The Fight for Conservation
The Fight for Conservation
The most prosperous nation of to-day is the United States. Our unexampled wealth and well-being are directly due to the superb natural resources of our country, and to the use which has been made of them by our citizens, both in the present and in the past. We are prosperous because our forefathers bequeathed to us a land of marvellous resources still unexhausted. Shall we conserve those resources, and in our turn transmit them, still unexhausted, to our descendants? Unless we do, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. When the natural resources of any nation become exhausted, disaster and decay in every department of national life follow as a matter of course. Therefore the conservation of natural resources is the basis, and the only permanent basis, of national success.
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reation of a system of inland transportation by
water whereby to regulate freight-rates by rail and to move the bulkier
commodities cheaply from place to place, is a task upon the successful
accomplishment of which the future of the Nation depends in a peculiar
degree. We are accustomed, and rightly accustomed, to take pride in the
vigorous and healthful growth of the United States, and in its vast
promise for the future. Yet we are making no preparation to realize what
we so easily foresee and glibly predict. The vast possibilities of our
great future will become realities only if we make ourselves, in a
sense, responsible for that future. The planned and orderly development
and conservation of our natural resources is the first duty of the
United States. It is the only form of insurance that will certainly
protect us against the disasters that lack of foresight has in the past
repeatedly brought down on nations since passed away.
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