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TIIK NKIJUASKA I'AHK AND FOKKS-
TKY ASSOCIATION.
At the last nnnnnl meeting of the
State Horticultural Society nt Lincoln a
resolution was passed advising the.
organization of the above named society ,
ns our state was the mother of "Arbor
Day" and it was also necessary to keep
up with other states which are organiz
ing such societies.
The loth of February , 1809 , was pro
posed as a suitable time , as that was the
charter day of the State University.
Pursuant to a call issued by O. S.
Harrison , chairman of the committee , a
meeting was called on the above date.
Quito a number of the friends of the
cause were present.
Dr. Bessey called the meeting to
order. E. F. Stephens was chosen tem
porary chairman and A. J. Brown tem
porary scribe. Dr. Bessey stated the
object of the meeting and moved the
organization of the proposed society.
The motion was unanimously carried
and the society was organized.
The following officers were chosen for
the ensuing year :
President : O. S. Harrison of York.
Vice-President : E. F. Stephens of
Crete.
Secretary : A. J. Brown of Geneva.
Treasurer : G. A. Marshall of Ar-
lineton.
Directors : J. Sterling Morton. Ne
braska City ; Dr. C. E. Bessey , Lincoln ;
Peter Younger. Jr. , Geneva.
On motion a committee of three were
appointed to prepare by-laws and report
at our nest meeting. They were C. S.
Harrison , Dr. C. E. Bessey and Prof.
W. I. Hunter.
On motion the executive committe
were asked to use their utmost efforts to
enlarge the charter membership until
the first annual meeting.
Moved and carried that the city and
village improvement societies of the
state be invited to meet with us and
takH part in our next annual meeting.
The first three articles of the constitu
tion give the aim of the organization.
Article I. The name of this organiza
tion shall be the Nebraska Park and
Forestry Association.
Article II. The purpose of this asso
ciation shall bo to awaken an interest in
home adornment , village and city im
provement and the planting of parks
and forests.
Article III. Any person may become
a member of this association by the pay
ment of $1.00 a year or he may become
a life member by the payment of $5.00.
Thus our society has started out front
ing a mighty work. Wonders have
been accomplished in a few years. Our
rich land seemed hungry for trees and
our efforts have been generously re
warded. Few of our cities and villages
have suitable parks. Much is to be
done on this line. The pioneer struggles
are over and the question of home
adornment comes up. Too often the
wife and children have had no rights
the hog and steer were bound to re
spect.
Again , nearly one-third of our great
state is a treeless desolation. It should
not remain so. In the most forbidding
places along the eastern slope of the
Rofkies and in the northwest portion of
this state the red cedar and ponderosa
pine hold their own on dry and barren
bluffs. We know they could bo moved
down into the valleys. To the west , in
the most trying climate , in almost per
petual drouth and under a scorching siin
the brown cedar and the pinou flourish.
From experiments under and west of
the 100th meridianwo know what can
be accomplished on the treeless plains.
Recent , investigations show that the
respiration of an evergreen is only one-
tenth as much as that of a deciduous
tree. So evergreens must be our main
reliance. We know the United States
government is ready to cooperate with
the state. As there has beijn a tremendous
deus revival of forestry interest all over
the land , our own state , ever foremost ,
should not lag behind.
This work should be kept out of poli
tics. Only a few years ago , in Oregon ,
an attempt was made to establish a state
forestry department and it was killed
before matured by the rush of appli
cants for a position. We want the best
men in the state as members of this
society and whatever , work the state
may do should be done through them.
Nebraska pays out largo sums for
irrigation and retains no interest in the
ditches. We believe the state should
foster timber planting on an economical
basis and retain an ownership of them
as so many state parks.
Many of our states are doing this
saving old forests and planting others.
Thus the good accomplished will be
owned by the people.
But at present our chief reliance must
be on the interest awakened among
farmers and private owners ; also among
improvement societies. We want mem
bers. We want you as a charter mem
ber. Send your $1.00 to our secretary
or treasurer.
In his address
IJRYANARCHY.
before the late
trust convention Mr. Bryan showed his
utter unfitness to merit the trust of the
people and assume the trusts of the
presidential office when he declares : "I
want to protest against this doctrine
that the trust is a natural outgrowth of
natural laws. It j not true. The trust
is the natural outgrowth of unnatural
conditions created by man - made
laws. "
It is not true not one word or idea in
the above exclamation. There is noth
ing that is unnatural , not even the
grossest immorality. All that is finds
its origin in natural conditions , murder ,
arson , infanticide , stealing , swindling ,
rape , abortion , bestiality an insult to
beasts by the way. The quicker dema
gogues and reformers stop prating about
natural and unnatural the more credit
able it will be to them and the better
for their blind followers.
If the trust is not the "natural out
growth of natural conditions. " nothing
is not even man himself. If trusts are
not the natural result of the struggle
for existence , then trusts are myths
constructed by a diseased brain , which
in itself is natural. Trusts being noth
ing more than business organizations
for individual preservation and labor
unions exactly the same thing , why
does not Mr. Bryan step into the arena
in favor of free and independent labor ?
He dare not. He attacks the organized
capitalists because it is the cry , of the
hour , but keeps silent on organized
labor because it is the sick child of the
political nursery.
Mr. Bryan is defied to show in what
any man has an iota of obligation to
any other man , country or humanity ,
unless he himself incurs the obli
gation , and only so long as it is
utilitarian self-preserving in the broad
est and most intelligent sense.
Equal rights to nature is false and
every man not a fool or a rascal knows
it. Equal rights to opportunity , accord
ing to individual ability , is "natural
law , " but he who has no ability to
maintain self has no rights , either on
earth or in Heaven for he is the victim
of his own evil through natural con
dition.
FRANK S. BILLINGS ,
Grafton , Mass.
If high prices are not the most objec
tionable and dangerous features of
trusts they are certainly responsible for
"all this howl about trusts , " as H. O.
Havemeyer once piit it. The way to
stop the most of this howl is to compel
the trusts to lower prices. The most
obvious and certain way to compel
lower prices is to abolish those tariffs
which shield trusts from foreign compe
tition and enable them to raise prices
and make exorbitant profits. It may
be found , as suggested by Professor
Clark , at the Chicago trust conference ,
that nearly all tariffs foster trusts ; if so
the greater is this remedy and the more
need of its immediate application. Un
doubtedly an attempt will be made by
the next congress to apply this simple
but sovereign remedy to the tin plate
and other trusts. The congressman
who refuses to support such a measure
will have trouble in explaining his posi
tion to his intelligent constituents.
This subject is discussed by the presi
dent of the New England Free Trade
League in a letter which we publish in
this i&sue.
Socialism is the union of men for'
individual preservation.