With such men argument, compromise, or conciliation is useless or worse.

The only thing to do with them is to fight them and beat them.

It has been done, and it can be done again.
It is the honorable distinction of the Forest Service that it has been more constantly, more violently and more bitterly attacked by the representatives of the special interests in recent years than any other Government Bureau.

These attacks have increased in violence and bitterness just in proportion as the Service has offered effective opposition to predatory wealth.

The more successful the Forest Service has been in preventing land-grabbing and the absorption of water power by the special interests, the more ingenious, the more devious, and the more dangerous these attacks have become.