The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-09
DECLARES P|NCHOT i
POWERFUL DESPOT'
Denver Man Says Forest Service
Uses West as Field for Ex.
plOitatiOn.
AUTHORITY IS UNLIMITED
UNDER PERNICI0US SYSTEM
Eternal Principles of American.
Government Overthrow,
Author Asserts.
(By a Staff Correspondents

OGDEN, Jan, S.-J. Arthur Eddy,
president Of the National Public Do.
main league of Denver Colo, addressed
to the convention paper which was
read at the morning session. The title
of Mr.. Eddy's paper was, 1.-THE Hidden
Motives of the Conservation Alarmists
The West to Suffer as Their Field Of
Exploitation.
Mr. Eddy severely criticises the forest
administration Of Clifford Pinchot, but
he does it in a new way. He declares.
in effect, that Clifford Pinchot was an
autocrat, with unlimited power, and that
his bureau used the west as a field in
which TO enforce its irrational policies
Mr., Eddy's paper in part follows:
New Political School 81
Editor Dr. Thomas Il. Will OF Conserya-
tion-the organ OF the conscrvationists-
in its November number accepts the
school, for those Of. his faith-those for
whom he says:
This school represents n revolt against
ndividualism and laissez-fai
"Indiyidualsm" once, at least at the
rearing Of our governmental edifces, re-
garded the Keystone of its main arch!
Held as a vital principle likewise by some
today. notably Justice Brewer. who re-
Gently said
'He Qhe Individually must be permitted
10 have the widest scope Of effort There
must be no checking OF initiative, ..
Mankind would not have been. able 70
accomplish what 1t has II government
had made Itself felt on every side
directing every day what he
should and what ne should not do
BY this declaration the new school
comes nearer stepping into the open and
showing the underlying principles. pur-
nd ipfa nj -
under the guIse OF conservatlon-thar
anything we have seen from an authori-
ta tive source.
That the real issue be clearly defined
and lines sharply drawn. in place OF gilt
tering generallties. subterfuses. vague in'
situations and like methods, 10 which we
have been hitherto. lavishly treated, Y
greatly TO he hoped.
step by declaring "individualism" ihe
vulnerable point in the old school,. and
as II a solar pleXus, pounds II merciessls
| throughout his article
Approach With Caution.
| For many long, weary day. awaiting
natural evolution and the elevation OF th'
human race as a whole, ours must "a
the white mans burden'-commerclai'
ism.
When we reflect upon the astoundih1
progress Of the world under the infir-
ence OF ndividualism, when we perceive
tnat III tnc lHltS0 "Nele II Ao@
run most rampant, that progress q
most marked, we should indeed approach
with fear and trembling any act towaro
| its destruction. Z
That there may be. no misunderstana1
| ing; that the responsibility may rest MT
! tingly, and with a procedure which w
strongly commend to. and trust may %
emulated by. the New Thought writer's
we meet the public with an open hand
and quote in full from It's constitution tha
| objects OF the league:
Objects of League.
81, To study the conditions affecting
the public lands, In connection with che
upbuildIng of the states in which they
are located; TO collect and promulsatq
| information as TO the true conditions no"
existing In the west, that justice to u
and its people may be done, and whore
required endeavor to secure legislatlon
| to that end. =.
"2. To favor the proper protection o<
the forests, the construction and mann
tenance OF public roads, and the practica5
conservation and proper development q
all natural resources without unneces-
sary and unauthorized charges, which. for
mere purposes OF revenue, or otner"isS
obstruct development and burden tne
consumer u
"3. To oppose the establishment o.
any system of tenantry upon the pupiic
lands of the United States, and urge tn3
fullest possible llberality on the part p
their resources, upon equitable condilion'f
into the hands OF the people ~
al. To uphold the soverelgnty oI
state in conformity with that artIcis
the federal constitution when pIosiaSNs ~
that the powers not delegated 70 ~
United States by the constitution ~
prohibited by 1t to the states are reseIss+
10 the states respectively, or 10 tne p00
"5. To insist upon the maintenaness
of the American idea-government
the law and the people-rather tnan ~
rules and regulations made ana an,ua5r na n
tered by individuals or bureaus, snu, Ns.,,- ~
so far as the constitutional power OF rosSs.
Iation in these respects is vested in "
several states, that 1t be not divested Fl
invaded" ~
Amounts to Autocracy. A
It would be interesting TO ieHrr; ed nl,ngI Az
conservation" classihes-froin sn Ahss1l
systems-the form OF government ar N
Certainty IL cannot complain OF us RS
sesslnS the slightest element Uc
vidualSm. , oil ty ~
Apparently. II is IN class ,sIel an DS eros
hedwenn ratriarchism and benign au" /
cracy. reared by a soclalistlc We noicr !
slightly tinged with congressioinac., ac,esf q
Ing and wearing the historlca'
q notable attorney general. n-,,,raar,,s y
concern for which even aSnarasfr
woi,ld blush. and of which a high, lGges
official apologetcaIy aii' Ls
Gently said: s.t+ that IL ~,
something OF an anomaly lSy,Inbar In aTef'cs OF exso
fairs to have great nuInuea territorA,
and and Vested with authority II ibe TelS6 Jabs6 ::
to certain subjects; TO say 10 Do 'ns this a. +
tants thereof; ho1 ,Soa H'ss ~
' The excuse for the ,od sxistsnss tssn%sssrieauis % 2
is the hypnotically inducso dsfIeeinrtion n
for the protection of timber a"u III
'''"'' The True Conservationist-
The real true conservationist Is son;
The me Ie,n who rides and re-rdes INC - ~ g,
nent in Pullman cars hapangbSeis ,aan gsbeir guilt q
Pile with alarms ana u9e 99eveIop the coU q
s !Ey man Mp Sf nsSss sSssaa asyslSSPsiS%e wisS PsSe
gia, giSiai't thcorv. While riding astrid,S r.