Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-12
PINCHOT ACCUSES
CONGRESS;CHEERS
GIVEN NEW PARTY
Former Forester Declares Special
interests Control Body
That Makes Laws
SAYS PEOPLE ARE BETRAYED
Insurgents Praised at Roosevelt
Club Banquet-GarfieId
is Speaker
ASSOCIATED Press ]


ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 11.-Former
Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot and
former Secretary of the Interior
James r. Garfield were guests of honor
at a reception and banquet given by
the ST. Paul Roosevelt club at the
Ryan hotel tonight =
The decorations of the speaker
table consisted of miniature noun
tains, forests, waterfalls and roads
with miniature train propelled by
electricity whizzing past.
Justice E. A. Jaggard of the Mime
sofa supreme court was toastmaster.
introducing Judge Jaggard, President
Halbert of the Roosevelt CLUB
awakened the enthusiasm of the ban
queters by a reference to an unnamed
new party, "some of the leaders OF
which" he said were present.
He said THE Roosevelt club mas
consistently stood for conservation of
ideals and the conservation of men
and against plunder and graft.
This country has lived on its capl-
tai but at last has awakened to the
fact that it will soon exhaust it's
natural resources by the inequitable
distribution of it's wealth in direct
violation of the law of equal oppor-
tunity of it's citizens. This condition
has brought about the formation of a
out an issue nor without leaders.
THAT party may be unnamed, but
it's leaders are Theodore Roosevelt and
our honored guests, Clifford Pinchot
and James R. Garfield"
Mr.. Garfield talked on the ultimate
Results of Conservation" and the set
address of the evening was that by
Mr.. Pinchot, who spoke on "Our
National Resources and How to Con-
serve Them"
SNAKE TO BE KILLED
Mr.. Pinchot said, in part
"All monopoly rests on the unregu-
lated control of natural resources and
natural advantages, and such control
by the special interests is impossible
without the help of politics. The al
lance between business and politics is
the most dangerous thing in our poltti-
cal life. 1t is the snake that we must
kill The special interests must get
out of politics, or the American people
will put them out of business. There is
no third course.
because the special interest are in
politics, we as a nation have lost con-
fidence in congress. This is serious
statement to make, but it is true. 1t
does not apply, of course, to the men
who really represent their constituents
and who are making so fine fight for
As soon as these men have won their
battle and consolidated their victory,
confidence in congress will return.
But in the meantime the people OF
the United States believe that, as a
whole, the senate and the house no
longer represent the voters by whom
they were elected, but the special in
terests by whom they are controlled.
They believe so because they have so
what
people desire, and do instead what the
interests demand. And of this there
could be no better illustration than the
tariff.
For a dozen years the demand of
the nation for the pure food and drug
bill was outweighed in congress by the
interests which asserted their right to
poison the, people for a profit
Congress refused to authorize the
preparation of a great plan of water
way development in the general in
terest. and for ten years has declined to
pass the Appalachian and White. Noun
tain national forest BILL although the
people are practically unanimous for
both
"The whole nation is in favor of pro-
tecting the coal and other natural re-
sources in Alaska, yet they are still in
grave danger of being absorbed by the
special interests. And as for the gen.
eral conservation movement, congress
not only refused to help it on, but tried
to forbid any progress without it's help.
Fortunately for us all, in this attempt
it has utterly failed.
This loss of confidence in congress is
matter for deep concern to every
thinking American. 1t has not come
quickly or without good reason. Every
man who knows congress well knows
the names of senators and members
who betray the people they were elected
to represent, and knows also the names
of the masters whom they obey. A
representative of the people who wears
the collar of the special interests has
touched bottom. He can sink no
further"