| Show GREAT SALT LAKE CITY wean wednesday i eidl V 7 lannary lannary 30 1856 56 C HONOR sor NOR TO WHOM whon hoon hoon hoor upon returning after arter a short sojourn at the capital ME WE and shall not all the ibe readers of the tha news most cordially tender our thanks to to hon ron elias smith forthe for the promptness with which he consented to conduct the ills paper during our absence and for the energy skill and ability displayed in tile the punctual issue and pra praiseworthy 1 ise lse worthy management thereof remarks for the considerate being much interested in tile the subject brief briefly discussed by judge smith in in no 45 of th the eNet ners News s under the blead head hard illard times 1 and fully aware that many would operate to better advantage e provided they fully understood the tha method by which they tiley would be able so to do a few reflections may not be amiss having no market to depend upon for the sale of or surplus to any considerable extent and obliged as yet to import to a large amount for which cah cash aiono alono wilf wiit wih wib be taken ili in exchange utah has undergone a constant drainage of money until that tint article is becoming scarce thus refi rendering derin deriD it difficult i to procure those imported articles which tho the stores bring being in for sale what is to be done under the thi circumstances 7 Is it beat to forthwith undertake to carry on the necessary y public business sin ess to brov provide I 1 I 1 e for all pressing wants and ana reasonably desirable and healthful comforts comfort and pe pleasing asing instructive and useful adornments tilro i resources 44 u ocies readily readill at 4 probably pabla not fro from ri die dle the fa c fth rth a t court course e would produce erious serious retardation of public and private imp improve rove ments meats and tend huchto inu chlo the inconvenience ence 0 9 the he people but there is a medium channel in which to run ran a line of which will doubtless prove far more more beneficial than at once depending entirely upon skill in combining the native elements or in pursuing the mode heretofore and still so I 1 much practiced neat cattle horses and mules are held here at about the same rates that they are on the tile frontiers or in california thereby cutting off that profitable outlet for stock which had bud begun to aid us in keeping up the balance of trade and leaving large numbers to increase without constant profitable employment and too often without proper care as is evidenced by so manya dying ding ter through want v lit rit of food and shelter still it does not follow even from present circumstances ceso that the stock ra seris iseris to abandon his ins occupation or to allow extensive and excellent herd berd grounds to waste their luxuriant vegetation but would it not be wise to put forth more care and exertion exertion 1 providing for the few sheep now ili in possession and in increasing their number cumber not only by properly caring for those unhand on hand band but by the importation of breeds having the choicest choices points and qualities this alone will lay a per manent foundation for manufacturing all our woollen goods will provide employment for many persons now less profitably occupied prevent 1 a great drainage of those means which are the most difficult to procure and above all materially ma bially assist in shortening the tiie period of dependence op a distant market and hasten the time when the comfort and adornment of our persons will be e accomplished complis hed had by the work I 1 0 ouri ours our own hands lands I 1 not that such is not already the ase ease so far a as woollen clothing is bought and paid for but it is mainly I 1 bought and arid paid paid laid for in markets from which there 1 is s no of the cash paid out ont and whose artisans arti are not sustained ned from the products of utah then it follows that unless more attention iolli is is paid ild iid to sheep raising many of our wives and daughters will continue to ba be shorn of the tiie privilege of making our homes resound with the tiie music of pr tb the wheel and lo 10 loom om and of heing the i bright eyed children of the mountains cad ead c ad in comfortable and durable homespun while the faiers are every nerve to pay for cali call coes and aid at this season season beason of tile the year still sti 11 more trashy articles bou bought abt at the stores therefore raise and take care of all the sheep you can and aud thal that too without any fear of overstocking over stocking the market mariet with wool or rA mutton ait at least leaa for quite guite a time to come As to leather and the articles manufactured Jen jennings winder and perhaps others have at last struck out upon a commendable comm dable a and n d correct principle and are advertising verti ver sing slug better leather boots all home bome made at atthe the same rate and even u under ilder that which like imported goods are sold for and will take their pay in ili hides bides skins bark and all kinds of sf produce a kind of pay which w bich alch cannot be taken j at the stores only to a very limited extent ex tent bf bp 1 cluse they cannot remittances therewith therewith in a recent trip I 1 we I 1 noticed many lit I 1 tie children baTe bare barefooted footed 1 during the inci inclemency 1 of 1 winter doubtless not bot from any want of ot affection 1 or prudent prudant for forethought 1 et hought bought on the part of the parents but they had not tile the money to spare I 1 for forthal that I 1 j purpose nud and fhe file tannery are not yet able to supply I 1 I 1 th the a entire demand I 1 I 1 I 1 py what policy does wisdom dictate in this matter Is it best to continue to encourage importation to blindly trust to providence for rhone money and let our mechanics follow less congenial and less les ies useful usa occupations for a livelihood or rather is it not better to use a little more of the abundant bone hone and ind sinew to tile the development of which I 1 utah is so congenial in preserving k tile the greatest 1 number of bides and skins in the preparation of bark suitable for tanning and in rai ral raising shiL those abose products which will wili ba be received in exchange for articles that will make your ilae liua ones far more comfortable and less liable to disease than some of them now are AH ail this can be done without aitho ut money and if energetically engaged in the time will soon come when the home bome supply will equal or exceed the demand stop another large larga leak and slid p present besent a more insuperable barrier to the 1 importation 1 M por tation of leather boots and shoes than do rugged mountains and extended plains so far as linen and cotton goods are concerned conc cone oried cried it may be necessary necessary to import until flax on all suitable soils and cotton at tile the vegas on the rio virgin and at other points south of the bas Basin i I 1 rint are raise raised d in iq sufficient calundan abundance fo jo supply tle tie the wants pants of the malliet mai mal kwet liet the first stepin step in this ibis I 1 operation depends upon the tillers of the toa earth ana ana when the briw raw material materi alis ails ia produced prod deed skill and ma na thine chilery ry icil il soon coon convertito conver tit into fabric s i hats hats are or should be e easily eallis enado and ana sod at a price that will forbid any successful competition m petition from abroad i P apri such being the facts it I 1 Js s easy to I 1 comprehend the time and manner in which the thi kuter cuter outer man mau man mau can be well provided for from head io to foot and that too through the tho tip application of but a moderate amount of the individual means good sense and industry with which each one Is s blest until sugar can cane e is raised in our southern settlements or we are more successful in producing the sugar beet and in extracting purely its is saccharine matter large quantities of sugar will necessarily have to be transported long distances d at great expense and while our iron works are struggling into existence iron steel and all articles manufactured must be obtained under the same disadvantages for this reason cucil labor care and means have been used to forward the manufacture of iron sufficient clent for our want wants and costly machinery has been imported and placed in a valuable building expressly for the purpose of extracting sugar from the beef beel but we are still without iron steel and sugar of obrown our own make and neither establishment is paying the interest on the money invested notwithstanding all this much has been done and moro more is doing towards tile the full dawn of our commercial independence and now when M bonfy ney is scarce and the weather too inclement for extensively i ten engaging in outdoor out door lab iab labors ors seems beems to be alavo a favorable rable rabie timi time for each one to calmly consider in what way he lie clil cm best aid ili in bringing to pass so desirable an event erent true lo 10 janythe many the goods so neatly nearly got up and bo so tastefully arranged upon the store shelves are very tempting s so 0 long as a single dime remains maitis re iu in the pocket but reflect that nearly every cent paid for those thoe goods goes to feed clothe and support mechanics producers carriers and many traders with whom you have hive no market interests in common and that the m money oney thus paid passes out to return no more ili iu the channel of reciprocal trade what can be done to obviate aviate a recurrence of the present hard times and to prevent their becoming harder it Is said that the lord helps those who helps themselves and ana it does seem peem that it is entirely in ili our power to dispense with the he purchase of silks satins gatins ribbons lib bons gewgaws gew gaws wove fog and every elvery other imported article which does not directly direce and economically conduce to health comfort and the development of the purposes the lord had in view in bringing us here at least so far as ohr our our vanity and circumstances will permit and inasmuch as sugar nails gla gia glas glass s cutlery machinery ma chinery cotton goods and 11 like articles must be imported for a time lime to come place your bills bill billsland and sand money to the extent of actual wants in the hands anas of some responsible person who will see that the articles ordered are purchased and delivered at i a far par less price than the lle ile lie stores call cail afford to sell them for wily why this would be the case is easy of comprehension for oil on the one hand nothing is brought but what has been paid forat for at purchase and is simply to be delivered livered 4 while stores lay in large stocks of goods to forestall all reasonable contingencies thus investing inventing quite a portion of capital in articles tile the interest of which must ba be marked upon those I 1 which are sa leable besides other large expenditures for purposes not requisite in a strictly commission and forwarding business were streams of gold constantly pouring into our purses as fast as we could hand it out the gratification of every whim wham notion and vaul vani and imaginary desire desiro there would possibly be 4 but t little if ir any use in publishing all an article of this nature but such is not the case and so far as natural reasoning and principles are concerned it is impossible to tell when it will fie short bort of the tile period when japhet shall all ail have llave ruled I 1 his time tima out As several will be apt to get gel tired of waiting wailing for that period and as every one has not a full purse if these remarks Irei narks will help the pa patience tlene tiene of or any or what as is still better if they will induce a single individual to cast about for the prevention of outgoes and the encouragement of income or causen cause a lighter draft drift upon the cash of a husband or father for that which can be reason reasonably ab got along without ilie ille the india ing and hrin erin printing t in i avill 1 I I 1 be fully paid for foi and all such gilel persons will standa stand a good chag chance n other things being equal of having I 1 their supply eyer mat meet their demand and thit too without the pangs of dependence debt suffering and disappointment t |
