The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-13
PEPPER IS PEPPERY.
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by neglect Of duty and by pos
tive action adverse to his trust In
the past, Mr. Ballinger has seriously
endangered public rights In our Alas
kan coal lands. His present course
and attitude constitute a menace TO
the peoples interests" says Mr.. Pep.
per. in summing up his description OF
Ballingers coal land policy.
AS regards the secretary's attitude
toward forest lands. Mr. Pepper de-
clares that In the two instances
where Mr. Ballinger as secretary has
had TO do wit hthe administration oi
the national forest, he has sacrificed
the public interests in petty mani
festatlons OF hostility 10 the forest
SERVICE He says that care for the
public interests in the reclamation OF
arid lands has been Subordinated by
Mr.. Balllnger to personal considera-
tions to such an extent as TO result
in great decentralization and loss OF
efficiency in the reclamation service.
"It is obvious that Mr. Balllnger
took whatever action was taken In
the department
In all that his subordinates have
done, they have simply reflected the
wishes and desires OF their chief Dl-
rector Newell and Engineer Davis of
the reclamation service alone have
insisted upon placing responsibility
where 1t belongs instead of sacrificing
righteousness to a desire to relieve
a superior from embarrassment
The Pepper brief quotes the record
at great length as going TO show that
Mr. Ballinger mlsled the President IN
presenting 20 him his own relation 10
the Alaskan coal leases. In explain
ing his course In restoring power
sites and his attitude toward the
reclamation service Mr.. Pepper
contends that the President would
have taken vigorous action TO save
the efficiency Of the reclamation SER
vice when Pinchot urged that IL was
in danger OF disintegration from Bal
fingers administration. had he not
been misled by the secretarys assur
ance that no intlmatlonS OF trouble
had ever come TO him from the chief
oi that service.
Asserting that the original charge
Of deception made against Ballinger
has been corroborated by his conduct
that Balllnger was compelled to take
direct issues OF veracity with differ
ent witnesses and that first state.
ments on the stand have, in number
OF instances, been contradlcted by ad,
missions subsequently wrung from
him on cross examination or by the
terms OF the documents subsequent.
ly produced
After discussing the legal questions
involved in the controversy, Mr.. Pep
per- enters into what ne terms "a
correction of the misconceptions of
the aims and methods OF conserva.
tionists reiterated throughout the
hearings of Mr. Ballinger and his as
sociates, declaring there could be no
greater mistake than to say that Mr..
Pinchot holds the view regarding the
conservation of coal that the pres
ent generation must Shlyer. in ordfr
that posterity might be warm
Conservation does mean provision
Tor the future. but 1t also means. aud
first OF all. the recognition of the
right OF the present generation to the
fullest necessary use of all the re.
sourcS OF the country"
He said the first principle OF con-
seryation was development: the sec
ond. prevention of waste. ard the
third. the development of natural re-
so Irces for the benefit OF the many
nld not merely Tor the profit OF the
few.