The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
GRATEFUL TEARS SHED BY P|NCHOT Former Forester Receives An
 Ovation At St. Paul ADDRESS BY JAMES J. HILL MT. Hill Comments Caustically Upon Government Activities in Certain
 Lines-Many Others Make
 Short Speeches

St. Paul, September With tho dazzling presidential and ex-presiden- tial luminaries shedding their powerful rays elsewhere the light of the Ma tional Conservation congress became visible today. On Monday and Tues day. President Taft and MT. Roosevelt delivered addresses which overshadow- ed all others in that line, and when they left the hall they were followed by most of the delegates, to say noth-
 ing of mere spectators.
 The two sessions today, addressed by James J. Hill Senator Beveridge Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson and oth- CTS, were well attended and enthusias- tic.
 Mir. Hill let fall showers of epigrams at the expense of the national govern ment and was applauded.
 Senator Beveridge waxed eloquent to quite different purpose, but the crowd noisiiy approved
 Clifford Pinchot, who was almost lost to sight during the period of the Presi- dential presence, suddenly found him self in the limelight and received an almost hysterical ovation. Tears sprang to his eyes and weru still in his voice when he said a few words of thanks
 Another feature of the day but of which the spectators knew little, If any thing, was the closing of the Edward c. Hines incident. MT. Hines defied the n1ionois delegation which had protested against his being chairman of the credentials committee on the ground
 that public gossip had connected him
 too closely with the alleged purchase of Senator Lorimers seat in the San ate. MT. Hines told his fellow Chica- goans that he had been appointed
 chairman. and that since they had
 chosen to play penny politics" he
 would fight them all along the line. Another Man Appointed B. N. Baker, president of the congress,
 understanding that Mr. Hines did not de-
 sire to serve, had appointed Professor G .
 F. Condra, of the University Eof Ne braska- Professor Cono-s suggested a coniprimise. which MT. Hines accepted
 namely, that he (Condra) should report on the number of delegates present and
 then ask that the committee be dis | charged This was done and the incident declared closed.
 l Senator Beveridge spoke during the
 forenoon session, Mr. Hill and Secretary | Wilson in the afternoon. | It was the senator from Indiana who
 stirred the crowd to the big ovation for
 Mr. Pinchot. The applause burst at the
 mere mention of the former national for | ester's name. It started as good hon | est round of applause. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Grans of New York who is attending the congress with Mrs. LaFollette, wife of the Wisconsin senator, stood up waving l handkerchiefs in both hands. She after wards said she was so excited that she | scarcely realized there was any one In the hall but herself. Her example was all | that the crowd needed. Everybody rose and 1t was a full minute before Senator Beveridge could resume. When he had concluded cries tor Pinchot came from every part of the house. He was final ly dragged forward and in shaky voice | said: There are but few moments in a
 mans life like this. It is magnificent to
 hear the principles of conservation of natural resources acclaimed as you have
 done. I have fought many years for con-
 servation and conservation has won. thank you"
 James J. Hills Address | MT. Hill spoke with a vigor of gesture
 that gave the lie to his gray beard. The following excerpts stood out from his ad- dress
 "The need of the hour is to conserve conservation"
 ..The time is ripe to distinguish between
 real and fanciful conservation "The national machine Is too high. too
 distant, slow, cumbrous and costly.
 Irrigation would have been more
 cheaply done if turned over to private en- terprise or committed to the several states"
 "Coal mining must be carried on upon
 large scale to be commercially pos sible"
 While we lament the exhaustion of our coal supply we maintain a tariff that com pels us to draw upon it continually"
 What the United States needs is
 neither reckless destruction nor an em- bargo upon our splendid western common
 wealths by taking up considerable por- tion of their available area" "The west believes In forest preserva- ton. practically and not theoretically" "The use of water within a state is the property of state and cannot be taken from it.
 "The worst scandals of state land mis- appropriation are insignificant when com- pared with the record of the nation." ''The soil is the ultimate employer of all industry and the greater source of all wealth."
 .sIn 1908 the excess of American exports over imports was $666 900; by 1910 1t had fallen to $1S7000,0o ,0o0.' "Impending misfortune only the conser- vation of a neglected soil and the interests connected with 1t can avert. "Spendthrift man and spendthrift nation must face at last the same law and the same penalty"
 Any conservation movement must place high upon its programme the saving of capital and of credit from the rapa- clous hands of the socialists as well as the
 monopoist."
 "A tariff on any raw material for bids the conservation of similar natural resources here.
 "Whoever attempts to make conser- vation the bone of personal controversy or the beast of burden to carry any
 faction into power or popularity is it's worst enemy"
 Wallace Takes Issue Henry Wallace of Des Molnes, Ia.,
 who followed Mir Hill, took issue with most of the latter's statements. He re- ferred in so doing, to my old friend Hill,' and made several slings at the empire builder, at which the latter chuckled heartily.
 "If our government" he said, lis to continue as 1t has been for some years l pa sta government by great corpora . | tions for the benefit of great corpor- ations-it matters little whether our ICONrtNUED ON FACE O.