ARBORICULTURE 



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SHALL THIS NATION BECOME 

 A MONARCHY? 



Arboriculture is in receipt of a com- 

 munication, with platform of the 

 Roosevelt Third Term National 

 League, as follows : 



"We. the members of the Roosevelt 

 Third Term National League, having 

 at heart the great social and political 

 problems now confronting the people, 

 and in order that the rights of the 

 masses be protected and that national 

 harmony be preserved, deem it imper- 

 ative that Theodore Roosevelt be re- 

 elected to the Presidency in 1908. Etc. 

 etc." 



The editor of this journal, a life-long 

 republican, and a veteran of the Civil 

 War, strongly opposed the nomination 

 of General U. S. Grant for a third 

 term, although the notable 302 del- 

 egates upheld him during the entire 

 convention. 



For the same reasons we shall al- 

 ways oppose the nomination and elec- 

 tion of Mr. Roosevelt, or any other per- 

 son who has held two terms as presi- 

 dent, for a nomination or election for 

 the third term. 



This unwritten law of the land must 

 be maintained in order that the United 

 States shall not become a Monarchy. 



If a president can continue his office 

 for three <^erms, he can force the poli- 

 ticians to perpetuate his official life. 



The appointive power of the presi- 

 dent, increasing each year, is far too 

 great, and has become a menace to this 

 nation. 



AA'ith this power he commands Con- 

 gress, controls politicians, who in turn 

 have vast powers in every political 

 ward of each state, city and hamlet. 



"The King can do no wrong" is the 

 cry of his office-holding supporters, 

 and measures which he advances are 

 proclaimed by all adherents to be the 

 will of ■*:he peoole. 



It is an insult to American patriot- 

 ism and American statesmanship, for a 

 clicpie of cffice-holding politicians, or 

 those who expect by this course to re- 



ceive official patronage, to assert that 

 General U. S. Grant was, or that Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt is, the only man out of 

 Eighty Millions of population, who is 

 capable of filling the office of presi- 

 dent. 



With the recurrence of each ses- 

 sion of Congress more offices are creat- 

 ed, and greater power given the chief 

 executive, which now far exceeds the 

 power of any monarch throughout the 

 civilized world. 



The president's authority should be 

 curtailed, and his rule limited to one 

 term, which should be extended to 

 six years. Otherwise, we may antici- 

 pate a monarchial government and the 

 rule* of an emperor. By the votes of 

 officials who are directly under the 

 president's appointment, and the in- 

 fluence they exert in convention, it is 

 now almost impossible to secure the 

 nomination of any opponent of the 

 president in power. 



This is not a partisan view, but will 

 be the case under the administration 

 of either of the political parties. 



PETRIFIED FOREST RESERVED. 



Order of President Roosevelt Made 



Public at Los Angeles. 



Los xAngeles, Cal., Jan. 5. — Copies of 

 President Roosevelt's proclamation set- 

 ting aside thirty sections of land and 

 the petrified forests of Gila and Apache 

 counties, Arizona, as the "petrified for- 

 est national monument," have been re- 

 ceived here. The Proclamation, which 

 is based upon an act of Congress of 

 June 8, 1906, declares that the Mesozoic 

 forests, commonly known as the "pet- 

 rified forests," are of the greatest scien- 

 tific interest and value and it appears 

 that the public good would be promot- 

 ed by the reserving of those deposits of 

 fossilized wood as a national monu- 

 ment, with as much land as may be 

 necessary for the proper protection 

 thereof. 



