Gunnison news-champion., 1910-02-11
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" Ith Apologies to the memory oi
Phillips for the misuse aud parody
nag af his masterfsl saalys,s Of ske
career Of the great Napoleon.
PiNcnoT
''lIe is fallen" Ne NAV pause be-
fore that splendid prodigy IL pssc-
tured sbsolwtism which towessd
among us like some graesome night
mare, whose audaci,y terrified sAe
support his perspicscity attracted
suave, orbane and perhdious, he eat
ppon his self-made throne, . scep-
tered hermit wrapped in tho exst,er-
ance OF his own verbosity A mind
keen, canning, ambitious and eeotis-
tical, will despotic by foreign ed
ucstloa and training, an energy, for
self agrandIzement phenomenal, AND
a conscience adamsntine to reasoa OF
Justice, marks the outline of this
extraordinary character, the mos
extraordinary for hypnotic audscity
perhaps, that the aanais of Amer
can politics in century has seen
rise, reign and for ample cause he
decapItated.
damned into Office bv college
bred sentimentality, he knew no
bounds TO hrs egotIsm but the en-
during patience of suffering peo-
pie. lie commenced his course a
stranger TO the common people by
birth, a friend by sympathy aud ed
ucatlon to the autocratic foreign sys-
tenn Of rule. Profuse and unscrupa-
lous in his promises, Pinchots faith
to the stockmen meant what Pune |
faith meant to the Romans.
He worshipped no god but the
impuisive, erratie genius who dis
covered him.
Consistency was Jewel that
dwelt not in thousand miles Of LIS
official career His kindred Ilk and
iore-bears stripped the East and
middle West of all its natural re- |
sources not nailed down: Yet ne
raised the cry with mighty effect =
Let us conserve away from the West
its birthright OF undeveloped natural
resources. Like his illustrioas
sponsor he was a trouble maker bv
instinct and a self booster bs pro-
fesslon. lie obeyed no law or man
date but the dictates of hIs own vol
uble mendacIty
Educated In Germany he a 3s0rbed !
To repletion the autocratic military
ideas of government and sought 10
graft upon an area of reserves tWice
the size of Germany an absolutism
without curb of laws or courts. lie
boldly sought to make hall of the
great and rich Rocky Mountain
country a primeval solitude, uDtrod
by aught but his green clad lackeys.
Nature had no obstacle or law he
did not freely fracture. Whether
planning a tree nursery ON the sum
nit of Pixies Peak or TO grow forests
ON sage brush mesas where trees in
thousands OF years never grew be-
fore, he showed the same contempt
for natures inexorable laws. Ills
person partook of the qualities Of hIs
mind, no fatigue or turn down O
could depress him. Whether being
whlried across the burning desert
sands 81 Arizona in a palace car 10
meet and make snredeerned pledges
TO western people, or induring the
frigid talk and glances of less un-
Washington officials, he
was the same strict booster for Pin
chot- Gong one point better than
the stern old Roman whom "No VIC
tory could elate or no defeat depress,
no defeat or rebuff could depress hum
but . revocable permit fear-inspired-
lndorsement could immensely elate
him.
He Was self endowed with news