The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-15
HOW MUCH HYSTERlA?

Because Mr. Pinchot, man of higl
honor, civic and private, has conyinc
ed the American populace Of his in
tegrity and honesty of purpose, many
people of the Great West sound his
praise and prayerfully trust the ad
veftfsing expert. Theodore Roose
Welt. will rush to his aid, once back
"a American soil and ready for lit
Tie excitement.
Notwithstanding this, the people
residing west of the Missouri river
should ponder well before alignine
the mselves for the finish fight in
this controversy.
This does not include Ballinger-
he is unspeakable and his record Is
anything but what an American cit
izen can well indorse, unless he
lroves that he is the worst maligned
man American politics has known.
4 But Mr. Pinchot and Senator La
Toilette represent policies which VIII
withhold all probability of this vast
domain being improved for ten years.
ffhby want the government to retain
possession of the sack oak and cot
fonwood forests Also all of the
coal. and Pinchot was actually try
ing to hold back as forest reserve
d section of Colorado where there
wasn't timber enough to shade rat
tlesnake on a cloudy day. To pro
tect water rights they wanted 70
withhold millions of acres of land
IRON honest settlers, over which land
they wished to drive forest ranger
now and then, honestly trying TO
serve the country. but really pre-
venting the. sturdy Americans from
settling productive areas and there
e'y reducing the productive powers
Of the best semi-arid regions within
the United states
IT. is not partisan prejudice nor
does il require wild stretch OF imag-
nation 10 state the Pinchot-Roose
velt-La Toilette conservation theory
las driven 100000 American home
seekers h..o Canada. There was a
withdrawal of the Idaho, Wyoming.
Colorado, Arizona and Washington
regions from settlers. Progressive
husbandmen. who had learned that
ihese lands were fertile and could be
made TO return income for honest
toll. were turned away, their hope
of securing lands being blighted by
men who, honestly. all trust, but
non-the-less unsoundly sought TO Pre-
serve for posterlty that which ia
reeded now. The shorisighted pol
icy OF having development thwarteo
for the Utopian theory of making
those who come after us rich by
pauperizing the present generatioi
is. no matter how much we admire
those who have striven for that re-
suit. one that has blighted hope
trough fuin, and secured only sigma
faidre In the attempts, and they
rave been made since WanGan-Chin
first established Socialism in China
ten thousand years ago. ft
What piuchot means 10 accom-
nlish and what he would lead us tt
arc further apart than the poles Bat
lnger. tarred with the stick Of utter
,or purpose, need not TO be taken as
a criterion, but an upright man
striking down the I1toplan pip
smokers. would be of lasting beneil'
,c our people.at this good hour
What the people must considaU
IA not men tsot, the kind of advocates
I'M tbe flsesrias, and results. Pin
ehot Is brave. patriotic and stead
fast. Still. given power, he stand
between the Great West and It's fea
prosperity How much Of his plan
Is wisdom, and how much Is hya
terra?