The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-12
P|NCH0T ROAsTS
IN VIGOROUS WAY
Says Congress Has Long Been
Dominated by the Special
Interests.
HOLDS TIME IS HERE
FOR RADICAL CHANGE
Between the Lines One Can
Read Boost for Former
President Roosevelt.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, MINI. June 1I.-Former
Forester Clifford Pinchot and Former
Secretary of the Interior James r. Gar
field were guests Of honor at reception
and banquet given by the ST. Paul
Roosevelt club at the Ryan hotel to-
night. The decorations of the speak
ers table consisted Of miniature noun
tains, forests, waterfalls and roads with
miniature train propelled by electri-
city whizzing past.
Justice f. A Jaggard of the Mime
sofa supreme court was POSTMASTER. In
Producing Judge Jaggard, President
Halbert of the Roosevelt club awakened
the enthusiasm of the banqueters by q
reference TO an unnamed new party,
'some Of the leaders of which, he
said, "were present" he said In part:
Attitude Of Club.
sfThe Roosevelt club has consist
emily stood for the conservation OF
ideals and the conservation Of men,
and against plunder and graft
'This country has lived on its capt.
tai, but at last has awakened TO the
fact that it will soon exhaust it's
natural resources by the inequtable
distribution of its wealth in direct vio-
latlon of the law OF equal opportunity
Of its citizens. This condition has
brought about the formation of a new
party without name, but not without
an issue nor without leaders.
That party may be unnamed, but
its leaders are Theodore Roosevelt and
our hOnored guests, Clifford Pinchot and
James r. GAR Scld.n
Mr.. Garfield talked on the 'fUltimate
Results of Conservation, and the set
address of the evening was that by Mr..
Pinchot, who spoke on, ttOur National
Resources and How to Conserve
Them
Mr., Pinchot said:
Mr. Pinchot's s Address.
Conservation has captured the nation.
It's progress during the last twelve
months Is amazing Official opposition
10 the conservation movement, whatever
damage 1t has done still threatens TO
the public interest, has vastly strength
ened the grasp of conservation upon the
minds and conscience of our people, Ell
forts 20 obscure or bclittle the issue have
only served TO make il larger and clearer
in the public estimation. The conserva-
ton movement cannot be checked by the
baselesS charge that it Will prevent de-
Nelopment, or that every man who tells
the plain truth is either muc!Sraker or
a demagogue. II has taken firm hold on
our national moral sense. and when an
issue does that II has won.
The conservation issue is moral issue,
and the heart OF 1t is this: For whose
benefit shall our natural resources be
conservation the benefit OF as all, or
for the use and profit OF the few? This
truth is so obvious and the question it.
self so simple that the attitude toward
conservation of any man in public or pri
vate life indicates his stand In the fight
for public rights.
All NOR opoly rests on the unregulated
control OF natural resources and natural
clal interests Is impossible without the
help of politics, The alliance between
business and politics is the most danger
Gus thing In our political life. 1t Is the
interests must get out of politics, or the
American people Will put them out Of
business. There is no third course.
No Confidence in Congress.
Because the special interests aro In poll
itics. we nation have lost confidence
in congress. This is a 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 a fight for the conservation Of self
government; As soon as these men have
won their battle and consolidated their
Victory, confidence In congress will re-
turn.
But in the meantime tho people OF tho
the senate and the house no longer rep
resent the voters by whom they were
slected, but the special interests by whom
they are controlled. They believe so be-
eject what the people desire. and do In
stead what the interests demand. And OF
his there could be no better illustration
han the tariff
The tariff, under the policy OF protec-
ion. was originally 4 means to raise the
ate OF wages. 1t has been made tool
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schedule. protesting to protect the wool
grower, is found TO result in sacrificing
grower and consumer alike 10 one OF the
most rapaclous of trusts
The cotton cloth schedule was increased
n the face of the uncontradicted public
estlmOny OF the manufacturers them
elves that il ought TO remain unchanged:
The steel interests by a trick secured
IN indolensiblc increase in the thrift on
steel
The sugar trust stole from the govern
nent like Il petty thief. yet congress. by
means OF dishonest schedule, continues
0 protect II in bleeding the public.
At the very time the duties on manu-
actured rubber were raised. the leader OF
he senate. in company with the Guggen-
elm syndicate, was organizing an inter
ational rubber trust. whose charter
made II also a holding company Tor tho
oal and copper deposits of the whole
iOrld,
Power Of the Interests.
For a dozen years the demand of the
alton for the pure food and drug bill was
utwelghed In congress by the interests
'hich asserted their right TO poison the
eople for n profit.
Congress refused TO authorize the pre-
aratlon of great plan OF waterway de-
elopment in the general interest, and
,r ten years has declined TO pass tho
ppalaChian and White mountain national
rest bill. although the people are prac-
cally unanimous for both.
The whole nation Is In favor OF protect
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Alaska Yet they are still In grave