18 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? 
Or shall, with preventable climatic changes, manufactures die with the 
forests, and commerce fail as a natural result of agricultural and manufacturing 
decadence? 
Prompt, patriotic and statesmanlike legislation can only be effectual. 
