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There i3, there can be, but one objection to it,,and that is the question of money. How much will it cost? Suppose the government Hfcaockofcxtoacje were to buy 400,000 or 500,000 acres of land here; supr t pose a committee were sent down to look over the ground and to see you the country; suppose, x&wy were to find that ym had to pay five or six dollars an acre for the land, what would that cost? Why, hx jse -haiaiiu-^-million dollars would oe no money for a great government like this; not as much as the cost of one small cruiser. We had one sunk the other day over in the Philiippines, and we did not feel the loss so very much. But that cruiser cost this country more than this park will. This is a big country; it is rich, and it i3 proud of itself. Look at that great library we built in Washington; we /l*AA didjauiid for a day, when we built that, but for ail time to come in the future, and we built it for all the rest of the world to come and admire and wonder at. Then what is a beggarly two millions to such a country? Such a park we could make of these mountains of Western North Carolina, well worthy the admiration of the whole world now and for hundreds of years to come. There are not enough of such buildings and such parks. And if the government is to do such things, why not do the same thing in Western North Carolina? The mater of money, then, for a great country like this is nothing; its a mere bagatelle, ifhy, if it cost ten dollars an acre, that "p-c- small _ would nothing;**, it would be a jpHHt investment Indeed, km govern a •
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This 38-page document describes the November 22, 1899 meeting at which the Appalachian National Park Association was formed. Included in the meeting minutes is a speech by Senator Marion Butler (1863-1938), a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. The minutes include short addresses by others as well as election results and the formation of committees.
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