The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-09-17
CALLS CONGRESS
A HUGE Farce
Especial to silver state.)

SPOKANE, WASH, Sept. IT,
More determined than ever before
are the people of the Rocky mountain
and Pacific states in their endeavors to
control their natural resources. They
are willing to share them with those
who assist in developing our wealth,
but they protest against dividing them
with those who have dissipated their
own and now insist they have the right
to participate in ours without compen-
sation in the way of development.
In these words Governor Hay, Of
Washington, who has just returned
from st. Paul, sounded the keynote for
home CONTROL which, it is believed
by many in this part of the country,
will rapidly resolve it self into a move
ment of nation wide proportion.
Governor Hay, who was a delegate
to the National Conservation congress,
discussed the steam roller treatment
accorded the western men in st. Paul
at luncheon in the assembly hall of
the Spokane chamber of commerce,
where more than 800 manufacturers
and business men were gathered.
Supporters of the Pinchotian idea of
conserving western natural resources
were raped over the nuckles repeated
ly in an address, which occupied 20
minutes, the governor declaring that
for the autocratic use of authority and
power those who controlled the st. Paul
congress had put "Uncle Joen Cannon
in the role of novice.
A few Of the striking paragraphs
in Governor Hays speech are incor-
porated in the following:
"The cards were stacked against
those who did not completely indorse
the Pinchot propaganda, while those
who favored President Taft's practical
conservation were labeled frauds.
1.-THE man who invented the system
of frenzied finance is conservation
man according to the ideas we heard
advanced at the so-ealled conference.
"Members of the timber trust told
us how we should stand Tor conserving
our forests for unborn generations
while they are adding so cents thous-
and feet to their stumpage prices.
"We heard reformers argue long and
loud how they planned to sell power,
coal and lumber to the people at prac-
tically cost, and in the next utterance
they told us how they purposed paying
no small share of the government IS ex-
pense from the earnings of the natural
resources of the western country.
"The action of the supporters of
Pinchot gave us the greatest warrant
to believe that we were right in the
position taken by the delegations from
the western states, in which 951h per
cent of the country's natural resources
are located.
"The eastern conservationists want
us to bear the cost of government while
the profits from our resources flow to
the federal treasury. Let them first
turn over to the government the reve-
nue. they receive from their mines and
power sites.
"We believe in forest preservation
and reforestation. We plso believe
the states should participate in the
benefits of their water powers. Our
constitutions give us these rights
but the Pinehotian demand is that the
federal lands, where the water power
sites are located. should be withdraw
and leased for the profit and at the
pleasure of the United States govern.
ment.
'There seems to be some misunde~
standing as to the position taken h.
those who advocate home control OF
our great resources. From time i'm,
memorial there has been a struggle be
tween the people on the one hand
and the reigning over of the financial
interests on the other as to who shall
control our local affairs and resources.
This is the same fight over again. The
people of the west believe they are
competent and qualified and should
have eomDiQka ursaslssfso. nun. nat
teu within their ewn states. -