Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-01
GARFIELD SCORES
BOSS INTERESTS
Former Cabinet officer Declares
Corporations Should Be
Driven from Politics
TO CONSERVE PUBLIC RIGHTS
Pinchot Says People Should Get
All That Comes, from Nat
uraI Resources
TO CONSERVE PUBLIC RIGHTS
ASSOCIATED Press

OSAWOTAMIE, Aug. 31.-At the
John Brown celebration here, James
R. Garfield was received with cheers.
He at once began his speech with re-
lation of special interests toward poll
tics. Special interests of all kinds,
whether corporate or otherwise, are
entitled to just consideration and fair
treatment, but not to representation
in any public Office" Mr.. Garfield be-
gan.
"The legislator who owes his nomi-
nation or election to the influence of
any special interest win inevitably
yield to the demands of his master
as against the public welfare. The
executice officer whose election or ap-
special interests will likewise yield
to the demands Of his master.
"The judge who owes his position to
a special interest may be depended
on to determine in favor of that in
terest any case in which it is in
volved.
"All such representatives should be
driven from public office il we are
to maintain self government and work
out the problems of our republic.
"The task of freeing politics from
ests is no easy task.
INTERESTS GET TOO MUCH
Under the guise of the demand for
fair treatment, the special interests,
both state and national, have OBJ
tanned far more than they are entitled
to- Through the corrupt influence
of money furnished by special inter-
ests to particular candidates, the spe-
ciaI interests have obtained and are
maintaining an influence over public
offices. The present great fight for
the perpetuation of political liberty is
to free ourselves from that kind of
interest. 1t has been said that a
general charge of this kind is not
borne out by special instances but
every man who has served in any
public capacity in state or nation
knows that there are public officers
whose allegiance is not to the public
but to the particular interests that
have placed them there.
'It is the railroad in one state, the
business corporations in another,
farmers alliance in another, the labor
unions in another-all of these, as I
have said before, are entitled to just
consideration, but none of them to
representation. Whenever special in
terest is represented than the public
welfare is necessarily jopardized. The
representatives in any office must be
representatives of all classes, all in
terests and all people"
Clifford Pinchot made conservation
the keynote of his remarks.
every man gets his living from the
earth, either directly or indirectly" ="
declared Mr. Pinchot. 1.-THE amount
of wealth or the possible prosperity
and we'll being of the whole people
depends on how we use this earth and
what we do with its products.
"The conservation idea is that all
of the people ought to get from our
natural resources everything they can
yield both now and hereafter. But
that condition cannot be brought about
if the big fellows get an undue share
of the wealth of the EARTH In no phase
of life is there more opportunity for
the operation of the principle of
square dealing than in which involves
equality of all men and women in
sharing in our prosperity. To curtail
mems opportunities by allowing few
to control the riches of the earth is
essentially wrong. Conservation mere
ly purposes, under such restrictions
as are necessary, to work these nat
ural resources so as to give the
greatest benefit to every man, wo-
man and child, now and hereafter"