Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — What It May Cost Us. [ARTICLE]

What It May Cost Us.

We, as a people, came naturally by our. prodigality. Abundant resources will make any man careless if they have come to his hand without any effort of his own. We have been in much the same condition of mind as the savage who kills a buffalo merely that he may eat the tongue. But the, East, now that fish have deserted its rivers, the trees are gone from its hillsides, and much of its soil is worn out, is enough alarmed to attempt reformation. It seems too early for the • West to come to its senses; but, if the work of slaughtering game, destroying forests and overtaxing the land is continued at its present rate, “the granary of the world” may yet be unable to do more than care for the needs of itd own people.— The Hour. I-j is no disgrace not to be able to do" everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not mndo for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.— Plutarch.