| Show I 1 STILL LUNY for sonio time a lunatic up tip street lias ins been arguing that thai the mines of ill is tor ter aliory added very little to its balth inasmuch as some of the dividends were soul sent away ay wo have showell showed that aliat because ot of them item the saints got rich that because bertai s a of them tho the price of their products d I 1 acts have doubled and quadrupled in ill va value ue that without them thoy they would mould have live no market ail and in reply this lu cialle copies from fr tho 1 I abstract ab tract 0 of f the ho united states that tho the prices tor for firm farm products have bavo really greatly fallen binco 1873 1878 that Is a Iio case tho the v aholo holts argument was in relation to utah 1 I 1 lie ho whole burden of at tile statement on our sido side was to show that in an kolatos country abere thero there was mas no natural market because of tile mines tho the farm ors in ili tills this territory have been ablo able to obtain increased prices tor for their products and in reply this lunatic copies from tile statistical abstract of tho the united states for 1889 1689 tho the export price of var various lovis farm art arll clo of course cours thero there is no answer to such work as that finally tho the lunatic has a curiosity to know who tho the mormon lady Is vi who is able to reverse oil oft hand a NEWTON or a every old mormon lady that brings vegetables and butter butler end aud chickens hero will confirm the story and tile tho trouble with alth our lunatic Is that they talk exactly to the point while his bis attempted of tho the theories of and it co to the conditions existing in utah does not apply in the least the tha old ladles ladies know that they can sell their chickens and butter arid and eggs for money and can buy what they want with that money they know that before the gentiles came and the mines wore opened they could not got money for those things that they all were so miserably poor that lito life was a burden and all their trade amounted to 10 a little petty barter tile the only moral to tho the whole business is that our lunatic I 1 instead of studying and douht to bo compelled a butter and egg wagon for a oar ear until ho learns what tho the difference Is in a an isolated community between money and truck the lesson would mould last lim him all his life but as 05 a finality un allty of courso course the public las has not tailed failed to perceive tile tho real grievance Is that ill a t the mines dont pay tithing that Is why the church writer thinks they areef are of no benefit to utah |
