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Cora Whitley writings and speeches, 1924-1927

""Everett Speech"" Page 5

Now we in the Middle West must pay freight for the Pacific Northwest or the far south on every board we use. There is an end to even to even such resources as ours.
Not only the forests but our other natural resources so generously given have been wasted or thrown away. we recklessly slaughtered the game and wiped out much of the familiar(?) or valuable wild life that has been an interesting feature from national life. David Stan Jordan says that civilization has slaughtered the nobler game and left us the the rat and man has exterminated the song birds and migrating birds and left us the English sparrow.
In the same way we have treated our invaluable resources of fish, one of the great sources of food supply which has been menaced by greed and indifference. The [satium?] of the northwest was rapidly diminishing when Lee Henry secured the restrictive legislation which gives hope that they may not be wiped out. Even greater is the danger which the widespread and increasing pollution of our streams

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Now we in the Middle West must pay freight for the Pacific Northwest or the far south on every board we use. There is an end to even to even such resources as ours. Not only the forests but our other natural resources so generously given have been wasted or thrown away. we recklessly slaughtered the game and wiped out much of the familiar(?) or valuable wild life that has been an interesting feature from national life. David Stan Jordan says that civilization has slaughtered the nobler game and left us the the rat and man has exterminated the song birds and migrating birds and left us the English sparrow. In the same way we have treated our invaluable resources of fish, one of the great sources of food supply which has been menaced by greed and indifference. The [satium?] of the northwest was rapidly diminishing when Lee Henry secured the restrictive legislation which gives hope that they may not be wiped out. Even greater is the danger which the widespread and increasing pollution of our streams