Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1909 — Asks World to Save Wealth. [ARTICLE]

Asks World to Save Wealth.

Secretary Bacon, of the State Department Friday issued an invitation to the nations of the world to join fin a conference at the Hague, piobably next September, for the purpose •f conserving the natural resources •f the world. Two European nations earnestly expressed their desire of being admitted to a general conservation conference when representatives from .Canada, the United States, and Mexico were in conference in regard to the conservation of the natural resources of America. This probably gave birth to the idea in the minds of President Roosevelt and Mr. Pinchot, Chief Forester of the United States, that probably a large number of the nations of the world would be glad to be represented in such a conference, and the State Department has sent out the invitations to ascertain the sentiment of the nations in the matter.