Show BIRD BIBB USES MAY HILP HEIP OAR of 01 course we all feel more or less blue bine to read of wheat reaching the lowest fi figure in tho the chicago market ever aver reached of wool being hardly marketable of silver still declining of banks failing by the dozen overy every day and hundreds of business busi aasa house bouse i collapsing such a condition of affairs have not existed in the united states since the days clays of wildcat wild cat banks depressed currency and free trade when the democrats were in power some come thirty years or more ago but bub ahila we deplore or more properly Dro perly deeply regret the sad plight into which our once prosperous roua country has beon bean plunged THE esquibia EsQUiB sa believes good will come from the trying ordeal great financial crises en sea in the last east invariably depress us because our people have become becomes ss utterly at the mercy of eastern merchants and manufacturers once a thousand miles of wilderness separated the people of utah from other civilized communities and our fathers and mothers were thrown upon their own resources for obtaining food and clothing those hardy bardy pioneers that they ald a foundation deep in wisdom and broad in economic principles on which we should have ahey raised their own flocks sheared their own fleeces spun their own yarn wove their own cloth and made the their ii own wearing apparel their y was at first primitive our oar mothers did the carding and spinning by candour han band dour our fathers made the looms and the spinning spin nin wheels wheelis from the native pines of our mountains of course the products were necessarily ilk crude but there was that sweet cow fort in hc owed not one cent for them and under that system our people prospered most marvelously they abay all owned their homes free of debt and mortgage incumbrances finally they operated cooperated co and hauled across the plains with ox teams improved improve ed machinery for our growing lionie mi e industries A cotton factory was built at washington in the extreme southern portion of the ha territory and a colony sent there to aise cotton woolen mills were established at provo at brigham city at beaver at kingston at orderville Or derville a at springville Spring ville anti and perhaps other loang towns no noi remembered the people bogan making more beautiful woolens wo and missionaries who went from hereto here to england in the region where the best cloth in the world was woven abro not ashamed ashima a of their homespun one min man went into yorkshire York shira factories wearing a suit anit made from provo goods ani lie said the men of the mills were simply astonished at and being told that it was waa manufactured away out in utah said the foreman of a mill we make no better cloth here though ours is a little finer finished it is not as honest material but a change came upon utah gradually our home ellla rai alls were neglected ready made clothing of poor material was shipped ship in from the east by the hundreds of tons and the people bought those imported suits because the prica prica 71 was below that for which a homemade home made mado suit euit could be purchased finally our mills shut down and we wont to work ra raisins ising raw material for the tha east and importing everything we have been carrying this suicidal policy to an r ua extent tons upon tons of pork have been brought in and consumed by our people at a high price while our oar farmers bins were running over oter with grain raid that could not be sold thousands aDds of mas cases of canned trait fruit have bee beba i imported while every fall we wa allowed thousands of tons of fruit to rot in our rich orchards the people got a abort sort of mania for bryin buy ing every everything thing a at and igneri ignoring g our own home hom e products we have been following that craze until last year we F made ado less than four fobe millions of dollars dolf of manufactured products here at home and imported over twenty millions dollars worth to ro keep seep up the incessant drain men mortgaged mortgage d their homes and cities bonded io 10 I 1 I 1 eastern Vi stern capi capitalists taliM S today we fe are woe fulir oppressed 0 1 because fin ab 1 chully 1 the east is ie being beang rippled crippled I 1 |