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Show Ij :- WESTERN MEN SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS. Some mystery attached to the purpose of I he gct-logether move-men move-men I in San" Francisco, by which western delegations were to be organized or-ganized into a compact body for concerted action. Tt now is dis-i dis-i closed that the object is lo commit the convention to liberalization j 'in administering the public land laws and all matters pertaining to ! the development of the lumber, oil and mining industries of the west, jj : Our western delegates must not step into a trap. When the pro-1 pro-1 ressional politician of the type of Gavin McNab proposes radical iliangcs in the conservation laws, search should be made for the nigger nig-ger in the wood pile. . , A constant fight on conservation is being made by certain bic ' interests seeking to monopolize the country's great natural resources 1 and exploit the people. It would be well, on general principles, to reject these proposals of. liberalization unless it can be shorn that ! the west is outrageously discriminated against. For vcars bitter attacks were made on the forest service of the ti government, and there were hysterical demands that the whole system sys-tem be discarded, but Theodore Roosevelt stood firmly behind lliv movement. In the course of time the service became so established that selfish interests could not destroy it and today it is 'generally I acknowledged as having saved the western ranges and conferred i great blessings on western communities dependent on the livestock " industry. . . I ' This is one of the specific benefits of conservation which should p help to iruidc the western Democrats in their deliberations and de- 'rminc for them whether 1hcy should be swayed by the pleadings of I those who perhaps have an ax to grind. |