New-York tribune., 1910-09-06
ATTACK ON BALLINGER
Governor Of Kansas Would Kick
Him Out" if He Had Power.
LBy The ASSOCIATED Press

ne Associated Press
81. Paul. Sept. 5.-After President Taft
left the conservation congress this after
noon Governor Stuhhs Of Kansas took the
platform The Kansas Executive pulled
mis- sleeves Up to give his arms full swing.
lossened his necktie TO give play TO his
vocal organs and proceeded 10 remark
that f he had The power he would kick
Secretary BaiGnser out Of office.
As he made this assertion. the most sen
sationai Of the Gay. he glared at those
spectators who had not followed the Pres
ident 20 the state fair grounds and then
surveyed the other Governors on the plat
form. Later. in private. Governor Hay Of
Washington took occasion 10 inform Gov
crror Stubhs that he considered Secretary
BaIlinger as good d man as any in The
United States
The people Of this country should erect
a monument 10 Clifford Pinchot" began
Governor Stubbs- He deserves il for
saving the coal lands Of the country. # for
nothing else 7 don't know why II Is that
corporations and others that want TO steal
power sites and timber want control Of
natural resources vested in state legis-
iatures.
ANY way, ] don't take any stock n this
BaIIinger idea Of running things If 1 were
President Of the United States would kick
him out Of office in minute. Ia Ike 10
see some Of these Alaska coal thieves. I'd
put them where they belong
The militant Governor from Kansas add
ed that President Taft IN his address had
said some true things. and, said he, y
want 10 give him credit for it.
This brief but pointed address. delivered
in vitrioic style. was called forth by re-
who. n advocating state control Of natural
resources. declared that Montana had be
gun the conservation Of her resources he
fore the federal government ever began
70 think of IT,
Isn't il fact, Governor Norris" de
manded Governor Stubbs. that The na-
1ionaI government has led in the develop
ment Of irrigation in the Vest"
Yes, in the last three or four years.
WHY. The movement only got started then
when Theodore Roosevelt and clifford
Pinchot got busy The nation ought 10
erect monuments TO them
The Kansan at this point smiled as if
amused.
Governor Brooks read the following re-
JoiUtions, which. be said we're adopted At
The meeting OF Western governors at salt
axe City and which, he said. express The
conservation views of the states there rep
resented.
First-That IN leglsIativeiy solving the
problems Of conservation the national CON
gress adhere TO the doctrine Of Abra ham
Lincoln that the public lands are per
IDaIenT national possession, held in trust
Tor The maturing states.
SecCnd-TEaI state government. no less
heuetcenTlV 1Iau national government. Is
capable Of deyising and administering laws
Tor the conservation OF public property and
that the national ana state governments
should ieGlSi iatINeiN coordinate TO he emo
that within d reasonable period OF time the
state governments be conceded The fuI and
complete administration Of such conSerVa-
ticn laws as may be found adaptable 10
the VARYING conditions Of the several states.
Third-TEaI the experience % the con
SeTVztiou states demonstrates that disp0-
si1iou IF public property made under eX-
listing national conservation laws and regI!-
lstlons has tended 10 lutTench mOnOpOiies
and interests HenacIng the common wei
fare, and that notifications ot such laws
and regulations should be promoted by the
Conservation Congress
FOuTfII-Thaf The elimination from the
national forest reserves Of al homestead
and untimbered grazing lands is immedi-
ateiy expedieHt-
Fiffh-That use ana control Df all water
power inheres Of righf IN The states with
in restrictions. lnsuriu2 perpetual freedom
from MONOPOLY
Sixth-That the privilege Of american
citizens 10 seek and develop mineral wealth
r. herever i may be found should be fully
aTnBIif1e4i and secured ly . NJ
Seventh-That tie idea 81 deriving fed
eral revenue from the physical resources
OF the states IS TepuEuant 70 fEat ADJUST
lneuf Of constitutional powers which guar
antees the perpetuity of the i-nion.