The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-30
FICTION CHARACTER
WOULD ABOLISH SENATE
Suggests Also That a Man
Like Roosevelt Head
Government

In "Cavanagh Forest Ranger"
Hamlin Garland, Chicago novelist,
has put to roman uses The far from
prosaic material offered in the story
of the governments struggle to con
serve the great natural wealth Of the
West. His hero. Cavanagh, is man
of Clifford Pinchots own mettle, and
Mr. Garland puts into the mouth Of
this subordinate in The conservation
service the warmest praise of its
former chief. The book is dedicated
in a forewoid to the forest ranger
whose lonely vigil ON the heights
safeguards the public heritage
MIR. Garland's tale deals largely
with the struggle which the rangers
had in the early days of The conser-
vation movement to swing the great
and powerful ranch men into line
with the governments policy, but
Mr.. Pinchot himself, in letter to
the author, which serves as an in
PRODUCTION, declares that the battle
now is won and the movement better
ndecstood.
Have Won Contest
'The service says Mr.. Pinchot
contains the best body of young men
! know, and many splendid veterans
1t is nine-tenths made up of Western
men. 1t has met the West on it's
own ground. and it has won the con
test-an episode Of which you have
80 well Observation-Disclosures the West
believes in what 1t stands for. .
me dismay which filled the service
when word reached the West that
Pinchot had been dismissed is pre-
sented in the following manner:
They've got him! subordinate
explains to Cavanagh. He's out.
"Cayanagh sprang up. I don't be-
lieve it! For what reason? Why?
Doesn't that letter tell you? The
whole town is chuckling. Every
criminal and pug-ugly in the country
Is splitting in our faces ths morning
Yes, sir, the President has fired the
chief-lhc man that buill up he for
ostry service. The whole works is
goin' to hell, that's what il is. Wen
have all the coal thieves and water
power thieves, pOachers and free
grass pirates in on us in mobs
They'll eat up the forest. They'll
put some Western man in, somebody
they can work. Then whore Will we
beg
"Cayanagh's young heart burned
with indignation, but he tried to check
the other mans torrent of protest.
Can't Believe It.
cant believe il, There's some
mistake Maybe they've made him
HE secretary of the department or
something
:" No, they haven't. They've thrown
him out They've downed him be
cause he tried to head off some thiey-
cry OF coal mines in Alaska The
man was ready 10 weep with chagrin
and indignant sorrow.
When confirmation comes later
Cayanagh talks to the supervisor
Good Lord. What blow to The
servicel' exclaimed Cayanagh. with a
grOan CT sorrow and rage. What is
the President thinking Otto throw
out The only man who stood for the
future, the man who had built up this
corps, who was its Inspiration
His Indignation is described after
this fashion;
His heart was swollen big within
his breast He longed for the return
OF the Colonel to be White House
What manner Of ruler is this who is
ready to strike down the man whose
very name means conservation, and
who in a few years would have made
this body of forest rangers the most
effective corps Of It's size in the
world? He groaned again and his
throat ached with the fury OF his in
dignation
Cayanagh had made up his mind to
quit the service, but later is restrain
ed BY his supervisor Redfeld, who
Informs him OF the appointment of
the present chief, student under
the old
That's good, repeated Cavanagh;
and yet he said sadly, it leaves
the old chief out just the same.'
Out, But in Fight.
No, he chief is not out. He's
where he can fight for the idea to
better advantage than when he was
a subordinate under another man.
Anyhow he asks us to line up for
The work aud not TO mind him. The
work. he says. is bigger than the
man =
Roosevelt comes IN for his share of
praise, TOO II Is put into the mouth
of Enderby, an English ranchman,
who is MOI in sympathy with Amer
ican ways.
"'If had my way he says. ia
wipe out the senate aud put strong
man like Roosevelt at the head of the
government You're such blooming
asses over here. you don't know
enough 10 keep really Dig lAaA Ia