Show MR HEYBURN TOO CHARITABLE This is from one of ot the Eastern J reports reports of or the recent debate debato In the I. I senate when the forest reserVe reser policy of or the administration was under un er dis dis- Senator Smoot defended the administration admin It by j the occasional interjection of evidence ence that urns urn's charges were ere wholly holly false Each time the Senator from I Idaho aho declared that ho he was not making tho the charges but was wasi i merely for the consideration tion of the senate charges which had hail reached him Mr Heyburn declared that he lie believed cd the lie forests in iii Idaho should uld be left heft at the mercy of all who might desire to cut the timber Umber and when hen Mr Ir Smoot asked if he did not realize that thal such a policy would result re reo re- re gulL sult ull In destroying the Idaho forests as It had destroyed those of Michigan and Wisconsin Mr 11 Heyburn gravely gra asserted that the people of or Idaho were too high grade e a L people to do anything any any- thing of ot the kind lund Senator Heyburn is far too charitable chant charit able tible T o pf of ot Idaho am arc just I about as good as ca can caa be found anywhere anywhere any any- where this side o of tho Elysian FIelds Field dreamed dreame about b by John Bunyan Bu Dul even In Idaho human nature is human nature And If the people there were ere L 1 not prevented and anti if the temptation of or g grod od timber were offered they the would cut it down That is Js what hat th the people of I Idaho nho would do o. o NoL Not all of them of course couro Thor There are thousands of wise enough to help tho government go in the effort to conserve e the thc forces of the tile nation These would not destro destroy but would help keep And then there are arc others other who T would cut a lL tree when they wanted anted It or it-or or a forest of or them Thc They would cut without an any regard to preserving preson-in the tho forest The They would not tal take e caro care of the tho woods That never ne has been done and it never ne will be done And the forests have been vanishing as a n consequence This nation needs just the tho policy the thc President has put lUt Jut Into effect The next generation will be bo richer for the success of that policy And Mr lr Hc Heyburn Hey Hey- burn buru while not a young mUll man will Ucto live U to see the folly of trusting the forests to the chance of every elY comer corner and the wisdom om o of I authoritatively guarding them them even even tu In Idaho |