The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01

economic COTpOIdIlOu hhoWh 90
United States of America. The stock
holders are the 100000 of people OF
this country, the directors are the state
and federal officers, whose positions
bring them in touch with the opera
tions of the whole country. We should
not fail to recognize the high note that
has been struck and the immensely
of the interests involved upon the
lives of millions yet to be-"
"The resources of the sea furnish
less than per cent of the food sup
ply, and that is all The forests of
this country, the product of centuries
of growth, are fast disappearing. The
mineral wealth stored in the earth
can be used only once. When fuel
and iron become scarce and high
priced, civilization, as far as we can
now foresee, will suffer as man would
suffer by the gradual withdrawal of
the air he breathes.
eve are robbing the soil in an effort
to get the largest cash returns from
each acre of ground in the shortest
possible time and with the least pos
Sible labor.
Our agricultural land has been
abused in two principal ways, first, by
single cropping and second, by neglect
ing fertilization. The two remedies are
rotation of crops and the use Of fertil-
izers. We might expand our resources
and add billions of dollars to our ma
tional wealth by conserving soil re-
sources, instead of exhausting them as
we have the forests and the contents
of the mines"
Mr.. Hill said that SO per cent of
our people are engaged directly in ag-
riculture and that all the rest depends
upon it, He estimated that in 1925
the population of the United States
would reach total of about 100, 100000
and by the end of the century at least
200,000,0O0. He continued:
where are they to go, how are they
to be employed, how fed, how enabled
to earn living wage? We are ap-
preaching the point where all our
wheat product will be needed for our
own uses and we shall cease to be
an exporter of grain. Our own people,
whose mineral resources will by that
time have greatly diminished, must
find themselves thrown back upon the
soil for a living. If continued abuse
VI ChO loho ohOu1O lu1l CuO hOAL hICy
years as it has the last, what must be
the outlook?"
In conclusion Mr.. Hill said:
"Reviving the spirit of the days that
created our constitution, the days that
carried us through civil conflict, the
spirit by which all our enduring work
in the world has been wrought; taking
thought as Washington and Lincoln
took thought, only for the highest good
of all the people, we may, as result
of the deliberations held and the con-
illusions reached here today, give new
meaning to our future, new lustre to
the ideal of a republic of living fed
Grated states; shape anew the fortunes
of this country and enlarge the borders
of hope for all mankind"
On the third day of the Governors
conference resolutions were adopted
that included the following:
1--WE commend the wise forethought
of the President in sounding the note
of warning as to the waste and ex-
haustion of the natural resources of
the country and signify our apprecia-
ton of his action in calling this con-
ference to consider the same and to
seek remedies therefor through CO.
operation of the nation and the state.
1--WE agree that this cooperation
should find expression in suitable ac-
ton by the Congress within the linn
it's of and co-extensive with the nation
al jurisdiction of the subject and COM
plimentary thereto, by the Legisla-
lures of the several states within the
limits of and co-extensive with their
Jurisdiction.
1--WE declare the conviction that in
the use of national resources our in
dependent states are interdependent
and hound together by ties of mutual