El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-07
CORPORATE GREED
FLAYED BY PINCHOT
Tells Ohio Progressive Re
publicans Popular Gov
eminent Is Remedy.

Akron. Ohio, March At the ban
quet Of Progressive Republicans OF
Ohio. held here last night, Clifford Pin
chot delivered the principal address,
saying in part:
Generations have their Characters
tics as well as mer- During the last
third of the 18th century the american
people gave their energy and their
Intelligence mainly to the great task
of material development Under the
power and drive of their concentra-
ton upon material success they de-
velOped this continent with thor
ough going effectiveness without
naraIIeI in history. New industrial
devices, both mechanical and legal
we're needed. and appeared, and they
were as effective as they were new
These new devices We're applied TO
our vast natural resources, and made
the nation rich But in the process
the tools came TO outweigh their mas
tiers, and the political power OF corpora
lions created BIZ the people became
the dominant factor IN government
when the great combinations Of
capital found that monOpolistic con-
troll of the natural sources OF wealth
could be secured more easily through
politics than in any other way, they
went into politics Using corrupt COM
mercial methods with the tireless eff
cheney they had learned in their legi-
innate operations, they set out to get
political power, and they succeeded
Political power opened an easy way
TO use money to get more money, and
they clung to 1t till they wore their
welcome out. The Payne-AldricE tariff
was the last straw
From the point OF view Of material
civilization. the most important event
Of recent years is the conversion Of
this nation TO the conservation idea
The American people are fully per
suaded today that so far as the nat
ura1 resources are concerned our pros
perity now and hereafter depends on
looking ahead.
'As citizens we are beginning 10
see that if we are to govern ourselves
in the future with less dictation from
the special interests than we have had
in the past, the machinery Of govern
ment must be so adjusted as to make
1T easier for the popular viii to pro-,
duce results. 1t must be made easier
for the people to secure continuously
the honest enforcement of their will
than it is for the business and po-
litical bosses to secure continuously
the defeat of the popular will in
their own interest We cannot always
work along under a political Organiza-
tion such that unhearable abuses are
the only stimuIants strong enough to !
make the people demand and get their !
rights. Good government in spurts is !
not good enough. What we need is
machinery under which the hardest /
work win always have to be done by !
tho men who are trying to defeat the |
POPULAR Will, and not by the men who I
are trying TO get it enforced.
The demand for better things is /
working out in many state legisla- I
ture: through the passage of progress I
sive avs for popular government. IN
der ,tese laws, which are by no means
revolutionary. the people will take
better control Of their own affairs.
There no movement in politics today
more vial than this, and it is for this
reason hat the organization of the
National Progressive Republican league
was a tAroughly good thing
AS alton we are passing out !
Of the Potcal leading strings of the !
special lnt-ests into the full develop
ment OF pitical maturity. The sign
Of our adNnce from childhood into
manhood Is the progressive move
ment."