The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-06-16
P|NCHOT ASsA|LS
TARIFF AS GRAFT
Says Special Privilege Robs Con-
gress of Nations Faith.
SQUARE DEAL is DEMANDED
Former Forester TELLS ST. Paul Roose-
veit Club That Both Political
Parties Are Equally Subject
TO Evil Rule.

speech before the Roosevelt club here
Clifford Pinchot prophesied revolu,
tion in national politics, and in many
epigrammaticaI sentences scorched
congress and the leadership in both
the Republican and Democratic par.
ties.
He demanded the absolute divorce
of ''the interests and politics. Here
are some of the pointed things Mr..
PiRchot said in the course of his
speech:
IA representative of the people who
wears the collar of the special inter
ests has touched bottom. He can
sink no farther
Demand Square Deal.
THE people of the United States
demand a new deal and a square
DEAL
The motto in every primary-in
every election-should be this: No
watch dogs of the interests need ap-
ply.
The alliance between business and
politics is the most dangerous thing
in our political life. 1t is the snake
we must kill"
"The special interests must get out
Of politics or the American people
win put them out of business"
Faith in Congress Lost.
Because the special interests are
in politics we as nation have lost
confidence in congress"
1.-THE people of the United States
believe that. as a whole, the senate
and house no longer represent the
voters by whom they were elected,
but the special interests by which
they are controlled"
f'Differences of purpose and belief
between political parties today are
vastly less than the differences with.
in the parties.
1T is a greater thing to be a good
citizen than good Republican or a
good Democrat
THE protest against politics for
revenue only is as strong in one party
as in the other, for the servants of
the interests are plentiful in both"
N1lGNN0 LAW
In discussing the tariff Mr.. Pinchot
declared that congress had directly
violated the viii of the people and
thereby shown its alliance with the
interests" He made special men.
tion of the coal and steel and wool
Interests.
He declared that conservation had
captured the nation and that its
progress during the past twelve
months had been amazing.
Efforts to obscure or belittle the
issue have only served to make i'll
larger and clearer in the public
estimation" said Mr. Pinchot The
conservation movement cannot be
checked by the baseless charge that
it win prevent development, or that
every man who tells the plain truth
is either muck-raker or a dema
gogue. 1t has taken firm hold on our
national moral sense, and when an is
sue does that it has won.
All monopoly rests on the unregu
lated control Of natural resources and
natural advantages, and such control
by the special interests is impossible
without the help of politics"
Turns Fire on Congress.
Mr.. Pinchot then entered upon a
denunciation of congress as whole
as having lost the confidence of the
people and exclaimed:
who is to blame because repre-
sentatiyes of the people are so com
monty led to betray their trust? We
all are-we who have not taken the
trouble to resent and put an end tC
the knaVery we knew was going on
The brand of politics served out TO us
by the professional politician has
long been composed largely of hoi
meals for the interests and hot ali
for the people, and we have all known
It.
Political platforms are not sincere
statements of what the leaders of 3
party really believe. but rather forms
Of words which those leaders think
they can get others to believe they
believe"