Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-09

prevent further mischief being done,
and It would he in TIN highest degree
reprchcnsihle to let amy consideration
Of temporary convenience or tempo
rary cost interfere with such action.
especially as regards tho national for
cSts, which the nation can nov. at this
very moment, control
All serious students of the question
are aware of the great damage that
has been done in Tho Mediterranean
countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
by dcforcstation. The similar dam
age that has been conc i'm Eastern
Asia is less we'll known. 4 recent in
VcStigation into conditions in North
China, by Mr.. Frank \ Meyer. of the
bureau of plant industry of the Uni
ted states department of agriculture.
has incidentally furnished in very
striking fashion proof ot the ruin that
comes from reckless dvtorcstation of
mountains, and of the further fact
that the damage once done MAY prove
practically i~rreparable. So important
are thes. investigations that / here
with attacn as an appendix to my mes
sage certain photographs showing
present conditions in china. They
show i'm vivid fashion the appalling
dCsolation, taking the shape of bar
rem mountains ana gravel and sand
covered plains, which Immediately fol-
lows and depends upo the deforeSta-
tiuu of the mountains. Not many cen
turtles 8 the country of Northern
China was one of the most fertile
and beautiful spots of the entire
world, and was heavily forcsted We
know his not only from the ole
Chinese records. but from the ac-
counts given by the traveller, Marco
Polo He, for instance, mentions that
in visiting the provinces Of Shansi
ana Shensi he observed many plan
tatIous of mulberry trees Now Their,
is hardly a single mulberry tree In
either of these provinces. and the cul-
turc Of the silkWorm has moved far
Their south. to regions of atmosphere,
moisture. As an Illustration of the
complete change in the rivers. we may
take Polo's statement that a certain
river, the Hun HO. was so large ant
deep that merchants assembled il from
the sea with heavily laden boats, to-
day this liver is simply a broad sandy
bed. with shallow rapid currents wan
deriug hithcr and thithcr across it
absolutely unuaVigable. But we d,
not haye to depend upon written re-
cords, The dry wells. and the Wcll,
with water far below the former
Natvrmark. bear testimony to the
good days of the past ana the evil
days of the present. Wherever the
native Vegetation has been allowed t.
remain, as, for instance, here and
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their SUBMITS. All natural factors
favored this dense forest growth, anu
as long as 1t was permitted to exist
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OK or ave sc11I. tbn stnnnngt MANN
ain sfda. ana emf do,,n ana ,r,I
mi root ana brannb no sn,aIi t,'.a
shrubs SIM tn hr fnnpd ma httr
rens -annnnr,d rontnrin. ,aa ~
hat nov ono of those IL nct'T,. ,,
ave I'm TN. u.ipb borbond az ~t.r,,i..
who're tbev arc artificiaUy ,,rnt,ni.a
nd oven bcrr IL takes al 10 u-atrl
nd care of the trre-Ioying priests L.
their destruction. Each fam
ly, each community, whore thtr, is
10 common care exercised i'm the in .
crest of all of them to prrycnt defor \
station, finds its profit in the immcdi
te use of the fuel which would other n
Use bc used bl some other family
r some other community I'm the To- y
Al absence of regulation of the mat
r. in the interest of the whole rro
le. each small group in inevitably
ushed into the policy of destruction .
hich cannot afford to take thought p
Ir the morrow. This Is inst one of D.
rose matters which IL is fatal to leave L.
u-nsuuerNised individual control ~,
he forests can only be protected bl +,
Ic state. by the nation. and the Lib ,t
'ty Of action of individuals must D, a
upon what th, STATE obi D.
determines to be uercs-ary rpi d,
- common SafetA. D.,
Tho lesson .r J.f,r.st.,t.u a, yt..,. u.
q lesson ubi,b ,,.ntfnl ' ,T A..
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