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where he quotes from the report: "With a little more money we 

 can exterminate them all." No such statement or sentence can be 

 found in any report of the Board ; the quotation is manufactured 

 out of whole cloth. The committee that same year asked for 

 $200,000. 



I now want to call your attention to the closing remarks of this 

 witness, on page 23, where he intends to be understood that the 

 committee has covered up or misrepresented the size of the in- 

 fested territory by failing to mention the towns that have been 

 infested. The facts are these : — 



Towns reported in 1891 : Medford, Maiden, Everett, Somer- 

 ville, Arlington, Winchester, Stoneham, Melrose, Saugus, Revere, 

 Chelsea, Cambridge, Belmont, Lexington, Woburn, Wakefield, 

 Lynn, Swampscott, Charlestown, Lynnfield, Salem, Peabody, Mar- 

 blehead, Beverly, Reading, Brighton, Watertown, Waltham, East 

 Boston, Winthrop, — thirty towns. Danvers was reported in 1893, 

 Burlington in 1893, Boston in 1894, Nahant in 1895, Brookline in 

 1895, Lincoln in 1897, Manchester in 1898, Georgetown and New- 

 ton in 1899. 



Now, Mr. Chairman, I submit that a partial quotation may be as 

 misleading as a false quotation, and here we have partial quotations 

 which misrepresent the position of the Board, and false quotations 

 which have no foundation whatever. 



Your committee has no new recommendations to susfijest, 

 but refet* you to our report of last year. If we should sug- 

 gest them, they would look beyond the present to the future 

 welfare of the State ; they would appeal to the statesman 

 who sees not the present alone, but the present and future 

 as one. We made an appeal to the investigating committee 

 of the Legislature of 1900. The appeal was ignored by the 

 committee ; the Legislature did not hear it. That the gypsy 

 moth committee's position may go on record, we quote the 

 language of the appeal : — 



And now, gentlemen of the committee, this matter is in your 

 hands. We have fought a good fight. We have done the best 

 we could with the means at our command. We know the pest 

 should have been exterminated ere this. We have done all that 

 we could to induce the Legislatures to realize the economy of 

 vigorous work with sufficient appropriations to secure it ; but they 



