Excerpt from The Natural Wealth of the Land and Its Conservation: Address Delivered by Mr. James J. Hill, White House, Washington, at the Conference on the Conservation of National Resources, May 13-15, 1908 Two years ago, in an address delivered before the meeting of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society.at St. Paul, I reviewed the practical consequences and the statistical proof of that national wastefulness which competent scientific authority had already set down as distinguishing the American people. From data of the highest certainty, no one of which has ever since been called in question, I then forecast some of the condi tions certain to arise within the next half century, when the population of this country will have grown to more than The facts were pointed out, not in the spirit of the alarmist, but in order that attention might be directed to the way by which the nation may escape future disaster. So rapidly do events move in our time, so swiftly do ideas spread and grasp the pub lic mind, that some policy directed to the ends then set forth has already become a national care. It is this policy - the conservation of national resources, the best means of putting an end to the waste of the sources of wealth - which largely forms the subject-matter of this conference. For the first time there is a formal na tional protest, under seal of the highest authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.