Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-09-21
CONSERVATION CONGRESS
II Was A FiEzIe More Than That II
Was A Disgrace-Time To Stop
MiIIionaires Ia Their Grabs
For Everything
(Communicated.)

t0oluIuuLlCalcu-J
To the Editor There is some fun
in being a prophet when you are a
true one, even If you don't get any
thanks for your services. Before the
recent Conservation Congress"
met at St. Paul, / essayed to tell the
people of this section through all the
leading papers that the thing would
be fizZle, Notwithstanding all Presi-
dent Bakers repeated boasts and as
surances. To go over all that has
transpired since the Congress met on
the first day, and quit before its time,
and the expressions that have been
uttered since, would be too long a
task. / just here want to give an
expression from but one source that
is Willis j. Abbott, st. Paul CORES
pendent of the Boston Globe, in the
Globe of September Is.
The article has this heading:
Roosevelt In the Northwest; ]. j.
Hill Looks on Him as Necessary Evil;
Railroad Men Fear Lest More Radical
Leader Appear; Pinchot as Candidate
for President. Here is one of Mr..
Abbott's paragraphs: lone of the
heads of the great railroads running
from St Paul to the Pacific Coast,
said to me, that the convention here
was packed in favor of the sort of
| conservation in which the Northwest
does not believe, and that he had at
one time asked the city of st. Paul,
instead of apprCpriating $4,000 for
the expenses of tne convention, should
appropriate $4,000 to keep it
away.
The convention above referred to
as that in which the Northwest does
not believe. was that of Pinchot,
Roosevelt, Garfield and b. N Baker.
That the convention was packed the
St. Paul and Minneapolis papers,
which took at the time, thoroughly
proved. And this is what Mr.. Baker
said was his patriotic and philan'
thropic' endeavor. The heavenly
harmony that Mr.. Baker blandly told
US we would witness was not in
evidence, as this from Mr.. Abbott
proves:
"There was much bitterness of
| feeling manifested here between GER
tain governors of the Northwest and
the local committee. The charge has
been made that the whole list OF
speakers was selected by Mr.. Pinchot
and that scant opportunities were
given to those who held other views
than those of Pinchot to speak"
The St. Paul paper proved this
when they stated that on the second
of the five days that were to wit
ness the convention, the Western gov
errors packed their grips and went
home in disgust. There would have
been blood shed had they not. Mr..
Abbott also announces that Ballinger
is considered by the Westerners a
safer conservationist than Pinchot.
As the sequel proves, it was not so
much matter about the conservation of
Western resources, as it was about the
head of the conservation congress
being we'll provided for for the re-
mainder of his natural life. So, as
soon as Mr.. Baker got back to Balti-
more he gave in the Baltimore Amer
lean, of September Is, his plan to have
all ex presidents of conservation con-
crosses provided for-supposedly
with anything from $4,000 to $780,
600 annually. For this they were to
reimburse the country by dropping in
an occasional wise word on conserva-
tion.
To make the thing look unselfish the
ex-presidents of the United States
were to be included also-just as if
the United States Treasury was over
flowing with cash and all you had to
do was to touch the button which
gets it.
Well, after awhile, perhaps, some
people will begin to believe what
am saying. We don't want any more
great National Conservation Con-
gresses-the great discussion pertain.
ing to the pay of the presidents can
all be conducted at a parlor gather
ing, and after they name their figures
they can wait until they get it.
My, my, what fools these mortals
be. +"
FRANCIS B. LIVESEY,
Clarkcop Nd