The herald., 1895-09-03
POLITICAL AGRICULTURE

Shinn, the wonderful one-tongued
taiker, has been about. His talk trail is
blazed through the state by one-armed
men. On the sad occasion when Roy
Jones lost an arm it commenced to loosen
when Shinn had only talked eighty min
u.es and fell off entirely at eighty-nine
minutes. The breath of Berkeley was too
strong for him. This beat the previous
world rscord OF ninety-ons minutes held
by that pleasing patriot. G. NJ. Heintz.
Mr.. Shinn is scientist and inspector
OF the forest station at Santa Monica.
Mr.. kruckerbers is scientist and pa
tron of the forestry station, also type-set-
ter for Mr.. Heintz. Shinn is Hilgard's
other self and Kruckerberg is Heintz's
other self. Heintz and Hilgard run the
forestry station. They are both scientific
men. one as scientific as the other. They
are both honest, and besides they can do
politics in Sacramento when the legisla-
ure is in session.
In the meantime Southern california
does not get any. nearer to a grand bo-
tanic garden at Santa Monica The rea-
son why Heintz and Hilgard do not plant
trees is not because of any lack of enthus-
iasm or science or patriotism; it is from
lack of funds. They can not plant trees
at Santa Monica for $4,000. That is where
the shoe pinches. Not bsing able to
plant trees thsss scientists have dev oted
their energies to attacks on Wetmore of
the .viticultural commission, on Cooper
OF the horticultural commission and on
the past administrations of ths board of
forestry. Their statement that the prac-
tical politics of the Frank Motif and
Walter Moore forestry administration
caused the boards death is only partly
true. The real cause was the Kin
ney administration attack on the
wanton forest destruction through fire
by northern sheep herders and the suits
that administration promoted against
large lumber companies for tim ber stolen
from public lands, including state school
lands. The stumpage proofs show ed, for
instance, over 50, 900. 900 worth of Lumbar
as having been improperly taken frcm
government lands by one great CORPORA
ton. These cases, it is true, did not re.
cover much for the government 500, 900
was the compromis Q on the So, 100, 900
case. out they stopped the stealing. The
Moftit-Moore political administration
offered the excuse for the abolition of
officers who had proved dangerous and
costly to tim Der thieves and fire settlers
in California. The initiative of the Kim
ney administration procured The dona-
ton of seven forest stations to the state.
worth about $10O, 900. The forestry peo.
pie in and out of California havs been
disappointed in the do-nothing admins
tration OF this property by the Heintz-
Hilgard combine. Five OF the stations
have been entirely abandoned and the
property given out OF the state owner
ship in defiance of the state law in regard
to the disposition of such public land.
The other two, Chico and Santa Monica.
are doing next to nothing on the impos-
sibly small appropriation of 5000. At
Santa Monica their ''next to nothing"
comprises eight umbrella trees. These,
it is said. are to be used in the storm of
public resentment that is expected when
the people learn the whole story of
sprays, fumlgations, attacks on the board
OF horticulture and the introduction of
lady birds to eat scale, and, in fact, the gen-
eral al-agriculture and forestry
which this end of the state has been
specially cursed with by men from at
least one of whom better things were
expected.