The Boise citizen., 1910-04-01
Pen Picture of Ballinger

indifference the robbery of the public domain:
% alnger Pnchot investigation has developed one fact that
ws TO some and which President Taft should have un-
I when he was making up his cabinet 1t is that the Secretary
@ Interior who charged with the administration and protection
IN bc domain should have been chosen the region
between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean Public
en in this region is tolerant of robbng the public
as in olden days tolerant of opium smuggng-an in
~ M the way which formed the foundation of several large
! Nd respectable Pacific coast fortunes.
IN article The Public last (vol xii D. 725 the
ont that in economic thought and civic morality the
% slope is the backward section of the country. Special
nce was made in that article the demand of the Western
al men for inordnatey high protection 1t pointed
M @ demand buttressed in the public sentiment of the Pacific
coast region that the West believes the first duty of government
encourage capital by special privilege form another
md that members of Congress- supporting the most greedy de-
@ protection were actually representing the sentiments OF
their constituents
What true of Western sentiment the tariff question like
@ e of Western sentiment the question of conserving and
protecting the national 1t is the truth say that
Nsem public sentiment this issue has become demoazed
There contrary sentiment the subject You can't
raze something that existed From the days of the
ers Western feeling has been and is that the earth
belongs to the Lords chosen and we are the chosen
The history of the development of the West merely the his
m e exploitation of national by Big Business and for
Eg Business millions and billions have been poured into
Ibis sort enterprise and the fact that the people of the whole
% equity in the thus exploited has always been
either ignored veementy denied Public officials from Pres1
down have wnked at the robbery Of the government land
grabbing has for fifty years been respectable occupations public
has condoned and does condone the THEFT OF the ma
hnal domain
The great bulk the Western people, who of have not
themselves participated in despong the nation have been taught to
believe and do believe largely that necessary for the public do
pass into private hands, in order to develop the country
encourage mmgrtion The West population mad any ap
osensby the interest of building up the country and
attracting investment potent than appeals TO patrlouSn OF
civic honesty
This feeling all parties No public Of prom
the West exempt from it Take the case Of ex-senator
ner of Spokane who has spent years IN ghtg aload
ton and who the leader of the Democratic party IN WASH
n State Senator Turner at the National irrigation congress
summer ndorsed the administration of Secretary Balnge and
tho
d respects real democcan be IN duced to take TINS
altitude what be expected of the Republican party Inc
ruth that Mr. Taft could not have found Republican OF caDet
e the whole Western country who was not tctued with INC
sme ideas
No attempt was ever check this wholesale spoaon un-
the forestry department was created and Clifford Pmchot was
d the head of it. It is unjust Pnchot to call conservation
Roosevelt policy 1t primarily Pnchot policy which Koose
et was led to adopt and which despite his many Shortcomings
nds out particularly bright page in his public service
Roosevelt let Pnchot have his way, and Fnchot PlomPuy
ped on the toes of Big Business He kept on trapg OH
years He created forest he caused the W
Va of power sites he made trouble for the cattle Da1o
md the sheep kings short he shocked the West and then
actually trying protect the government interest NO W.
n bureaucrat had seriously tried to do that Deloe
from its surprise therefore the West started to get
Pnchot
An open attack was impossible Pnchot too strongly en-
hed But the retirement of Roosevelt from the PRESIDENCY any
installation of Taft afforded opportunity to clip ms "l'
MI and cripple his activities Enough has come OUT Deo m
sang committee to show that Big Business led by e co
Om interests otherwise known the smeer trust
dy to Mr. Tas campaign fund as to place Mr Ial ~ e So
aT deep obligation to them How much OF this MI %it MI.
ninatea the fact remains that his managers nave
/ Fa TO to cancel the Guggenheim debt. oo,es+
The first demand for payment came in the shape OF reqes.
M Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield tahiu @
ue P1nchot policies be displaced This demand was % % ,
ak IL Hitchcock then chairman of the Republican ldl ms
ee and now posmastergenera in Mr. Ias caDe me- ,+ Mr.
a aed through Mr. Hitchcocks nsistence despite i e l'
at mad promised Mr. Roosevelt to reappolnt Oatlu z1
ne rest easy Judge Balnger, as we cal, nm @ con,
led the fight in his State for Taft delegates to the national
on He lawyer Of high standing in his home % be land
a Of
nice under Roosevelt Mr. Hitchcock brought him forward a ms
@ ate for Garfeds place His repectabity his gn s
fn Dig Business and his for the ace otar, Of
~ ue law, made Mr. Taft see in him the ideal man t9 rave
interior It highly improbable that the Prede 9r, d the
ug to his views conservation and on the
''lS interest. ....,..+ was never