Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-03-07

cannot be accused of trying to use Of
fieial power and patronage toward
his continuance in office.
When Mr.. Pinchot reached the
position of Senator La Toilette in
the campaign he gave warm and
hearty eulogy for the Wisconsin
statesman as one of the great men
of the nation, whose service would
grow larger in history and to whom
heavier debt of gratiture was due
hut he said La Follette's. unfortu-
nate breakdown for which all were
sorry had showed that it was essen
tial to go to new leader. The
statement that Roosevelt had un-
dermined and betrayed La Toilette
he knew to be false. Roosevelt did
not urge La Toilette to run but in
the Outlook had written a deserved
and fine commentator of Senator
La Follette's work in Wisconsin
as he promised to do.
Stating that he had himself been
the first subscriber to the La Fol-
lette campaign Mr.. Pinchot said that
he had left the Wisconsin senator
only after seeing that all hope for
keeping together of the progressive
republicans to defeat President
Taft, was lost.
The progressive movement said
Pinchot is bigger than any one man
or any set of men and progressives
tt succeed must use the best means
for carrying forward their policies.
It is a question of principles not
of men. La Toilette has brot the
fight far, but events have made it
clear that now new leader must
be chosen to advance the cause.
At jamestown Pinchot first re.
ferred to the reciprocity bill which
he declared, in the principle of in
creasing business between the two
countries many honestly believe a
good thing, but the bill as written and
passed was an abomination. Barley
and grains were to be admitted free.
while cereals were taxed, raw ma
terials were all to he free but the
!! manufactured articles retained
their duty, and so one class, the
farmers, for whom there never had
!, been toamuch protection, We're done
injustice by the bill. Further, TAX
7. ing another fling at President Taft
lirchot stated the bill was a purely
,, political issue, measure SO careful
ly drawn that states favoring Taft
we're unhurt while the others op-
;; pt s.ng the president were hard hit
b: the act.
clifford T:nchot talked plainly to
the audience without bombast or
oratorical pyrotechnics, stating the
facts and conditions as he saw them.
The time had come, he said, for re-
. publicans to sink all differences.
Under the La Toilette engine the pro-
81 essive train had been carried as
far as it could 60, now another hu-
man engine must pull the train of
progress to it's terminal destination
and that human engine is, Theodore
Roosevelt, the greatest progressive
! of them all.
Clifford Pinchot is remarkable
! man. The bureau of forestry stands
as monument to his untiring ef-
forts. A rich mans son and a
wealthy man himself, Clifford Pinchot
! is man Of high ideals of government
! and these ideals lead him into car
lying the load imposed by the direc-
tory of the forestry department
The former chief forester is the
son of James w. Pinchot, retired
merchant, who himself took great
interest in forestry. He was one of
the founders of the Yale school of
Forestry, from which his son after
ward graduated. The elder Pinchot
was also interested in a number of
other forestery schools, scientific and
art schools so that the son has car
ried into practice the ideas of his
father. The record made by Clifford
Pinchot ass chief forester under
President Roosevelt is one that stands
out with particular prominence. When
he entered on the work the forestry
department. amounted to little or
nothing but as a result of his untir-
ing efforts, the forestry department
has developed until it is now one
, of the great conservation branches
of government service.
senator Clapp for Roosevelt
Boston, March 2.-Senator Moses
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