American Forestry Association, 



development would be on terms fair 

 both to the lessees and to the nation 

 at large. 



This announcement of a new ar- 

 rangement in this important matter 

 was received with prolonged ap- 

 lause. 



Hon. Gifford Pinchot. 



Mr. Fisher was followed by Hon. 

 Gifford Pinchot, who in a forceful 

 speech held that the 'predatory in- 

 terests' having come to the conclu- 

 sion that no more plums were to be 

 snatched from the national tree had 

 decided to make a last effort to have 

 the federal resources divided up 

 amongst the states in the belief that 

 they would be able to get from poor 

 and struggling states what they 

 could not demand from the strong 

 national government. To this end 

 he predicted that the next session 

 of Congress would see a tremendous 

 revival of the States Rights move- 

 ment. The danger was this that 

 while this States Rights cry would 

 be raised largely by men who cared 

 not a straw for the states and who 

 cared altogether for their own pock- 



ets, yet there would be others in the 

 States Rights ranks who would be 

 actuated entirely by principle and a 

 sense of duty. This made the fight 

 all the harder, but the friends of 

 conservation must win, for if they 

 did not the work of the last twenty 

 five years would be lost, and within 

 a few months the immense natural 

 resources of the United States would 

 be in the hands of the grabbers. 

 That this was a prize worth fighting 

 for he indicated by estimating that 

 the forests of the United States 

 alone were worth two thousand mil- 

 lion dollars. 



State versus Federal Control. 



After Dr. Drinker (President of 

 Lehigh University) the new Presi- 

 dent of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation had made his confession of 

 faith and started out the fiery cross 

 to rally all good men to the cause 

 of conservation, the regular session 

 was resumed in the assembly hall. 

 Here papers were read by Prof. H. 

 n. Chapman of Yale University on 

 federal versus state management of 

 forests, and by Mr. W. B. Greeley 



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