74 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



paid for out of local treasuries at the tional Treasury for permanent water 



time of the Louisiana Purchase, but out supply for its arid plains. It is unbe- 



of the National Treasury, which the lievable that any great body of men or 



states of the Atlantic seaboard exclu- newspapers in the West will perma- 



sively had helped to fill. nently deny to the South and North 



New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, equality of consideration and treatment, 

 and California came into the Nation as All parts of the United States equally 

 the price of the blood shed during the deserve National attention. As the pro- 

 war with Mexico almost entirely by sol- tection of our coasts demands a Pa- 

 diers drawn from the South and East, cine, a Gulf, and an Atlantic fleet, so 

 The money taken from the National the conservation of our National re- 

 Treasury to pay the bills of that war sources, if it is to be promoted in Col- 

 had been put there by the very states orado, California, and Alaska, should 

 which certain sectionalists now sav be promoted also in the Carolinas, in 

 should be deprived of any attention on Virginia, in New Hampshire, and in 

 the part of the National Government. Massachusetts. 



It is true that the extensive forest Whatever develops any part of our 



reserves in the We^t were taken out country is for the benefit of every 



of the National domain, but who paid American. The states that are asking 



for the national domain, and reserved for Appalachian Forest Reserves are 



these lands for the local benefit of the merely asking for themselves what they 



new states ? Was it not the very states have already gladly helped to give 



who then composed the Union, the very others. For the first time in our his- 



states whom the new sectionalism would tory the governors of South Carolina 



now cut off from receiving a small part and of Massachusetts have stood side 



of benefits such as they have been given, by side before the committees of Con- 



The West is asking wisely and rightly gress in this appeal for simple justice 



for National expenditure for irrigation and common equity, 

 which directly benefits not a single If the maintenance of National Forest 



eastern state. Not one eastern news- Reserves is a wise National policy, that 



paper has been so mean or so narrow policy should be indeed National and 



as to suggest that the individual states no longer sectional in its scope. The 



that directly benefit by it should pay the first American army assembled under 



bill. The states of this Union are sup- the pine-tree flag at Cambridge. The 



posed to be united, and the Atlantic first American navy flew the pine-tree 



slope gladly sees its burden increased flag of New England. To-day the men 



by the diversion of one source of Na- from under the pine and palmetto stand 



tional revenue to the removal of the together as they stood in those earlier 



deserts in any part of our common days when the southern riflemen t'ol- 



country. lowed Morgan to the seige of Boston, 



Is this a time for the West to refuse as they stood when northern infantry 



the East when the East, in her turn, followed the Rhode Island blacksmith 



as! National help that stream-flow and to fight in Georgia and the Carolinas. 



water supplies shall be preserved for beside Marion and his men, against a 



the East through National Forest Re- common foreign enemy, 

 serves, as they are being created for the We turn to our brothers beneath the 



National expenditure for irri- shade of the button-wood, the willow, 



and the redwood and in memory of the 



This is one country. The South to- flag under whose folds Americans first 

 hands with the North on joined in uprising for a common coun- 

 this question of forest reserves and try, we ask protection for the tree that 

 agrees to the square deal. The West, was the first emblem of our liberty- 

 has already received from National ex- we ask justice; not favoritism, but even- 

 handed justice alike to the land of the 

 xpenditure out of the Na- palmetto and the pine. 



