02/04/1909
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"This of course meant the destruction of economy and efficiency for purely political considerations."
"The policy of conservation is perhaps the most typical example of the general policies which this Government has made peculiarly its own during the opening years of the present century."
"We know now that our mineral resources once exhausted are gone forever."
"As it stands it is an irrefutable proof that the conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation."