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has been an unprogressive Forest Service grazing administration, and 

 that therefore the Forests should be turned over to the States, some- 

 thing that would prove fatal to western conservation in its best sense. 

 Such a move would have the advantage of perhaps driving the Forest 

 Service to cover. Luke- warm adherents of higher grazing fees might 

 say: "See what you have done by your campaign for commercial 

 fees ; you have started something which may in the end hurt us. Let's 

 drop the whole thing." The only answer is : "It's a square and busi- 

 ness-like move, and in the end higher rates must come. We'll fight 

 attacks and win out on the merits of the question." 



Then there is the plea of cheaper meat with low rates, and so on 

 ad libitum. There will be no lack of arguments. The move for much 

 higher rates is economically sound ; the war will add force to the argu- 

 ments of ordinary times. Grazing should bear its share of higher 

 taxation along with other industries. That such an increase is not 

 feasible without injury to the small-man policy, so firmly established, 

 is, as the Englishman would say, "beastly rot." 



