The General Awakening as to Forestry llS 



provident forest policy for this Dominion. We are going into 

 the great northland forests now, and the mistakes of older Canada 

 must not be repeated. To provide against this and to plan wise- 

 ly for the future of this grand country a formal head in the de- 

 partmental economy of the government is an urgent necessity. 

 This will better advance the common weal. We know that Sir 

 Wilfrid can be relied on to listen to any reasonable proposition for 

 the betterment of our forestry relations. — aye, he will not only 

 listen, but he will formulate himself, we trow, a new policy which 

 will repress on the lips of future generations with regard to the 

 beautiful forest, the sad avowal of so many in the older provinces, 

 face to face with desolate waste — " too late ! too late ! '" 



FORESTRY CONGRESS. 



There is to be a National Congress at Ottawa next Novem- 

 ber. Sir Wilfrid has already signified his sympathy with the 

 movement. Not only that, he intends being in it and of it ; and for 

 this has the high precedent of President Roosevelt. We know 

 that his influence, his example, his warm word, and above all, 

 the cheerfulness with which he will give of the Nation's revenues 

 to greatl\" increase them by wise forestry regulation, will quickly, 

 if not completely retrieve the lost ground in this important inter- 

 est, and thus permit him to earn a new title to every just man's 

 gratitude. 



EXEMPTION A DESIDERATUM. 



The idea of exemption in the Advocate's mind should not 

 in the meantime be lost sight of. in the provinces. Nowhere so 

 urgently as here should our rulers act. The taxes are not exor- 

 bitant, but taxes are always unwelcome. The release of woodland 

 under certain conditions, should be a good thing. The wood-lot 

 might speedily come to be recognized as a public benefaction and 

 the youth of the land, from advertising through thei exemption, 

 disposed to study the underlying principle. Then, unpastured 

 woodlands, which alone deserve the special care of the Govern- 

 ment, would be speedily increased in area, and agricidture, hy- 

 giene, esthetics, and general economics favored be}-ond dispute. 

 Let us hear from our legislators then in some practical way along 

 these lines. — Father Burke, of P. E. I., in the Maritime Farmer. 



