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the welfare of all of us. I hope to see the Bureau of Forestry act as 

 a helper and assistant, not only to the commercial interests, which is 

 its first duty, but to all the interests of every kind that are in any 

 way connected with the forest. And this not by interference or dic- 

 tation. I should like to have every man and every woman in this con- 

 gress go home with the idea that the Bureau of Forestry is the servant 

 of every one of you, and asks nothing better, and can hope for nothing 

 better, than to be called upon to give you help to the utmost limit of its 

 power, 



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