New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-25
nIK Is 1 EOREST RAIDER.

Our low tariff Democratic contempt
raries in this city are supporting without
2 protest a candidate for Governor who.
through his business partner, the present
chairman of the Democratic State Com
mitree. besought the Ways and Means
Committee Of the House of Representa-
tiveS to raise the duties on wallpaper,
both Mr.. Dix and Mr. Huppuch hoping
to benefit financially by the raise. IL
NAV interest them to know that they are
also snpporting a man who was engaged
in 1903 in getting a bill through the
Legislature at Albany which they de-
nounced as an attempt TO raid the state
forests and get possession at nominal
cost of enormous water power resources.
The measure in question was the Lewis
water storage bill. introduced in the
Senate in 1903. The New York Her
AIDS" Albany dispatches Of March 81.
1903. gave a list of the promoters of the
bill. and the third name on the list was
..Jobn 4. Dix. Thomson. Moose River
Lumber Company.
OF the water storage bill The New
York World said in an editorial in its
issue of March %. 1908:
Verify. eternal vigilance is the price Of
forest preservation, The World s spe-
cial Albany correspondence to-day re-
veals more details OF the concerted raln
ON the Adirondacks and other forest pre-
serves under the guise OF protectlon
and water storage" II is the most m
sidious and gigantic grab yet proposed.
The Worlds" Albany dispatches of
March 81. 1903. thus described the eff
feet which the Lewis bill. if enacted
would have:
The graft" is tremendous. \ million
and a half horsepower Is to be deNei-
oped The tree-killers are not even 10
nav for it. but the costs are to be as
sessed upon the cities and towns deter
mined 10 be benefited" by a commission
of nine men yet to be named.
.The New York Times" was equally
explicit and denunciatory. It said edl-
torialIy on March 13. 1908;
On critical examination it 1.-THE water
storage bill is found to be no ordinary
measure. and behind the agreeable tue
lies a job of gigantic proportions.
Primarily il has for its object monopoly
of valuable water powers.
"The Times" said further on April ;.
1903:
Those who are opposing the Lewis
water storage bill believe they have DIS
covered the ghost of Ramapo IN IT'S pro
visions. The Ramapo company controls
the watersheds of the Catskills Under
the provisions of the Lewis bill, IL is as
serted. this company could. upon the pc
tition of a few property holders. nave
dams constructed in the Catskills Whlch
would give il the finest water supply IN
the state, and the cost would be assessed
upon the owners OF abuttlng propeIIA
while the supply itself would be IN the
possession of the Ramapo COMPANY
THE World" and The Times" will
have to exercise good deal of ingenuity
explaining just how man who helped
To nromote what they called gigantic
raid on the states natural resources Is
the proper man 10 he intruSted as GoN-
erpor with the guardianship of those re
sources The Times. The Herald" and
The World" made an extended cam
nsign against the measure. telling the
people. after careful study and PROBES
sion of expert knowledge. that il was
ricantic and COnscienceleSS grail" which
Mr. Dix was hacking If the bill was not
as bad as they said and they are now
70 explain that they wronged Mr.. DIX
and his fellow water storage promoters.
what trust can be reposed in their attl-
rIde on any subject. in their praise of
him now or in their violent denunclatlon
of his opponents?