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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • IS Mountains woull fatally impair the eesatssrelal value and the industrial iue of the atresias, hestating the temptation to pursue the argument on this line further, X affirsi that the ygressrvattett of the forests has becorie of right and necessity a -part of the public policy of every highly civilised country. It is as aush a public duty and necessity as the prevention of epideaics. So far as reason and law are concern*!, it is certainly on an equality with the Iredging of rivers and harbors* TJie states will not preserve the forests, -and in luetics to them, let ma admit that they cannot ^k^^, if they wound. The federal gSVSinwsnt alone has- the necessary financial ability, and the necessary power to enact and to enforce adequate police re piations. Congress must cone to the rescue of the forests, if they are to be saved. Let us understand also that no wasteful or even unprofitable Investment is asked, bq srienca in other countries proves that forest reserves, can, in a little while, be made act only self-supporting but productive of revenue, and ^e any thus rely, safely, upon the powerful argument of profit; not the large but intangible profit, of saving the lands and the water power, and the flerleue woods, out money profit actually paid into the treasury, Meanwhile the luabsnaan stay go on with hie work, not without restriction, but without say unreasonable hindrance, so that the luthbermen of the next generation and of all other generations thereafter amy reap In these sauce forests, which, properly used are
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