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the future, it is not too much to hope that, in spite of 
local jealousies, and even at some little expense, the 
broad-minded, free-handed American people will 
adequately support with their good will and a little 
money, a thorough, well considered and efficient plan of 
fish protection. In providing such a needed plan, and 
in carrying it out to a successful termination, no agency 
would be so adequate and so well calculated to attract 
immediate and wide-spread support as the honorable 
society that I have had the honor of addressing.” 
