ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 107 



restoration of our natural resources. This question nat- 

 urally arises in connection with our public domain. 



It is a shocking thing to see the people of the Pacific 

 Coast wantonly engaged in making their opulent salmon 

 streams as desolate and barren as the once prolific Con- 

 necticut now is. 



Mankind must conserve the resources of nature. 



When our people were cutting one another's throats 

 during the war of 1861 to 1865, game in the South became 

 abundant, for men had ceased to hunt anything but hu- 

 man kind, but when peace came the war against the crea- 

 tures of the field and forest was again renewed and waged 

 with unremitting zeal. 



It is no credit to mankind that animal life is more 

 abundant today around the inaccessible poles than any- 

 where else upon the planet. 



Fish in the inhospitable Hudson Bay region are so 

 plentiful that they could not furnish names for them all, 

 and, like the statue to the unknown god at Athens, one of 

 these Canadian fishes was called the "inconnu" or the 

 '.' unknown" fish. 



The proposed railway to Hudson Bay will change all 

 this. The slaughter will grow furious when "civiliza- 

 tion" invades this breeding ground of the Far North. 



Some one must in these days teach the science of how 

 not to kill. 



There are 46,000,000 acres of our forests now preserved 

 to keep up the supply of water for our rivers. This a 

 great step in the direction of husbanding nature's re- 

 sources. 



Farseeing and practical men saw that a part of the 

 forests must be saved or the remainder of the land would 

 become a desert, and the forest reserves were established 

 against the protests of the unthinking. 



