Ill 



AMERICAN FORESTBY 



,,f ri,ai large outlel sewer. The principle is precisely the same in the St. 



ncia ,,,.,,1,1,-in and 80 ii is in all other interstate swamps. 



H, , .an tin- matter ! adjusted under two separate jurisdictions? Some 



,.. ,|, ;l t ii,,. siates ran unite for the common purpose and to carry 



,, u , , i under n.iiiual agreement. Possibly this may be done; but we 



a successful example of it. There are many who believe, as 



:!t of nl.M-rvaiioii of interstate matters, that the logical and wise way 



nlv siirek successful one is the intervention of a common authority. 



And what is ilit- established common authority as between states in this 



Country? It i* tin- Federal Government. 



I lM-lie\e HMI thoroughly in providing every orderly safeguard that may 

 (M- 1,,-crssan i" presei TC the integrity of local government. There can be no 

 \irtne in an\ proposition that would needlessly deprive any locality or any 

 ; Its pemuatives and transfer them to the nation. On the other hand, 

 ir appear* in In- a mailer of simple logic and plain common sense that where 

 tin- e.taMished re.piireiiienis of an artifically divided jurisdiction in any place 

 iin", iiald\ opposed in the fundamental laws of nature that require com- 

 mon jurisdiction in thai place, the requirements of the former must give 

 to Hi' 1 iiecewities ,,f the latter in so far as may be necessary to accom- 

 pli-h tin- ultimate purpose. The simple fact is that we have in the drainage 

 (f interstate swamps a condition into which our much revered governmental 

 precedents will not tit. We arc confronting a new problem which requires 

 tin- adjustment of our governmental ideas. It is a testimonial of our progress 

 i an indication of our economic needs that we are so confronted, and it is 

 in' ..'Me that the American people will fail to adjust themselves to any 



I'litii.n that forces itself upon them as a result of their enterprise and 

 lit. 



n:i'i:i:.vL CONTROL is NECESSARY 



tin- national aspects of swamp reclamation are not confined to those 



other aspects of economic necessity are truly 



.Moreover, these aspects are by no means 



Interstate swamps. Seventy-four million acres of swamp land 



' every State in the Union constitute of themselves a sufficiently 



sue i., make them a matter of general welfare. 



and fon-mosi. our swamps are the greatest single menace that now 



This Republic has from its beginning and in com- 



'he world i.een subject to an enormous drain by reason 



science have pursued these diseases, and, by hazardous 



t out of obscurity fact after fact concerning them and the 



prevention. Some diseases have not yet been run to earth 



- exposed, and we are reaping the benefits of the informa- 



barbor the agents by which at least two destructive 



Malaria and yellow fever are transmitted by the 



Time at my disposal does not admit of a 



the moaqnito agency in these two diseases and it will be sum- 



