Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-11 | Page 6 | Pinchotism Rebuked

PINOHOTISM REBUKED. Wc find the following editorial in the Portland Oregonian, which is very apt, and also timely to the present situ ation: "The Republican party cannot live half dead and half alive." says the Hon. Glfford Plnchot In malting a plea for the allepcd progressive policy with which his name has been prominently connected. Quite true. Mr. Plnchot. Glfford Plnchot. millionaire dreamer and entirely out of touch with the people whom ho pretends lo represent, has to tho extent of his ability for the past two years sousht lo tear down the Republican party, and, aided by other dreamers and by crooks and political blacklegs who have been cast out of the party, he has accomplished much In the direction In which ho Is heading;. That is certainly a just view to take of the Pinchot activities. Mr. Pinchot is not only entirely out of touch with the peoplo, as the Oregonian says, but he is absolutely out. of touch with the practical affairs of life, -if indeed he over was in touch with them, as applied to the policies for which ho so prominently promi-nently stands. Ho is the worst enemy that this region has cvor known, al-though al-though he protends friendship lo all, and tho utmost zeal for tho service of his country. But it is a misdirected zeal altogether, and one which has been a sore affliction to all tho western part of the United Stales. It has paralyzed Alaska for a decade, so thai there wa3 no advance made in that vast region in tho Ion years from 1900 to 1910. He has afflicted miners and homesteaders all through this western region, by his alleged forestry policy, which, does not mean forestry at all, and was never intended in-tended to mean it. Under the cry of monopoly that he has raiscd; ho has prevented tho peoplo from enjoying their plain rights under the law, and his effort has been directed to keeping keep-ing back the development of all the unsettled un-settled domain of the United Slates, under the pretenso thatit was to bo preserved for a future generation, while all tho time not even protending lo show why future generations had any greater claim upon thoso resources than the generation now living. The Oregonian is abundantly right. Mr. Pinchot is a dreamy fanatic, whose services to his country have been in re-verso re-verso ratio to tho clamor which he has made, and the pretensions which ho has constantly put forward.