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Show JH Senator John 1'. Jones, ot Ncvnda, on BJBT thebest wealth of our country says: JBJ The best wealth knowledge, For, tho art, is better than tho article. The knowing how to produce is infinitely JB moro valuable thun the thing produced JH The product wo hao to-day; tho know- BJB ledgo wo hao for ull time No nation JB tin enjoy to thcfullcxtent tho luxurits, JB conveniences and comforts of civilization JB wli'itio jieoplodo not themselves produce JB them. Such things cannot Ira pcrmnn- JB cntlv secured by exchange. If n nation JB would havu them it mint crcato them, JB Tills consideration should Impel every JB nation of Wdo tcrritoral extent to be BBJ Kell-sustaiulug. That Is tho condition BBJ pointed out by nature. It Is the lily JB condition tlmt accords with the fullest JB Krowthnnd dovolopment of a people JB Kxchaugo will forntimo supplement our Be dcmicni-icH, but if for want of practical Bl know ledge of the arts our skill decline, JB' our exchango power will also decline. JB ItLsides, mateiiul wealth is not the Be highest wealth, nor is it the most end in- B i"g. Not only ia It drawn upon from Bf da) to day for natural consumption In B the supply of man's wants, but itlsj B liablo todcjtructloii bydroorilood; and BH ovuwheu husbanded with solicitude, BT nnd protected by nil the safeguards that B cunning nnd skill cm devise, it bcira JB within itfelt tho seed ot corrosion, and B in Bpito of all that human injenuity can BJB do it nlll deteriorate and decsy. irowdliroront it Is with tho intellect BY of man ' It de clops with use; It ex- Bt panda witli exercifo; it strengthens with B time The more it Is used, that is to say, B- tho more It Is consumed, tho inoie BB abundant and prolific it becomos. BB AVliatevcr policy best employs nnd BJf dovclopa the intellect of a uaflon, that h Br tho iliey which most inrlches it. Tor, BK In tho last analysis, Intellect is the high. BB est foim of wealth. The prime factor in! BB thu weulth of the United mates is tho j BBBH4 Brf IZJIIIIII Ml-WJlk1. M'jiu j Intellectual force of Its people. The low of a fraction ot that forco would boa greater loss to this Republic than the destruction at any gien moment of all Its accumulated billions. If npeoplo bavo not intellectual ignr. no matter what other elements of prosperity pros-perity thoy possm, they hate not trur or enduring wealth Imagine ill our tangible products, tho enormous hulk ( material wealth of this continent, transported trans-ported Into tho heart of Africa nml placed in tho powesMon of ft peopln without intellect; how long would tho Africnni bo rich? Hti', it fewdays, for they would consume the goods without knowing how lo produco others in their Blend. Or, ngain conceive it nil Immersed i-tho i-tho Inaccessible depths ot the ocean leaving nothing within the limits ol our, national domain, savo only the natural rcscurccs of our soil and clime to nnd the Intellectual vigor nnd Activity of our people within a short period wo ihould have reproduced all The doctrinaltcs of Ihtropc, nnd thco of our own country, arc prone to ascribe our unexampled growth null development develop-ment to our gtcnt natural letoureeo Hut that our prosperity Is due only In part to that causo imi't be manifest from tho slightest hlsto Icnl rotropev-tlon. rotropev-tlon. llefore our rare peopled this continent, the nborigimil Indians hnd, forunttdd centuries, hndat theirdlsposal "very jdij slcal property of soil nnd climate tlmt w. to-ttay possess. Yet where was their wealth. |