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CORSETS
By JAMES A. EDGERTON.
TONGRESS may have adjourned
- and the president may have
gone to Beverly, but the Coun
try is not left without midsum
mer topics. We yet have Mr. Glfford
Pinchot and Mr. Richard Achilles Bal
linger. who have put on the ' official
gloves and will favor us with a few
rounds to let us know that the gov
ernment still lives; otherwise we
might have concluded that It had gone
a vacation along with its chief of
ficials..- .- A-
Mr. Pinchot is our head tree planter
add' knows more "about forestry than
Willis Moore thinks he knows about
the weather. " Pinchot did not write
"Woodman. Spare That Tree,", but
might have done so if George P.. Mor
had not beat 'him to it Pinchot
has done more than write a poem. He
has made forestry an applied science
this land 'that never' did know what
do with a piece of woodland except
clear it off. He has taught us that
the presence or absence of forests de
termines the rain supply. In fact, he
has made us look upon the tree as a
friend and brother, not a mere awning
or "'ornament'; Many people have re
ed him as the most useful, man in
the world.. That is what Roosevelt
used to think when he wanted to play
tennis .and could not find any other
available partner.' . - Mr. .- Pinchot was
always ready to take a band at the
game and thus became a far shining
figure in white flannels in the "tennis
cabinet" He " has plenty of money
and thus can afford to hold office In
Washington. He has many other dis
tinctions. " such as being an expert
angler and a mighty hunter. Or per-
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1 1
Of AND iiiin
Impressions of the Two Principals,
Who Differ as to the Method
of Conserving America's '
Natural Resources:
Side lights on the Controversy Involv.
Ing the Chief . of. the Forestry,
Bureau and the Secretary
. of the' Interior. -
one hand, and. on the other, a large
collection of amiable gentlemen with
greedy eyes and yawning pocketbooks.
It was about this time that the gov
ernors foregathered in Washington at
the call of President "Roosevelt and de
cided to take a hand in the conserving
game. So they made speeches, adopted
resolutions and appointed a commis
sion with Mr; Pinchot at its head.
Since that proud day the natural re
sources of the country' have been able
to sleep nights without the harrowing
fear that they ' would be kidnaped be
fore morning.
In addition to alt his other " activities
Mr. Plncliot was 'made a member, of
the " country life commission, which
went about 'asking questions of the
American farmer and then returned
and "told him what was" the matter
with 1 him.-' It was ; this commission
which made Uncle Joe Cannon grow
real' sarcastic and say things that caus
ed glee in the hearts of the scoffers
and snickers on the back, benches. The
only sort of "uplift" that Uncle Joe
ever 'practiced is that of the front end
of his cigar. ';;- , -
Ballinger Once a Cowboy.
Mr. Ballinger; the other end of this
difficulty, has lived pretty much all
over the face of the country. At one
time he was a cowboy in Kansas' and
rode seventy miles every week to recite
-Latin. At an earlier age he was at the
front with hfs father, who was colonel
of a negro regiment.' The boy, though
only five or six years old. was sur
plied with a drum made out of a fig
box. on which be hammered aWay for
liberty. ; I-:'-'
. After the iwar the elder Ballinger
became a country editor in Illinois
J-- , .iM wft3H-L'c' M
PRINCIPALS IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER CONSERVING NAT
URAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES.
haps it is not strictly proper to speak
of other Nimrods as "mighty hunters"
since Bwana Tumbo got iuto the
game.- Not wishing to be guilty-of
leze majesty,' I withdraw the adjec
tive and leave- it in solitary state upon
the shoulders where it obviously and
exclusively belongs.: Anyway. Mr.
Pinchot is a hunter and has trophies
nailed up all over the premises. . ; '
Father of Conservation Movement.
More important than all, Pinchot has
taught us how 'to conserve'.-' Now; the
chief difference between him and Bal
linger seems to be that the secretary
of the" interior also wants to conserve.
but be wants to be nice and legal about
it,' while Pinchot doesn't give a hang
how'" he 'conserves '"so long as' he does
it' That shows that he was not a
member vt the- Roosevelt -"tennis abfc
net in vain. He saw the way his for
mer chief did things and got the habit.
Ballinger also was a membe'r' of "the
"tennis cabinet' but he was a lawyer
still eartterr which eomewfaat Tieutral
ized the effects of that inspiring and
perspiring experience. It is hard to
teach'-on old lawyer new tricks, 'for
the reason that he knows them all.
Pinchot had nothing to restrain" him,
and when he' got to conserving did it
for all he was worth. -r
.". President "Roosevelt said that Pin
chot - started .tlhe conservation move
ment,: and' that is glory enough to
make a small man swell up. But Pin
chot did not Swell. He' simply1 went
oh conserving. He conserved hot only
the forests, but' the water and the
coal and everything else that he could
.find that needed it and that had not
been gobbled up by the trusts. This
threw several kinds of rage into the
lumber barons, the timber tbievfes, the
coal trust, the power pirates and va
rious other1 z malefactors of great
Wealth r who wanted to " grab off the
"natural resources of the country and
sell them by the bushel., It left Pin
chot standing all alone between the
defenseless timber lands, coal lands
and water sites of the nation, on the
-and was appointed a postmaster.
Those were the glad -and happy :days
when "rival editors called each other
horse' thieves, skunks; wind bags and
other amiable names; and it was Colo
nel Ballinger's proud :duty one day to
kick his loathsome contemporary out
of the ' post office. Young - Richard
Achilles learned to set type; sell pa
pers and tend sheep. Then he went to
Kansas ' and ' besides punching cattle
beca me " a clerk" and ' earned enough
money to take him to college, i First
he attended" the state university; but
pn advice of John J. Ingalls went to
Williams, from which he graduated
at the age of twenty-sir.' In the class
behind him was James ' R. Garfield,
his" predecessor as secretary of j the
interior.- : : '
Returning to Illinois, he Studied law,
as his father had done before him.
the elder Ballinger having read, with
Abraham Lincoln. When admitted to
thenar the young man went to Ala
bama and started practice, but after
few" years returned and hung' out
his shingle to Washington and finally
went to the State of Washington.
There he became" judge of 'the Superior
courtj.United States court commission
er,1 mayor 'of Seattle anct finally com
mlssioner of the" general land office at
Washington. It was Garfield that' got
hint" 'Into the last named Job, Jand ' Bal
linger accepted against his wishes" He
told President Roosevelt a story of his
cowboy experiences in Kansas, which
related' to three" rattlesnakes' be bad
dispatched 'on ' the prairie 'one night
before he could go to sleep. ' Roose
velt convinced him that there were
some snakes to kill in the land office,
and that induced him to accept the
place. - He held it inlf onei year, : but
during that time he thoroughly reor
ganized the office. His ' motto then
and" probably now was, "I hate
snake'."
While 'mayor of Seattle Me Ballin
ger concluded the town was too wool
ly even for the wild west, so he took
off some of the hair. Those were the
Klondike , days, and everything was
wide open. . Mayor Ballinger not only :
closed the worst of the dives, but
made Seattle a model city." HlB life
was" threatened often, but that Is 'a
tribute offered every man who does
real work.. Ballinger's life was threat
ened in Alabama also by a "colonel"
who wanted to pull- a gun on him and
was made to desist only by a little
judicious choking. The secretary of
the interior does not like to have these
old 'Stories told of him now. it is Bald.
But why did he get into the cabinet if
he did not want to be. talked about? '
" v-,. The Point at Issne.
Having introduced the two princi
pals jn the "mill." it may be as well to
tell, what the row Is all about Prima
rily it is over one of the Roosevelt poli
cies. Just before the ex-president left
Office he withdrew nearly a. million
acres of timber and water site lands
from public entry; The ostensible rea
son was to preserve the forests, but
the real purpose was to protect the.
water power sites on a portion of this
domain. : Hardly had. Secretary Ballin
ger entered office than be again threw
th?s land open to entry., Mr. Pinchot
thereupon appealed to President Taft.:
with the result that 25,000 acres, con
taining some of the most valuable wa
ter sites, was a second time with
drawn.'....1 '--;- :.:'.'"
At rhe national Irrigation convention
recently held at . Spokane and at the
transmlssissippl : congress, still more
recently - In ' session, at Denver. ; Mr.
Pinchot defended, bis conservation pol
icy amid ' Immense enthusiasm- He
was especially cheered when he assert
ed that' conservation ' of natural re
sources Is a Roosevelt policy that Taft'
Is pledged to carry" out. In bis ' Spo
kane address be boldly asserted that 'a
power trust is ' being formed " in the
country which is" seeking to obtain
possession of the government water
site lands, leaving the inference plain !
that Ballinger's action ' in throwing
open these lands left the way clear for '
their acquisition by the trust. This
was universally construed into an at
tack on Ballinger. -At the same con
vention ex-Governor Pardee of Cali
fornia assailed the secretary of the In-
terior openly for having played Into
the "hands of - private . interests as
against the public weal. ; ' - I
. ' . The legal End of It. '
- The defense offered by the. friends of
Mr. Ballinger is that he is himself an
ardent conservationist, but that he is
only trying to obey the law. They say
that this is a lawyer's administration
and that strict construction is the rale.
Thus the difference Is more apparent
than real, being one of method rather .
than of principle. " - --v
The opinion is expressed that this is
the view President Taft himself takes
of the matter. Rumors have been per
sistent that he has" sought to make
peacebetween -the two officials and in
the'. main has succeeded. As the quesr
tion -involves two opposing forces -and
as the conflict between these two has
in nowise abated. " such" a peace can
scarcely ; be permanent. So long as
there -Ms opposition between private
selfishness and public "good so long
will the movement for conservation of
natural resources be endangered by
combinations of capital that seek to
exploit these resources for their own
ends. . . ',.''--?: :r'--,-"'-v ;
Of the great conservation crusade
Gifford Pinchot . has been the virtual
creator. ..Theodore Roosevelt became
its ardent champion. . Despite legal
technicalities . and the antagonism of
special interests, it will go on, for the
reason that it is meant to protect the
rights of the people and to benefit the
future. This nation is learning, as
older nations have learned, that it can
not eat its cake and have it,: that it
cannot waste'its resources without im
poverishing the unborn. In so 'mighty
and meritorious a work individuals
are nothing;- the cause is everything.
It is above politics and above men.""
: Coal Fields Also Involved.
An interesting sidelight thrown on
the question has come out of Alaska.
There Immensely rich coal .fields were
a . few . years ago discovered, ; and a
number of individuals at once filed
claims. It is now asserted that before
making their entries these individuals
organized- a syndicate, to which the
lands would be turned over, a ' plan
clearly against the law.' The case has
been pending in the' interior depart
ment since the" days of ' Hitchcock.
After resigning from the general land
office Mr. . Ballinger became the attor
ney of these coal land claimants.. Now
as secretary of the Interior he finds the
case before him as Judge In which he
was before' interested as counsel To
his credit be it said that he has turned
the, decision over to his assistant sec
retary, but nevertheless the matter is
being crowded to trial. It forms .'ono
more of the complications in this na
tion wide controversy, v i
Discussion is rife as" to what action
the president will finally take" la the
matter, if any. '' The' general belief is
that -he must stand by ., his secretary
of the interior, but this view does not
take into account . that he is also
pledged to the Roosevelt conservation
program. If he should "uphold! Bal
linger, will that 'mean the dismissal '
of Pinchot? i Were the forester direct
ly under the secretary of the interior
it probably would, but as be belongs
to the agricultural department Secre
tary Wilson, who upholds Pinchot
will have a word to say in the mat
ter. . ,' . - ;";'X', "
Frederick H, Newell, the head of
the reclamation service, is : also In
volved in the controversy and as he
is directly under Ballinger it is cur
rently reported that his removal has
already been decided upon. Newell is
a scientist, not a politician. He has
stod between the public interests and
the selfish grabbers, and he has been
actively identified with the govern
ment's Immense ' Irrigation projects
from the beginning. .. -
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