The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-10-12
Stevenson Blasts

to Craze their stock in the national
forests. In this connection, he point
ed out that though the bill was de-
feated, President Eisenhower NOM
mated its sponsor, Wesley D'Ewart
to be Assistant Secretary of the In
terror in charge of public lands i. f..
(which sounded like setting the fox
to guard the henhouse >. :"
PROGRESS UNDER DEMOCRATS
Contrasted with the "sordid Re-
publican record, the Presidential
candidate continued, under various
Democratic Administrations, real pro-
gress has been made toward wise use
of our resources for the benefit of
all the people. Such Democratic ac-
Movements, he pointed out included
such monumental developments as:
IVA which, by providing low
cost power, flood control, cheap fer
tilizer, soil conservation, ETC., has
turned a worn-out area of the nation
into a most prosperous region en-
bracing several mid and southern
states.
Inauguration of the rural cleo
trification program which has re-
suited in electricity now being used
by more than 80 per cent of the ma
tons farms in less than 20 years, as
contrasted with less than 10 per cent
electrified before the program was
undertaken.
The Grand Coulee project (pre-
viously mentioned) which, in addi-
tion to making the semi-arid central
area of Washington bloom, brought
new industry to the northwest and
aided flood control, also provided the
power for industry, without which
victory in World War II would have
been doubtful. (Grand Coulee, he
observed, received the same ''white
elephant" appellation by Republicans
in Congress before it was built as
the "white elephant" cry repeatedly
hurled at a proposed federal high
Hells Canyon dam. He said eve
need more of those white elephants
and fewer of the Eisenhower-Mc-
Kay elephants" which have been SO
busily engaged in turning the Peo-
pies resources over to private greed.) |
The augmentation of the re-
forestation program first proposed by
Teddy Roosevelt and Clifford Pinchot.
The establishing of a soil con-
servation program, administered by
acknowledgement local soil con-
Concluding, he told his audi
ence that, as contrasted with "the
Eisenhower Administration which
acts as if this generation of Amer
leans were the last | want a
government that will honor its OBJ
legations to generations yet I'M
born This land, these rivers,
these forests and mountains-they
were not put here for us to despoil.
They were put here for us to use /
wisely, and to leave in better es- |
tate for our children and our chill {
dren's children.
"This issue means a great deal to US
live today, but it will mean far i
1ore to our descendants. We are
haping a federal conservation policy
or federal giveaway policy-to-
ay that will mold our children's 7
YES. AS Theodore Roosevelt said y
# all the questions which can come d
efore this nation, short of the act {
al preservation of its existence in a .
reat war, there is none which COM a
ares in Importance with the great p
entral task Of leaving this land even u
better land for our descendants l,
ian it is for u.s." p
URRAY INTRODUCED ADLAI Fl
Mr.. Stevenson was introduced by w
enator James E. Murray. State B
emocratic Chairman Left Erickson M
C'd tho y1roor,~o7,o vrJbiob eorrr n II cA 70 h,