Show OF VITA IMPOETANCE The following address was read by B F Grant and received with the heartiest applause The sentiments expressed were most thoroughly endorsed en-dorsed by the bureau What is necessary to compel the citizens of Utah to do something besides be-sides talk and get them to act on matters mat-ters of vital importance to every man woman and child throughout the entire en-tire territory When Brigham Young was alive he repeatedly told the people of Utah that they had all the material necessary to make them of the most make one te prosperous and independent communities on earth if they would only make use of the material ma-terial that nature had placed at their disposal If such is the disposl case something some-thing must be radically wrong or we would not now have so many able bodied men appealing to us for a few days work so they might earn enough to buy flour for their half starved families Men that know nothing but work men that are not asking alms but a few honest days labor Now let us make a practical Illustration Illustra-tion of why we find ourselves in our I present financial condition Say for example the mines in Utah produce 50000 per month This Is new money dug from the ground but say in producing pro-ducing this amount it takes 50000 worth of goods and instead of producing pro-ducing them a we did the dollars we send east and they are Imported Now when they are paid for we have 50000 worth of goods but the east has our 50000 new dollars Now as our mines are all closed down and we must import im-port the same amount of goods a when they were being worked we find ourselves short of the amount required to pay for these goods but we must have them or we cannot exist and with j this showing we are compelled to send I east to the manufacturers we have been I sending our money to for years and years and beg of them to make us a loan of 50000 secured by a trust deed I on all we have on earth and when we I have secured this loan we are compelled com-pelled to return it east to pay for these gods we have just imported Now I you can figure out for yourselves what your borrowing capacity is and then yO will know just how long it will take for the east to own you body and soul Say we patronize and build up home Industries and manufacture these goods at home What would the result then be Our merchants would pay 50000 to the home factories which in turn would pay i to the different firms furnishing them their material and to their employees Now the hands employed in producing the ma terial added to those employpd In the factories would all buy their goods from our local merchants and pay for them with the same money the merchants mer-chants paid to our local factories In this way we have furnished employ ment for our now idle men in maiu facturlng 50000 worth of goods we have paid for these goods and still have our 50000 in Utah Do you think I that a community with as much intel I ligence as is found in Utah would require I re-quire any stronger argument 1 any 1 plainer statement of facts to impress on their minds now and for all time al i I to come the absolute necessity of build Ing up and patronizing home industry and using nothing that is Imported imprted that can be manufactured at home I doubt very much if the idle men of this territory who when given a days I i work and earned a dollar have ever I given this matter serious thought enough so that when they gp to the store they do not buy the imported goods instead of the home manufac tured Now is the time to stop and reflect and then act Let there be a public appeal made to every citizen in this territory and let the appeal be so genera gen-era that we would feel ashamed to let 1 our neighbors or friends ee us buying or using an imported article when a similar one Is manufactured at home I appeal to the ladies and say do not send to the store and say send me a I pair of shoes a yard of flannel a pair of hose a bar of soap a broom ten r pounds of sugar and in ending this order to leave It to the discretion of the te merchant what to send but demand of him with a great big D home made articles and take no other ad mae i you receive imported return them to him and i he does not carry them go to the one who does Merchants from the country in order Ing their goods from the wholesale house should use this same plan and specify that so far as possible they desire the home manufactured goods By all making a united effort in carry ing out this plan in one year you would find a city of smoke stacks and all OU men boys and girls working in factories and our financial condition would be flourishing and prospering Will we all unite in doing this and will we do it right now Now is the golden opportunity Never in the history his-tory of Utah was there such a demand for a united action on this subject a at present I that the present say governor and mayor of Salt Lake city should call a mass meeting and that the mayor o every city in Utah should follow their example and appeal to every citizen in this territory t consider con-sider himself chosen as a committee of one to carry out this plan Appealing Appeal-ing to all royal citizens to give their support in this important and worthy I dustries move I am for Utah and her home in |