The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-23
PINCHOT ATTACKS TAFT

1t seems from a recent publication
that ON December 81, 1909. when Col.
Roosevelt was in Africa. Clifford PIN
chot wrote hir. directed 10 khartoum,
4 long letter reviewing the political
! situation, and expressing great distrust
of President Taft. MIR Pinchot had
not thou been dismissed from the scrv.
! ice. so that, whatever resentment he
may he thought TO feel on account Of
! that dismissal. such resentment was in
no way accountable for the writing Of
| the letter, though possibly IL may
somewhat account for It's publication a.
| the present time. II Is clear. however,
| that this letter could not have been
| printed without the conscn of Col.
! Roosevelt, so that the letter not only
shows Mr. pinchot' $ distrust Of Presi.
dent Taft, but at tho same time Il
| indicates Col. RooseNelt's hostility TO
| President Taft. and his willingness 10
have him arrHgucd before the Amcrl-
can public as unfathful 20 his trust,
and unfricndly to policies to which he
had given his firm adherence.
The letter Of Mr.. Pinchot TO Col
Roosevelt is not especially important
in itself, either as Of the day it was
written, or as Of the present time. But
it is significant Of the present move
mcnt by tho Pinchol Garfield Roosevelt
cahal TO djscrcl Iii President Taft, aud
TO assail him without mercy or reason
Tho chief grievance against President
Taft, ii appears, is. that he is not any
longer faithful to the Roosevelt poll
cies. which he was understood to have
fully endorsed But, it is not difficult
TO understand how a man Of discern
meut aud cool Judgment like President
Taft woul easily see, on Investigating
the Roosevelt policies. that there were
many reasons why they should be dc
parted from. not only in part but ut
times altogether There is nothing
sacred about the Roosevelt policies; as
matter of fact. they are chiefly the
Pinchot policies. and utterly wrong and
subversive Of tho rights of the settlers,
and arc paralyzing upon the efforts Of
those who would open and develop the
public domain of the United States, AS
the people have done from the very
foun lation of the government mp TO the
present time, or until the paralyzing
halt was called by the Pinchot propa-
ganda, The very best thing that could
happen 10 the country, so far as most
of this Roosevelt conservation theory
is concerned. would be 10 have the
Roosevelt ideas thrown overheard alto
gcthcr
With regard to some other points in
the Pinchot letter. we cannot do bet
ter than TO copy from the New York
Evening Post editorial which deals with
the subject the following extract;
Dear Theodore was told that 1t was
too bad TO have such a letter reach
him at khartum. The traveller must In
decd have thought II too bad 10 read OF
the crimes OF his successor which were
virtues in himself. He must have been
tempted 20 chucklc when told Ivy the
serious Mr.. Pnchot that President Taft
had wickcdly strivcn for party solidar-
ity.' and had yielded 20 political OK
pediency.' This To the man who had
=
and had never hcsitatcd 10 make q
practical" political bargain. The Colonel
must have Grinned broadly when he read
OF another TAFT miSdcmoanor the an
pointment OF Hitchcock and tic "spos
system. In fillins offices. II was this
same Hitchcock who was RooseycIrs
right hand man in rounding UP the
Southern postmastcrs and collectors IN
order TO force Taft's nomination. And
we should fancy that Mr.. Rooscvoits
laughter could almost have been heard
III Cairo when he read that Mr.. TaCt's
vlllainy was shown by his having "ar-
filitated himself In Congress with Can
non. Aldrich. and Hale" What else had
he himself been doing for ak years? Al
one point, however. the Colonel must
have ceased smiling. That was where
the letter spoke OF the attacks upou
yourself in Congress during the last scs-
sion of your term. which Taft might
have checked by "a word" but did not.
This was getting on tho raw.
Perhaps the most telling example OF
Mr. PinchotS loose reasoning occurs i'm
the ninth spccifics ton of President Taft's
high crimes ana msdcmcauors Gle
signed and now defends a tariff bill
following the passage OF which the cost
u living rose beyond ali precedent" II
certainly Is too bad for Dear Thco.
dore'- or anybody else TO have such a
tumble put before him Mr.. Pincbot
would know how to deal with a person
who attacked the conservation policy in
this fashion. IL. would insist upon fIrst
having tho facts established and theu
upon drawing the correct inferpuces from
them. But in this particular assault
upon Mr.. Tai, nc stopped for nothing OF
that kind. Tire worldwide rise ia prices
which had been going OF Tor Years lie
was ready 10 attribute to an American
tariff Law which had then i>ccu in effect
less than five months, By that sort of
thing. any man puts himself out OF
court.
Nj Of which shows that consistency
is no part of the iewelry priced by
either Clifford Piuehot or Theodore
Roosevelt