Show P NC OT REC IV A I ON AT 1 TE TENA T NA R 1 IN lie ile Creates Sensation When He De Directly l Charges That There Is a Water Power Trust in Process of Formation I I II I II Spokane Au Aug Pinchot I evidently Coun out where ho stands with the National this morning when tIme tho 1200 delegates in time the big gave him al aim ovation lusting fully five lVE mInutes and wind winding i ing up with a burst bUItt of three cheers I His was time tho wildest reception yet vet no ac I corded a speaker before the CO congress He vent ImmedIately Into his huIs sub giving as he It a stew stewardship of his doing for the last year He was preceded b by T J 1 Allen or of orI I the tho forestry service who demanded i that if the West VeAt Is I to preserve Its for forests eats ests there must be state laws and men mento to enforce thorn them This speech was heartily seconded b by Mr A spell or of silence fell over the con congress congress gress when Mr Pinchot directly charged that there Is l a water power in process of formation Not Nol only this said Euid ho he hut this power trust does not noL have nay any hesitancy about appearing before this congress in iii the persons or of Its attorneys and thus seeks seek to break down the last remaining opposition to the ownership of all the power In the coun try In fact he continued I 1 know knos ono on genial and urbane gentleman who Is here now helping the tho trusts cause Time The time for fOI protest Is v very ry short and I the water vator power trust vIll show sho but butI little consIderation to the common I I people when on once co the power o of the country Is centralized In power there I is life lICo and L the he power trust will I Ialy ally aly con ul mill other othor trusts I Mr 11 named one power powel cor I he bo charged Is after the control or of water power He paid a I I trIbute to the Roosevelt policies and amid brought another storm of cheers by I saying that hat the tho Taft administration Is Irrevocably pledged to the sUPPOrt or of Mr address In part was as asI follows I The most valuable citizen of this 01 an any other country Is the man who I owns the land from which he makes hIs living No other othor man has such Much a stake in the country No other man lends such steadiness and to lour our National life nCe Therefore no other I question concerns us IS more intimately than time the question of homes Per Permanent manent homes bomes foJ ourselves our chil dren and amI our Is the problem rhe polIcy of national irrigation is ot of value to tho United i States In very many ways but th thI the I greatest of all Is this that irrigation multiplies the tho men who own II the land from which thov make their living The old saying Who e I heard of a man shouldering bin gun gunto i to fight for hIs boarding house rt fleets this great truth that no lU iun n s so read ready to defend his not with whim arms but with his vote ot aiti his contribution to public opinion itS is tIme the man with a 11 permanent sta stake o In it as 38 the man maim who owns tIme the land from which he bc makes his living Our country countr began as a nation or of farmers During Durin time the periods gave It Its character when our independence once ence was won and when our union was vas preserved wo were weme preeminently a nation of farmers We Vo an not and we ought not to continue exclusively or even een an aim roun coun country try because one man cnn can raise mise food enough for many But the armor who owns hIs mad land Is still the back backbone hone bone of time the nation and one OIle of at the things we want most Is more of him The fhe man maim on the fann Is valuable to the tho like any other othor citizen just In proportion to his intelligence character ability and patriotism but unlike time the other citizens also In pro proportion I portion to lo his attachment to the soll eoll That ThaL Is the principal spring of his I steadiness his sanity his an and directness and man many of his bis other I desirable qualities Ho He Js is tIme the first ot of The nation MUon that will lead the world I wIll ue be a nation nallon of homes The object of the great conservation movement Iii is just this to make our country It a per and prosperous home for our ourselves ourselves selves and for Cor omit om children and for dim children childrens children and amid It is n a task Lask that is worth the best thought and effort o of any and all of us To achIeve this om 01 army othel great result straight thinking and nud strong action are and the straight thinking conies comer first Olst To make this what we 0 nee need to have It we must think clearly clearl and directly about omit problems and above aboe all wo we must I I understand what the ren real problems are 10 geat things are Cew and 1 I simple but they thoy are too often oCten hidden b by false and conventional un en I Ireal real real thinking The easiest way to tilde hide a real issue always has been and always will be to replace It with a false Calso one Continued on Page Five Pinchot Inc o Receives va for forat at National Irrigation Congress Continued from Page pago One The first thing we need In th country as President Roosevelt so sowell sowell well set forth in that great message whIch told what he had been trying tc h do for the American people is 18 ity of opportunity for fOl every er citizen No man should have Ime less and aud no mar mal ought to ask for tor any more Equality or of opportunity It is the real object of oC ou air laws and Institutions Our Institution and our om are arc not valuable In them themselves selves They are valuable only they lher secure equalIty of opportunity for happiness and welfare for 01 our zens An Institution or 01 a law Is n a means not an end a means to be used for the tho public good to be mOllified modified for forthe forthe the public good and to be Interpreted for the public good One Ouo of the great reasons wh why President ad administration ministration was of such value to the thc plain American was that lie he understood what whaL St Paul meant when he said The letter 1 but the spirit th life To follow blind blindly 1 ly the letter of the thelIa law or the form torm ot of otan an Institution without intelligent re regard regard gard both for its spirit and for the public welfare Is very nearly as dangerous dan dangerous as to disregard the law alto altogether altogether gether we wc need Is the use of the law for the public good and the construction of It for the public wel vei welfare fare It goes without saying that the law lawIs lawis Is supreme and must mut be obeyed Our civilization rests on obedience to luw But lire tho law Is not absolute It re reQuires requires Quires to be construed Rigid con construction of the law works and must work In the vast majority of cases for or the benefit of the men who can cun hire the best besL lawyers and who have havethe the sources of is In lawmaking at their command StrIct construction necessarily favors the great Interests as a against the tho people and In the thc long longrun run rum can not do otherwise Vise exo exe I of the law must consider the tho law ought to lo accomplish forthe for the good The great greal oppressive trusts exist because of subservient lawmakers and adroit legal constructions constructions Here Is the central stronghold o money moner power in Uc the everlasting conflict of the tho few to lo grab and the theman man many to lo keep or 01 win the thc rights they were born with Legal technicalities seldom Beldom boll holp the tho people The peoPle not the I lay a should have havo the benefit of evol every doubt douht Equality of opportunity a square deal for ocr every mao man the tho protection or of orthe the citizen against the groat concen concentrations of capital the tho Intelligent use of laws and institutions for the thc public good and the tho conservation of our nut nul ural resources not for the trust but bul tor the people these are arc real reul Issues md and real problems Upon such things as these the tho perpetuity of this coun COUll country tr try as a L nation or of homes really de depends depends Ye llo arc coming to see that the things arc the things to work tor More than that we are coming comingo lO o see that the plain American citizen IS the tuna man to lo work for Cor The rho imagination don tion is staggered by th the magnitude of she prize tor which we work If we succeed there thero will exist upon thIs con uncut Il a sane strong people living through the tho centuries in a land sub and controlled for fot the service of tho its rightful musters masters owned uy y the mau many and not by the row few If We fall fail the great Interests increasing their control of our natural will thereby control tho country more nd more and the rights of tile thc pro lIe wIll fade Into the tho privileges of concentrated wealth There could be no better belter Ion of the eager cager rapid un wearied unwearied ab abSorption Sorption b by capItal of oC the thc rights which to all ull the people than the water waterPower Power trust not yet formed but In process of formation This state statement ment is true but not unchallenged d Among the features o of the mornIng session was n a resolutIon Introduced by John I Martin of St Louis ser al arms of the convention and resIdent o several national labor or who spoke In favor Coor o of the congress in the tho Gulf Gult waterway project 1 Judge John Fairweather of who nettled at the extreme of the re resolutions offered mO mOd d to suspend the thc rules and the tho con If necessary to amit th the rending of the tho resolutions Without the constitution the reso wore ero omitted unell later Spokane Aug The government or of he hc UnIted Stater ic i It millions or of dollars worth or of natural resources are going TL lv American lan lands s are arc going to wa ie while last year eal thousand Americans Amer sought homes In Canada Tho Appalachian forestry bill which passed the tho house and senate twice was killed 11 by Uncle Joo Notwithstanding the dispensary In n South Carolina there thero Is 18 tot toe much water orator there E J Watson commIssioner of the South Carolina deportment department of agriculture ture commerce and industry shied a tow castors Into the ring I before toro the National Irrigation congress this at af afternoon when ire he uttered the tho forego oreg lag Ing with such telling effect that the convention was waG kept In pretty prett much ot of otan an uproar Mr Watson urns not of the opinion that the government should give way to private interests He Ha thought on the con contrary that the government should spend a fo few millions In irrigation tion and drainage projects and to this end he let fly n a few fow oratorical pyro pyrotechnics Indeed the South Carolina speaker became so BO enthusiastic over his sub subject subject that ho he urged a final measure that the government take lake control of such rivers east cast anti west as mIght be navIgable for the thc purpose of making them waterways for smaller battle battlo battleships shIps This suggestion brought out n a chorus of laudatory yells veIls The with the lion ion that the tho German Germau system or of con conservation conservation should bo In the United States James J Hill HIlI president of the board of directors of the Great Northern rail railway way war who was to lo have spoken at al the afternoon was not present I F H Nowell director of the United States reclamation service was th the first at the tho afternoon Mr Ir road roud hl address and after afterwards afterwards wards was compelled h by questioning question to state that ho bo was of the Clue opinion that the tho government Is not doing as much as should be done In the thc way war of because of the thc lack of funds Ho said ald however that there Is plenty plent of land for the thc homesteader who wishes a home In fact and not In theory Joseph M Carey of Washington pro proposed proposed posed it a system o of state laws for Cor the various states contemplating the tho pro protection or of the individual farmer He was opposed In some quarters h by del delegates believed irrigation laws might he proper for some of the newer stabs but that the older common would ho be able to care caro for themselves The congress opened wIth tho II Ode Odo sung sling b by the Spokane chorus of 2 l voices The addre address s of welcome to the state slate was ered by G Governor l M E Hay of Washington The Tho response on behalf of the con can congress gress was made by br George Gcorge E Barstow presIdent of the tho congress Ho He said saki saidI I It Is understood that a number of oC state delegations have declined to commIt themselves In the matter of at endorsing a candidate for president This is true in the case of PresIdent Barstow who although not an nn an announced candidate has not oot boon been urged strongly for a second term be beo because o cause o of the feeling that the honor I should he be passed around Other can candidates candidates for fm the presidency of the con congress congress gress developed during the thc day In the persons of Former Governor Gooding of Idaho Former Governor Pardee of CalifornIa and Congressman Mondell of W I Former Governor Pardee of nia was appointed temporary chaIr chaIrman chairman man of the resolutions committee but no action will be taken toward per permanent manent organIzation of that committee the present The question of a next meeting place ling has narrowed down donn to aa a fight between San Francisco and Pueblo Colo with Denvor Damor pled pledged od to aId the tho latter 11 I probably will Uno throw Its strength I to San Francisco and there thoro seems to tobe tobe be much sentiment for the California city Among the smaller cIties men I toned is El EI Paso |