Gunnison news-champion., 1911-03-10
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ugr Eat.ral re-osscss.
Ne beiseve tials ls sail the fssl-
sng II nIns-iepths ui osr -sgcsuen
lea la-s weas, when the Haybaru
sHsenSimeai ws- proPa-ed, - cut o,si
sbe mos; vscIos- part of the Fescrs.s
aud reduce ts.em - a siEsctly i1re-s
basis. great eFpoTtsBay vas lSsi.
Il La aaother column ls prEpsea tise
ieieerams thai PASSED. Nj Paachot
gives the case away when he says
Amesdmept wosld entlFely destroy
grass and sse II National FORESTS "
tie adsasts then. thai II would nsa
Inlure the tore-is themselves. No
indeed, a8d hsre ~ the msIn con
tFoversy The great lake was started
aad Is boosted largely 10 cover
leasing system aad not farests, be
cause there never we're and never
can be forests worthy oi the name
over two-thtfds Of the reserve terri
tory.
News-Champion has never asserted
that a leasing system would not work
D. the advantage Of the large stock
men. La communities where the
siockmen can stand together li has
u advantages trom a monetary stand
point 10 many stockmen. but yoe
cannot separate It from the biting
curse of bureaucracy, from the deadly
chill Of paraly zed settlement, a non
Developed mining, Of a people sa-
pinely seeking favor of earpetbae
officials instead Of standing upon the
awful rights Of American freemen.
! Already horde Of government
officials are overrunning the country,
costing more for their up-keep than
the entire local county government
and accomplishing what? Nothing
that one or two elected officials could
not accomplish. OF the i've million
appropriated for reserves two and
quarter million of cash is admittedly
consumed by bureau officers at
Washington. and most OF the re-
maInder in administration
Already the black hand Of "con-
servation and bureaucracy, playing
hand IN glove with corporations and
lumbermep with whom Plnchot is
associated, has stlfed the mining in
dustry, until its ebb has left in this
county alone many groups Of blacken-
ing buildings where once were live
home markets. Development of
water power, Of coal mines, Of every
thing but government jobs has suf-
Tered in consequences.
Yet there 10 a feeling, which we
suppose this committee voiced, that
having gotten accustomed to the new
regime, they did not want to go
through the turmoil and upheaval of
read lustment Probably this really
underlaid the action.
Nevertheless News Champion feels
q great opportunity has been missed.
The forest reserves under the present
system are wrong. They are founded
in ignorance and conducted in dupli-
city Their good is minimum and
their vice maximum. However they
may reflect money into the pockets
Of some, the greater good to the
greater number demands a reduction
Of their absurd size, demands aboli-
tion of their unAmerican manage
ment, demands that they be made
into instruments for the development
Of Colorado instead of Fairgrounds
for near-scientists and millionaire
faddists.
1t is probably true that the Hay
burn amendment went too far The
senator is an extremist and set the
standard If 1900 feet per acre rather
high But would it not have been
better TO have ignored tie demand
lof Extremist Pinchot rather than to
have put the Gunnison stock growers
on record in this way?
1t is more and more apparent that
the mohstrous press bureau machine
which Pinchot operated with the
peoples money aud against wheels
of which he still pours out gold, has
affected the minds of eastern friends,
has 80 obscured their vision of the
truth, that we can have little hope
from them.
The only salvation seems an as
sumption of government of all public
lands and common resources by the
people of the several states. Until
that time comes, it may be desirable
to stand in with the powers that be
in forest reserve circles. We still
consider it bad public policy, but
that statement is a matter OF conh-
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