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you see, gentlemen, if nok quite catholic, is at least continental. 

 Our fur-clad neighbors of the north and our summer-clad neighbors 

 of the south are' equally welcome. So standing in the heart of the 

 great Republic, your charity shall touch the ice-cold coast of the 

 Arctic sea and the sun-bright shores of the tropics. This " Ameri- 

 can Forestry Congress," by a joint resolution of the Illinois Legisla- 

 ture, will meet in your Hall of Representatives, September 14, 15 

 and 16, 1887, to which you are all invited. 



With your permission, 1 wish to say that I would like to name 

 some of the noble and uuseltish men who have labored and are still 

 laboring in this worthy cause. 



But, Mr. President, the sad history of mankind admonishes us 

 that it is not the time to praise men while living. We wait the seal 

 of death to make sacred our eulogies. I may, then, be permitted to 

 name one whose life is beyond reproach — who toiled for the adorn- 

 ment of God's beautiful earth; who loved trees with the passion that 

 the maiden does the flower; a Quaker of the orthodox stamp by 

 birth; in early life a practicing physician in the city of Cincinnati; 

 in maturer years and a ripe and scholarly old age, an unpaid and un- 

 selfish toiler for the planting of forests, and the conservation of the 

 groves planted by the God of Nature. I mean Dr. John A. Warder, 

 of Cincinnati, Ohio. If, as we all hope, a new era is to dawn on this 

 country of ours, we must conserve her natural forces. We must in- 

 corporate forestry planting and forestry reservation in the curricu- 

 lum of our public schools. I have little expectation from our agri- 

 cultural colleges. In them, most emphatically, the science and prac- 

 tice of forestry ought to be taught. But since they have eliminated 

 the term '' Industrhir'' from their cognomen, and seem to think la- 

 bor a disgrace, we may dismiss all our hopes from that source, and 

 fall back on the family, the farmer, the horticulturist, and the com- 

 mon schools. I insist, Mr. President, that 20 per cent, of our State 

 should be timber lands. 



C. N. Dennis — I supposed that Mr. Minier was better posted 

 about the change of the name of the University of Illinois, I know 

 they do not shrink from work or responsibility, but the object in 

 striking out the word "Industrial," was that it might be distin- 

 guished from reform schools. 



Prof. Burrill — I may say — and I know it from daily association 

 with them — that there isn't a man at the University that is not 

 proud of the industrial features. Look at the catalogue. Agricul- 

 ture comes first. The professor of agriculture receives the largest 

 salary. I sho»ild like to send a catalogue to any one who would like 

 to see what we are doing, or to answer any questions. 



