The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-27
VERTREES FLAYS
CLIFFORD PINCHOT
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have acted with reference to these coal
claims In clean-handed. straightforward,
honorable. and upright way. and not one
of them has ever received any instruc-
tons from Mr.. Ballinger other than 10 do
his full duty in all respects.
Friendly 10 Conservation.
when Mr.. Baninger has been heard it
will be seen that true conservation has no
steadier supporter than he He holds that
conservation is not thing of caprice
but of law; that those who have already
been born and now breathe, have rights
as well as those yet to be born and to
breathe. and that development ought not
TO be exiled by theorists and doetrinaires.
mir. Ballinger did restore TO entry and
settlement vast areas of the public domain
which. under one Iretense or another.
had, as he believes, been unlawfully and
impr0vIdently withdrawn He still be-
lieves that he was right, but II he erred,
he denies that il is an error for which
the good faith of his official action should
be questioned at the instance Of those who
would substitute opinion for law
Upon the other hand, he did make
Withdrawals for power sites, because they
are valuable for power sites. In doing so
he strained the timbers of the law. but
uader the circumstances OF the situation
deemed It permissible to make qualified
or temporary Withdrawals until Congress
could act; and during the interval not
site was lost
VIII Make II Clear.
THE evidence now to be offered win
make all Of those things so clear. so
undeniable, and so plans that this COM
mittee will cast about to discover how II
is that men who knew as much Of the
truth as Pinchot. and CLAWS, and Gar
field, and Davis and Newell knew. could
have the daring 10 present themselves
as sincere honest harborers Of sus-
picion, much less as persons really be-
lie'ing that they had knowledge of in
culpatory facts.
Claws suspicious by nature. became
perverted by detective service until ap-
parent he has become incapable of fair
Judgment. Mr.. Pinchot. vain. and fist.
tered as Chief OF the Forest Service by
his own publicity bureau, had come to
regard himself as the most important per-
sonaiity in the Department Of Agricul-
ture.
Conservation Ike all sound doctrines.
when preached by the vain and self
seeking. had become perverted. until It
WAS here folly. and there reproach.
Reclamation too and Conservation
believing toured hand in hand. and those
who feel, rather than those who think
appear 10 see great forests spring M Ike
Jonah's gourd in a night and vast recla-
nation projects established not only
where such projects can and ought TO
rightly flourish. but at every power site
which a missionary might describe Com
bining these doctrines, their chiefs swept /
al aside that stood in their WAY.
." Cooperative agreements. cooper
alive certificates ranger schools. whole |
sale Withdrawals of the peoples lands
became the vogue Here was the reign |
OF man,
BY Command of Law.
March l. 1902 there came the reign Of !
law Mr. Bsllinger conceived that his I
duty was not TO be expressed in the |
words, I hereby direct and order but
In the words. BE it enaced by the Senate !
and House Of Representatives of the |
United States Of America in Congress as
sembled, and he acted accordingly,
BY command OF the law. he untid |
some things which Mr.. Garfield had done. |
BY command OF the law cooperative /
certificates and cooperative agreements. |
and ranger education at government ex- !
pense, became things of the past When I
they lost their vivid coloring and took
on cold, dead gray, there was A sub |
sidence in the proportions of the forestry !
chief: he ceased to be the Agricultural |
Department
He was exposed, and AR BaIlinger
had committed the objectionable sin of |
the ambition Of a self-exag-
gerated man. Mr.. BaIiuger was now
where Mr.. Garfield was not. and Mr..
Plnchot was confined 10 the forest re-
serves.
Broad as they are. they are too small
for him. Here was the birthplace OF
that spirit Of resentment and revenge
ffttA~h DtiiiNt1 NibtC iiiiStdhcS 10 the
President and utilized this CLAWS Of the
detective service to attempt to assassi-
nate Mr.. Baliingers good name. and
thereby bring reproach upon the Presi-
dent. who had not retained Mr.. Gar
field and had dismissed Mr. Pinchot
This explanation will be made obvi-
BUS and apparent when the evidence
now to be offered is seen.
Charges frame Up"
Attorney Brandeis. of the prosecution.
charged. in effect. that Secre-
-ary Balllnger's appearance before the
Senate investigating committee is being
delayed in order that the Secretary may
De able TO frame UP" HIS testimony. so
hat it will conform to the testimony of
,ther witnesses.
When the committee filed into the hall
after an executive session. Chairman Nell
son announced that It had been decided
% deny Mr.. Brandels' request of Friday
hat Secretary Ballinger be summoned to
appear at once.
I'VE 10 this because Mr.. Ballinger has
his intention to appear here as
. witness, and the counsel for the other
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