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with tryinfj to make tlio best use of the 

 forests, lidth for the jireseiit and tlio fu- 

 ture, for the welfare of tlie nation. Tlie 

 conservation movement sim|>l_v inclmleil in 

 this formuhi, alon;^ witii the forests, the 

 nation's other resources. Dr. I'inehot 

 gave in^tancos of wooillamls and other lands 

 fraudulently a|iiiro|>riated l>y |>ri\ati« con- 

 cerns in the I'nited States. They found 

 they had to ask two (juestions: not only 

 'Siiall the resources continue to exist f 

 but also 'For whose l)enefit shall these re- 

 sources be used?' Then they struck the 

 question of monopoly, and found them- 

 selves allied with s(»me of the forces men- 

 tioned, with whom they at first seemed to 

 have no relation. 'There we came to a 

 question which at first si;jht is not related 

 to conservation at all, the question of 

 monopoly, l»ecause we had disco\ereil, 

 wlien we came to work at these matters, 

 that every monojjoly of every kind, when 

 you follow it down to its source, is based 

 somewhere on the control of a natural re- 

 source or a natural condition.' The mo- 

 ment they be^^an to act in conservation 

 they found themselves confronted by the 

 political power of some particular inter- 

 est to whose advantajre it was to prevent 

 the active execution of the conservation 

 jiolicy, or, in other words, by monopoly 

 maintained through politics by a few men 

 for their private advantage. It was at 

 this point that they saw their common in- 

 terest with the other forces. The whole 

 question of conservation coulil be reduceil 

 to the elimination of waste, not only of 

 waste of forests, but of waste of the na- 

 tion 's jiroperty when a water-power was 

 grabbed by a special interest, of waste 

 through strikes and lock-outs, of waste of 

 luiman life and all that goes to make life 

 worth living. All these were waste to the 

 nation, wai-te of the j>ower to make the 

 nation better. 



lion. (Jeo. K. Foster then jiroposed the 

 toast to 'The Lumbermen". In opening 

 he expressed his appreciation of the con- 

 servation jirinciples as laid down by I'r. 

 I'inchot. The bounds of conser\ ation, he 

 thought, were not simply national, but 

 world-wide. Turning then to the lumber 

 men themselves, he thought the day of the 

 'predatory' lumberman, who Inokeil on the 

 forest as something' to be got out of the 

 %vay, w;is jiractically jiasscil. and that he 

 was gixinu way to the lumberman of fore 

 sight. While the present generation had a 

 right to the use of the nation's pr««sent re- 

 sources, they hail no right to dev:isf:ite or 

 destroy. The 'predatory' 

 should be disciplined by his ' 

 bermen and by the governments. In ■ 

 ing Mr. Foster endorsed the idea of ' 

 education of the boys and girls of t^ 

 along the lines of conservation. 



Mr. Alex. MacT.aurin, after f • 

 the convention for the toast, on 1 



the lumbermen, n«kod thvir aiuiiataare in 

 having th ,t reservM ti ••id* 



l>y act of t ! ^ ,re. 



.\!r. \Vm. .McNeil abu n-j-onlr) on th« 

 lumbermen's l.idialf. Il«' 

 tioii of the audti-ui-e %>< > 

 tho moment before tl 

 ;.'uvernment, puttir 

 their policy of I 



it ion. Mr. t>. W. Tf. 

 1 >r. l'in<-hot 'm, wn«t t 

 ing forester, and they wore 

 the benefit of Mr.' Tin ' 

 Special provision was her 

 act for fire protection 



Dr. B. K. Fernow t! 

 the toast of 'The F.. 



brief and witty •■; f 



which he compar> i 



jdiagocyte, the forester being r 

 I orrect bad conditions in a lumber 

 ness as a phagocyte correetM ba 

 tions in the blood. 



Mr. H. II. Campbell, in rei.I\ iii'_«. i-nint 

 ed out the fact that ' 

 har<lwooils had been - 

 extent that th«»se wood 

 I 'irted from the \ 

 the white pine, iiiM 

 become a curiosity in ' 

 had come when Chu.i-i.. ...>.-; 

 s|>ecial study of her fore*tn and n 

 trained men to tiia' ■ ' " ' ' 



iiiily of s| iai ill >l 



I'liiiditiotis, so that a ) - •* 



forniulate<l on which ' 



I'Inns could be foumle*!. I 



lie, t«»o. must b. ' ■ 



kiuiw and "voi f 



the forest 



cratic and ■ ' 



tl<> people must b<> Mlaratpd to look t 



future. 



Mr. Aubrev White n\-*n f.-.iw.nd*x1 ♦« »•»• 

 toant. lie •» 



oil th- -" 

 and ' 



hM own 

 i-try ri>iit. 

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