Show A rations nations Str strength engl ab from the articles appearing in leading landing western newspapers ong ona would believe that civilization depended alone on money the more money a nation produced accor according cling to their theory the more highly civilized would be the inhabitants that idea is wrong at tho bottom ol of all leading nations of the world today is manufacturing money alone alon 6 does not make a people great taki take spain for illustration history tells us that that country led out on gold producing conquests while england fostered manufacturing manufacturing at home the spaniards got gold galore and ac according cordin 9 to the theory that money is all that is needed to make a people highly civi civilized lizea spain should have led the world but mark the contrast spain is a pauper while the manufacturing country of the he 01 old world england is in the lead of all nations in that part of the globe the united states entered on a golden era when the gold mines of california were discovered millions of dollars were dug from theearta the earth but tha the yellow metal did not remain with us because our people were non producers of the common necessaries of life the gold mines of california benefited the manufacturers and laborers of great britian much mors more than the veople people of this country con and it will ever be so we may open the mists mints to free coinage of silver today and with free trade anit and the consequent evils to our home industries 3 not much benefit would bg be derived by the country at large free trade and free silver can never go hand in hand band and profit this country the pioneers of utah saw early the necessity nece edity of stimulating home industries for they saw that no matter how many dollars they lot from the had to import everything the conry conf y soon left the people it was therefore president brigham youngs policy to promote by public aid various home enterpriser enterprise i he believed it was better to pay a little to get fael factories tories started in our communities than to continue sending money away for imported gods and that policy conti continued ed common to all the people and was never questioned by any until the division on national party line kinei it took some thirty thousand dollars of public money to promote the sugar factory fa atory for instance end and men who afterwards became democrats voted tar for that bounty what that factory has done don for the people sugar declines a couple of cents per pound each year when the home product is placed on the market and tha freight ha hai 3 balleu from to 90 cents per hundred from the tha coast that decrease in freight rates b has alone saved the people about a hundred bundred and eighty then sand dollars and ana when the profit to th the people is com considered dered on oa the low price af sugar the factory has bas many tints t inia ini a ver over 0 paid for tb be e bounty it ft took to start it the money that it sets in circulation proves also the assertion of major mckinley that we need the opening of the mills much more than th an we need the opening of the he mints |