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Show I eratlons, a imimn richer, stronger and purer than tho nation that inhabits inhab-its it today." Mr. Ptnrhot declared tho loudest cries against the now- pulley nnd iho most bitter fight aga;nsl it have conic from those individuals and organizations organiza-tions who see their individual profits are In danger. "Any light of this kind must have a focal point Any contest always centers around a lew men and organizations. or-ganizations. The ba-sic principle of this light of yours and mine is that It is better to help the small man make a living than to help the bis man make a jirofli . to endorse the I Idea that the natural resources do not bt long to a few rich men mainly in ! Wall street, but they do belong, and I must be kept, in the possession of the people. i ' I believe that the contest of states rights and federal, so prominently before be-fore this congress, never would havo arisen If the government had not attempted at-tempted to control some of the special spe-cial Interests who believed they could all control by taklug refuge behind the states. "My view is this: "There are certain things in which the state is obviously incapable of asserting as useful power, as useful control, as the national government. In these the national government should control. There are many places in which the protection of the rights of tho people belong: to the states, and in those the state should have full swing. In both cased I deprecate all efforts to raise this quarrel, because in the muddy water there Is a refuge for tho man who wants to escape all control. I be- lleve in co-operation between the states and the nation." prncHOT WILDLY. . i PUEBLO. Colo., Sept. HO. Glfford Plnchot, wildly cheered, today pleaded for conciliation of the enemies of national na-tional conservation and for harmony between states' rights men and 'nationalists' 'na-tionalists' in his address before the national irrigation congress lu session here. Only by working together, he declared, could the opponents of all conservation be fought successfully, and natural resources be kept in possession pos-session of the people. "There is one enemy we all have to fight," he said. "It is the mau in politics pol-itics to feather his own nest. Any f-catterlng of our power, therefore, is harmful, ko I make this plea- "Do what you can to get the state and the nation together to light the common enemy and stop any attempt to excite antagonism between the two, thereby creating a gap In which the enemies of both will best flourish. "The last joar has been the turning polut, and the people renllze that while we have a right and duty to use all wc need of materials, foreats, lands and waters behind, and above all. In the equal or stronger duty of administering our birthright so that we may hand It down to future gen- |