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who are doing all they can to make this specific remedy that we ought to be 



country continue to refuse to take any willing to learn ; and I would like to 



action that looks toward the bringing to- take home with me one great idea and 



gether of the great interests of Canada say to the legislature, 'Do that!' If 



and the United States, and I hope the the gentleman from New York will 



Conference will be big enough to look give me the opportunity to do it, I shall 



clear over the heads of any men who be his servant forever." 

 have a personal and selfish interest. The speaker was compelled to wait 



"I would be glad to have the sugges- several minutes, until the applause died 



tion of a specific and definite remedy, out, when the session was, for a time, 



In my judgment we must retrace much' turned into a sort of joint debate be- 



of the ground we have already cov- tween Governor Johnson and Commis- 



ered and lost. I know something of sioner Whipple, the chair at times tak- 



the preserves where ten per cent of the ing a hand in the discussion. The dis- 



trees must remain, and in my judgment, cussion continued for some time, and 



Mr. Pinchot, that remedy is an abso- during the talk several interesting 



lute failure, because the ten per cent., points were brought out, that perhaps 



lacking the protection of the surround- would have been overlooked but for 



ing trees, either die, break down or Governor Johnson's insistence upon 



eventually give way. something specific. 



"It seems to me that it would be bet- Following short talks by Governor 



ter to preserve great tracts of timber. Blanchard, of Louisiana, Professor 



Rut there is so little that any of us Rene, chairman of the Massachusetts 



know even, I think, the gentleman State Conservation Commission, and 



from New York, who failed to name a others, the session adjourned: 



(To Be Concluded in February Number.} 



