Show REPUB CATECHISM One More Chapter on That Misleading Mis-leading Document FULL OF MISSTATEMEHTS THE MORMOX DOCTRIAE OF HOME INDUSTRIES CONSIDERED There VVon Xo Political Policy as Intimated By the Republican Authors Au-thors of the Precious Document Sophistry Injected Into it Annihilated Anni-hilated By a Democratic Woman III a former paper I have examined questions o and 4 of this catechism The succeeding questions on to inter yteatory 16 inclusive relate to the ncial economic and industrial con iis and policies of the country at J i Question 17 introduces Utah aitairs her industries her policies and certain Items of legislation affecting affect-ing her material and educational Interests in-terests Before I consider questions of national policy and prosperity it is imperatively necessary to remove a glamour of misinterpretation and misrepresentation mis-representation that has grown up in the minds ot many people relative to I the import of Mormon eccleciastical teaching and policy on the subject of Home Industry Since the division movement was inaugurated in 189091 there has been a persistent effort on the part of Republican I Re-publican politicians to bolster up their political creed on the sayings and exhortations ex-hortations of Mormon teachers and I lelers both great and small Hence it is necessary to dissipate a large amount of the misapprehension result I Ing from this illadvised and illcon caved Republican home industry ere the people of Utah will be in a II condition of mind to look out upon the industries and economic policies of the I country without undue bias orpre posses ion I do not claim that there I has been real malice on the part of Republicans in first perverting the meaning of Mormon teachers and then invoking a supposed authority to enforce their constructions upon the people but I do think that there has been as excess of zeal without knowledge knowl-edge Pamphlets have been published an X widely circulated wherein quotations quota-tions from Mormon leaders were presented pre-sented these purporting to exhibit the political opinions of the speakei or ttfr 1fT ese tracts are disseminated as a confirmation and endorsement of the Republican doctrine of tariff protection protec-tion And oftentimes the people Ithout thinking of the origin of these quotations the connection in which t cy were spoken or written or their iey i meaning have been induced to be l 4 E that they meant what was claimed for them Hence the subject I of this paper is to expose what I regard re-gard as one of the most subtle and plausible impositions that has over I been practiced upon a too confiding l peonle I think it is safe to say that I there is not a line of the umerous I quotations from Mormon authorities on the subject of home industries hat has the significance or intent imposed im-posed upon it by those who sever it from its religious connection as a matter mat-ter of applied Christianity and use it to substantiate a political doctrine All such expressions I believe to be Independent Inde-pendent of protection and free tr j tf as items of national party pol iryi Not only are they independent of I such national policies but they are I equally friendly and equally Jjostile to both protection and free trade I will now give a sample of the quotations that I allude to and it must be noted that I quote such language lan-guage as refers to Utah its institutions institu-tions and the duties of its people in a former period as understood and taught by its leaders at that time And it must be further noted that these questions are the same that have I been used by Republican politicians to nforce their party creed After reciting dUng them I will give what I conceive j con-ceive to be their true interpretation and piirnificance I i PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG Do you remember that when you cane here ten years ago you were instructed in-structed that every facility which we enfold need was here in the elements Tfmt the gold silver and iron were in jbsc mountains That the wool the t13tx the silk the cotton and everything > essary to sustain man were in the fjinents around us It is for the people to go to and develop the re sources surrounding us Sugar starch and glue are the chief ingredients in the sustenance of man The saccharine sacch-arine matttv is in everything that grows Here We have all Iho material for keep ing the body and as to clothing we can produce as good wool here as they can in any part of the world but we must have the sheep to do so And we must sow flax and plant cotton and manufacture cotton and linen cloth January 17 1S5S Journal of Dis 1 courses Volume VI page 172 We have contended long to con vince the people that they nust be 1 come selfsustaining We have raised j Jiemp flax cotton and silk all of the I J best quality We can make ropes and I I sacking and cotton silk and woolen goods a abundance We have the J I elements to combine them There is I i not a better country in the world to 1 produce wool than in this mountain I country f the sheep are properly taken I care of Then why not from this day J I begin to sustain ourselves and cease feeding and clothing those who wish I us no good and giving them our money for that which is comparatively worth less I lessIf If we say we will sustain ourselves and be independent of foreign produc tion and a foreign market let the whole community at once become a union this point by forthwith beginning begin-ning to supply themselves with the necessities of life produced in our mountain home What do you say Shall we make ourselves clothing from Ttah flax frm Utah cotton from Clan silk from Utah wool and wear cloth from Utah looms or go without We must learn to think for our eelves and know for ourselves and provide for ourselves We can here produce any amount of the raw ma terial and we are importing machinery and shall continue to do so until we shall be victorious over the traditions and customs which oppose themselves to our becoming selfsustaining and independent Fr6m the beginning I fcave Driven to got men to bring ma fj2 i1J Into the country to get them 4Rral ijc slieep and wool have the wool w tm < 0 made Into cloth and then wear it Who has followed my example in this June 7 1S63 Journal of Discourses Volume X pages 2012345 We wish to introduce into this community manufactures and manufacturing I manu-facturing so thoroughly that the people peo-ple will consider themselves under obligations ob-ligations to feed and clothe themselves them-selves October 1SGS J of D Vol XII Page 299PRESIDENT PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR We are bringing in here all kinds of things that we ought to be making ourselves My opinion is that with home labor properly directed we shall have all the bread butter cloth hats bonnets shawls and everything that we need April 19 1874 J of D Vol XVII Page 50 PRESIDENT WIDFORD WOODRUFF WOOD-RUFF We send many large quantities of wool abroad instead in-stead of using it in our own mills and import goods of outside manufacture instead of making them at home How long will it be before we are poor and our territory drained of all the money we can raise if we continue this We should not send out our wool to be manufactured in the states and then pay our money for cloth brought from there here Where are our wool growers What are they thinking about when they do this We should keep our wool at home manufacture this wool into cloth buy and pay for the cloth and support home manufacture manufac-ture April 7 1873 J of D Vol XVI Page S3 S3LORENZO LORENZO D YOUNG Instead of only 800 sheep there ought to have been 8000000 If all men had used the exertion that some few have there would have been sheep enough to have clothed this whole people from year to year Were it not for home manufacture manu-facture I would expect to go without clothing December 13 1857 J of D Vol VI Page 213 HEBER C KEMB ALL Will the time ever be that we will make our own clothing I would like to see the people peo-ple take a course to make th 4r own clothing make their own machinery their own knives and their forks and i everything else we need November 26 1854 J of D Vol II Page 156 JOSEPH F SII1 HOur manufactories manufac-tories should be fostered patronized and protected and their staple wares sought after and preferred by the people even though they were more costly at first It needs no argument to prove to the sagacious and farseeing far-seeing that this policy will pay the best in the end When we can produce pro-duce what we need by our own industry indus-try and skill we cease to import and we approach independence April IS 1879 J of D Vol XX Page 36GEORGE GEORGE A SMITH Why send abroad for our cloth when we have the necessary skill and means to manufacture it for ourselves our-selves Why not let these mountains moun-tains produce fine wool If we continue to import our hats bonnets boots shoes and nlnthlnir rfl si > nri away all the gold and all that we can command to pay for them we shall ever remain dependent If on he ether hand we devise means to produce j them from the elements by our own labor we keep our money at home and it can be used for other and nrre noble purposes and we become independent inde-pendent May 6 1870 J of D Vol XIV Page 14In i In order to form an idea of the import I im-port and significance of these quota tions take the language of Brigham Young for instance and let it stand in connection with the personal exhortations exhorta-tions that he used to make to the people peo-ple wherever he would go as may be distinctly remembered by multitudes of persons that have not yet reached advanced age and by all the older people who gave attention to such matters He would say We must build up our home industries we must not be idle we must cultivate our natural na-tural resources we must not depend upon others for the supply of our wants we must be independent and selfsupporting In order to carry out his thought he would define himself more fully and show how the people must be provided with work in order to earn a living He would often mention men-tion the name of some individual present pres-ent and say There is Brother A he has made money out of this people let him now make return to this people let him start a factory of some kind and give employment to the people W have sheep and w ollet him build a woolen mill We have grain let him > build a flouring mill We have an abundance of hides and material for ffiiininzr tot him ostnhlicVi tan nery and shoe factory let him invest his money in such a way that will help i to make this people independent It I was in this way in a great variety of I language that Brigham Young taught the duty and importance of building up home industries And in this same spirit and in almost the same worJs the other leaders quoted above j spoke to the people They all believe and teach the same things in substance I j sub-stance home industry selfhelp mutual mu-tual cooperation a sharing with the i j people the increase of wealth that individuals j in-dividuals have acquired and indepen j I I dence of foreign supplies I will now I i state my understanding of the import j I and bearing of these instructions I i First Brigham Young speaking in 1S58 says that ten years previous the people were instructed as to self I support and the development of their I native resources When the Mormon people came to Utah the territory was i I not 1 a part of the United States The period was one of low tariff reaching I from 1S46 to 1SG1 There was no agitation I agita-tion on the subject of the tariff in the United States SecondIn all these exhortations as to home industries and home support sup-port there was no thought of low tariff or high tariff protection or free trade There was no thought of any government policy whateverthat is there was no thought of any other earthly government than our own Brigham Young and his associates believed be-lieved that the kingdom of God had been established on the earth and I should be built up here in Utah All his teachings as to industry independence I indepen-dence selfsupport and development of resources were given on the basis of religious duty He believed In cooperation I cooper-ation and sought throughout his life to have the people attain a condition of Christian communism It was in this view that he sought to establish the United Order that prevailed for a time in some parts of this territory ThirdNote throughout the foregoing forego-ing quotations the distinction sharpl drawn between the home people anr the pebple abroad between the Uta I people and the people of the states The former must be Independent or I the latter Utah people must support home industries even though the pro ducts cost more than those imported from the states This doctrine is communistic one It is equally friendh I and equally hostile to high tariff lor tariff and free trade It is not a po litical doctrine at all in the true sense but a matter of Christian cooperation I If there were a high tariff it would L not favor the purchase of goods in I New England and if there were a low tariff or free trade it would not favor the purchase of goods in Great Britain It is independent of all tariffs and of all regulations of commerce It makes no difference v hat the commercial policy of the government is it recommends recom-mends that supplies be produced at home out of home resources All that should be brought from abroad is machinery ma-chinery with which to manufacture the necessaries of life Fourth A protective tariff on foreign goods is for the purpose of enhancing I the price of foreign products so that home manufacture will be encouraged by a control of the home market But I Brigham Young had no thought of keeping goods out of the country by enhancing their price by means of taxation tax-ation What he thought about was a cooperation of labor and capital in Utah so that the people should manufacture manu-facture their own products and consume i con-sume them as remuneration of labur j I and capital It made no diffe eucp to his plan whether the tari vas pn hibitory protective or regulative j whether it was a revenue tana or pure free trade All were the same to him I so far as his plan of cooiieracion was concerned And what Brigham Yung believed and taught in hat earlier day I > the rest of the Mormon l aoers have l I i believed and taught lloma industries independence selfaupoon development develop-ment of native resources all thes are enjoined without any reference whatever what-ever to protection or free trll e IXT the policy of the national government They would not buy home supples in New England or Old England no difference dif-ference what the taritf might be Doubtless the prevailing motive for the building up and maintenance of home industries was the cooperative principle of practical religion out there were also other causes that sometimes some-times operated with intense power such as the belief that the Mormon people would eventually he cut off from tnt outside world and from their sources I of supply and be left dependent upon I themselves for the means of subsistence I subsis-tence hence the great need of home industries that they might be self sufficient and selfsustaining I am now ready to consider the answer to question 17 as follows 17 What has been the unvarying political policy of the leaders whose genius has developed the resources of Utah Answer Protection for home industries First There was no political policy as above indicated This is the sophistry sophis-try that Republican politicians have injected into this question They were at the time alluded to religious leaders lead-ers The people were included in the kingdom of God on earth The policy was the method of cooperation coopera-tion It is true as the answer states that the policy was one of protection for home industries But that protection protec-tion was just as much against New England as Old England That protection pro-tection consisted in buying home products pro-ducts consuming them no difference whether they cost more or less than foreign goods In other words there was no politics whatever in the industrial in-dustrial policy of Brigham Young and his successors that is no politics as we understand the word There is an applied Christianity and that is i what Brigham Young would have called his doctrine of supporting home Industry Second I conclude that Republican leaders have either knowingly or unconsciously un-consciously greatly misled the people as to the meaning and intent of Mormon Mor-mon teachings There has been a persistent per-sistent effort to foist upon the people a certain political theory as being the meaning contained in the teachings of Mormon leaders They have used the words of religious teachers to enforce a political theory which was utterly foreign to the mind of the teacher who originally uttered the injunction to support home industries This meant cooperation and not tariff whether high or low The time must soon come when the people will see and understand such sophistry and I deception and then these political workers will receive the contempt and neglect which their deceptive practice I richly entitles them to Let politicians teach the true science of government and no longer seek to build their cause on a perverted interpretation of the words of earnest men who were sincerely sin-cerely endeavoring to know the truth and to build up a great commonwealth in the valleys of the mountains I am acquainted with people who are disposed to be industrious and thrifty and who manufacture different articles of clothing by their own labor and have heard them say We are Republicans Re-publicans because we believe in home industry We believe in supplying our I own wants as far as possible We dont use anything from abroad that can be made in Utah In the name of truth has it come to this That plain home industry is to be called Republicanism Is the industry that supplies home needs without any thought or care of tariff high or low without any intent to purchase goods from abroad whether dear or cheap is that to be called Republicanism Are the exhortati ms of the Mormon teachers to be industrious and self supporting to be helpful of one another an-other and cooperate in the gospel is this to be called Republicanism What perversion What sacrilege Why christen the common industries and duties of life with a name so faithless and false Why usurp religious counsel coun-sel and pervert it to such sordid political polit-ical uses Why steal the livery of heaven to serve the demon of misguided mis-guided partisanship The man who works and with his family tolls to supply the wants of home and the I needs of the community without reference ref-erence to tariffs high or low and all people who determine to provide for their own wants and sustain their own industries without regard to outside supplies whether cheaper or dearer all such people evince the very highest order of democratic independence and if they have a name at all in politics they are Democrats and not Republicans Republi-cans and such is the clear teaching of every principle and precedent that has obtained recognition in American politics poli-tics since the landing of the Pilgrims In the history of the world has there ever been a people so beguiled and imposed im-posed upon as to believe that simple home industry and selfsupport and independence should be christened Republicanism Re-publicanism The misnomer is too ap parent for discussion EMILY S RICHARDS |