The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27
.BALL|NGER FALSE
AND UNFA|T HFUL
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dent with being an enemy Of tho policy
of conservation, he capped tho climax
BY giving to tho President himself an
exclamation Of HIS conduct that yas
essentially false.
Believes GlFv1s Honest.
"The second has to do with any con-
nection as government officer with
tho Cunningham coal cases, and with
tile CLAWS charges. shall show you
how the forest service became in
volved In these cases. and how CLAWS
submitted his facts to me. believed
then. as believe now, that he told
the truth. ] am convinced now as I
was when he came to me, that Claws
was faithful public servant, and
that the facts which no presented
unfaithful to HIS trust as serran t
OF tho people and as the guardian OF
public property of enormous value.
~ shall show you that since I
learned tho facts you have heard from
Claws and others. which am about
to lay before you, have acted
steadily In the light OF them, as It
was my duty. both as public officer
and as citizen, to do. shall show
laid before the President. both BY
word OF mouth and in q letter OF No
vcmbcr, statement OF my conviction
! that Secretary Ballinger has been a.
dangerous enemy TO conservation.
Evidence Is Falsc.
81 shall chow you that this letter
was submitted by the President to Mr..
Bailinger, and that as part of his reply
{ he laid before the President q state
mon. concerning the Cunningham coal
cases, which statement is shown by
! undisputed documentary evidence to be
absolutely false in three essential par
ticulars 1t will then appear that Mr..
Ballinger wilfully deceived the Pres
ident and was disloyal to him.
Tho third principal matter Is con-
| cerned with the attitude of this gov
ernment IN law and administrative
practice toward the conservation oil
tl.; natural resources belonging to the
people. I desire to show you that the
story of Glavis's courageous and sue.
cessful fight to protect the property of
the people, which ends in his dismissal
without hearing, is but single chap
ter in the history OK the public lands.
Il shall show you that under our
present law and practice the more dir
ticult task falls on those who would
protect the public property. and not on
those who would despoIl It: and that
under the present system the betrayal
into monopolistic control OF what be-
longs to all or US is made easy, and
often In practice inevitable.
THE imperative duty before this
country is not merely to got rid Of
an unfaithful public servant. A far
more important duty is to bring
fundamental change in the law and
the practice toward conservation, to
prevent for the future what has been
In the past tho almost inevitable sac
rlfice of the public welfare and to
make possible hereafter the utilization
of the natural resources and the nat
the people instead of merely <nT the
profits OF few.
Bnllingcr UnfaithfuI.
When this story has been told, and
the witnesses whom I shall! ask you
to call have been heard. you will real
lze that the interests of the people are
not safe in air. Baliinger's hands. and
committee q verdict in harmony with
the general conviction that the Sec
rotary OF the Interior has been I'M
faithful both to the public, whose
the President whom he has deceived !"
When he had concluded his state
ment Mr.. Pinchot was sworn. His
counsel, Geors ". Paper, of Philadel-
phia. began with statement OF Mr.
The witness told of the growth of the
forest service since he was first con-
nected with 1t. Mr.. Pinchot said he
first entered the service In 1895, I'M
der Secretary Hoke Smith. as spe-
qisl agent in the Land Otiice. to inspect
forest reserves.
Mr. Pinchot said that Mr.. Ballinger.
as Commissioner of the Land Office In
1907. protested against the creation
Alaska This forest, as finally created.
included most of the Cunningham coal
claims. The contract OF "co-operative
agreement calling for cooperation
between the Interior Department and
Forest Service arranged by Secretary
Wilson. OF the Department of Agricul-
ture, and former Secretary of the In
terror Garfield. was introduced in evil
dence. This contract was abrogated
ihy Secretary Ballinger last year.
"Ialiclous Aspersions."
! clifford Pinchot's opening statement
i to the Ballinger-P inquiry this
\ aft ernoon was read by Secretary Bal
Finger late to-day. In response to in
! quiries as to whether he intended to
make any reply. Mr. Ballinger wrote
| out the following statement tonight
| for the Associated Press:
In view of the fact that will pres
lently have an onnortunity to appear
/ before the committee and acqualnt
| them with the truth. L shall not reply
| through tho press to the malicious
aspersions which Mr.. Pinchot seeks
to cast upon me. He attempted with
| out success to deceive the President
He will find that 1t will be equally
difficult for him to deceive the commit
Itoe.
OBVIOUSLY, the only deception in
which he hopes to, succeed Is a tenn
| porary deception of the public through
the press. This he has endeavored
to do By giving out in advance the
4 introductory statement which appeared
and which he has been malignant
enough to present, but not quite reck.
less enough to state upon oath.
''Fortunately, as already stated
will soon lave an opportunity to Civ,
to the committee and. through the com
lnttoe, to the public, the facts an6
the truth, and for that reason, / hay,
no statement at present to make"
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/ ATTACKS CIGARETTES,
SNUFF AND CHEWING GUN
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