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Show EVEN TAFT HAS FALLEN. President Taft is to insist on the conservation of water powers. That is one of the Gifford Pinchot measures for which Pinchot was so outrageously abused by papers such as the Salt Lake Telegram. Now it is in order for the Telegram to inform its readers wh'at a rascal Taft is and how the Prosident is trying to destroy the western west-ern country. The Roosevelt conservation policy has offered the reactionary press no limit of denunciation of the author of those progressive plans, but now that Taft has been forced by public opinion to espouse es-pouse water powor conservation, a soft pedal will be used by the Standpatters in referring to this "crime against the west." i The peculiar thing about the strongest supporters of the reac- tionary cause is that no great reform has had their endorsement un- til long after every one else has accepted the reform as an inseparable insepar-able part of public policy. This is true of the pure food laws, the I control of trusts, the supervision of railroad rates by a government commission, the forest service, etc. All those measures at first were bitterly assailed by tlfe men who think only in dollars and have no thought of what is right as between man and man. Not one of those forward steps were taken without a wail arising from every community in the land where reactionaries areo be found. The opposition of the Standpatters is the best endorsement any man or measure can have. |