Capitolo 16
public feeling that will reduce the number of fires. The second
it is even more entirely in the hands of the people, for from the system
of their taxation they impose them they decide _whether it will continue a
to be able that earns and a source of tax forever or is abandoned to become
a desert_; not-manufacturing, non-taxable, and a threat to brook-flow.
If his/her owner has earned money on the original crop you/he/she has anybody that brings
on the result, neither it has his/her rich or poor being, resident or alien.
Present of earth of transition a problem separate to him. He wants and it owes
you pay a full tax on his/her power of profit that will be shown
when he brings with success another picked up to the maturity. But he is not able
hands an investment for fifty years or more without return, with a
risk of total loss from fire above to the last moment, to a cost that
the best profit would bring him in some other business.
These facts are recognized by all the students of forestry. The following
authorities contain anybody brief for the woodcutter. They drew near the
only submits from the side of the people:
Theodore Roosevelt: "Supports only to the good laws of fire it is the promulgation
of tax laws that will allow the perpetuation of existing forests
from use."
Committee of national Maintenance: Present tax laws" they prevent
reforestation of cut-ended earth and the perpetuation to exist
use forests. An annual tax on the same earth, exclusive of
the lumber and a tax on the lumber when I cut you/he/she is adapted well
to the actual conditions of investment of forest and it is practicable and
certain. It would assure a permanent income from the forest in
the greater distant aggravation what time picked is, and still it is less
serious on the state and on the owner. It is best from
every side that earth of forest should permanently produce a moderate tax
what that you/he/she should temporarily produce an excessive income, and
then latrines to produce at all."
H. S. Graves, Principal Forester for the U. S.: "Private owners