Show A ATTACKS IT ACKS DUE TO EffECTIVE fOREST WORK Predatory Wealth Enemy of Forest Service Says Pinchot NEW YORK Dec 27 Gifford i.-Gifford Gifford Pinchot Pin Pin- chot chief forester of of tho the United States State declared f d in Jn a 1 t pc speech ch hero today before a number of prominent publishers publish publish- 1 ers era at the University club that special interests had bRIl made mado repeated attacks on the United Unite States forest service service- and these attacks attack hid had increased in violence just in proportion as ns s the thc service iro had bad offered effective to predatory m wealth Mr Ir Pinchot said Tho The Am American rican people evidently c have ha made up their minds s that our nat natural nat na- urn ural resources must bo be conserved ed That Thatis is Is good but it settles onI only half tho the question For whose benefit shall shaH the they the 1 bp bi 0 conserved for conserved for the benefit of tho the thoman man many or for the use and profit of the tho ho few I The great leat conflict bein being fought will decide There Thero i i is no other question before beloro us that bc begins ins to b be so important n an at tho the great rat question be bo tween n special interest ot and aud equal 1 unity of 1 the be few and tho the thoman man many t t tho ho government nt of t for htman hu ht- m man n 1 government ove I nt for forr II for V. V Uri li men cD Who t tJ l el i l' l o to I d day r p j 1 went a and I tiN i in th oJ 1 ule But we m J must t fa face c the the- truth that monopoly mono mono- pol poly pal of ot it tho o s 6 sources q Qt production m make ku it impossible for vast numbers of inca and women to earn ear a fair Eight Bight here t the tho f r question touches touche th the thc dall daily lifo of the great bod body of our OUI people who pa the co cost t of special privilege c. c And Ami the fhe price o. o is heavy That price may maj bo boo the thc chance to save saie bostrom boys bos from f the lio saloons and the tho corner gang a from worse worse and md make good citizens of them thorn instead of bad The The people of tho the United States na have been the tho c complacent victims of a 1 system of plunder often otten perpetrated by men inert who wo would woold ld ha c been surprised beyond meas measure rr re to bo be accused of wrongdoing and man many of thorn them who vho in their private ate lives were model citizens But the they have ha suffered from a t curious moral mort pcr ei perversion ion h b r 3 which it becomes praiseworthy to do for a corporation things which h they would refuse with thi the loftiest scorn to do 10 for themselves themselves' Fortunately for u us all that delusion is passing rapidly r away It is tho the bo honorable or bl di distinction of ot the forest service that it has been more mare more constantly more violently and ami andinor inor more bitterly attacked by representatives seata- seata tives thc of tim the special interests in recent 1 years cars than thau auy any other government bu bu- bu reau roan reau These rhose e attacks have o increased in violence i and bitterness st in proportion proportion tion as the service chico has hus offered effective opposition to predatory wealth Themore Tho The more successful wo we have hao been in pre pre preventing preventing I venting land laud grabbing and the absorption absorption borl tion dt k water power by tho the special interests in in- tomcats the tIlt more marc in ingenious tho tiro moro more devious levious and th the more dangerous these attacks have bac been b becoming co A favor favor- favorito it ito iio 0 one one j is H to a assert u eit that tb the l forest service sen ice in its zeal Cal for the public welfare n has I played lucks ducks and drake drakes with the acts of ron Congress res The rhe fa fact t i is the H service c bus bAs had warrant war war- rant Taut of la law for everything CYE it has done UI Not once s since huo o it was created has any charge t of illegality iU despite th the thO most stan searching investigation and ancI the bitterest bitter bitter- est eat attack over m led to reversal re or reproof re me- proof by either house of congress or by b 3 congressional r committee Since the forest service called public pub pub- lie lic att attention t to the ra id absorption of water power sites in and the tho threatening growth of a great great- power ocer monopoly ol attacks attacks at tacks upon it have hac increased with marked rapidity I a anticipate that tho thor they will ilI continue to do 11 so O. O Still greater rat r opposition op op- op position n is is promised in the tho near future There is ii only one one protection protection- protection protection-an an n awakened awak e led cued public opinion That is T I 1 give o you ron the tho fact facts |