EDITORIAL 



A Remarkable Speech 



Nl \R the clo^e of tin- last n of 



Congress a Senator from one i 

 the \\estern states delivered a remark- 

 able speech remarkable from many 

 points of view. The -]>eech was deliv- 

 ered in the course of the di n over 



the appropriation for the I'nited State-. 

 Forest Service, and in it the Senator 

 made so many statements that an- at 

 wide variance from the known facts 

 that the speech seems to require atten- 

 tion. \mong the statements made in 

 this remarkable utterance were the 

 following 1 : 



That I 7 orest guards, rangers, etc.. are 

 an arrogant class of government em- 

 ployees : that acts of violence at their 

 hands are of frequent occurrence : that 

 a citizen of the state represented by the 

 Senator speaking had F * upon, on 



the open highway, and feloniously shot 

 simply because the said citizen refused 

 to give the road to the guard the citi- 

 zen at the time being in -i vehicle, while 

 the guard was mounted. Tt was fur- 

 ther stated that the Forest Servi 

 quires its guards, rangers, etc.. to \\ 

 a uniform; that the Senator himself had 

 often seen such uniformed guards 

 lounging upon the pia/xa- of sumr 

 resort hotels. sparing their livery and 

 wearing cocked and cockadfd hat- ; 

 that costly steam yachts were provided 

 paid for out of ( iovernment funds 

 for the sole i^e and pie. (" the 



guards, ranger-, and Others <>t the I 

 esl Service. And. finally the >l I '-nt 

 was made, virtually, that the entn 

 est Service is a farce, if nothing woi 

 and that it is conducted -olely for the 

 profit and ag^randi/emetit of certain 

 individual- lally accomplishing no 



I whatever, ard >f n> > h< I 

 to a favored few. 



Tin'- trulv remarkable uttrrance. a- 



\\< I not 



lurau- de 



fender- its work shcv 



l>ecau-e there are many men. both in 

 public and pri\ | -,-rii 



Mates, who 1 

 about the country deliver!' 







ating impression that ; My un- 



justified by fact-. 

 -tatements up \, >;,!! int. the ans\' 

 follow : 



The Murderous Guard 



Till-', shooting ':!! of h\ 



the Senator has hec-oine a C!P. 

 in the West. During a trip :m- 



mer. in which the writer went into half 



'OZCTI far -n <ta^ heard 



this tory a - 



the actors in the drama were differently 

 named, and thr 

 was different with each I 

 tale. At last becoming skeptical after 

 having heard 



pening in Coloi V dio. 



Montana. I'tah. and Ari/on.i. the wr 



-nth 



v. Tt \\as found that ' 

 tually been a ^h ' ,iir. in wl 



Foresl 



. . 



tnr in Id;..' 



but it was , v ,t f -'iat an 



:ally sh, ,(. the inl 

 that the guard a 



had tit into 



uninjured. II tl much 



ur. 

 and it w 



\Y. -1 the 



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