Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-30
Former Forester Urges ConciIia-
ton in Speech Before
Pueblo Congress
SELFISHNESS IN OPPONENTS
Chicago Recommended as Next
Convention City, and Off
GERS Are Ind0rSed
Associated Pressl

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for Cancellation of the enemies of ma
tional conservation and for harmony
between, states rights men and ma
tionalists' in his address before the |
national irrigation congress.
Only by working together, he de-
clared, could the opponents of all con-
servation be fought successfully, anu
natural resources be kept in possess
sion of the people.
"There is only one enemy to nght,
he said. "It is the man in politics 10
feather his own nest.
1.-The last year has been the turning
point" he continued, land the FeopIe
realize that while we have right ana
O. duty to use all we need or minerals,
forests. lands and waters, behlnd anu
above all is the equal, or stronger,
duty to administer our birthright so
that we may hand it down to future
generations a nation richer, stronger |
and purer than the nation that lhhap-
its it today"
Mr., Pinchot declared the loudest
cries against the new policy and the
most bitter fight against 1t nave come
from those individuals and organiza-
tions who see their Individual profits
are in danger.
"Any fight of this kind must have
focal point" he said. "Any great con-
test always centers around few men
and organizations"
RESOURCES FOR ALL PEOPLE
"The basic principle of this fight OF
yours and mine is that it is better to
help the small man make living tnan
to help the big man make a profit; to
indorse the idea that the natural re-
sources do not belong to a few rlch
men, mainly in Wall street, but they
belong and must be kept in the pos
session of the people.
"I believe the contest of states rights
and federal, so prominently before this
congress- would never have arisen II
the government had not undertaken
to control some OF the special inter-
ests, which believed they could all con-
troll by tking refuge behind the states.
my view is this: There are certain
things in which the state is obviously
incapable of asserting as useful power,
as useful control, as the national gov
ernment. In those the government
should control. There are many places
in which the protection of the people
belongs to the states, and in those the
state should have full swing. In both
cases I deprecate all efforts to raise
this quarrel, because In the muddy
water there is a refuge for the man
who wants to escape all control. 1
states and the nation"
BIG STICK FOR ROOSEVELT
C. E. Ballreich OF Pueblo presented
to Mr.. Pinchot as trustee gnarled
"big stick" out of the forests Of Colo
RADIO. studded with Colorado gems and
precious metals, with the injunction to
deliver it to Theodore Roosevelt, the
man who is wise and strong enough
to use it impartiaIly for the benefit of
all. and the only man strong enough
and gentle enough to use the big stick
as a shepherds crook"
Action by the resolution committee
indicates the congress will indorse fed
eral control, though assurance was
given tonight that Colorado will pre-
sent a minority report relating its dis
mute with New Mexico and Texas over
the Rio Grande This controversy was
aired on the floor today, but no action
was taken, pending the committee
report.
The California clash Of yesterday re-
appeared today in brief tilt between
F. c. Finkle and Francis Cuttelle. Mr..
Finkle admitted he is consulting en-
gineer for a large power company, but
claimed he expressed only his personal
views in dissenting on the matter OF
federal control. Mr.. Cuttelle replied
that he not only represented his own
views, but spoke for 5000 fruit growers
in Southern California.
kilograms were read from the state
engineer and conservation commission
of Nebraska indorsing federal control
of water.
WATER NEEDED FOR PLANTS
1.-THE Water Need of Plants and the
Means of Securing 1t" was discussed
by the Imperial German Special Com
missioner, N. Kaumanns, who treated
the subject from scientific stand
point. He said in part;
1.-THE ordinary artificial processes
and circumstances by which the
amount of water in the soil is reduced
are chiefly:
First. The ever-increasing destruc-
tion Of the forests. Even II the for
ests do not absolutely compel the
clouds to yield their stores, they GER
tafnly have the good quality of re-
tarding the rapid flowing off OF the
water especially on mountains and on
mountain slopes. They keep back the
flood that it may benefit the valleys
without inundating them, and so en-
able their inhabitants to make use Oh
the water For these reasons alone
the ever-increasing and ruthless clear
ing of the forests should be summar-
lily stopped. a.
velopment of mining which draws or
a considerable amount of water from
the districts in which 1t is carried on.
Third. The intensive cultivation or
land which bring this about in sew
eral ways. 1t is possible to increase the
Weld of the land considerably by in
tensive cultivation In the seventies.
the sugar beet yield of Germany was
raised to make it clear that when
crop has been doubled a double amount
of water must also have been demand
ed from the ground. AS it is with the
sugar beets, so also must 1t be even IL
in a lesser degree with other plants.
The practice of putting other plants
between the rows also makes heavy ue-
mands on the water supply.
sUPPLY OF SOIL MOISTURE
"In order to obtain supply of soil
moisture the largest possible quantity
of the water coming to the soil should
be retained; and this can be done onlf
when the capacity of the soil to taH
up moisture is at it's maximum ~
this two things are especially peri
nent; (a) The ground should be turned
Immediately after the crop has oeen
taken off, and before the rainy season
of the year setsc in 1t should, II possible
be plowed in rough burrows. In TINS
condition it can absorb most or the
rain that falls. A considerable por-
tion of the rain will flow off a nat
surface without doing any good. The
lower LAYERS of soil, then, are to be