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even more than from those whose interest is philanthropic and 

 general. The difference means to a large extent the difference 

 between mere agitation and actual execution." This is what we 

 have looked forward to — namely, the time when public sentiment 

 in favor of a rational treatment of the forests shall be thoroughly- 

 awakened, and the great industries which depend on the forests 

 shall come to be as much their true friends as the philanthropist. 

 The President in this speech as well as in his annual message 

 continues to urge the transfer of the care of the forest reserves 

 from the Land Office to the Bureau of Forestry; and it seems 

 to us that this event, when it comes, will mark rather than 

 the Forestry Congress the practical ascendancy in this country 

 of true forestry. It will exert a tremendous influence on the 

 attitude of the dependent industries. 



