1388 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
high peaks of the Rockies changing into soil and dust and gravel, 
when I see the great heaps of refuse at their base, I see the work of 
water. Then I see the great, craggy ledges where those rivers start 
and flow down their course to the sea grow smaller and smaller and 
smaller by the action of the waves, as they grind up the rocks on the 
bed of the river by corrosion as they are rolled over and over, till 
by and by, down at the jetties, every one of those tremendous rocks 
that weigh thousands of tons at the start, every one is ground to 
powder, so the whole can be sifted through a floor sieve. I take a 
great deal more interest in the subject the more I learn about it. It 
is like getting money; if you get a little you want more. We can 
make our children pleased with home, satisfied with their surround- 
ings and laying the foundation of greatness for the future. We can 
build up great characters, great minds by first getting them to learn 
something and then add a little. We always say we pass from the 
known to the unknown. That is the progress of learning, going 
from the known to the unknown. I would change that a little. It 
is taking a little out of the great unknown and adding it to the little 
that is known. That is education, continuously thinking out. You 
cannot reach in and pick it out; you cannot reach in and take it out 
as you do apples from a basket; but think it out and put it with the 
things that you do know. Then you are on the high road to suc- 
cess. This applies to our apple growing, our flower growing, every- 
thing we do, we have got to think our road to success. (Applause.) 
AN APPEAL FOR A NATIONAL PARK IN MINNESOTA. 
To the People of the State of Minnesota: 
From east to west the forests of the United States have fallen under the 
axe, wielded intemperately for purposes of immediate and inconsiderate 
gain. In unnumbered districts the lumberman and the fire which always 
follows in his destroying footsteps have left an arid and unproductive wilder- 
ness behind. 
The wants of the people in the way of building material have not been 
the better but the worse supplied by this indiscriminate destruction of trees. 
Forestry culture would have fed the lumber markets of today from the 
stumpage fields of thirty years ago. The next generation should reap its 
timber where the lumber industry is active today. Other countries have 
learned this lesson. The United States-is learning it late. From their forest 
reservations European nations derive a revenue which scientific tree culture 
has made perpetual. 
Minnesota has a chance to profit by the experience of the past. In the 
northern part of this state lies the last great tract of native pine forests 
in the northwest. Eight hundred thousand acres of land and lake lie within 
the Indian reservation of Leech Lake, Cass Lake and Winnibigoshish. Its 
pine has been untouched, saving under the disastrous and infamous enforce- 
ment of the “dead and down timber” act. In response to a memorial pre- 
sented by the last legislature of this state, Congress voted to withdraw this 
land and its timber from public sale pending the submission of a proposal to 
create in this area a great national park. 
Under the direct inspiration of Minnesota lumbermen, an attempt is be- 
ing made in the present Congress to rescind that resolution and permit the 
