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Show Home Manafacture. Ji!ors II r,il i : I presume yon are getting about lind of this subject, but its importance import-ance must be my excuse for intruding upon your space. There seems to be a deep seated prejudice among our merchants against home manufacture. manufac-ture. Ti ey appear to think that it will interfere with their business and ruin their trade. Now, for the life of , me, I cannot understand why they should feel so. For instance, if you joould get home ruanutaeiured paper here of as good quality and as cheap twjuu tu get ii east or weai, huuiu it not be to your interest to purchase here instead of importing it? It cloth, blankets, boots and shoes, ma-chiuery, ma-chiuery, nails or any other article. iTl-io iiiAuufactuicJ "lioe, anil not inferior to tho imported and no dearer, what ditlerence would it make to the merchant? The profits are what he is after. It seems to me that he would gatu by the change,because there would be more money in the country to buy with, and business men must know that while the country coun-try is financially drained, business must suffer. Why, then, this eternal hue aud cry against home manufactures manufac-tures 1 Is ii original with the "Mormons" "Mor-mons" to take steps for self-protection ? Is there anything unconstitutional unconsti-tutional about it? anything in the: organic act against it ? I think not. California is doing everything in its and successfully loo? A e Califor- nians any the less citizens of the United Slates for doing so ? Not ! much. In fact il would be the sal-i vation of the United Stales, if, as a1 uation we would import less audi manufacture more. While thous- ands of our laboring men are at starvation's star-vation's doer, we are paying for the labor of England, France and Germany, Ger-many, aud the came may be said ot us a territory. Our labor is going idle while wo are employing people in Boston to make our boots aud shoes: with mountains of iron and our mechanics me-chanics unemployed, we are hiring meu and boys in the east to make our, nails, stoves, etc.; wuh as tine a' country lor wool raising as cau be I wished tor, we send to Scotland tor I tweeds aud to California for our blankets. Will any sane nun say-that say-that this is common sense ? 1 therefore there-fore make the assertion that home industry in-dustry is the only solid foundation for prosperity and the only panacea Vr bad times; aud that it would be to the interest of all our merchauis if the territory wero self supplied with those articles that cau be manufactured manufac-tured here. D. |