned back to the publ,
domain and be subject to settlement anC
private ownership.
General Noble says that the system al
now practiced and being enlarged wa!
natural in it's character, its benefits ex
tending not only to the first state, bu
reaching as the waters thus preserved rar
on, state after state and whole sections
OF our country from the source to tn,
mouth Of the various rivers: and that thu
system and policy were TO be considered
from national point OF view
II was apparent, the speaker continued
that these great benefits IL they were al
lowed TO fall into the hands of individuals
and particularly corporations, would b,
administered for the greatest pecuniarl
gain possible TO the owners
That the very least that could be ex
peeted Of the government wound be to keel
ultimate control OF rates and regulations
80 that the minstration Of the trust coulC
not be successfully perverted.