The American Indians have given the fairest exhibition of the kind of welfare which such exertion and accumulation afford. The weak disappear quickly, because the strong have too little surplus of energy to care for them. Among those left, both burdens and means of satisfaction are quite equally distributed, because of essentially equal powers of exertion. But in older and more civilized communities large portions of the people are dependent upon the rest for knowledge, ingenuity and skill to keep the very much larger supply of material needed for maintaining the civilization. At this stage of progress a man with only muscular development finds himself entirely dependent upon some one else for the plans by which all must live. A savage cannot share equally with the wise man either in the burden of caring for the community or in the welfare which the community enjoys. It is easy to see that the relative importance of accumulated wealth in the shape of capital or of skill or of the character which results from generations of training, becomes more and more distinct as the community becomes more developed. Any man, then, who is lacking capital, skill and morals, or all three, is in some respects like the savage, and will find his equals among the savages. For this reason a pioneer country affords opportunity for a youth without skill or personal attainments of any kind “to grow up with the country;” and the famous advice, “Go west, young man, go west,” applies strictly to such a youth, and with less and less directness in proportion as the young man has control of himself and of accumulated wealth.