...is not yet final. The question we are deciding with so little consciousness of what it involves in this : What shall we do with our natural resources?...this nation in accomplishing its manifest destiny. and institutions of the great Republic taken together must and do work out in a prosperous, contented,...

...engaged in making the decision that is thus forced upon us. And, so far as it has gone, our decision is wrong. Fortunately, it is not yet final. The question...deciding with so little consciousness of what it involves in this: What shall we do with our natural resources? Upon the final answer that we shall make to it...