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Show 513. But perhaps the reason for the Club's inaction was less basic; at the time i t seemed more appropriate to make the strategic choice to work in a s p i r i t of cooperation with the State's yosemite Commission. Yet Muir too was ashamed of the Club's stand on Parks and Reservations. The Club's a t t i t u d e , Muir knew, was r e a l l y quite naive. In 1895 he wrote to Johnson complaining of the Club's g u l l i b i l i t y in Yosemite matters. Already, the Sierra Club had been diverted from i t s duty to Yosemite by the Commission's willingness to make some cosmetic changes in the Valley; the Commission promised to hire a landscape gardner. Muir said, "I never believed that the Yosemite Commissioners r e a l l y meant to turn over a new leaf in the management. California does not truly care for Yosemite for itself, and here l i e s the d i f f i c u l t y . " There was no marriage between California and the Valley, Muir knew, and no love e i t h e r. He continued to press the matter. He was becoming impatient with the s i t u a t i o n in the Valley and the situation in the Club. "Our Sierra Club altogether refuses to make a fight at present . . . " h e wrote to Johnson in 1893. Four years later he was s t i l l complaining to Johnson, "I am trying to get the Sierra Club to take plain open ground on the Yosemite question. . . . " The problem was p r e c i s e l y as Muir saw i t . The Club i t s e lf was an organization made up of Californians, and so the membership was divided in i t s l o y a l t i e s , and they had not decided whether t h e i r allegiance went to the State or went to |