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them the way of solving- this problem, you are taking serious 

 chances that in future years the jackals and hyenas will prowl in 

 the sand wastes of Minnesota. 



I want to make one more comment on a case like this VVin- 

 nibigoshish reservoir. I was very much disappointed, as one 

 not interested in a local way, that the movement for the develop- 

 tnent of a national park there was not carried actively forward 

 after the passage of the Morris bill. I was reading only a few days 

 ago in Munsey's about the enormous amount of money — it runs 

 through my mind that it was $40,000,000 — that was brought in- 

 to France in a very short time by reason of the fact that they 

 encourage automobiling in France, and it has proved to be one 

 of the great sources of prosperity of the French nation. If 

 the people of Cass Lake who are interested in the development 

 of that country would give up the idea of cutting off all those 

 trees for the benefit of a few timber speculators, who look into 

 the future only a few years, would give up the idea of selling 

 town lots today, and go into the business of developing a great 

 pleasure resort, and instead of going to congress with a drainage 

 bill would go there with a good roads bill and ask congress for 

 an appropriation for a great automobile highway from St. Paul 

 to Cass Lake (applause), and lay out that park with a series 

 of splendid roads where any automobile would be free to go be- 

 cause it would be the custom of the country that automobiles 

 should go there, you would have automobilists from all over 

 the world going to Cass Lake, and make it a great tourist re- 

 sort. They would not sell their town lots for today's prices, 

 because in five years from now they would be worth ten times 

 as much as they are now. (Applause.) 



I hope you will take this matter to heart as a matter affect- 

 ing not only your state but the whole country, and pray with 

 those people at Cass Lake to get right on this question, and 

 receive them with open arms when they do, because "there is 

 more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over the 

 ninety-nine that are saved." (Great laughter and applause.) 



