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Show , HOME M AND FACT UBES, The Montana journals are agitating agitat-ing tho subject of manufacturing in the territory many of the articles that are now imported at an cxtravagaut cost. They usert that under the present system, financial ruin stares all classes, oxcept the miner, iu the face. The transportation expenses are necessarily high, and dealers' Drofita larce. and tho conseauence is I that the farmer and stock raiser have difficulty iu pulling through from one season to another. The Independent thinks that a woolen factory, tanneries, tan-neries, packing establishments, and other institutions for bringing into use the raw material, could bo successfully suc-cessfully operandi there, aud would be the means of lightening the bur. 1 dens of the hardworking, productive c 1.4 BSCS. The Heilild has ever been the friend and supporter of home manufactures. manu-factures. We believe that the natural resources of a country should be developed de-veloped and brought into use ; and further, that it is not good financiering financier-ing to purchase that with which you are abundantly supplied, or buy some' thing that you can make at a less or the samo cost that you would have to pay for it. We might go still farther in this direction di-rection and say that it would be the better policy to encourugo and support sup-port local industries, even though the primary cxpenso be greater than by following tho opposite course. Every factory, every dollar invented and employed for reducing, refining or! bringing into use the crudo resources of a country, make tho community, as a whole, so much wealthier and more independent; and every person who develops any of these resources is a benefactor, although, bin profits nmy pay him handsomely for his investment. invest-ment. Put the average man docs not look far into tho future, and we must deal with people as they are. If a person can get a belter article atone store than at another, for the same money, it would not be human nature to Belect the poorer. So with imported im-ported and home made goods. Tho best for the money will bo purchased. Utah has mado rapid strides in manufactures, man-ufactures, and now has something of a commercial standing in that respect; re-spect; but what success sho has achieved has been from merit, and by observing actual, fixed commercial laws. If an enterpriso has been started here on any other basis it has failed. It was a long time before a woolen factory in this country coulu be made to pay, lor the simple reason that tho cloth produced could not successfully compete with that imported, im-ported, either in quality or price. Now several woolen factories aro in successful operation, but their success is attributable solery to the fact that their goods will sell side by side with thoso made elsewhere. So it has bein and will be with every other productive pro-ductive or manufacturing industry indus-try here or abroad, and theorize and reason as much as we may, wo cannot change it. Say to the farmer, buy this plow, and to his wife, take this broom, and thus support and encour-ago encour-ago home industry, and they will ask if an imported plow and broom, of as good make, cannot be had for less monoy. Wo think that many articles used by the people of Utah, could and Bhould be produced in tho territory, terri-tory, but thero is no uho to attempt any great achievement in this direction direc-tion except on strict business principles. princi-ples. Wo should, so far as it is possible, pos-sible, supply our wants, from home resources, but in order to do this, local producers and manufacturers have to go into the field with their goods as legitimate competitors both as to aualitv and nrice. And as we increase in manufacturing we will proportionately gain iu prosperity, by giving employment to our own labor instead ot that of another state or country, retaining the profits of the trado in the community, avoiding the payment of high freight rates, and in making use of the gifts of nature with which this territory has been so abundantly provided. |