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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



President W, W. Finley of the Soulhern Railway, a Vice 

 President of ihe American Forestry Association, who made 

 an able address on 'The South and Conservaiion," 



and limit the term of the grant, thus pro- 

 hibiting monopoly and leaving to the coming 

 generations the chance to use this great 

 natural resource — water — in accordance with 

 their needs." 



The discussion was opened by ex- 

 Governor George C. Pardee, of Cali- 

 fornia. Mr. Pardee was in very com- 

 plete accord with the papers that had 

 been presented. He referred to the 

 way in which California had squandered 

 its resuorces, and expressed a doubt 

 whether there was anything left in Cali- 

 fornia that the federal government had 

 not nailed down which private and cor- 

 porate interests have not stolen. He 

 denied the rash statement made by Gov- 

 ernor Hay, of Washington, Afonday 

 afternoon to the effect that in his argu- 

 ments for state rights he represented 95 

 per cent, of the people of the Pacific 

 Coast. Governor Pardee called atten- 

 tion to the state-wide primaries which 

 had recently been held in California in 

 which the chief issue was conservation 

 and the Pinchot policies and they had 

 carried by such a large majority that it 



was perfectly evident that so far as Cal- 

 ifornia was concerned the people of the 

 Pacific Coast did not follow Governor 

 Hay. Governor Pardee's discussion 

 was one of the strong addresses of the 

 Congress. He was followed by ex- 

 Governor N. C. Blanchard, of Louisi- 

 ana, who, on behalf of his state, de- 

 nounced the state rights theories of the 

 northwestern governors, declaring that 

 the South had settled that question 

 many years ago, and regarded itself 

 now as a part of a nation. 



President W. W. Finley, of the South- 

 ern Railway, delivered one of the able 

 and practical addresses of the congress 

 at the Wednesday morning session. 

 President Finley devoted much of his 

 attention to the subject of forestry in 

 the South and to the project for na- 

 tional forests in the southern Appalach- 

 ians. His immediate subject was the 

 interest of the railways of the South in 

 conservation. He said that if the con- 

 servation of forests is to be done on a 

 large scale it must be done by govern- 

 ment agency. One of his most cor- 

 dially appreciated statements was to the 

 effect that whatever policy is in the best 

 interests of the public is in the best in- 

 terests of the railways, and vice versa. 



Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, of Indi- 

 ana, received an ovation from the au- 

 dience on his arrival, and his address on 

 "The Yoimg Man's Idea," delivered 

 with the senator's usual brilliant oratory, 

 produced continued outbursts of enthu- 

 siasm. The greatest demonstration, 

 however, followed his tribute to Gifford 

 Pinchot. The storm of applause which 

 broke forth at this point was equal, in 

 proportion to the size of the audience, 

 to the demonstration with which Colo- 

 nel Roosevelt was received the day be- 

 fore. Mr. Pinchot was compelled to 

 come forward from the rear of the plat- 

 form and say a brief word or two to the 

 audience after Senator Beveridge had 

 closed. The senator said that "one 

 great, good, pure, true and whole 

 hearted young man has been for four 

 years fighting for this national conser- 

 vation idea, struggling to save for the 

 people that which is their own — Gifford 

 Pinchot." 



