ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D Typed Letter Signed as Governor

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PROTECTING TREES AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Typed Letter Signed, as Governor, to Charles Edwin Knowles, commending his support of Amendment #3, outlining the protections it contains of New York State woodlands, stating that legislators must assume future officials are not corrupt or else cripple the government. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, "Executive Chamber" stationery, written on two sheets; remnants of prior mounting overall verso of both pages, horizontal folds. Albany, 17 November 1931

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". . . The provision permitting the cutting of trees is vital to the general plan for the creation of production forests which are intended to create an asset in the form of a timber supply for the rather distant future. The Amendment permits the acquisition of lands 'best suited for reforestation'. . . . The existing forests owned by the State are well protected under the terms of the Amendment . . . .
"If we were to refrain from passing otherwise salutary legislation on the theory that some official of a future day might be a crook we should be adopting a policy which would, it seems to me, completely paralyze the efficiency of our Government."