THOUGHTS ON CONSERVATION 



future as well as for the present. This gathering 

 will be remembered by future generations, because 

 they as well as ourselves will be the recipients of the 

 benefits which will flow from this conference. We 

 have all been strengthened by communion together; 

 our vision has been enlarged and the enthusiasm 

 here aroused will permeate every state and every 

 community. 



BY JAMES J. HILL 



"Of all the sinful wasters of man's inheritance on 

 earth," said the late Professor Shaler, "and all are 

 in this regard sinners, the very worst are the people 

 of America." This is not a popular phrase, but a 

 scientific judgment. It is borne out by facts. In 

 the movement of modern times, which has made 

 the world commercially a small place and has pro- 

 duced a solidarity of the race such as never before 

 existed, we have come to the point where we must 

 to a certain extent regard the natural resources of 

 this planet as a common asset, compare them with 

 demands now made and likely to be made upon them, 

 and study their judicious use. 



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Not only the economic but the political future is 

 involved. No people ever felt the want of work or 

 the pinch of poverty for a long time without reach- 

 ing out violent hands against their political institu- 

 tions, believing that they might find in a change some 



