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products. We have had instances of late years of the fact that the great industrial 

 corporations in the United States have found it to their interest to establish branches 

 in Canada and manufacture for the markets of the world under the protection of 

 the British flag, rather than the Stars and Stripes. I am proud of that fact. I 

 will go further and hope that in the near future the great paper manufacturing in- 

 dustry of the world will have its centre in this, our country, where the raw material 

 of paper is the greatest of any part of the world, and that the paper manufacturing 

 of the world will be done under the British flag instead of the American. 

 (Applause). 



This is an economic question, and we have a just right to look forward to an 

 economic solution of it, and I think it is not beyond the proper ambition of the people 

 of Canada to come to that point. 



Sir, I hope and believe that this meeting here in Montreal will arouse an interest 

 in a large number of classes of people in the country in this forestry question 

 people who have hitherto been indifferent, to say the least, to the matter; and some- 

 times, perhaps, actively antagonistic. I have pointed out shortly why the people 



of Montreal particularly are interested in this question. 







Let me say, now, a word or two in regard to the lumbermen of the country, 

 and the interests of Montreal are largely concerned in the way of investment in 

 lumbering also. I want to say emphatically that, in my opinion, forestry is the 

 best friend of the lumberman. Instead of there being any antagonism between 

 the foresters and the lumbermen, the latter are the very people who most require 

 education along forestry lines throughout the land. They own the limits and have 

 the right to cut the wood. They own those limits practically in perpetuity. If 

 they can conserve these limits indefinitely by scientific forestry methods they have 

 an asset not only for their own future but for the future generations of lumbermen 

 in Canada, which is absolutely incalculable, and can be made just as advantageous 

 and profitable to their great-great-grandchildren as it is to-day to them. (Applause). 



But if instead of doing this and instead of the adoption of scientific methods 

 they continue the crude and wasteful methods of making the largest profits they can 

 to-day and leaving the to-morrow to take care of itself, they may make I do not 

 say they will but they may make a few more dollars to-day. But when they 

 pass from this sphere they will leave behind them an asset, which will be valueless 

 and earn for them the curses of the future generations instead of their blessing, 

 and will show that they regard not at all the future of their children or the future 

 of the country. (Applause). 



I know that to-day the lumbermen of Canada have awakened to these facts, 

 and that they have already adopted improved methods to a very large extent. 

 I know that to-day the lumbermen are perhaps the best supporters of this forestry 



