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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 10, 1897.My dear Muir: Stiles, the editor of Garden
arid Forest, a whose political judgment I have much confidence, says. Of course you want to make a public opinion as fast
as possible and if you can jet into California papers an idea of your purposes, showing that they are not revolutionary and
not hostile to the interests of the western people, and disseminate this through the west as quickly as possible, you will
do a good thing. You understand what our views are -- that they are not revolutionary -- and you pan certainly help more
than any one else in instructing the west about the intentions of the Commission. I have not seen yet a California paper with
anything about the President's proclamations and have no idea what you and your friends are accomplishing oil your side of
the continent. In next week's Garden and Forest there will be an account of what has been going on in Congress and a brief
outline of what ought to be done to secure the best results from the reservations. It is pretty evident to me that we are
going to lose the outcome of all our work and that the reservations are going to be thrown open unless a illegible fire can
be set in the west to check the illegible condemnation which our action seems to have called for. 02256