The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-02-26
SAYS BALLINCFR
IS UNFAITHFUL
Clifford Pinchot, on Stand Today,
Scores the Secretary of
Interior.
IS NOT FIT TO HOLD OFFICE
So Declares Dismissed Forester TO In
vostigeting Committee-Presents
Statement Of What He Pro-
poses to Prove.


Washington, Feb. 26.-Gifford Pin
chot today made to the Bailinger- Pin
chot Investigating committee this
statement of his charges against Sec
rotary Ballinger:
What | desire to lay before the
committee is consecutive story of
my experience with Ballinger in rela-
ton To the conservation of natural re-
sources. Among the several other
matters there are three of princi-
pal Importance to be called to your at
tcntion.
"The first of these concerns the poll
icy devised and inaugurated by the
last administration of protecting
against the monopolistic control of
water power sites owned by the people.
I shall show you that Secretary Ballin-
ger entered his Office with a clear de-
termination to make short work of
that policy; that he reversed 1t so far
as he was allowed to do so; that he
restored the power sites to entry
without the remotest idea of with
uldMlilS lltti anu THAT IllldilN when L
charged him last autumn to president
with being an enemy or the policy If
conservation he capped the climax by
giving TO the president himself an ex-
planation of his conduct that was es-
sentially false.
"The second has to do with my con-
ncction as government officer with
the Cunningham coal cases and with
the CLAWS charges. / shall show you
how the forest service became involved
in these cases, and how CLAWS submit
ted his facts to me. believed then, rs
/ believe now, that he told the truth.
| am convinced now as ] was when ne
came to me that CLAWS was a faithful
public servant, and that the facts
which he presented TO prove that Bal
lnger has been unfaithful to his trust
ar servant of the people and as n
guardian of public property are of
enormous value.
Il shall show you that since learn
ed the facts you have heard from Gla
Wis and others. which am about 20
lay before you, have acted steadily
i'm the light of them as II was my duty
both as a public officer and as a citi-
zen TO do.
The third principal matter Is con-
cerned with the attitude of this gov
ernment i'm law and administrative
practice toward the conservation Of
natural resources belonging to the peo-
lie. | desire to show you that the
story of CLAWS courageous and sue
ccssful fight To protect the property Of
the people, which ended i'm his dismiss
al without hearing, is but single
chapted i'm the history OF public lands.
| shall show you that under our pres
cnt law and practice a more difficult
task falls on those who would protect
public property and not on those who
would despoil, 1t ane tAat under the
present system a betrayal into mono-
polstic control of what be gs to Ill
of MS II made easy and otter
THE imperative duty Lore this
country is not merely to get rid of an
unfaithful public servant. far more
important duty is To bring about "a
fundamental change in the law ana
practice toward conservation to pre-
vent for the future what has been IN
past the almost inevitable sacrifice of
public welfare and to make possible
hereafter the utilization Of natural re-
sources and natural advantages for the
benefit of all people instead of merely
for the profit of a few. when this
story has been told and the witnesses
whom shall ask you to call have been
heard you will realize that the In
tercsts of the people are not safe In
Ballingcrs hands"
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