i8 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



Are there statesmen who can rise above the level of partisan politics and 

 consider legislation which shall look to the continuance of national prosperity, 

 through the perpetuation of American forests? 



( )r shall, with preventable climatic changes, manufactures die with the 

 forests, and commerce fart as a natural result of agricultural and manufacturing 

 decadence ? 



Prompt, patriotic and statesmanlike legislation can only be effectual. 



