St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-11-02
BASIS OF WEALTH
MOTHER EARTH KIND TO ALL
HER CHILDREN.
THE GREATNESS OF NATIONS
Utilization of Natural Resources Goes
Hand in Hand with Civilization
ExhaustibIe and Renewable
Riches.

Old mother earth is the basis of all
wealth. Greatness of nations is COM
mensurate with the degree of utiliza-
ton Of the mineral elements and other
products, all of which are the result
of natural laws. The higher the civ
ilization the greater and the more eco
| uomical are the uses of the earth's
resources. In the great commercial
and manufacturing centers OF the
world is found the superior 1ntelll-
gence. Wherever there is industry
| there fiourishes civilization. With
the decay of commercial Importance
nations retrograde and lose power,
and finally find a place in history
only.
Wealth of countries can be divided
into two classes; that which is ex-
haustible, and that which is renewable.
| The exhaustible is the mineral wealth,
gold, silver, iron, copper, and all the
useful metals-coal, salt, sulphur, Oil
and mineral products which once util-
| lied in manufacture and commerce are
not renewable. The renewable wealth
| is entirely in the vegetable and ami
nal kingdom and nearly all Of it is
| included in the field of agriculture,
using the word in its broadcast sense,
and is represented by the crops OF
1 cereals, vegetables, fruits, fibrous
plants, the useful gums, such as rub
Der, the woods of trees and all that
Is of utility in the arts and manufac-
lures.
The wealthiest nations, and those
that give promise of the longest ex-
istence, are those that possess abun-
dance of both exhaustible and renew
able wealth. Both classes afford a
field for manufacture and commerce.
The nation that lacks the conditions
necessary for the production of re-
Movable wealth, and only has exhaust
ible wealth, will eventually find It's
resources for self-sustainence at an
end, and will of necessity become de-
pendent upon some other nation.
No other nation possesses such d.
versified resources as does the Unit
ed States. With mineral resources
that will require ages of time to util-
lie, the millions upon millions OF
rich timber and agricultural lands rep,
resenting renewable wealth, and every
natural advantage for manufacture
within it's vast territory hundreds OF
millions of people can find homes and
sustenance for thousands of years to
come, and if necessary supply 'othe1
nations with a surplus of its products
Thus the nation will grow richer
through disposing of its renewable
wealth for what represents the labor
and the exhaustible wealth of less ia
vored nations.
The countries comprising Great
Britain have little renewable wealth
according to population. and relic:
chiefly upon exhaustible resources
their utilization in manufacture amt
the value of the labor of it's people II
manufacture for commerce of arti
Giles from the raw products, both min
eral and vegetable, imported from
her dependencies and other nations
It is plain that the nation that ex
changes it's raw, exhaustible wealth
for the renewable wealth of anothe
D. country will grow poorer, and the ma
ton that receives this eXhaustibl
wealth in exchange for its renewable
/ wealth win grow richer.
+ Principles that apply to nations Il
i. this regard, are also applicable to III
+ tegra1 parts of nations, and in a re
, public like the United States, to It
8 states and lesser communities Thu
e it is patent that the state or con
$ lnunity that employs its people in mar
J. ufacturing from it's products to tn
g greatest extent, instead Of havin
s them go to the markets of the Aworl
q in raw state, and retains within it
t borders the profits accruing fro1
t labor employed in the production {
d its articles of commerce, will advanc
Q in wealth and Importance.
g D. NJ. CARR.