But my purpose is only so far to hint at the resources of this most favored of lands, as to make the marvellous facts a basis for the proposition that ability is one measure of our responsibility for the hearty and liberal doing of what we can for the highest development of this whole land. And let us never forget that a great, civilized and Christian State is made and measured, not by its physical resources merely, not by its accumulated material wealth, but chiefly by the mental and moral stature of its inhabitants. _The best products and the richest resources of any State are in its crop of men._ If these, even on a sterile soil and under frowning skies, are liberal, large-hearted, industrious, patriotic and pious, they make of the desert a paradise, and amid the clefts of the rocks there may be rootage for great ideas. If everywhere, for a single generation, such a populace could have and hold possession of this planet, the old alien orb would shine so that the shortest-sighted angel could see it without a telescope, and the inhabitants of other worlds might intelligently covet it as a dwelling-place for the society which it would afford. But wealth without good society is worthless. That city might be a hell upon earth in which there were no churches and schools, though every man had a gold mine in one corner of his cellar and a diamond mine in another. Mexico, with its mountains streaked with silver, has but few attractions as the family residence of a man who cares to live out more than half his days, or who esteems it no luxury to live among an ignorant, bigoted and revengeful people. California to-day, with all its discovered treasures, could not be so safe or so attractive a place of residence as it was before those discoveries, but for the better class of enterprising, intelligent, honest, law-abiding citizens, who have come into possession of that land. Nor are political institutions, however desirable, of much practical worth, except as they are worked by men of moral principle, not for the selfish advantage of the few, but for the protection and enriching of all.