The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-27

in the original entry papers were not,
Vertrees announced that he had
from twenty to twenty-five witnesses
to be called on his side of the case
and the committee then adjourned un-
til next Friday.
When Mr. Ballinger has been
heard said Attorney vertrees, 1T
will be seen that. true conservation
has no steadier supporter than he.
He holds that conservation is not a
thing of caprice, but of law. That
those who have already been born
and now breathe have rights as we'll
as those yet to be born and to
breathe.
Mr.. Ballinger did restore vast sec.
tions of the domain under one pre-,
tense or another. He still believes
he was right, but if he erred. he de-
nies that it 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.
"The evidence now to be offered
will make all thin: SO clearly, so
undoubtedly and so plain that this
committee will cast about to discover
how it is that men who knew as much
of the truth as Pinchot and CLAWS
and Garfield and Davis and Newell
knew, could have the daring to pre-
sent themselves as sincere honest
harborers of suspicion much less
as persons really believing that they
had knowledge of inculpatory facts.
CLAWS, suspicious by nature, be-
came perverted, until apparently he
has became incapable of fair judg-
ment.
"Mr. Pinchot, vain and fiattered as
chief of the forest serviee by his own
publicity bureau, had become to re.
cord himself as the most important
personality in the department OF
agriculture.
Conservation, like all sound doc
trines when preached by the vain
and self-seeking, had become pervert-
ed, until it was here folly and there
a reproach Recian- alton and CON
servation believing, toured hand in
hand and those who feel rather than
those who think, appear to see great
forests spring like Jonaf's gourd
in night, and vast reclamation pro
jects established not only where pro
jects can and ought rightfullJ to
flourish, but at every powersite
which a missionary might describe.
Combining these doctrines. theil
chiefs swept all aside who stoodsii
1 their way. Cooperative agreements
cooperative certificates, range
schools wholesale Withdrawals CT thu
peoples lands became the vogue
Here was. the reign rf man.
/ March 4. 1905. there came thu
reign of law
''By command of the law, Ballinge
undid some things which Mr. Garfield
had done. BY command of the law, CO
/ operative certificates and co-operaa
1 tive agreements, and ranger educa
4 tion at government expense became
/ things of the past
"Mr. Ballinger was new. where MI
4 Garfield was not, and in Mr.. Pincho
was contided the forest service. Broa
as thev are, they are too small fo
him. Here was the birth place o
i that spirit of resentment and revenge
i which blindly wrote mistakes to tn
i president and utilized this CLAWS G
4 the detective service to attempt t
1 assassinate Mr.. Ballinger's goo
name, and thereby bring reproach W
on the president who had reclaime
!, Mr.. Garfield and dismissed Mr.. PHI
chot'
vertrees stated with emphasis
that by his witnesses, he would sho'
that the testimony of CLAWS Jones
Barr and some others as to certai
! facts 80 grossly false as to col
vince the committee that in thes
respects it was deliberately fabrica
ed and consciously false" After r
, viewing in et:l Mr. Balllnger
! conduct as commiss ioner of the ge1
, eral land office and secretary OF tn
interior of his condition with I'll
Cunningham claims, Vertreees sale
: There has been no act OF Nj
: Ballinger to which it is possible
= ascribe as an unworthy move or IL
), proper purpose, otherwise tina
: through the suspicion OF a perverte
:. mind. or the resentment of dischar
: ed public servant or the program
: an unscrupulous political intrigue.
'Mr. Ballinger has not at any TIN
been interested in Alaska coal
: Alaska lands, directly nor Indirect
y He was never the counsel for Z
y Cunningham claimants nor has
II represented them in any matter sin
2 September, 1908 His profession
y connection was temporary. Still,
n was enough to cause him to refra
g from taking action of any kind vi
e respect to these claims after he,
secretary enterd public life.
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