Show The Question of the Hour It is to be boped that the interest now manifested in the cause of home industries will not be allowed to die out In saying this we do not intimate inti-mate that the promoters of the present pres-ent movement to stimulate business are likely to become weary in well doing and allow it to go by default We believe they are sincere and earnest in their purpose and that they will preserve and succeed in accomplishing something But there havo been similar agitations before in the history of Utah and the mischief is that though they started with excellent intentions and promising opportunities op-portunities most of them amounted to little inthe way of actual results We do not think any of them were altogether in vain They all served in their time to stir up the public mind and direct it to I possibilities and some good effects were I produced if they were not of a gigantic f character If nothing more grows out of the present pres-ent effort than a general determination to buy and use home produced articles in preference to importations when they fill a 0 0 L the demand that will be a praiseworty 1 and paying result When Utah goods are I equal in quality and price or nearly S so to the imported articles Utah I people ought certainly to give them the preference This not only as a matter of principle but on economical grounds For whatever tends to build up home industries in-dustries benefits the community and therefore is of value to the individuals I who compose the cctomunity I What is needed however is the commencement com-mencement some practical industry that will give employment to labor and develop one or more of the resources of the Territory Terri-tory The talk and the organization and the resolutions are all right There is nothing to besaid against them There is no fault to be found with the gentlemen gentle-men engaged in the praiseworthy endeavor I en-deavor to stir up trade and prevent business busi-ness stagnationn or with the method I which they have adopted to reach that desirable de-sirable end But the fact remains that I there is something to be done besides all that Some enterprise will have to be started which will be an object lesson in itself A selection will have to be made a company com-pany organized money subscribed material ma-terial procured competent managers and workmen engaged and operations commenced com-menced in very deed That will take I more than all the eloquent speeches that can be uttered and be of more force than I all the schemes that appear simply on j paper What shall be the practical project pro-ject and who will take the lead in starting i j it That is the question of the hour I |