Our Wastefulness

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 11.

Our Wastefulness.—Now comes the speech of James J. Hill to the St. Paul, Minn., Commercial Club. Paradoxically, one of the wealthiest capitalists of the country accuses us of squandering our resources. "The nation is living profligately," says Mr. Hill. "True it is that the nation is prosperous. But if we get down to a closer examination, we see that we are selling out our natural resources—exploiting them as fast as we can without building up anything to take their place. When this nation has 150,000,000 people we will have to do something else than exploit natural resources to earn a living. We will have to face such problems as England now faces, with 1,500,000 unemployed crying for bread, and no bread save as charity doles it out."—Public Opinion.