The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-05
A REFoRMER REFORMED.

The self-stylcd reformers have never
| at any time ceased to derlde tormer-
Secretary Balllnger, to laud Pinchot,
and to sstrenuonsly uphold the raise
conservation policy which Plnchot en-
forced throughout all TINS western eoun-
try TO IT'S material damage, ana "Po"
Alaska TO ITS paralysis ior the past
fifteen years. Ihere rs one OF those
reIormers, however, who mas had the
honesty and eandor and keenness OF
mind TO make real lhVes'lga'loh III
to the questions AT issue, ana ne mas
completely reversed ms Ifoner oPihloh'
inns rs MI w. ID. hubert Mt HUI
bert was thoroughly permeated with
the Plnchot ideas, and went TO Alaska
to get material TO write ON the finchot
side of the question He dld wr'te
series of articles on the coal land con
troNersy ana mad them puolisheu III
The Outlook But since then he mas
made further investigalon, ana now
| he writes IN the New YORK Ilmes' atter
months OF study ana reIiection' tha'
| II lie were 10 write those artleles oVei
AGAIN, he would write them In quite
since then, as he SAYS, ne dld not
expect, and ms views OF the compara-
tive service OF the laft ana Roosevelt
ADMINISTRATIONS towards pubic protec-
ton have been much altered 80
tar from the Roosevelt elaim oeihg
true that President Isit, In appoint
ing Balllnger ana dlsmlsslng fihchot,
completely reversed the Roosevelt con
servatlon policy the fact is, ana
hooseVelt should Know IL, that tue
statement is not true On the contrary,
| Balhnger's record as Secretary OF the
Interior under President Iaft, appears
10 be better ana more consistent than
that OF secretary @art1eld under Presi-
dent hooSeVelt' and lait record ap-
pears TO be better 'han mat OF koose-
VeIt'
Mr Hubert backs this statement up
by recalling that on May !, 1908, Sec.
| retary CARRIED, before the House Com
mittee on Public Lands, urged that "on
certain conditions and to the extent
OF not more than 2o6O acres to each
| claimant. every fraudulent coal claim
| In the United States should be pat
ented, no matter how much of perjury
or CRIME might be involved in it, And
! thereupon Mr.. Hubert asks, 'Was this
conservation Roosevelt was in fa-
vor of the passage Of this measure as
advocated by Secretary Garfield, but
Congress refused to pass It,
Mr. Hubert further says that in 1906
and 1907 Roosevelt recommended leas.
ing coal lands, but in May, 1908, he
approved Garfield s scheme 10 con.
| firm fraudulent claims - In bis las
| annual ,,,o.s,o,o poo.o.,, =,
annual hcsodEci hooseNeiC sdld notnlnG
about coal, and in his later message
transmitting the report of the National
| Conservation Commission, che rave
ono so,torco ,o oo.I al .a
o'' s'"''"Ne W e'"'' oii, gas ana Pnos
| phate lands, recommending that thew
ho 1oo-o5 - ,yL. ,r. IT
oe i'"'eu. "nereupoh MI hulber'
says, s'The Roosevelt conservation
| IL;
| po'l'S see'hs W nave "oppIed rathe!
badly.'
Mr. Hulbert noin+r out .b., &c c
| . -, ' '' - 'ai
field g plan had been adopted, the con
to.to5 A1,o1,, oIo; -,
| '.'''" -'i""ah 'i"''hS "ouid nave DccI
allowed, but BallTnpeT WAS ALLEGED tf
| L,,.o 49,, .LoA
II" " "o'n aDout 'o patent the contested
| claims when Pinchot stopped him and
hoIJ .L Co.
| w" '"'" ''i iu' Ipei ihNeSClgation
which would occupy several months anG
b;o sulo.a; ~
"'S euooi oi"i""'es ociie'ed inc result
would be cancellation Mr., Hubert
co,Fo.eos ,Lo. H. 80
'"aI he Was uudcr ihe I'm
preston that PinChot s protest nrc
vented the issue Of these patents; but
he shows that that impression was er
roueous, and continues:
President TAFT has never recommcndce