The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-18
THE GOVERNORS TODAY.

The Governors of number of the
Western States arc to meet in Salt
Lake today to formulate policy, plat
form, declaration, or statement upon
which they can unite in a beneficial
definition OF conservation as APP
piled TO the needs and conditions in
the States of this mountain region. 1t
is altogether good, wholesome pur-
pose that brings these Governors to-
gcther, and we trust and believe that
they will be able to formulate policies
upon which western public men can
substantially agree.
The Pinchot policies have been OBJ
structive. restrictive. oppressive. They
retard the development OF the country.
They are designed to hold for some in.
definite future generation resources
that are necessary for the development
of the country; but those resources are
as confessed on every hand, necessary
in fact for the development of the
country now, and until they can be
utilized this development is unneces-
sarily held back.
1t is no part of the programme of
this mountain country, any moro than
it has been part Of the programme of
any portion of the United States
heretofore, to hold back present de
velopment Of the country SO that some
future generation can come in and use
and develop, There is no reason why
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country to the fullest extent 1T is able
to do without waiting for the COM
ING ones to do this work. There Is no
reason why the resources of the en-
vironment where any settlers find
themselves should not be as fully at
their service and command as the
like resources have been at the service
and command of pioneer settlers in the
other portions Of the republic from the
first. The Piuchot policies. if put
into effect in the early days of the Re-
public, would have confined the set
tlement of the United States to the
region east of the AllePhenies. The
whole vast area covered by the Missis-
sippi valley would have been con
served if the Pinchots of that day
could have had their wills. But the
enterprising spirit Of American free
dom pushed on, regardless of those
who would hold it back. and demanded
free hand and ample liberty in open
ing the country, They had their way,
and they opened the country and set
tied IL IN style and with 4 rush unex.
ampled in the history of mankind,
And now, all at once, when it comes
to settling and developing the resources
and riches of the part of the republic
most difficult Of all to settle and de
velop, the restraining hard thrusts in
and pipches. The coal must not be
used, the water power must not be used,
the timber must not be used, and in
general so far as is possible, the coun-
try must be kept in state Of nature
for some indefinite generation yet to
come to take hold of and use. This
restrictive policy is something new in
American development, and it is some
thing that, once understood, will be
thrown out of American practice and
policies without hesitation and without
regret,
The Governors who will meet in Salt
Lake today fully sense the situation,
and The Tribune welcomes them to Salt
Lake City as men who know what they
want and who will be able to express
that want i'll no uncertain terms. They
will be Hospitality welcome 10 every
thing within Salt Lake, and we wish
them the utmost enjoyment compatible
with their arduous labors while they
stay among us, hoping for the utmost
possible benefit from their earnest and
public spirited efforts for the better
ment of conditions in all these mountain
states.