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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • f( It iu my deliberate judgment that this natter wlsiclj we are coiiaiieria; to-lay it of more importance to the people of the South thai] r-ny other tiling that baa racaiTed their attention riuee the leys of civil war and reconstruction, "Upon the result of this unlertchiag tap and a in large sura, the industrial future of the felfeet part or tie south. If there be none who think that I exaggerate, 1 invite than to an impartial investigation for thtji.: solves. It eill ee found that i y worla are not e trouper than the a a of tea oe^petaot and lisiaterestol experts in forestry and hydro.jrapby afeoi the Federal authorities have sent to ia- veetlgftte the subject; and that thov are fully justified by the facts that are officially reeorlel. But before I address ssyeelf to % pact of the ques tion, permit i-aa to call your attention to certain general equities* which taaka, le jitiisately, a part of our case. t there are jrovernuent forest raaarvatiane of at least 72,000 rquaro Bailee, or 46,000,000 acren, in the aggregate. Ti. the ean tern-states there ia 1*8 such reservation. In the wept t. ^overar.;eat if; protecting the forests, and even '. laldlng the pitiful at of the once innumerable race of the biaons, which is nai alnaet extinct, •-■: i result of the same American enterprise that tltre&teoa the extinction of our An aiachian hardwood forests, ere far western parks are iu ibie to the people of the saat $&d Bouth} atoila to all the banafits and plaasuree that
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