Women should recognize, if this task is to be carried out, one great
truth above all others. That this Nation exists for its people, we all
admit; but that the natural resources of the Nation exist not for any
small group, not for any individual, but for all the people--in other
words, that the natural resources of the Nation belong to all the
people--that is a truth the whole meaning of which is just beginning to
dawn on us. There is no form of monopoly which exists or ever has
existed on any large scale which was not based more or less directly
upon the control of natural resources. There is no form of monopoly that
has ever existed or can exist which can do harm if the people
understand that the natural resources belong to the people of the
Nation, and exercise that understanding, as they have the power to do.
It seems to me that of all the movements which have been inaugurated to
give power to the conservation idea, the foresight idea, there is none
more helpful than that the women of the United States are taking hold of
the problem. We must make all the people see that now and in the future
the resources are to be developed and employed, yet at the same time
guarded and protected against waste--not for small groups of men who
will control them for their own purposes, but for all the people through
all time.
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