It will matter very little to the average citizen, when scarcity comes and prices rise, whether he can not get what he needs because there is none left or because he can not afford to pay for it.

In both cases the essential fact is that he can not get what he needs.

Conservation holds that it is about as important to see that the people in general get the benefit of our natural resources as to see that there shall be natural resources left.
Conservation is the most democratic movement this country has known for a generation.

It holds that the people have not only the right, but the duty to control the use of the natural resources, which are the great sources of prosperity.

And it regards the absorption of these resources by the special interests, unless their operations are under effective public control, as a moral wrong.