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self at the expense of thy neighbor.' And further, a conserva- 

 tive, business-like interest for the general good in carrying out 

 provisions when it shall be said : ' The wilderness and the soli- 

 tary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice 

 and blossom as the rose.' He must be led to see that in the 

 grand economy of nature there are no waste places, that he can- 

 not tamper with those he considers such without positive injury 

 to more highly-favored regions. 



" It is necessary that such a sympathetic spirit may be created 

 and fostered as will lead men in different parts of the country to 

 see and feel that their interests are most intimately commingled 

 and dovetailed together. For instance, when the farmer of 

 Wisconsin or northern Illinois reads of a two or three years' 

 drouth in Texas he must be taught to see that he has a direct 

 interest in that fact, and that it closely concerns him. If this 

 farmer is too old to learn then teach his child the fundamental 

 principles of atmospheric law. First tell it what the father al- 

 ready knows by experience that nearly all the rainfall necessary 

 to give him an abundant harvest comes on the vapor-laden air 

 currents from the southward; show him that these air currents 

 carry moisture in direct proportion to the heat they bear; ex- 

 plain to him how these currents traveling northward freighted 

 with blessing for him are liable to be influenced by two very 

 potent causes that effect his weal or woe; that when they pass 

 over the arid regions of Texas their heat is augmented by radi- 

 ation from the parched earth, and by this means they take a 

 firmer grip on their moisture, float higher and carry their bur- 

 dens farther to the north, or, being reinforced by the the west- 

 ward winds hot and dry from the plains, their moisture is 

 diffused in that hungry atmosphere, and the combined currents 

 carry it to indefinite distances northeastward. Again, show 

 him that he cannot have something out of nothing; that the 

 highway robbery plan of taking from the forest, the field and 

 the air all their benefits, giving nothing in exchange, is pernici- 

 ous in every respect; that here, as everywhere else, "Honesty 

 is the best policy." 



