There is no Representative here from any State who does not know that the methods of individual and corporate owners have been extravagant and destructive. and today each one of us must admit that in his section coming generations have been robbed and despoiled of the timber that should have been their inheritance had proper methods and economical use of the bountiful supply with which this country was blessed been used. No man can compute what waste. neglect. and indifference has cost the present generation or the loss and injury it must entail upon the coming generations. Must wisdom be bought by us at the price paid by France. when. by the stripping of her forests from her hills and mountains prior to 1860. 800.000 acres of farm lands had been ruined or seriously damaged. and the waterways practically destroyed. the population of 1 departments reduced to poverty and forced to emigrate? Can nothing be learned from the floods and water famines of China caused by the almost total destruction of her forests? Shall coming generations in our country pay such a fearful price when these and other object lessons confront us. and wisdom and patriotism are presumed to be our guides?
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