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scripture. Some one asked him how he liked it. 'Oh,' he 

 said, 'it's very much h'ke Scotland, except that Scotland has 

 it more condensed.' Now that is about the way it is here. 

 You have things more condensed than we do out in Michigan, 

 but 1 like your kind of talk here, and I believe you are just 

 about as good people as we are. You seem to be on the whole 

 ' our kind of people,' and you want to talk about things in just 

 about the same kind of a way; that is to say, most of you are 

 optimistic. Most of you have the corners of your mouths 

 turned up. That is the way we ought all to go. It means that 

 most of you are going to get the best there is out of this old 

 world before you leave it. Anyway, we do not know of any 

 better world than this old world at present, and we know lots 

 of good things about this old world, and we are finding out 

 more all the time, and we do not want to get out of it any 

 too soon. 



"Now I believe in these pomological meetings. I believe 

 in getting together and talking over the situation. I believe 

 in putting the dark side away, and talking and thinking about 

 those things which are bright, and beautiful, and attractive, 

 and which will tend to make us lively and contented in this 

 world, and which will make us love our homes and love our 

 fellows. If I had to ask the Legislature to do something 

 about the San Jose scale I would not say very much to the 

 members, but I would just show them the pictures of the 

 destruction it is capable of, and then let them do the think- 

 ing. Now that just calls to my mind another matter. I am 

 all trees. I am all forestry, and I am going to ask the Leg- 

 islature to do a great lot in Michigan. I am going to try to 

 have them do one of the greatest things they have ever done, 

 and that is, to enact a distinctive forestry policy for the state, 

 and the thing we are going to do in order to get them to 

 enact it is to show them pictures. We want them to see 

 those millions of acres of land in pictures so they will see the 

 desolation that has come through the denuding of those lands 

 of the trees, and from them we believe they will see the 

 necessity of enacting a distinct forestry policy for the state, 

 out of which will come on these millions of acres of land a 

 heritage for the people one hundred times greater than the 



