The Newark journal., 1907-12-06
BASIS OF WEALTH
MOTHER EARTH KIND TO ALL
 HER CHILDREN.
THE GREATNESS OF NATIONS
Utilization of Natural Resources Goss Hand in Hand with Civilixaticn-- Exhaustible and Renewable
 Riches.

Old mother earth is the basis of all wealth. Greatness of nations is com mensurate with the degree of utilfza- tion 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- gence Wherever there is industry there f1oYrfshes civilization. With the decay of commercial importance nations retrograde and lose power, and finally find place in history only.
 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- ized in manufacture and commerce are not renewable. The renewable wealth IS CullICly III th0 vC6CtaUAC dlu dhl- nal Kingdom and nearly all of it Is included in the field of agriculture, using the word in it's broadest sense, and is represented by the crops of cereals, vegetables, fruits, fbrous 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 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. yersified resources as does the Unit ed States. With mineral resources that will require ages of time to util- ize, the millions upon millions of rich timber and agricultural lands rep Tesenting renewable wealth, and evGry 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 other nations with surplus of it's products Thus the nation will grow richer through disposing of its renewable wealth for what represents the labor and the exhaustible wealth of less fa- vored nations.
 The countries comprising Great 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's people in manufacture for commerce of arti- cles from the raw products, both min. eral and vegetable, imported from her dependencies and other nations. 1t Is plain that the nation that ex- changes its raw, exhaustible. wealth for the renewable wealth of another country Will grow poorer, and the na- tion that receives this exhaustible wealth in exchange Nor it's renewable wealth will grow richer
 Principles that apply to nations in this regard, are also applicable to in tegral parts of nations, and in a re- public like the United States, to its states and lesser communities. Thus it is patent that the state or com munity that employs its people in man. ufacturing from its products to the greatest extent, instead of having Ihem go to the markets of the world in raw state. and retains within it's borders the profits accruing from labor employed in the production of its articles of commerce, will advance in wealth and importance.
 D. M CARR