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Show PINCHOT REBUKED. Senator Walsh of Montana administered adminis-tered a desorved rebuke to Gifford Pinchot in tho debate on tho bill for govornmont control of tho radium-bearing lands of tho west. Pinchot could not permit this opportunity to go by without conjuring up tho specter of an octopus. As president of the American Conservation association, ho denouncod amendments mado in tho senato mines committoo na designed to sorve tho interest in-terest of tho radium land monopolizers. The indictment was an insult to the members of tho committee and was wholly unwarranted. Tho Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia conservationist cannot teach anything any-thing because ho nover learns anything. Ho has constituted himsolf guardian of tho west and of tho western people. Evidently ho believos that he is divinely divine-ly ordained to koep us in tho straight and narrow path of wisdom and righteousness. right-eousness. Never does a controversy arise concerning tho resources of tho west but that Gifford Pinchot as-sumos as-sumos that tho west is going to give away its birthright to somo predicatory interest. He has the presumption to assnme, moreovor, that oven the most distinguished representatives of the west in the national hallB of congress must bo guided by his wisdom, or denounced de-nounced as foolB or malefactors. How long must tho west onduro this bumptious bump-tious blgotryl |