Show home industry A democratic contemporary refers to a carpet weaver in a northern county who has baat built a new loom and acks for the patronage of am neighbors and this contemporary yaya that is the kind of biome manufacture that was found all over utah twenty live to forty years ago and those who weri i engaged in it then thought no m ro of protection to their than the man in the moon that is not the truth even whit neya history tells us differently it says that at brigham youngs angles tion appropriations were made by the legislature to encourage the local manufacturing interests he also asked for protective legislation to foster the infant industries the early laws of utah confirm that statement the legislature made appropriations for iron works for the production of powder for the opening of coal mine for premiums on homemade home made woolen goods etc there was hardly an industry of any importance that did not receive state aid there might have been sone carpet weavers of coure cour e who got no bau the manufacturing interests generelly received tho aid we have mentioned and what did that policy do for utah it made the people practically ade fc the cheap goods from thy eabe came in and tho people got ti 0 proud to wear bauit nido c 0 cwg cherp was not a luo ng d home in al IM of utah and everyone had work raft cry wa wai i not arr something to do but for rest from the work that crowded itself upon tb people they had more work than they knew hew to accomplish they also had money every dollar was not sent out of the territory thin for imported goods the mines dd nol yield ai much precious metal as in after years but what bidet into the handa of the people remained with thorn longer and if policy oi i patronizing home industries had continued aba people when pros bority did come they donld havo been the most independent people in america today to day home industry is whit must briner prosperity in the future and state encouragement will have to ba liven to conr home manufactures that has always been the mormon policy it continued with the peoples party until it dissolved the last bounty waa twenty live thousand dollars to start a million dollar sugar industry saving the people for circulation here at home a quarter of a million dollars evey year every citizen who stops to think will eay that was a good investment and that same policy in tha future will civo us more such home industries |