04/06/1905
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"I can not too earnestly urge that the Director of the Census be relieved from this unfortunate situation."
"As it stands it is an irrefutable proof that the conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation."
"It deserves, and should have, the widest possible distribution among the people."
"We know now that our mineral resources once exhausted are gone forever."