Creator
C. S. Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., April 6, 1897.
My dear Muir:
I am glad to get your note of the 29th and enclosures. We have been summoned to Washington again and things look as badly as possible. The President's intention now is to suspend some of the Reserves, especially those where big corporations want to continue to steal timber, and, what is still worse, it is proposed to pass a general forestry bill giving the Secretary of the Interior extraordinary powers to open reservations for all sorts of purposes but providing no machinery for it to protect them. This means, of course, that the we western people, getting by this law all they want, will never consent to establish a forest service which will interfere in the smallest degree with their liberties. General Abbot and I urged this to the extent of our ability both to the President and the Secretary of the Interior, but the matter had all been arranged before we got there and Hague, Brewer and Pinchot, declared that the passage of such a bill would be an immense advantage and that it ought to be done. Hague, I fancy, has been working against us more or less from the start. He generally carries Pinchot with him, and in this case Brewer seems to have lost his head. The General and I left Washington utterly discouraged and I cannot see today any salvation in the situation.
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM. J. Muir.
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Of course this is all for your own eyes only and not to be talked about until we hear from Washington what they are really going to do. I think I made some impression perhaps on the president, out Bliss is one of those machine trading politicians who knows nothing out side his dry goods' store. He has been convinced too by the Geological Survey, who expect to get the appropriation for surveys out of this bill, that he is doing just the right thing. It would be a great comfort to me if I could see you for five minutes and tell you just how I feel.
Faithfully yours,
[illegible]John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Cal.
02268
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Date Original
1897 Apr 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sargent, Charles Sprague, "Letter from C. S. Sargent to John Muir, 1897 Apr 6." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2223.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2223
Resource Identifier
muir09_0817-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0817
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
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Owning Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
