| Show I I FOR WHOM ARE I RESOURCES Shall They be Conserved for the Benefit of the Many or for forThe forThe forThe The Profit Pr of the th Few GREAT CONFLICT IS I NOW N W ON People of or United Slates Have C nC 1 Complacent Victims of or Plunder Says New lie York Dec Dee 27 lin hot chief forester of the L e United Stilts States de dC declared dared In a speech hen toda before me i number of oC prominent publishers at the th University club that special had made repeated attacks on the United States forest ferst for st service and thus these attacks had hatI increased in violence Just JustIn In proportion as the time service had hall of offered offered effective opposition to predatory prel atory wealth veah tim SPEECH Mr Pinchot said rime Tho rh American people evidently havo made up imp their minds that tha our our natural resources must be conserved That Is good but It settles only half the ques question question tion tien Fr F r whoso whose benefit bene t shall they the bo bu conserved conS for tho time benefit of or the rean reanor reanor many or for time tho use and profit of or the few The Time great conflict now being fought will decide There Is no no other oth r ques question question tion then before us that begins to be so Im Important or that will be so difficult to straddle as the great reat question between n special Interest and equal opportunity the time Interests ot of the time law few and the tIme many the government of oC men for human wel welfare w welfare l fare and government by b money mone for profit between the men who stand for the Roosevelt and the men who stand against them This Is tho the essence of oC the conservation problem I Ito today to t I believe bellevo li one form of government and I believe In the golden rule DOt But n t te we e must roust face the time truth that monopoly m of oC the sources of oC production makes It Impossible for or vast numbers of oC men and wom n to earn a fair Clr living Right Eight hero here tho the conservation question touches touch s the dally daily life liCe of at the great body botI of our people who pay the cost of oC special privilege AntI Amid the price Is 18 heavy That price may be the chance to save alve boys from the saloons and the corner gang and girls front from worse and make good citizens of oC them Instead of obad bad PEOPLE ARE PLUNDERED I Tho Time people eople ot of the tho United States have been tho the complacent victims of or a f system of or plunder often ofton perpetrated by 1 men moon who ho would have hove baen been surprised be bc beyond yond jond ond measure to be bo accused of or wrong wrongdoing wrongdoing I II doing and many ot of them who in their private prate lives wore w re model citizens BUt B t I they the have bae suffered Buffered from a Il curious moral perversion by which It becomes be omes praise praiseworthy worthy worth to lo do for a n corporation things which they would refuse with wilh the lof bC loftiest 10 tet scorn corn to do for or themselves Fortu Fortunately Fortunately for us all that delusion Is passing rapidly away aWa f fIt It lt Is tho the honorable distinction of or time the forest service that It has been moro more constantly more violently and antI more moru bitterly attacked by b representatives of II the special interests in recent years than any an other government bureau These Theto attacks havo have Increased In vie vio violence hence lence ence and bitterness just j In proportion as the time service has offered effective op opposition opposition opposition position to predatory wealth The Time moro memo I successful wo we have havo been in preventing laud land lan grabbing and the absorption of ot water power pow r by the special Interests the tho more Ingenious the time more devoid eol end and time the more dangerous these attacks have hao bern been becoming A favorite one ono Is Isto Isto isto to assert that thai the forest service In its It zeal for the public welfare has played ducks durks rind and drakes with the acts of ot Con gross gresH The Time fact is tho the service has had war warrant rant of oC law for everything ever It has done Not since it was created has any charge of oC illegality despite the most searching Investigation atlon antI and the bitter bitler bitterest bitterest est cst attack ever led to reversal r ersal or re reproof proof by b either house of oC Congress or orby orby by any an congressional committee e Since the forest service called public attention to tho the rapid absorption of or wa sva water a atel ter tel power sites and ond the threatening growth of a 11 great power poe monopoly mon poly at nt attacks attacks tacks upon It have Increased with marked rapidity I anticipate that they the will continue to lo do tie so Still SUlI greater g atel opposition Is lit promIsed In th the nerr n fu future future f um ture tore There Is only one protection prot l on s n nawa awakened awa public opinion That l lt Js 13 wry wi I give you time the facts |
