The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-28
PEPPER ADDS
DENUNC|AT|ON.
Ballinger Comes in For An.
other Severe Grilling.
"A MERCIFUl DEl|VERANCE
Asked by the Attorney for
the President.
Declares the President Has
Been Deceived.
Pepper Declares that the Interior
Department Under Secretary Bal
linger Has Done Nothing But Hin
der the Conservation Politely 10
Pledged and for This Ballinger is
Blamed.
RY limited Press Wire.


Washington, May 2S.-"He Is the
kind of a friend from whom the pres
ident ought mercifully to be delivered"
"Mr. Ballinger has proved unfaith-
full to the public whose property he
has endangered, and to the president
whom lie has deceived. The president
would never have found hmeslf ir-
revocably committed to an endorse
ment of the secretary Of the interior
had he not at critical points been de-
ceived as to the real Significance and
what was happening in the dapart-
ment."
This was the sum of q bitter indict-
ment of Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger delivered before the congress
ional investigating committee Friday
afternoon by George Warton Pepper.
counsel for clifford Pnchot. In part
he said.
"The policy of power site protection
was struck a staggering bow when
Secretary Ballinger came into Office
and at a time when IL was still strug-
Cling for existence against the pro-
tests of private interests; the restor-
alton of lands weakened the conser-
yation cause, and gave aid and com"
fort to its opponents; the reversal of
the pre-existing policy brought dis
credit upon the director of the reclaim
alton service as well as upon the pre-
ceding administration and the cir
cumstances under which the restorat
ions took place, amounted to a declar-
alton of hostilities against the body
of men who were the embodiment OF
conservation.
"You know what the facts are
There is not a man who does not know
In his heart or hearts that the secre-
tary has demonstrated his unfltness
for the Office he holds and that he Is
the kind of a friend from whom the
president ought mercifully to be del
ivered.
prospecting the deception of tht
president, IL Is, of course, possible to
suppose that he has taken every steT
with full understanding of what was
going on in the department of the IN
terror. one who holds this view
however, cannot be friendly to tn,
president. Mr.. Pinchot has acted up
on the assumption that II the presi
dent could be made to understand
what was going foreward he would b'
the first to rebuke disloyalty to th'
cause to which he himself Is pledg
ed IL he really kne wand approved
Mr.. Pinchot Is mistaken. If he DID
not know, the record affords ample
lexplanation of how he was misled.
.In April, 1909, the president wa
made to believe that the power sit'
restorations were the result OF recon
mendation of the officers of the re
Iclamation service.
"Au subsequent history woui'
have been modified if it had beei
made clear to him that they were IN
possionate act of the secretary tax
len without competent advise and VIII
out adequate knowledge.
"The anterior department. com
lmitted at the start of the CONSERVATION
Ipolicy, has done everything (excep
where action has been taken unae
Ithe president's direction) to weaker
the po,icy to deceive its friends into
defensive alliance to JUSTIFY the Ve'
lexistence of their work ana 10 prlh
ldiscredit upon the record OF the part
under which the proceeding haH''n'S
tration was proudly Responsible 10
what is now declared to have been III
decent and lawless,
"His relation with Mr.. Pinchot an
his course of conduct since Pincho.
ldismissal shows Mr. Ballihger
lhe an untiring and rentless enemy
the forest service ,,
"His attitude toward the enectiVe
ness and the prestige of this grea
ann important governmental agency,
"Au the acts uder discussion nav
been Mr.. Baliinger's own and the re
lsnonsIbiiity for what had been uoii
in his name really and properly res,
Iupon him. Personal antagonism ou'
weighed public interest when the "
terror department terminated the II
dian cooperative contract. Mr. rI
Ichot's report to the secretary OF asr
tculture shows the salutary results az
. Icomplished under the agreement
The money saving store Is w, {
Eraus shoe store. o-zo-S'