Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
CHAMPION TOUR
POLICIES, IS CRY
ConserVationists Contend RooSe-
Welt Should Defend Theories
Against Anti-Pinchot Men

Messages urging him to prepare to
come to attend the American Mining
congress and to the defense of one of
his most famous policies, hat OF con-
servation, was one of the features OF
the greeting of Roosevelt on his re-
turn to his native shores yesterday.
Other messages and letters, it is
claimed, will follow in a steady stream
and as the stream increases the in
dications are that the messages Will
become more insistent, all because or
what the advocates of conservation
in this portion of the country claim Is
a well defined scheme on the part OF
ti-conserVationists, or at least anti
Pinchot men, to capture the mining
congress or secure from 1t some eX-
preston antagonistic to or destruc-
tive of the principles for which Pinchot
and his fellow conservationists are
fighting.
Propaganda matter received in this
city indicates that some powerful min
ing interests in Alaska, including the
Cunningham and Guggenheim crowds,
it is believed, are at work in organ
izing a strong delegation for this pur-
pose This propaganda goes on to say
that "these are critical times for
Alaska, and, fortunately or unfortu-
nately, Alaskan legislation and Alas
kan questions will be most generally
ing congress. The next session of the
federal congress will be called upon to
decide whether Alaska is to be treated
as the great west has been treated, or
to be made a vast national preserve;
whether the policies of constructive
craftsmanship or the views of clois-
tered theorists are to prevail. The pol
icy of its legislation must now be set
tied.
ONLY ONE THAT KNOWS
"The American Mining congress is
the one public body that is directly in
terested in the subject, and is in the
best position to aid in the solution of
these questions" declare it's members
"Cloistered theorists" are taken by
the conservationists to mean Roosevelt,
Pinchot, Garfield and other advocates
of Roosevelt's favorite policy, and an
effort to influence legislation through
the mining congress is seen in the
activity of the delegation, as other
portions of the same propaganda crit
icize Pinchot almost causticly, eulogize
Ballinger immoderately and defend the
Cunningham and Guggenheim activ
tiles in the far northern territory al
most without qualification.
AS the entire Pinchot- -Ballinger con-
troversy resulted from the original dis
eussion of these Cunningham and Gug-
genheim cases, the effort to justify
their legality and regularity is con-
strued in but one way by the conser-
vatioh forces, viz: sweeping and bit
ter attack on the conservation orders
which threaten, the Alaskans claim, to
convert the territory into a vast ma
tional preserve" through the with
drawal of coal and mining lands, tim
ber preserves and farming lands.
If conservation policies now estab- |
Hshed in Alaska are abandoned, the
y-onservationists see but the entering
wedge on the part of powerful corpor-
ations for a general effort which will |
seek to nullify the conservation pol
icies of Roosevelt in all portions of |
the country where the government has |
any public lands containing coal, |
metals or timber Hence the awaken
ing Of the Roosevelt -Pinchot follow
ers.
WILL REFLECT ATTITUDE
If the conservation issue is to break
out again with it's old or renewed vio-
lence the action of the American Min
ing congress this fall in Los Angeles |
will go long way toward rejecting
the attitude of mining, coal and smelt-
ing men generally toward conservation
and this action will undoubtedly serve
as a basis for a general legislative
campaign in Washington, if it declares
against Alaskan conservation, show
ing. as it will tend to, that not only