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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



The Forester, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



The American Forestry Association, 



AND 



Devoted to Arboriculture and Forestry, the 



Care and Use of Forests and Forest 



Trees, and Related Subjects. 



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Copyright, 1901, by the American Forestry As- 

 sociation. 



Vol. VII. SEPTEMBER, 1901. No. 9. 



William In common with the 



McKinley. whole country The For- 



ester mourns deeply the 

 untimely death of President McKinley ; a 

 man of whom it can be safely said was 

 more universally loved during his lifetime 

 than any other American. As soldier, 

 statesman and patriot, William McKinley 

 served his country well, and it is greatly 

 to the credit of our people that thev recog- 

 nized this so promptly and showed appre- 

 ciation in so many ways. Mr. McKinley, 

 as the most devoted of husbands, upright 

 and honest in dealings with his fellow men, 

 kindly, courteous, unselfish, showed that 

 even in the great temptations of our po- 

 litical life a man may lead a pure life. 

 William McKinley combined in an unusual 

 degree the best qualities of our American 

 citizenship and he will live longest in 

 the hearts of his countrymen as a good 

 example. 



The cause of forestry loses a friend in 

 the death of Mr. McKinley. During his 

 four and a-half years as chief executive he 

 continued the policy, inaugurated by Presi- 

 dent Harrison and continued bv President 

 Cleveland, of setting aside portions of the 

 public lands as forest reserves. During 

 his administration many new reserves were 

 created, as late as July of the present year 

 he proclaimed the Wichita Reserve in 



Oklahoma, and in August the Payson re- 

 serve in Utah. 



From his office window the writer can 

 see nearby the spot once occupied bj Ford's 

 theatre where Lincoln was assassinated 

 Just across the street is the house where 

 Lincoln died. Over the doorwa) of this 

 house is a picture of Lincoln, framed in 

 mourning, and just under it one of Mr. Mc- 

 Kinley, the man we mourn to-day. Five 

 blocks away is the Spot where James Gar- 

 field met his death at the hand of a coward- 

 ly assassin. All this brings home the hor- 

 rible truth that in just thirty-six years, oul 

 of the seven presidents selected during that 

 time by the people of the United State-. 

 three have been assassinated ! This in the 



"land of the free and the home of the brave." 



The people of the whole country are 

 demanding that the anarchists shall be 

 driven from the land. Let every good 

 citizen see that this demand is translated 

 into an intelligent law and carried into 

 execution; that it shall not, like so many 

 of our reform movements, hysterical in 

 inception, die a natural death while we 

 go back in fancied security to the prosaic 

 business of making dollars. Good citi- 

 zens will not countenance speeches on the 

 street corner toasting the assassin of our 

 President. This is the time for action. 



And while we are getting rid of the 

 anarchist there is a leading cause of an- 

 archy that demands our attention the 

 sensational newspaper. 



Readers of The Forester need no de- 

 scription of this class of journals. Their 

 demoralizing influence is well known, and 

 it is an evil that will take more than shout- 

 ing to overcome. There is one effective 

 way of getting rid of this blot through 

 its business office. Don't buy the paper, 

 ask your neighbor not to read it. Don'l 

 advertise in it. ask others to refrain from 

 using its columns. Sensational journalism 

 has no conscience to appeal to; strike at 

 its one vulnerable spot the business office. 

 The anarchist must go. 



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The Denver Perhaps the mosl signifi- 



Meeting. cant thing aboul t lie re- 



cent meeting oi the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association at Denver was 



