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American lumberman is: "How can I cut my timber 

 now and at the same time grow a new timber crop for 

 future supply?" 



Inasmuch as my intereest in the forestry movement 

 began contemporaneously with my identity with the 

 lumber press, many reminiscences occur to me in con- 

 nection with the subject which time does not permit 

 me to indulge in ; but I do not know that I could better 

 illustrate the progress which has been made during the 

 last decade than by giving a few brief excerpts from 

 an address which I made upon this subject during the 

 proceedings of a forestry congress at Chicago in the 

 summer of 1893, arranged by Hon. W. I. Buchanan, 

 chief of the Forestry Department of the World's 

 Columbian Exposition. Regarding the attitude of the 

 lumberman at the time, I said : 



"He is as heartily in accord with all movements 

 looking toward the welfare of the coming generation 

 as any one can be who * * * has to make his 

 living in this. * * * Talk to him as a citizen or 

 a philanthropist and you at once gain cordial attention 

 and arouse his interest in a way, which as far as the 

 exigencies of his business will permit, will be reflected 

 by his actions, but as a lumberman he is face to face 

 with the hard actualities of life. He sees the practical 

 side perhaps all too plainly, but that practical side 

 cannot be ignored. The present is an overpowering 

 fact, while the future has but a shadowy influence." 



In that address I referred to the then almost irre- 

 sistible incentives to the employment of lumbering 

 methods wasteful from the standpoint of the forester 

 but inevitable in the stress of competition, and admitted 

 our absolute dependence for forestry results upon 

 governmental control. Upon this I said in part: 



"The lumberman will have no objections to govern- 



