The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-02-20
FORMER CHIEF FORESTER AT
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BROADWAY TOWN..
ADDRESS IS OPTIMISTIC
Officer Removed by President Taft
Has Good Word for Water. Power
That Interests" Arc Being Curbed.
While People Arc Waking UP.

New Rochelle. y. T., Feb. 1o-Gif-
ford pnchot, president OF the National
Conservation association, whom Presi-
dent Taft removed from the office OF
chicf forester Of tho United States, to-
uay. before the Peoples Forum of
New Rochelle. delivered what he en-
tV!rd. "a Report Of Progress"
IN the course OF his remarks he
summarized the ACCOMPLISHMENTS In
the conservation of natural resources.
which hc attributed to the progress
sive movement paid tribute to the
Roosevelt administration. crediting 1t
with enormous Influence In awaken
Ing the people TO their rights and op-
portunitcs. and said that the Payne
Aldrlch tariff was the most power
ful single factor In breeding popular
distrust of the old-line politicians and
their methods" That. more than all
else. he said. was responsible for
making the last two years the most
formative since the civil war;
In his summary of accomplishments.
Mr. Pinchot placed first the great
doctrine of the conservation of nat
ural resources which, he said. "has
been adopted by the people of the
United states once and for all as their
rule of judgment and action" He
continued
I'VE have checked the Guggenheiins
In their efforts to absorb Alaska and
have opened the way for the use Of
the vast resources of that territory.
mainly for the benefit of the people of
Alaska and the United States"
In this connection, the speaker
lauded the services OF the soldier of
the common good, young Claws" and
declared 1t his belief that We shall
yet save the coal and all the rest"
within the last two years." Mr..
Plnchot continued. "an effort of the
water power monopolists to turn the
water powers of the nation over to the
control of the states. whence they
might more easily pass into the
hands OF the men who always know
exactly what they want. was born
flourished and disappeared.
Its death blow was an announce
ment from the White House that a
wise federal power policy had been
adopted by the administration. The
position thus taken by the president
Garfield and Roosevelt. deserves, and
I doubt not. will receive Endorsement
and support of every friend of con-
servation and every enemy OF monop-
oly."
National Forests.
"Thern are nearly 100000, 900 acres
Of national forests I'm the west. but
none in the east. The recent passage
Of the hil which Will establish such
public forests in the southern Appa-
lachians and White mountains, con-
cludcs In victory an effort which has
lasted 10 years and furnishes one Of
the best illustrations of the value of
persistence In good cause
Finally. the United States forest
service, with the policies which It
represents, has won its fight against
the open attacks of its enemies and
the covert hostility of men who should
!, have been It's friends. Both the serv-
ice and its policies are now more
firmly established in public confidence
and support than ever before.
1T should be difficult 10 set too high
IA value on the work Of the new for
ester, Henry s. Graves, to whom this
result, as well as the adoption of n
sound water power policy by the ad-
ministration, Is directly due
Equality.
"Side by side with the conservation
of our national resources and material
welfare stands the conservation of our
industrial and political liberties. In
this field the great forward step Of
the last two years is that at last our
people have seen the light.
"At least. we have come to realize
the fundamental proposition that
equality of opportunity no longer ex-
lists among us. The industrial and
political power of the great interests
denies a square deal to the average
man.
1T lis not the consolidation of cap
ital In itself that has brought this
about. but rather the use Of money in
politics hy the great combinations
Thus the political value OF the IN
dividual voters has been reduced or
destroyed
"At las. we understand that the
control Of politics for profit has
reached point where the life of free
institutions IL at stake and when a
people like ours come to realize fact
like that they act"
Mr.. Pinchot described the closing
hours Of the present congress as besei
by "a swarm of lobbyists" all seeking
ito get from congress what they
ought not to have"
He described that playing will
H