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wish to utilize them. If there be no way to get the States to look after 
the matter themselves the I'ederal Government should take some steps 
toward reforesting the headwaters of our great navigable streams where 
they have been cleared off, and nothing is being done to protect them. 
Surely it is as legitimate to expend I’ederal money to keep the soil from 
flowing down our mountain sides and filling up our rivers as it is to ex- 
pend money in clearing out their channels when once filled. It is surely 
permissible to expend Federal money to protect the stream itself if it 
be proper to stock and restock it with fish. 
Our State governments should do the rest, and should begin soon. 
The expense of such a system, properly organized and carried out, will 
be defrayed ten thousand times by the great increase in national wealth 
and national health which will ensue, while the loss incident to a per- 
sistence in our present policy will be simply incalculable. 

