Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
HOLDS STATE RIGHTS
THE "STALKING HORSE"
Grabbers for Public Domain Are
Hungry, Says Former Official.
FISHER ALSO A SPEAKER
More Than Two Hundred Delegates
From All Parts of the United
States Are Attending For
estry Convention.

estry Convention.
Declaring that behind the Stalking
| morse OF state rights there is preparing
| most dangerous attack on the whole
| policy Of conservation" and that lone
OF the greatest battles In the fight for
conservation is just ahead" Clifford Pin
| chot. former chief forester OF the United
States, delivered an address today before
the thirty-second annual meeting OF the
American Forestry Association at the
New Willard Hotel. in which he pointed
out some OF the difficulties that confront
the conservationists and made suggestions
| In connection with public lands
Secretary OF the Interior Fisher de-
| livered an address at the luncheon which
| followed the first business meeting of the
association. taking up the work of the In
terror Department in connection with the
! national forests. The luncheon was pre-
sided over by Charles Lathrop Pack OF
Lakewood. n. j.. in the absence Of the
president of the association Gov. Robert
P. Bass OF New Hampshire. whose duties
kept him at home.
More Than 200 Delegates.
More than 200 delegates gathered at the
Willard to attend the convention. coming
from all parts of the country and repre-
| senting not only the various states of the
Union. but organizations Of various char
acters which are interested in forestry
! work
| The work Of the convention, which will
| last two days. began this morning with
a business session Of the board OF di-
man Of New York, for the purpose OF
| naming committee resolutions and
| drafting resolutions which will be pre-
sented TO the convention. The speakers
| during the two days sessions on the
J whole convention, which assembled at 3
o'clock this afternoon. will include DIR.
Henry 9. Drinker. president of Lehigh
University: Henry 8. Graves. chief for
ester Of the United States: Charles
Lathrop Pack. president Of the National
| Conservation Congress: W. B. Greeley of
| the forest service, L. F. kneipp OF the
! forest service William l.. Hall OF the
| forest service and r. Y. Stuart of the
| forest service.
Officers Are Elected.
| Many Washington men were elected
| officers OF the association today The
president for the ensuing year will be
DR.. Henry s. Brinker. president OF
Lehigh University, and the following
are vice presidents: Joseph n. Teal
oregon; Joshua L. Bailey. Pennsyl-
vania Frederick A. Delano. Illinois:
DR.. Charles w. Eliot. president emeri-
| tus of Harvard University; DIR. b. Z.
Fernow, University of Toronto; Wal
| ter L. Fisher, Secretary OF the Interior;
Henry S. Graves. chief OF the Forestry
service; Curtis Guild. ambassador to Rus
sia: Everitt G. Griggs. Washington, d. c.
| Gov. Hiram johnson, Cali .ornia; Thomas
L. Marshall, Illinois; Gifforu Pinchot.
| Washington. ID. c.; Representative oscar
w. Underwood. Alabama; Dr. j. T. Roth
| rock. Pennsylvania; DIR. Filibert Roth.
Michigan, and Dr. Robert s. Woodward
of Washington.
DIR. Otto Luebkert of this city was
elected treasurer.
| 10 following are the directors: DIR.
Henry S. Brinker. w. r. Brown New
Hamp shire; Thomas Nelson Page: wash
lington, ID. c.. John K. jerks. Washington'
d. c.: Herman III. Chapman. Connecu.
Charles Lathrop Pack, New jersey
Charles T. Quincy, New York; Ernest \.
Sterling, Pennsylvania; T. It Aiiel,'
Oregon; J. b. White, Missouri: j. Il.
| Rhodes Illinois, and John l.. weaver
| " ashington, ID. c.
Mr.. Pinchot's Address.
In his address today Mr.. Pinchot said.
| in part:
.'One of the greatest battles in the fight
| for conservation il just ahead. There
/ is a movement on foot-a movement
| eager alert and well organized-to wipe
! out the old dividing line between state
| and national action in conserving our
| natural resources, and TO turn the ma
| tional forests over to the states. Be-
hind the stalking horse of states rights
| there is preparing most dangerous at
| tack OH the whole policy or conserva-
| ton Ii is an attack In which men or
| high principle are fighting side by side
Il with men whose principles live In their
pockets, and for that reason II is dou-
| bly, to be feared.
| THE last fifteen year; have brought
great changes in the policy toward pub
lie lands The coal lands Of Alaska
| will not fall into the hands Of the Gug-
| genheims. nor will hundreds or millions
| of dollars worth OF waterpower sites
become the easy prey of the great water
| power combinations. whose growth In
the direction Of single overmastering
trust has made such progress in the
last few years
Has But Single Object.
| "All of this work for the protection
| of the peoples property has but single
object-use for the benefit Of the people.
| But use by the people is sharply diff
| ferent from ownership by the grabbers.
The grabbers are hungry, for under the
care of the government the peoples
property is mostly out Of their reach.
| ITO the men whose business of grab.
bing has been stopped. the present situ-
alton could not we'll be worse. Any
change must be a change for the bet
| ter. To these men the states rights
cry is a tool, and nothing more. Time
and again 1 have been intensely amused
by the perspiring solicitude Of citizens
of New York and Massachusetts lest
the rights of Colorado and Idaho to
control the disposition of waterpower
within their borders should fail Of due
| recognition. So with their ceaseless
care for the rights Of the honest settler.
whom the government does protect, but
whom the grabbers merely use.
| Value of Forests.
1.-The national forests are worth at
| least two thousand millions OF dollars. 1t
| is a huge prize-safe from spoliation while
| II remains in the hands of the nation, but
possibly open if it passes to the states.
From the beginning II was upon the
forest service that the burden OF defend