The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-02-20
ON CONSERVATION
PiNcHoT SEES PROGRESS IN
CHANGED ATTITUDE or
PRESIDENT TAFT. 4.
Says Great Interests Deny Square
Deal to Average Man and Need
Federal Government Con-
troll, Not State.

dl AOHSeTNdllOH ASSOcldllOi, WHULi
president Taft removed from the Of
flee of chief forester Of the United
States, today before the Peoples Fo-
rum Of New Rochelle, delivered what
he entitled "a report Of progress
In the course of his remarks he SIM
married. the achievements ia the con
seryation of natural resources which
he attributed to the progressive
movement" paid tribute to the Roose-,
welt administration, crediting 1t with
enormous influence in awakening the
people to their rights and opportnri-
ties and said the Payne-Allrich tariff
was the most powerful single factor
in breeding popular disirust of the
/ old line politicians and their meta
DDS"
! That more than all else, he said,
was responsible for making the Las
two years "the most formative since
the civil war;
| In his summary of achievement, Mr..
Pinshot placed first the great doc
trine of the conservation Of natural
resources" which, he said, "has been
i adopted by the people of the United
States one and for all as their rule OF
judgment and action.
"We have checksd the Guggen
helms in their efforts TO absorb Alas
ka and have opened the way for the
use Of the vast resources OF that ter-
ritory mainly for the benefit of the
people of Alaska and the United
States" In that connection the speak
er landed the services "of that sol
dicr Of the common good, young Gla-
yis.n and declared 1t his belief that
1--WE shall yet save the coal and all
/ the rest"
! within the last two years" Mr.
Pinchot continued, can effort OF the
water power monopolists to turn tlit
water powers of tie nation over t.
the control of the states, whence they
might more easily pass into the hands
of the men who always know exact
ly what they want, was born, flour
ishedNnnd disappeared.
''Its death blow was an announce
ment from tho white house that {
| wise federal water power policy hal
been adopted by the administration
j The position thus taken by the presi
dent along the lines already laid down
| by Garfield and Roosevelt, deserves
and | doubt not will receive, the en-
dorsement and support of every frient
of conservation and every enemy 0
monopoly
! There arc nearly two hundre
million acres of national forests IL
the west, but none in the east. TIL
recent passage of the bill which viii
establish such public forests in tn
Southern Appalachians and Whit
Mountains, concludes in victory a
effort which has lasted 10 years an
furnishes one of the best of all illu.
trations of the value of persistence /
a good cause.
I Finally, the United States fores
service, with the policies whica
represents, has won it's fight agains
the open attacks of its enemies an
+ the covert hostility of men wa
r should have been it's best friend
Both the service and its policies 81
now more firmly established in pu
lie confidence and SUPPORT than eve
before.
+ ''It would be difficult to set ia
D high value on the work of the f0
+ ester. Henry w, Graves, to whol
D this result. as well as the adoption
a sound water power policy by II
i administration, are directly due.
Side by side with the conservatic
Of our natural resources and materi
welfare stands the conservation of o,
industrial and political liberties.
this field, the great forward step
the last two years Is that at last OF
Ipeople have seen the light.
"At least we have come to reali
N the fundamental proposition th
equality Of opportunity no longer G
lists among lis. The industrial and D
. litjcal power of the great interes
denies a square deal to the avera,
= man.
. "It Is not the consolidation of cal
tau In itself that has brought th
y about, but rather the use of mon,
In politics by the great combination
= Thus the political value of the in,
- vidual voter has been reduced or dt
!" troyed.
y "At last we understand that t
= control of politics for profit h
~ reached point where the life Of fr
! institutions Is at stake, and wnen
~ people like ours come to realize
3" fact like that they act Our peoT
= know today that however devoted
the public interest individual c.
Fe gressmen and individual senators IN
is be {and there are many suchl ct
y gress as whole nc longer represer
" the people,"
- MIR, Pinchot described the closi
hours Of the present. congress as
u set by "a swarm OF hungry lobbyist