The Huttig news., 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 Exhaustible and Renewable
 Riches.

Old mother earth is the basis of all wealth. Greatness of nations is com- mensurate with the degree of utiliza- 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 earths resources. In the great commercial and manufacturing centers of the world is found the superior intelli- gence. Wherever there is industry there flourishes 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- ized in manufacture and commerce are not renewable. The renewable wealth is entirely in the vegetable and ami mai 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, 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 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 di- versified resources as does the Unit ed States With mineral resources that will require ages of time to util- fze, the millions upon millions of rich timber and agricultural lands rep resenting renewable wealth, and every natural advantage for manufacture, within its 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 #itAla & a surplus of its products. Thus the nation will grow richer of to ol>I wealth for what represents the labor and the exhaustible wealth of less fla 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. It is plain that the nation that ex- changes it's raw, exhaustible wealth for the renewable wealth of another country will grow poorer, and the na- tion that receives this exhaustible wealth in exchange for 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 it's states and lesser communities. Thus 1t is patent that the state or con- munity that employs it's people in man. ufacturing from it's products to the greatest extent, instead of having them go to the markets of the world in raw state, and retains within its borders the profits accruing from labor employed in the production of its articles of commerce, will advance in wealth and importance.
 D. M. CARR.