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CANADIAN FOEE STSY ASSOCIATION. 



Oak in his paper that we would be impoverished and the young men would 

 go out of the country, that homes would be mortgaged and blue ruin come 

 over the country. Canada is getting past that stage. (Applause.) We 

 are not likely to see any such thing occur, and when we see the Government 

 in power willing to pass such legislation as will protect the resources of our 

 country we may be assured it will also make provision that the natural re- 

 sources will be used to such an extent that they will give employment to the 

 people who are depending upon them. I thank you for the way you have 

 listened to my remarks. I was not able to prepare what I had to say before 

 hand, but I think I have put it before you in a light to enable you to deal in a 

 proper way with any resolution that may come from the Resolutions Com- 

 mittee. (Applause.) 



The Chairman gave an opportunity for any one else to speak, but no 

 one arising, Mr. Oak was allowed the floor in reply. 



MR. OAK: Having become half a resident over here, naturally I feel 

 a certain amount of loyalty to this region, and when warned by the last 

 speaker it would hardly be proper to bring the Stars and Stripes over here, 

 it struck me a little mite peculiar that he had smuggled over the spirit 

 equally good, and was giving it to you for all it was worth. (Laughter.) 



Now, Mr. President, it is true that Americans like dollars. I do not 

 know, however, they need to come over to this country to get any points 

 along that line. (Laughter.) It is true we are doing a little pulp business 

 on the Miramichi, and it is also true that wages have raised materially 

 there. It is equally true logs have raised a certain amount per thou- 

 sand feet. It cannot be possible the gentleman who has just spoken could 

 have taken into consideration he could buy logs some years ago very much 

 less than he can now. If he had one single argument other than the fact in 

 reference to coal involved in his remarks on the exportation of pulp wood, 

 I failed to see it. 



Mr. Oak emphasized the fact that he did not refer to other parts of 

 Canada, but only to New Brunswick. In regard to coal, he said his figures 

 were based on the coal costing $4.50 per ton. Cheaper coal was not as 

 good in steaming qualities. If $1,85 coal were used then the difference in 

 the horsepower produced by a ton of it, as compared with the better coal 

 would have to be taken into account when it would be found that owing to 

 the difference in quality his contention had not been substantially affected. 



Surveyor-General Grimmer here took the Chair, to allow Senator 

 Edwards to address the meeting. 



SENATOR EDWARDS' VIEWS. 



SENATOR EDWARDS: On this subject I shall endeavor to say a word 

 in my humble opinion, in the best interests of Canada as a whole, and not 

 only for New Brunswick, to which most of you belong. In so far as I am 

 personally concerned I claim that Mr. Oak's argument this afternoon, and 

 his presentation of it, was one of the best I have ever listened .to at a For- 

 estry meeting, and his arguments, in my opinion, are absolutely and entirely 

 unaswered. He has shown conclusively that in the best interests of the 



