Chairman. we are not alone to legislate for the United States of 1908 or for our present generation. but we. as statesmen. must look to the future. We have no right to waste the magnificent estate that has come down in trust to us from our fathers. but we should so conserve it. we should so manage the affairs of this great Government as to hand over this splendid patrimony to our children unimpaired. In addition to the natural increase in our population. we have marching toward our shores an army of a million immigrants a year. It is a matter of speculation. of course. what the population of this country will be in any given year in the future. but a number of statisticians have indulged somewhat in prophecy along these lines. and they all agree that by the year 1950 our population will have reached 200.000.000. Some of them far exceed that tremendous figure.
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