The Secret Of Wealth

Water has a food producing value in conjunction with land, but it has a greater food producing value in itself, apart from land. An acre of open sea will yield more food in one week than the most fertile acre in this Country will yield in one year.

The value of the water in Lake Michigan is worth more than the computed wealth of all the world.

A pint of water is worth more than a pint of gold.

Water enters the earth--grows a tree--goes into the air--and back again to the earth. Water is never lost to the world, for it follows this endless circle from the earth back to the earth season after seasonyet water can be lost to this Country, if it flows away from us, out into the ocean, and thence to the shores of Africa.

You never thought before of water being the greatest source of wealth to a country. You have always overlooked so common a thing as water. It is so familiar, so ever-present, that you never consider it at all. You never thought that water ought to and could be saved, be conserved.

This thought about the value of an unconsidered source of wealth is given you with the purpose of implanting in your mind a question as to whether you may not be overlooking some other near and familiar source of personal wealth--some means near at hand by which you could conserve more of your money, and keep it from flowing away from you to the profit of a distant stranger.

Money spent is never lost to the world--no more than water is lost to the world. But the water which has slipped down the mountain side, and through the valley out to sea, is gone, carrying its wealth to those who have eyes to perceive its value, and the wit to take it for their own. Money spent goes to your neighbor--when you need it at home.

Look around you and see if you cannot save where you have never saved before. There is some place in your life where you can effect a great saving in a way you have overlooked--just as you have overlooked the fact that water produces more wealth than gold.

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