The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . on each side, and forty thousand M^ounded. Therailroads everv year kill and wound a great many more people than were hit atGettysburg. We are not content, however with accidents by land and by sea andwith the number of murders and other ^iolent deaths, but we seek to aid thes
The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . on each side, and forty thousand M^ounded. Therailroads everv year kill and wound a great many more people than were hit atGettysburg. We are not content, however with accidents by land and by sea andwith the number of murders and other ^iolent deaths, but we seek to aid theseefiforts to desolate humanity l)y courting all kinds of contagious and infectiousdiseases. We are spending a great deal of money on our navy, and I would notwithhold a dollar of it; a great deal on the army, and this I would not are spending twenty-five millions a year for agriculture, which is none toomuch, and in all we are running up an annual expense account of about one billiondollars in this country for various purposes, all apparently connected with thepublic good. Yet how much are we spending tO protect human life and health? Aside fromthe money which is given for the inspection of meat animals, and this amounts to ?Address delivered at the National Conservation Exposition, October 25, DR. HARVEY W. WILEY THE FIRST EXPOSITION OF CONSERVATION 235 a little over three million dollars a year, we are not giving over a million and a halfdollars for all of the forms of public service in connection with the human few years ago the State of New York voted a hundred millions of dollars forthe widening and deepening of the Erie Canal. The money is all s])ent \liat citizens of New York will live one second longer as the result of this Not one. ^^hat disease in New York whicli kills men, wdmen andchildren, will he restricted in the least degree l)y tliis expenditure? Not one. Inso far as the life, efficiency and ha|)i)iness of the
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