Show I 1 GOME AND manuras TURES along about thanksgiving Tanks giving or christmas time the tribune wiled called attention atte tion to the fact that turkeys were being imported into salt lake in large quantities and later that evaporated fruits of the kind indigenous jo to tile the s soil 0 il and climate of utah were being imported from california and finding ready sale not long fin ce THE JOURNAL spoke of the importation of green ap les at a cost of four and ahall a balf dollars a barrel other state papers are taking the matter up in relation to this iosub subject the salina press truthfully remarks every year we send rend to the 1 eastern as markets thousands of hogs and sheep cheep and cattle every year y ear we ire receive from the eastern markets whole train loada of dressed beef and mutton thousands of bushels of frail t rotin rot in our orchards we eat eastern dried apples and peaches and pumpkins pumpkin ever every y year we raise a surplus of oits oils we get out oatmeal oat meal from new york and ohio we lay buy cheese and canned goods and vinegar and soap boap and molasses and w wickey and linseed oil and paints and and matches and clot clothing bing in the markets all can be produced in utah there is oom something ronie lhing ething wrong wrong about the abole business utah can an never become a great elate so BO long as her people spend their wealth to build up industries in states catt of the Mis missouri Louri river river more than anything 0 else utah needs manufacturing industries she will never have them until her people change their ways logan a does doea not purchase eastern beef mutton or turkeys but while our farmers in the fall sell their hogs aggs at a discouragingly low figure ou on foot eastern hams and bacon are on sale bile in our butchers shops and stores tit at a high price the same eanie story is told in ia reg regard ard to our fruit our sun dried plums peaches and apples sell at from four to six cents per pound and evaporated fruits from california are selling in the same market at fifteen cents oar potatoes sell at from fifteen to twenty five cents per bushel and we pay ten cents a pound for starch green apples are told bold fur fifty cents a bushel and before i tpring pring we are paying nearly that price per dozen for importe apples the trouble with the ham bacon and fruits seems to be that we dont know how hoir to cure them properly therefore they do not command the highest price our own green apples are not carefully pi picked clied assorted and packed and therefore do not keep or sell as well as eastern apples canned fruits cheese vinegar and other articles named by the press wo we import when we should be exporters our capitalists do not seem decem anxious to invest their money in manufacturing ring industries that would greatly assist in rendering us more completely independent t and self supporting although there is apparently a large c aud and profitable field for or the investment ot of capital nor are the people entirely th oly bla blameless for this condition of affair for home manufactures hive have not generally met the support to which they aro are entitled we can purchase excellent utah cloth shoes soap poap vi vinegar washboard wash boards 8 brooms and very rainy other articles but unless they are both su BU in quality and much cheaper in price we dont want them home industry has been preached lk in this state slate ever since the arrival of the pione pioneers ers but for some gome reason it coesta beem to take root in the hearts of the people it hai be been en suggested in addition to the many other reasons given for tb tha support of home industry that one of the most effective leleon 3 ahat that can be given the east in rega rd to the strength 11 of the silver sentiment ment in the west is to cease importing their manufactures fac tures and as ag far as we are able manufacture what we consume ourselves itis it is certai certainly a sensible f acono economic M i lc proposition orl fron from whatever point it is viewed viewed and from the ono one named pe perhaps I 1 blips doubly so a as s would enable us to a great degretto degre elto eto overcome the he disadvantages the single standard has placed us under ufer |