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Show classes" all the fruit of their toil save a moiety only sufficient to maintain in part their strength for further toil,' and then despise them for lacking I the refinements of life, which are only on-ly attainable under circumstances of cable to human need income form, and this increases actVal value; while commerce and thrpfofessi-ons" thrpfofessi-ons" are mainly occujfd with adjustment ad-justment andiiistributf n of values, and do far lessin the? direction of increase. For this reason, in ' all new and rural coinnnjaities especially, especi-ally, those pursuitrVhich deal most direclljrwl-tfle elements are most usefal and necessary. Agriculture, must become established establish-ed and profitable before manufacture manufact-ure cn be supplied with the needful need-ful "w material"; and manufacture manufact-ure mijbt become established and profitalie before commerce can con- , duce to' prosperity. It is exportand not import which makes a nation or a people wealthy; and those exports which represent the greatest amount of labor compared com-pared with the value of the raw material ma-terial used, ae the most profitable to the producer, because they give the greatest amount of paid employment employ-ment to the workers, and cause the least drain on elemental resources. For instance, a coal mine is a nat- ease and abundance! How pre-sumptious pre-sumptious it is for men who maintain exemption from physical labor to be a mark of superiority, and the habit or necessity of labor to be a badge I of inferiority, still to claim, grasp enjoy the benefits of laborl How just was Captain John Smith's rule that he who will not work shall not eat! The great majority of the adult population of Utah are producers, and have a wholesome respect for the skill and ingenuity expended in providing for the wants of humanity. H'e have no "higher" or "lower" classes, no tribes or families of hereditary he-reditary drones, no aristocracy of wealth and idleness; though we do not ignore the fact that the power to create or accumulate wealth is a mark of ability and a guarantee of I influence. We have been trained in a school of hard necessity; the lash of privation priva-tion has been applied sufficiently to convince us that labor is the true lever lev-er which moves the world. We had no other visible thing between us and grim-death when we came, a band of robbed, stripped and foot-sore refugees, to this dry inhospitable clime. We had neither gold nor costly raiment, neither houses nor lands, neither flocks nor herds; but we had our willing hands and resolute hearts; and with these, under Divine favor, we have worked miracles. None can deny that our common misfortune produced a sympathy and union in our midst which was a strong element in our success; and it follows that whatever will cause prosperity pros-perity will perpetuate prosperity. United effort, united sympathy, and rniiimiin inlcrost will snrt'lv secure ural source of profit, but it requires no preparation for market except digging and portage, The most of the profit from the export of coal is a direct drain on natural resources, which are not inexhaustible. On the contrary, the profit on the sale of hats, shoes, and woven fabrics is less for the material used, and more for the labor expended in its preparation, prepa-ration, ahlTrabor is an inexhaustible resource. It is clear that the sale of manufactured manu-factured goods is far more economical economi-cal and profitable to the seller than the sale of raw material. Now let us apply these incontrovert-able incontrovert-able facts to San Pete County. Our imports include every variety of articles ar-ticles from a pin to a steam engine, and from a muslin rosebud to a thousand-dollar piano. With a favorable climate and soil, vf imnnrfc-everv-tiound of oursucrar. common welfare, In a state of equality, whether it be high or "low," none can claim superiority of rights or privileges,and the advantages of education and cultivation are enjoyed by all in a nearly equal degree. Under such conditions, strikes and riots must remain re-main unknown; and the mental and physical energy thus wasted may be utilised in investigation, discovery, invention and the many peaceable and pleasant methods of further promoting and extending the public weal. It being conceded that all should be producers, and that this is an honorable condition, next comes I the , consideration of ways and means; end it must be admitted that those industries which most directly relieve human want should be ranked foremost. Since physical needs are most pressing and clamorous, agriculture agri-culture and all food-producing industries in-dustries take precedence. Farming, gardening.milling, canning, cooking, stockraising, salting, dairying, fishing, fish-ing, and sugarniaking are the roots from which branch out hundreds of valuable industries; most of which are adapted to our own little corner , j , ,j and the greater part of our molasses; even when superior home-raised honey is cheaper pound for pound. With unsurpassed mineral resources, we iinporf all our soda and saltpeter, and even fead and iron, With thousands thou-sands of sheep eating our ranges out by the roots and polluting our pure mountaw streams, we import at five hundred per cent, premium, woolen goods and even stocking yarn. We export our superior wheat whole, instead of first manufacturing it into flour and securing pay ior that amount of labor. We allow our young men to wander wan-der off to railroads and mines in search of employment, instead of establishing es-tablishing home industries to meet their needs. We doom them, too, to life-long dependence and hazard, by failing to equip them for the battle of life with a trade suitable to their tastes and talents, by means of which they may always command wages. And when our sons go abroad to seek employment, some of them never return, re-turn, but are swallowed up in the whirlpool of casualities; and then who ca compute our loss? Isit iuch better with our girls? True, they have a ceasless round of household duties which often prevents pre-vents them from discovering that they odcupy a dependant position; but many of them, through unsup-plied unsup-plied needs learn that they area burden bur-den on parent's hands. They too are high spirited and love to be independent; inde-pendent; and finding nothing at hand by means of which they may achieve their independance, they go where employment is to be. found; and there, for a mere pittance, they drudge away their bright youth, and run the gauntlet of the snares spread for the feet of innocence. Do we most need a railroad to drain our land of its natural nroduc- of the wide earth. Next in importance we may consider con-sider the manufacture of clothing, dwelling's, tools, implements, machinery, ma-chinery, books, furniture,arid all the varred aids and appliances of industry, indus-try, comfort and progress, Third comes commerce, the vast and complicated system of home and foreign exchange which is the only excuse for the existance of that thing of not real but ficticious fictici-ous value, which we call money. Something more portable and indestructible inde-structible than the bulky and often fragile articles of actual usefulness was deemed necessary for conveni- LABOR IS CAPITAL Written for th Register. In those days of labor strikes and trades-unions, of colossal fortunes and pinching want, in a land of prolific pro-lific elements and willing muscles, every man and woman has need to believe in the dignity of labor. Every Ev-ery person of sound mind has need to reflect on the causes of public prosperity or adversity, and the effective ef-fective means of promoting one and guarding against the other, The elements of the physical earth furnish all the crude material of which are compounded the necessaries necessa-ries of human life and comfort, and the luxuries and indulgences as well. Hew to crystallize from these crude elements the concrete substances needed for food clothing, habitations,, habita-tions,, etc.-, with the minimum of toil and suffering, and the maximum of comfort and enjoyment, is the true labor problem at least with us. Any system which tends to pour the fruits of the common toil into vast private storehouses, leaving a vacuum, or at least a dearth, over a I large surrounding area corresponding correspond-ing in want with the profusion in the other case, must certainly be a pernicious per-nicious system, liable to create social so-cial inequalities quite at variance with republican institutions. On the contrary, any system which tends to equalize the benefits derived from labor, neither surfeiting some nor famishing others, must be consider- ... j ence in barter; and coin was found a handy symbol to represent an approx imate amount of labor.cither already stored up in useful articles, or guaranteed guar-anteed as forthcoming on demand. All well so far; but ficticious values val-ues are so subject to fluctuations, that the world of commerce resembles resem-bles a storm-tossed ocean; while labor, the true measure of value, more resembles the firm and fruitful land. Money may be likened to a speculative boom and labor to a long period of substantial prosperity; money to a balloon or bubble, and labor to a loaf of bread, a spring of pure water or a thought that is alive. -' .' Every community of well-informed citizen must prefer the reality to the emblem, and give to labor, the wise teacher of self respect and independence, inde-pendence, the bountiful nurse of life and comfort, the noble mother of progress and achievement, its just due of respect and honof. - It is a pure and wholesome sentiment senti-ment that dependence, to any but infants in-fants and unfortunates, is degradation. degrada-tion. He or she who is willing to subsist on the labor of others and make no return, is a poor specimen of humanity; while he or she who aims with all diligence to keep the credit side of the column at least equal, enjoys that sense of freedom from undue obligation to others, tions, or the establishment of manufactories man-ufactories for working up our raw materials before exporting them? Are we wise in supinely watching our son's and daughters scatter to the four winds in search of employment employ-ment fnstead of providing for it at home? We do not wish to be understood as opposing the entrance of a railroad rail-road into our sylvan solitude, on the contrary we decidedly favor it; but we desire to point out the way to wise economy in exports. Let us aim to export plenty of labor and little material, and to import little labor and much" material. Every thoughtful person must admit that in this direction lies the profit. 1 In conclusion we assert that of all the raw material at our disposal, the most valuable is our sons and daughters. daugh-ters. Let us not throw them on the great mart of the world in the crude state, but manufacture every one of them into an artisan, equip each with a useful trade or calling, which will enhance their value a hundred per cent; and when we have done this, we'll keep them for home use, When we thus include our whole population in the ranks cf producers, produc-ers, M we still keep our society all in one grade, we shall have no need either to wish for booms or fear strikes; because we shall have secured secur-ed the conditions of permanent prosperity. ed a good system. This equalization of production and consumption, political status and social influence, can hardly be accomplished while a depraved public pub-lic opinion stigmatizes laborers as "The lower classes." What an outrage out-rage upon all the rules of justice it is for persons whose position and circumstances place within their power the shaping of events, to so direct them, either willfully or blindly, blind-ly, that they by whose exertion all things necessary iand desirable are won from nature shall be obliged to yield as tribute to "The upper that consciousness of filling a useful niche in society, which gives their possessor the frank smile, the open eye and dignified bearing of the true friend, the efficient aid, the substantial substan-tial citizen. -Who can doubt that the prosperity prosperi-ty of a commonwealth is only the aggregate ag-gregate of individual prosperity? and who can fail to understand that a community which are all producers is the only one sure of unchecked prosperity? What are called the mechanical pursuits.change by labor the crude materials yielded by land and sea into articles directly appli- |