Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-02-27
/CAN HNt<-k /G%
Mr.. PlNCHOT AND HIS TREE
FIGHT WITH MR., BAIIINGER
(By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS in
NnNN Ynrl, Annn,-icn,,

| peo'eG 10 blaze again in ire cam
pa'2n of 1872 Mr. Pinchcr-M:
| Clifford Pinchot-was horn rich. Which
- no good thing for any man. Thi,
Ina; heen said before. but can't u,
said too often Cradle riches MAX,
one opinionated. dictatorial. pett,
They destroy ones perspective. i'm:
ones experiences and therefore one.
! powers of comparison Worst Of an
they weaken ones fibre by reInov.
| ing the reason for work.
Rich. Young Mr. Pinchot went I,
Harvard. There he met Mr. Roose.
Nelt. 1t was a meeting of moment
! 10 Mr.. Pinchc; since Il vcrv rlG,.I
nodded his career. Mr. Pmchpt ha,
= FAD; it was trees. Fads ore ~
right in private life: in prhlic If,
| the% have To be watched Air Roos"-
V'ij became president IL r"m"n-
bered Mr.. Pirclot and IN, Pinchot
| fad for trees. He called the young
rich. fad ridden Mr. Pinchot to WASH
ington and made him ruler over tn,
public forests.
Aside from trees. Mr.. Roosevelt per
sonally loved Mr.. Pinchot The lat
ter was clinging vine-l like: Mr.
Roosevelt was as up and down as an
oak. Mr.. PnchOt twined about Mr.
| Roosevelt. and chung to him like q
honeysucllle TO a front porch.
Never shall | forget the beaming
look Of Mr.. Roosevelt when he pre-
scented me casually To- Mr. Pinchot
"Pnchot" he said. sIapping that
fad-swept parsonage fondly on the
shoulder. is in charge of my tree
policy / love Pinchot. Pinchot loves
me It's because we thoroughly I'M
derstand one another. We both know
that together were We lost i'm the
desert and il became 4 case ~ starv-
ing. I would kill him and eat him"
Here Mr.. Roosevelt showed all his
teeth like giant Blunderb"re in the
nursery book.
Mr. Pinchot. officially as well as
privately. was raised a pet He was
= trusted member Of Mr Rooscve!ts
tennis cabinet" do not under
stand that Mr.. Pinchot was riotous-
~ popular elsewhere than at the
White House That may nave been
horn of his nearness To Mr.. Roosevelt.
As the poet Grey explains in what
lines he tearfully commentaries the
drowning of his beloved tabby cat.
and how little the sad affair affected
the other animals: "A favorite has
no friends
AS forestry chief under AIR Roose-
welt. Mr. Pinchot did as he pleased
He dealt with the law AZ he would
have liked it To have been and not
as il was Full of his tree fad. he
robbed the present TO enrich the fu-
ture. and-to they say-took 1885,
600. 600 acres out Of public lands
available for settlement. and enthu-
siastically added them to the Forest
Reserve.
From the very beginning there
were statesmen who objected To :.
large slice of the public domain be
ing set aside for posterity Like the
late Mark Twain. they asked. What
has posterity done for u.s." Mr..
Pinchot stilled them with the asser-
ton that he had discovered plot.
He had. he said. detected symptoms
of Z coming Water Power Trust. In
some reconcile way. which | do not
understand. and therefore shall not
try To lay bare. that coming Water
Power Trust was To he knocked on
the head. killed as it were on the
nest. by a sheer first effect Of that
forestry confiscation of 1S0006. 600
acres.
Excellent. But. behold you. along
comes Mr.. Ballinger. secretary Of the
interior. and in the pride of his
l..
ton. deforests those $4,000 900 acres
and readds them To the general public
domain from which. by Mr.. Pinchot.
they had been so feverishly sub
tracted Naturally. Mr. Pmchot car
ried the story Of his griefs to Mr..
Taft That executive. at cheerful
ease in his Beverly splint-bottom
rocker-of double width and strength
gave judgment against him. He
could see no plot.
Mr.. Pinchot dolefully Withdrew from
the Taftian presence as depressed as
any peacock bereft of it's tail. Mr..
Pinchot took the tangle to the SEN
ate A committee investigated. and.
following a White House example. the
majority report was against Mr.. Pin
tiOt- liidl. dS iifdi Aii' ii'NSs -
the tale Of the Pinchot- nallinger
fight
Mr.. Ballinger saws that not he but
the law beat Mr.. Pinchot Mr.. Pin
chot says that he was defeated by
politics and money i'm evil c0mbina-
ton For myself. | agree with
neither. | think Mr.. Ballinger won
over Mr.. Pinchot. not by law. not by
politics criminally linked To money.
but because h. was the stronger of
the two Hard work. hope and little
was the up-bringing Or
Mr. Ballinger And all the time Mr..
Pinchot was sleeping soft-was eat
ing of the fat. drinking of the sweet
And so when Mr.. Ballinger and Mr..
Pinchot ran counter Ia one another.
Mr.. Ballinger put Mr.. Pinchot out of
business. For there is strength in
the hard. weakness in the soft. ana
this YOU may see about YOU every
where and anywhere upon the firing
line of life.