THE INTERESTS VS. THE PEOPLE 



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enterprises, as to which the Government 

 has a poHcy of its own and counter to 

 which private interests occasionally 

 run." 



Speaking of the attack on Director 

 Newell, the Spokcsman-Reviezv of 

 Spokane for August 10, said : 



"These attacks are directed chiefly by 

 large and powerful interests that have 

 failed in their efforts to manipulate Mr. 

 Newell and persuade him to sacrifice 

 the public welfare wherever it came in 

 conflict with their desires." 



Consider again the matter of water- 

 powers. Note the statements made by 

 Mr. Pinchot at Spokane, and the re- 

 marks by Mr. John L. Mathews, a spe- 

 cialist in this field ; both found in this 

 issue of Conservation. 



Read the following utterance by Mr. 

 Mathews, deemed of sufficient import- 

 ance to be quoted in the Wall Street 

 Journal of July 31 : 



Every group of capitalists in the United 

 States is interested in water-power. The 

 Standard Oil and the Amalgamated Copper 

 people are grabbing powers in the Northwest. 

 The Duke-Ryan tobacco trust is interested 

 in southern powers. The Moffat group, 

 with A'lyron Herrick, is busy in Colorado. 

 Harriman, through Pacific-coast power com- 

 panies and through alliance with Oakleigh 

 Thorne and Marsden Perry, makes his in- 

 fluence felt and contributes to the good un- 

 derstanding. The harvester trust, the Wid- 

 ener group — all these and others are getting 

 their share of our water-powers. What are 

 you going to do about it? 



Of course, if you are one of the capitalists 

 represented in any of the present water- 

 power corporations, you are going to promptly 

 and enthusiastically condemn "'muck-raking 

 magazines." and give instructions to your 

 press agents, your newspapers, and your 

 lawyers to discredit these statements in every 

 possible manner. But if you are one of the 

 other 99,999 out of every 100.000 of the popu- 

 lation — if vou are just a plain business man, 

 or professional man, or workingman, or 

 farrner — what are you going to do? You can 

 sit idly by, and can be sure that the grab- 

 bers are busv every minute. Or you can 

 demand intelligent, honest action from your 

 members of the state legislature and your 

 member of Congress and vour United States 

 Senator.— John L. Mathews in Hampton's 

 Magazine. 



With interests like these antagonized 

 shall we wonder that the heads of men 

 like Pinchot and Newell are demanded 

 as a sacrifice? 

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That the interests were in evidence at 

 Spokane is also clear from the dis- 

 patches. 



Former Senator George Turner se- 

 verely criticized Governor Pardee's 

 speech ; in addition, he bitterly fought 

 the indorsement of Messrs. Pinchot 

 and Newell. 



The Spokane Chronicle for August 

 12 quotes him as saying: 'T am under 

 a retainer from the Washington Water- 

 power Company, and have been so for 

 a number of years." 



The same paper also declared that 

 "Judge Turner is counsel for the Yuma 

 Land and Irrigation Company, which 

 is engaged in litigation with the United 

 States Government." 



The Spokesman-Review, of Spokane, 

 for August 30, says : 



"Judge Turner is attorney for this 

 company (The Irrigation Land and 

 Improvement Company) in a suit that 

 not only seeks to stop one of the na- 

 tional irrigation projects, but attacks 

 the constitutionality of the whole re- 

 clamation work." 



The Denver Times, of August 14, 

 speaks of "former Senator Turner and 

 Attorney Frank H. Post, both of whom 

 are attorneys of record for the Wash- 

 ington Water-power Company, a branch 

 of the General Electric Co." 



The Washington Times, of August 

 14, tells of the work of "Former Sen- 

 ator Turner and Attorney Frank H. 

 Post, both of whom were attorneys of 

 record for the Washington Water-pow- 

 er Co., a branch of the General Electric 

 Co.," and adds: "At former Congresses 

 the attorneys for the Water-power Co. 

 and private irrigation concerns have al- 

 ways been aligned against the then Sec- 

 retary of the Interior. James A. Gar- 

 field. Both Turner and Post have 

 fought the policies of Pinchot and the 

 Reclamation Service and both were op- 

 ponents of Secretary Garfield." 



HI. THE BALLINGER-PINCHOT CASL 



And now for the P)allinger-Pinchot 

 case. What are the facts? 



Not all of these, unfortunately, are 

 verifiable. On some of the most im- 

 portant "deponent." the Interior De- 

 partment, "saith not." 



