Show REVISION AS TO PINCHOT WHAT W H AT ATIn In all the course COUllie of the congressional investigation of the interior depart department department ment defenders of Mr r Bellinger Bullinger have never T r for or a moment questioned the sin sincerity sincerity cray and the Ute public spirit certainly Id the veracity of Mr Pinchot Is it possible l ios ible the chief prosecutor is oven a little wrong Any ny reasonable man is valuing v his Idols should have feet of clay 3 but does the th earth and the earthy extend upward throughout the being of this man Mr Pinchot admits and with evident reluctance that President Taft has shown shonn by letters that his recollections of or incidents in the I matter are not as the late forester re remembers remembers members them And the late foresters memory will have havo to be accepted if the lat Uti foresters case against Mr Bal Ballinger Ballinger Ballinger linger is to stand Not to put too tao fine tine a point upon it Mr Ur evidence is contradicted by the President himself And that in inessentials inessentials inessentials essentials covering the tho evidence against the secretary of ot the interior There is no question Mr Ballinger and Mr Ir Pin Pinchot Pinchot chot differed as to details of policy in publio administration The further one goes with the case the more apparent is isit Isit isit it that Mr Pinchot sought to exercise 3 a rather general control over oer everything In government which at all touched the nation forest reserves or the streams or the publio domain He meant well Jt It t has heretofore been generally con conceded ceded eded ded He trying to get any of the public properties for his own use or for the enrichment of his friends He Hea Heto to a 1 a very wealthy man and worked so hard for the government simply be because because cause he lie was interested in it ft His mistake seems to have been to overrate himself to believe wickedness if JC f everyone who differed with him in ratters natters 1 of policy or administration and then he is unfortunate because of ot a of memory touching those mutters about which he raised conten contention tion Mr Ir Pinchot has been credited with of pure motive and high method prom rim his liis experience before the com committee on Saturday It seems the coun count t h will have to revise its opinion of I ii |