| Show How Consen-ative- s 11S- Got Outflanked zli —1-1- In Canadian Vote 11 (i 0 1 LL!rg45 By El 11 WASHINGTON 470 POST have cracked a smile last week as those astonishing Canadian election returns poured in Bush has taken a lot of grief for what happened to the Republican Party in 1992 but he sure didn't do to the Republicans what prime ministers Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell did to the Conservatives in Canada The Tories who five years ago won 169 seats in Canada's Parliament got exactly two this year they fell from 43 percent of the popular vote to 16 percent There was a lot going on up there that has rather broad application Conservatism triumphant during the 1980s in Canada Britain and the United States now hangs on only in Britain Almost everywhere conservatism is divided between the moderates and the red-hright wingers between establishmentarians and populists between the tolerant and the nativist But conservatives aren't the only folks in trouble A shaky world economy and the seeming inability of democratic governments to do much about it create nightmares for any party in power New political parties and movements are challenging not just the incumbents but also the traditional opposition The big news out of Canada for example included both the victory of the Liberal Party led by Jean Chretien and the rise of two new protest movements the separatist Bloc Quebecois and the right-win-g Reform Party These two parties frontally attacked the electoral strategy that had worked so well for Mulroney He combined the traditional conservative vote in prairie Canada with tacit support from separatists in Quebec A Quebecker himself Mulroney was willing to give Quebec substantial autonomy and won most of Quebec's seats in the last two elections But that strategy collapsed with the rejection of two constitutional reform plans that Mulroney put forward Western conservatives were sick of the whole Quebec question and the demands of French Quebeckers The Quebec separatists used Western rejection as ample reason for running their own candidates 1 IA 117 ' :ttpkritev 'ct o c - I litP4041774 liwbcftwict -- LIZ" 1 irl' --o- A — George Bush must I -- - Dionne Jr rL N11 - THE WASHINGTON Endangered Species Act Deserves Renewed Support From Congress de44o - - --- 0 11 I ' By I14A 2:3 "16i 00 S ° A ip "44 oft ‘ or 77 " 4111111:tvr oolm)16-71- Jerry Adler aptly described the Endangered Species Act as "a compact mith the Earth in which humanity renounced for the first time its right to decide which species deserve to share space on the planet" We humans are fortunate enough to share the earth with a variety of living organisms estimated at somewhere behveen 5 million and 50 million species Yet we are faced with the greatest rate of species extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs In just 200 years 480 US plant and animal species have gone extinct By the year 2050 scientists estimate we will be losing up to four species every hour By passing the Endangered Species Act in 1973 Congress declared that this "irreplaceable loss to esthetics science ecology and national heritage" must be reversed As a result of this country's historic decision to stem the tide the Endangered Species Act has amassed a remarkNewsweek writer 0 i 101 - tt :41117::j::121"--1 I I 1 11 295-memb- er ot Campbell Mulroney's successor couldn't hold things together In the West the conservative vote collapsed into the Reform Party in Quebec the separatists reduced the Conservatives to a single seat There is no US counterpart to Quebec separatism but the Reform Party's showing does have implications here Excluding Quebec where Reform ran no candidates it outpolled the Conservatives by about 3 to 2 and by 52 parliamentary seats to 1 Frank Luntz Reform's American pollster who did work in 1992 for both Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot argues that Reform leader Preston Manning took "the Perot style and the Republican substance and put the two of them together" Manning attacked the centrist and tablishmentarian Conservatives es- — they're oxymoronically known as the Progressive Conservatives — from the right labeling them as big spenders In what may be a sign of things to come here Manning was also helped by fears over foreign immigration But Luntz argues the immigration issue was less important to Manning than anger at Canada's political establishment Manning he said conducted "real town meetings with real debate and real dialogue" which helped make Reform look like a genuine alternative to old politics The choice Luntz says became one between "the arrogance of Kim Campbell and the plainness of Preston Manning" Plainness and populism won From this Luntz hopes Republicans will learn to harness firm conservative convictions to a more open style But Reform didn't win Chretien's Liberals did Their success — and Campbell's defeat — have relevance to President Clinton and the Democrats In an excellent analysis in the Toronto Globe and Mail reporters Edward Greenspon and Jeff Sallot wrote that the original Conservative campaign strategy called on Campbell to argue that the difficult steps taken under Mulroney were only the means to the end of creating hope and "new opportunity" Instead Campbell became obsessed with Canada's budget deficit — which is proportionately even bigger than ours — and promised little economic improve post-electio- n ment before the end of the century Campbell was caught in land The Reform Party outflanked her on the right coming up with specific big budget cuts More moderate voters in the meantime feared she'd slash social programs Chretien as traditional a pol as you'll find understood that the deficit was never going to be his issue So he played down the deficit in favor of jobs and eco- public-work- left-leani- milk-vetc- h EJ Dionne is a Member of The Washing ton Post editorial-pag- e staff Tribune Readers' Opinions Tortoise Education Nice Work I wonder if the director of the Utah Division of State Lands and Accolades to Dennis Green of The Salt Lake Tribune for his hauntingly beautiful illustration of the gray wolf on the front page Sept 26 After returning to that section several times to look at the picture I felt that some public appreciation should be given to a very talented artist :L:21L:: Park City Cormnon Sense Although we do not subscribe to any paper my husband buys a copy of The Salt Lake Tribune and USA Today each morning plus the Deseret News on weekends We like to see how the news is reported on all important issues The past few weeks The Tribune has become so obsessed with articles degrading the LDS Church leaders it barely has room for anything else Perhaps this could account for the Forum letter by Barbara R Schramm enttled "Women Priests" Oct 21 Ms Schramm seems to think her usage of words which are possibly not part of everybody's vocabulary makes her an intelligent person capable of handling any top position I have no idea how old she is but I know that never in my 64 years have I found where big words indicate a person has any common sense Intellect is important if you desire to be a leader in any sector of society but unless you possess more common sense than most of the women I know in top positions I doubt you are qualified As a Mormon I hope I never live to see the likes of Deedee Corradini or Hillary Rodman Clinton holding the priesthood in my church FERN H HUNT Salt Lake City Where to Write When submitting letters to the Public Forum please include your full name signature address and daytime telephone numbers Information other than your name will be kept confidential Preference is given to original letters of 300 words or less that are typewritten and permit publication of the writer's true name (Names may be withheld for good reason) All letters are subject to editing Mail to Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 :: ::: Parker Blackman Is the Western States field organizer for the US Public Interest Research Group Pat Briggs is conservation chair of the Great Salt Lake Audubon Society — 4'i 441 i' :t'1gt - - '1 – ' - :: We must stop dead in its tracks the proposed excise tax increase on handguns and "designated assault rifles" authored by Sen Patty Murray of Washington The proposed bill would also raise the fee for a federal firearms license beyond the reach of the average small businessman gun retailer It is nothing more than another attack on the legitimate gun owner and small businessman Completely sidestepping the problem of criminal use of firearms which requires swift and severe deterring punishment of the perpetrator and firearms accidents which are successfully prevented through education Congress responds in the only way it seems to know: punitive taxation It is clear to gun owners and taxpayers that we are viewed by the present administration as little more than a convenient scapegoat and an easy source of reve- nue You cannot continue indefinitely to rob us of our freedom while plundering our income The proposed bill which would after stealing more of our money divert that money to a trust fund to pay for medical care of "gunshot victims" is a deplorable use of taxpayers' money and a flagrant abuse of power These bureaucrats ignore the fact that the majority of these "victims" were shot while committing a felony either by police officers or armed citizens in defense of LEW HANSEN Clearfield ) clogol'!!!!!'!:'779" ::: $l ik: I :: :::::::::: :::::":::: :: 1 ::::: Where's the Evidence? f i ) ! l?': ( in ‘ tl ::::::: Bountiful Harold Schindler is getting carried away with his suggestion that Butch Cassidy (Robert Parker) and the Sundance Kid (Harry Longabaugh) did not die in Bolivia and were not buried in a cemetery there in 1909 (The Salt Lake Tribune Oct 14) The recent "NOVA" broadcast on PBS did nothing to settle whether the two are buried in Bolivia Anthropologist Clyde Snow and his group merely dug up the skeletal remains of a male whose DNA failed to match that of Parker's descendants Instead those remains could belong to either the German or Swede who the villagers indicated were buried near Parker or Longabaugh Because Snow failed to get permission to excavate another grave nearby (and ran out of time for the project) no further work was conducted at the graveyard in Bolivia And it's absurd to suggest based on that evidence that the deaths of Butch and Sundance in Bolivia "have been greatly exaggerated" or that it "leaves alive the claim" that Butch was seen in the early 1940s in Utah The documentary mentions nothing about those later rumors but that doesn't stop Schindler He moves ahead with the rumors about later appearances of Butch including one from a Utah Highway Patrol officer If all these people saw or talked with Butch in 1941 where's the evidence? What about that warning ticket allegedly handed to Butch by the UHP officer which would include the car license number Butch's address and other data? Schindler says the officer didn't keep it How about photographs information on where he lived his line of work relatives' names when he died or other data that friends would recall or write down? JERRY REYNOLDS Salt Lake City SAVE a ::::: ::::: ' '4 :: I ' h::: INN-:-- l:1::: : :::::: :41011: :l r - I i' : 7"- IL: 1 H ' Fq ti- '"'"'''''4--:::-:::g:P tl - :: '45 4 cabinet with cross-grai- n banded veneer holds most TV sets with screens up to 27' TVVCR not included 37"h x 3312"w x 20"cl ' ! - T t CABINET Store your television and VCR behind pocket doors that slip smoothly into the sides of the cabinet The mahogany-finishe- d 1 ci:::':l' Reg $399 THE ENTERTAINMENT :::::::::::::::-::: f '299 SALE I spaced Plundering Gun Owners '' I ::m 0"""nrd: :: --7 YOLANDA M DICK double-- D-L- :::' – Forestry detects the irony in his request to exclude school trust lands from a plan that identifies "critical habitat" for the endangered desert tortoise Presumably the extra cash he can obtain by developing these lands will be used to better teach students in Utah the value of species diversity in fragile and complicated desert ecosystems Maybe some of the money can be spent on adult education classes for the bureaucrats at the division where they might learn that extinction is forever Perhaps the director should ask the students of Utah whether they even want the money gained by wiping this endangered reptile off the face of the Earth MICHAEL (MIKE) L HOPPUS ar examples of species rescued from the brink of extinction exist in every state To name but a few the American alligator is fully recovered the green pitcher plant is improving the Aleutian Canada goose has increased from 790 birds in 1975 to 6000 today the gray whale population has doubled since its listing and is proposed to be delisted the Apache trout is increasing and the Minnesota trout lily has been saved The American bald eagle our national symbol has increased dramatically in 40 states and is no longer in danger of extinction In our own state we have succeeded with captive breeding of the Lahontan cutthroat trout and June sucker though the habitat picture for the latter looks has recovbleak The Rydberg ered and been delisted In 1981 we had no breeding bald eagles Now two breeding pairs settle in Southern Utah every year But what happens when species become extinct? Some of the vanishing species can be of untold value to humans The Pacific Yew of the Northwest's endangered ancient forests and certain soft corals near Hawaii pose very promising treatment for cancer Skin compounds of vanishing frogs are potent antibiotics The rosy periwinkle provides a drug effective against leukemia Half of all drug prescriptions written in the United States contain a drug of natural origin Plants that may in the future provide important medicines may be lost before we discover their value Habitat loss is imperiling numerous growth the deficit will never go away While his program was moderate it ins cluded a commitment to new spending to put people back to work "We have to concentrate all our efforts on the economy to create jobs to have economic growth to give dignity to the workers who want to work across this land" Cliretien said This approach had broad appeal and was especially attractive to voters who had supported the New Democratic Party in recent elections The lesson for Democrats here is that fiscal austerity however necessary it may be at times is almost never a winning issue for a party whose votes come from both the center and the left If voters really want austerity they'll look for the real thing from the right Yes Democrats need to be fiscally responsible just as Chretien tried to be He won says Luntz because "he was more compassionate than the Tories and less spend-craz- y than the NDP" But Democrats who think that yet more big budget cuts are the secret to success need to study how Chretien won — and how Campbell lost Jobs and growth almost always beat austerity Now Chretien like Clinton faces only the small problem of delivering the jobs and producing the growth 1v one-tent- able success record Heartwarming nomic growth noting that without The Public Forum fish species a crucial food source and mainstay of many regional econorries In the Pacific Northwest commercial and sport fisheries for salmon steelhead and trout provide 60000 jobs and contribute approximately $1 billion in personal income to the region Already more than 100 native runs of salmon and steelhead have been lost and 200 more are at risk There are those who criticize the Endangered Species Act as being irresponsible to private development This is an overstatement (some would say "scare tactic") Ninety-nin- e percent of all proposed development projects nationwide are permitted To paraphrase former Secretary of Energy John Sawhill's comments in the Wall Street Journal in the past five years some 34600 development projects were evaluated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service for their impact on endangered species Only 23 — less than h of a percent — were halted because of species in jeopardy Put in perspective in the same five-yeperiod 29 airplanes crashed into commercial or residential buildings in the United States That means a developer during that time faced a greater chance of having an airplane crash into something he built than having a project stopped by the Endangered Species Act In Region Six of the US Fish and Wildlife Service which comprises Utah and seven other states only three of 144 federal actions reviewed from 1987 to 1991 were canceled due to conflict with endangered species The Endangered Species Act is now up for reauthorization Bipartisan bills HR 2043 and S 921 reauthorize the Act and add a number of important measures: they promote the conservation of ecosystems rather than just specific habitats they improve the process and make the process more accessible to local communities and they provide conservation incentives to private landowners and authorize increased funding for the program However the timber mining and development industries are strongly supporting HR 1490 a bill introduced by which in conRep Billy Tauzin a trast would eliminate the most important provisions of the current ESA With the enactment of the HR 2043 and S 921 the traditional functions of the Act will be bolstered to provide a better process than it has been in the past Parker Blackman and Pat Briggs FOR THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - t- IL I 4"t - e s A Sb - go 21 to ve U1'1 o ii- vtiOrt t- Itli la t Era turi 1:1 4 '''' - -' 0! 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