The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-09-15

cussing the st. Paul conservation
congress at the noon luncheon of the
chamber of commerce yesterday Gov.
M. E. Hay said:
This congress in st. Paul was sup
posed to have been called for the
purpose of discussing conservation
in its many phases, and any man who
might be appointed and would care
to go to the expense to attend this
congress would be given a reasonable
opportunity to express his views.
For myself. and / think the same
feeling prevailed with the other west
ern governors, it was thought that
those who participated in the Salt
Lake conference should put in an
appearance at ST. Paul, if possible,
and especially so after having been
requested by President Taft to be
present.
''Spanked and Sent Home"
In the opinion of those who run
| the conservation congress l found
that a man who Endorsed President
Taft's practical conservation should
be spanked, corked up, labeled as a
| fraud and sent home charged with
being there disguised as an agent of
the interests.
There is great rebellion in this
country against the methods of the
present speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, but for autocratic use
| of authority and dOmineering use of
power the men who ran the ST. Paul
congress have Cannon completely
backed off the face of the map.
The man who invented frenzied
finance is a conservative man COM
pared to the ideas that I heard adj
vanced at this meeting.
| heard reformers argue long and
loud how they proposed to sell to the
people power, coal and timber at
practically cost, and in the next
utterance tell us how they proposed
to pay no small share of the running
expenses of the government from the
earnings of the natural resources of
the west.
Listen to the Lumber Trust
1t was very edifying, indeed, to
listen to the members of the timber
trust telling us how we should stand
for conserving our timber for un-
born generations while they were
piously adding SO cents per thousand
to their stumpage price, knowing
that every tract of timber in cold
storage increased the value of their
holdings and gave them greater OPP
portunity to gouge our consumers.
1t was charged that those who
were in attendance at the congress
and who protested against the fed
eral government usurping the right
of the people to govern themselves
and regulate their own local affairs
were there in the interest of the in
terests." So far as I knew at the
time of appointment, and so far as
| now know, there was not man in
my delegation who was directly or
indirectly interested in the develop
ment of any natural resources or OF
any public service corporation.
Governors Hold No Grudge.
Now, l don't want you to think
for a moment that the western gov
ernors came away from st. Paul feel
| ing sore or revengeful, for such is
not the case. While We did not pre-
sent and were unable to get our views
before the people of the nation, we
do know that from the autocrat1c and
domineering way in which the Pin
chotians handled this convention that
they have advanced the ideas of those
who believe that the people them
selves are unable to control their 10
cal affairs.
l never saw a body of men come
away from the battlefield in which
they were so discourteously treated
and yet feeling so good over their de-
feat as did the western or home-con-
servation men. The very actions OF
the supporters of the Pinchotian idea
of conservation gave us greater war
rant than ever in the belief that we
were absolutely right in the position
taken by the delegations from those
states in which 95 1-2 per cent OF
the natural resources are located.
East Wasted It's Wealth.
| That all people favor conservation