1908 



EDITORIAL 



65 



from whom all officials, high or low, 

 and of whatever character, take, or 

 should take, directly or indirectly, 

 their orders. To speak, as some text- 

 book makers have done, of men in 

 public Hfe as "our rulers" is an an- 

 achronism, preposterous and offen- 

 sive. If any doubt, let him turn to 

 his Declaration of Independence and 

 read that all "governments derive 

 their just powers from the consent of 

 the governed." 



The people have exactly as much 

 right to instruct their representatives 

 and to control the course of their pub- 

 lic officials in general as an employer 

 has to instruct and control his em- 

 ployees. The constituent who im- 

 agines his Congressman to be mas- 

 ter and himself servant has gotten 

 the relations of the two exactly re- 

 versed. He should learn to live up 

 to the limits of his privilege, and, if 

 he observes his Congressman pursu- 

 ing a course contrary to the dominant 

 sentiment of his district he should 

 realize that it is the constituents who 

 are chiefly at fault. By all means let 

 them see that their representative does 

 the work of those upon whom he de- 

 pends for his political breath of life. 



Practical ^^^ °^ ^^^ largest paper 



Forestry companies in the coun- 



try, the International 

 Paper Company, is cutting on forest 

 principles. In their logging opera- 

 tions in Maine no spruce under 10 

 inches in diameter on the stump is 

 being cut. And what a contrast 

 their cut-over land offers to that of 

 other large companies logging in the 

 same region ! On their lands, after 

 logging, there is a large amount of 



small stuff left; the forest remaining 

 is of great value, and in a few years 

 will be ready for another cut of 

 spruce. On the lands of other com- 

 panies in the same region every stick 

 of merchantable material is taken, 

 spruce being cut down to as small 

 as six or seven inches. There is ab- 

 solutely nothing left after logging but 

 a barren waste of stumps and debris, 

 forming a veritable fire-trap that 

 lasts for years. The land is too often 

 burned over and made of no value 

 whatsoever for years to come. All 

 chance of a present, and often all hope 

 of a future, growth of spruce is de- 

 stroyed. 



The value of conservative logging 

 has been repeatedly illustrated. Even 

 before forestry was much talked of 

 in this country a few far-sighted lum- 

 bermen were logging conservatively. 

 Notable among them is Mr. Daniel 

 W. Saunders, in Livermore, New 

 Hampshire. Mr. Saunders has cut the 

 same land over twice for spruce saw- 

 logs, and it is still in good condition, 

 with a large amount of small spruce 

 which will soon be merchantable. 

 Only trees over about 16 inches in 

 diameter were cut the first time. The 

 second time he cut down to about 14 

 inches in diameter, and, as he was 

 also able to cut trees that were con- 

 sidered as cull or of no value the first 

 time, he obtained a larger cut the 

 second time. There is still a great 

 deal of valuable timber on this cut- 

 over land, and in a comparatively 

 short time it will be ready for a third 

 cut. And the value of stumpage is 

 still increasing. This is a striking ex- 

 ample of what careful, conservative 

 logging and protection from fire can 

 accomplish. 



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