Show WHY THE CONSERVATION STEAL 1 3 S The Thc most reasonable 1 li c explanation tion of or the thie- thie 1 I fn ing conservation policy which y w was s inaugurated by bj Mr Mi comes i in l the S San n Fl Fi Francisco Chronicle Chronick It declares c that it Js s Ir freely alleged that the main support lt of tb that t f form rm o of the tho conservation conservation move move- mont ment which manifests it itself in locking up the j Alaska a coal comes from the Pennsylvania coal I b barons n Cont Continuing tIlo tho Chronicle says ays That Thai t I ami rd the similar stories lS l'S t that h the most most enthusiastic supporters of ol similar governmental go locking up of J ohr our oil measures and sources of water po power e arc are those whose ownership of lands Is 8 unclouded and c v who already have the largest supplies of cf f h hydro hydro- dro i i electric bic power may na all be lies They arc are however how how- J ever e consistent with the the- theory the theory that thaL all great 1 popular uprisings of that kind are most effectively effective effective- ly Ir promoted h by establishing vested ested interests in t. t of a it ii There is more than thon t that thatto s to it Testimony mon is believed in the courts when t no other reasonable l theory can be made to contra- contra diet it That there has hns' been an African in the woodpile jiom ji om the very ery inception of this conserva- conserva it tion iou is i c evident And AnI only one of f two conclusions he be readied cached Either t can an someone high in government authority ij HI it or lJ i. i i those h sc who lio arc lI make ake a power lower the tile gOi gov gov- i luis has either cither r promised immunity to or l' l it t is isso so c strong trong that the government J nt dare not assail it 1 To r reach tl J one nee need but glance at nt the H facts Alaska for months mouths has lIas been clamor clamor- r t foi tile right to use its own own- No 1 h honest nc f r can nn possibly see ce any r reason aspi why the right Is j s S not nol at once you vouchsafed t. t indeed no DO due wh why the thc government ever er felt it a a duty to go up lip p 5 r there under the arctic circle and anI draw its ils grappling grap- grap pling irons around Jound the coal that the people needed cd I t But the Chronicle Chronicle- supplies a t possible reason A law In old s nearly as as ns the thc republic forbids i f foreign reign ships from trading bel between two American ports POt like ikc for fOJ instance Philadelphia and San Francisco But nut the thc Chronicle says The Pacific is IS supplied with Pennsylvania coal brought around Cape Horn at great expense in foreign Ik ships bc because au c th they will bring it t cheap although i V the su subjects of the Washington government go x American c citizens tare are re forbidden n 1 to use foreign hips in ill e ti fr trade d f S f Someone o must have some some contracts someone must have l ho bought ht on indulgence from the goi go- go i eminent t to employ r foreign ships in executing that contract contact and surely the contra contractor tor does not de desire de dc- sire to have the thc Alaska Alaka coal measures s in a form that t through t thorn them some west coast company could i hid bid against those patriots wl who o desire to ship Pennsylvania Penn Penn- S 5 s sylvania hania coal i in for i n ships hips to San Francisco Possibly this is what so kindled the wrath of f Mr Ir Ii Pinchot when Mr Ballinger was made secretary secre secre- C S. S tary of the inferior We Vc c think it would be a n safe wager to bet two to 10 one that eer every one of th s e contractors are in favor of forcing Theodore j I Roosevelt to eI to n t a- a a nomination for tho time i j next dency-next n July Jul b could that be done on k i t I or t be hc named u led t for fOl secretary larf of ff the interior and Hie U conservation conserva u tion Hon doors doors' would then he be locked for another four years years at least and then thrift would surely follow fa fanin nin fawning go 1 We Wc hope that the the d delegates lc to the national Re Re- convention Jon from the west coast an and Roc Rpcky states 1110 unite wiH in n u demand for f t ft ph Republican 7 national platform ut ut- ut S repudiating P the Conservation o p cr steal as applied to all coal all coal oj oil hm lands s and nd water 1 Tights S and make a united determined fi fight ht to have ha such sueh n n a pla plank inserted in the platform It is really ally necessary Many Ian a war has been kindled t and fought out ont on a n less provocation pro That That over oyer r l half If the ar area a of this republic 1 thus J S bu lie he hampered red rr restricted and robbed d l b by the of f a n du dude knows mows nothing of the thc theuay w tUoi thomen en titi Jt th HIP fr frontier l go go to work to make a di or who fin may be a silent partner in a a thie ing combine is an outrage so gross and wicked S that tiu tL it should be stopped |