It asserts that the people have the right and the
duty, and that it is their duty no less than their right, to protect
themselves against the uncontrolled monopoly of the natural resources
which yield the necessaries of life. We are beginning to realize that
the Conservation question is a question of right and wrong, as any
question must be which may involve the differences between prosperity
and poverty, health and sickness, ignorance and education, well-being
and misery, to hundreds of thousands of families. Seen from the point of
view of human welfare and human progress, questions which begin as
purely economic often end as moral issues. Conservation is a moral issue
because it involves the rights and the duties of our people--their
rights to prosperity and happiness, and their duties to themselves, to
their descendants, and to the whole future progress and welfare of this
Nation.
CHAPTER VIII
PUBLIC SPIRIT
Violent crises in the lives of men and nations usually produce their own
remedies. They grasp the attention and stir the consciences of men, and
usually they evolve leaders and measures to meet their imperious needs.
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