The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-20
Denied to Him by In
dustrlal and Political
Power.
AT LAST PEOPLE
SEE THE LIGHT
Ousted Forester Pinchot Makes
Report Of Progress"-He Be
lieves Natural Resources Will
Be Saved From the Inter
csts Playing Politics
Like Loaded Dice.

New Rochelle, n. y, February 1o.-
Clifford Pinchot. president OF the Ma
tional Conservation Association, and
former Government Forester, to-day,
before the Peoples Forum of New Ro-
chclle, delivered what lie called "A Re-
port OF Progress" lie summarized the
achievements in the conservation of
natural resources, which he attributed
TO the progressive movement: paid
tribute to the Roosevelt administra-
ton. crcliting 1t with enormous innu-
encc in awakening tho people TO their
rights and opportunities, and declared
tho Pay~nc-Aldrich tarin to have been
ltr most powerful single factor in
breeding popular distrust of tho old
line politicians and their methods.
That. more than all else. he said. was
res ppnsible for making the last two
years the most formative since the
Ciyi. War
In his summary or achievement Mr..
Pinchot placed first the great doctrine
o. the conservation OF natural re-
sources which lie said has been adopt
cd by the United states once and for
al as their rule OF Judgment and ac-
tion.
Checked Gu=Scnhcim ms.
we have checked the Guggcnieims
in their efforts TO absorb Alaska and
- !. fNiI III ID ne use OIL me
vast resources VI that Territory mainly
fer the benefit OF the people Of Alaska
and the United States In that con
nccttnn the speaker laudcd the services
or that soldier OF the common good,
young Claws and declared IL his be-
lief that we shall yet save the coal
and all the rest"
WITHIN the last TWO years." Mr.. Pin
chot continued. an effort or the water
power m~onopoIIsts to turn the water
powers Of tbs nation over 10 the control
OF the States, whence they ,nigh, more
easily pass i..to the hands OF the mon
who always know exactly what they
want, was born, hourislcd and disap-
peared, It's acatl,blow was an an
nouncclnent from the White House that
a wise Federal water power policy has
been adopted by tho administration.
The position thus taken by tho Presi-
dent, along the lines already laid down
BY Garfield and Roosevelt. deserves
and. ] doubt not. will rcceiy, Tho in
~dorsenent and support Of every friend
Of conservation and every enemy or
monopoly.
THE United States Forest Service.
with the policies wnici, Il represents
has won Is fight against the open at
tacks Of its enemies and the covert
hostility Of men who should have been
It's best friends. Both the service ana
Tits Policies are now more firmly ns-
tablished iii public confidence and sun
port than ever before.
People See the Light.
Side iy side with the conservation
OF our natural resources aud matcria
welfare stands the conservation or our
industrial and political liberties. In
this ficld a great forward step OF the
last two years is that at last our people
nave seen the light. at last we have
come 10 realize the fundamental prom
ositlon that equality of opportunity no
Longer exists among us. 1'no iui,strial
and political power OF the great In
tcrcsts denies a square deal to the ay-
crdSc man. 1T is no. The consolidation
OF capital in itself that has brought
This abort, bat rather the use OF money
in politics by the great Combinations
Thus the political value of tho indi-
vidual voter has been reduced or de-
stroycd.
Nj last VIC understand that The con
,rol OF politics for profit has reached
q point where the life OF free %instit,i-
tons is at stake, and when a people
IKE ours come to realize n fact like
THAT they act. Our people know to-day
that, however devoted to the public
Interest individual Congrcasmcn and
individual Senators may be (and there
arc many SUCH. Congress az a whole
no longer represents the people"
Ljk Loaded Dice.
Nj. Pinchot described the closing
hours OF the present Congress as beset
by = swarm OF hungry lobbyists" al,
seeking TO get from Congress what
they ought not to have He declared
that playing politics is not better than
playing with loaded dice.
With an emphatic declaration Of his
faith in the honesty. fairness and
right mindedness of the people, Nr.
Pinchot said in conclusions:
Already the people OF a majority Of
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