The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1907-10-19
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 "a
Riches,

Old mother earth Is the basis of all
wealth. Greatness Of nations IL com.
mensurate with the degree Of utilixa.
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
nomical are the uses Of the earth's
resources. In the great commercial
and manufacturing centers of the
world is found the superior intelli-
Eence. Wherever there is industry
there hourishes civilization. With
the decay Of commercial Importance
nations retrograde and lose power,
and finally find pl.ico in history
only.
Wealth Of countries can be divided
into two classes; that which is ex-
haustible. and that which is renewable.
The exhausuble 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
10 entirely in the vegetable and ami.
NAL kingdom and nearly all Of 1t is
included in the field Of agriculture.
using the word in its broadcast sense.
and 10 represented by the crops. Of
cereals. vegetables. fruits. nbrous
plants. the useful gums. such as rub
Der. the woods Of trees and all that
10 Of utility In the arts and manufac.
lures.
Tho wealthiest nations, and those
that give promise of the longest ex.
istence. are those that possess album.
dance Of both exhaustible and renew.
able wealth. Both classes afford q
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 ind its
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
Cd States. With mineral resources
that will require ages Of time to util.
Ire. the millions upon millions u
f1ch timber and agricultural lands rep
reseating renewable wealth. and every
natural advantage for manufacture.
within it, vast territory hundreds Of
millions Of people can ind homes and
susteaaace for thousands Of years to
como. and II necessary supply other
nations with 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 "a.
vored nations.
Britain have little renewable wealth
according to population. and relies
chiefly upon exhaustible resources.
their utilization In manufacture and
the value OF the labor OF it, people In
manufacture for commerce Of aru.
cles from the raw products. both min.
eral and vegetable. imported from
her dependencies and other nations.
II 10 plain that the nation that ex.
changes it, raw. exhaustible wealth
TOR the renewable wealth Of another
country will grow poorer. and the ma
ton that receives this exhaustible
wealth IN exchange for its renewable
wealth will grow richer.
Principles that apply to nations In
this regard. are also applicable to in.
tegral parts OF nations. and in . re-
public like the Unitsd States. to its
states and lesser communitles. Thus
Il 70 patent that the state or com.
munity that employs its people In man.
'ufactufing from it, products to the