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Conservation. Recovery of oil reserves, prosecution of those public and private who took part in leasing them; revision of the water power act; retention of title in water power; public control and conservation of coal, iron, oil, timber; protection of migratory birds; reforestation...
Development of oil, timber, coal and waterpower resources only when the need is positively known, and with safeguards against waste, speculation and monopoly...
...started in India, and Hindu fanatics, and snake-charmers, and fire-eaters are shown in turn. Then the explorers passed through Baluchistan to the famous Vale of Kashmir, and on the Napal, the mountain country. Passing through giant forests, where the temperature averaged 100 degrees, they finally reached the timber-line; and farther beyond came to the pinnacle-perched Tibetan monasteries. One of these, at a height of 16,000-feet, is the highest abode of living creatures in the world. Here the inhabitants drink immense quantities of tea, and here polyandry the opposite of polygamy is the rule...
...been. It is rash, reckless, and usually productive of little immediate good; but had it not been a moving force since the beginning of history, Vespucci had been an obscure Portuguese sailor, and the western prairies would still be the hunting ground of the coyote and the timber wolf...
Sentiment urges a development of a great commercial navy, but it cannot shift the advantage of the English ship owner. Proximity of coal and iron to the ship yards is an appreciable factor, just as the nearness of timber to the New England harbors helped to make the old square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...