Show REMARKS by prest YOUNG tabernacle p R ul nu of april 6 1852 1853 REPORTED BY G D WATT when wl wee first came come to these valleys we aged the brethren to believe that they could raise grain here for but few of 0 them believed it and raising peaches was waa supposed by nearly all to be entirely out of the question it is now proven beyond a doubt that a e can raise in tuese mountain snot only the best of grain lut the finest of fruit j if the eiders elders of Is israe ae bad taken he be coun bel bei which has hag ben giver given thern them for ei ht bt years past we would have bad god gord enop enough h on hand band to lo buy one ong quarter of the state of missouri wilca we might 1 have hive owned as well as not and lived in it when we pleased there is one practice among this people peo ie that I 1 am at v as with and I 1 pray god to awe g ve me st strength and ability with the faith of the righteous to zoot root it out irom our midst and that isy is they I 1 would seemingly rather be damned than not I 1 give their money to their enemies will they raise ax cotton and fruit nor but they will put fortunes in the pockets ot 01 strangers to import from a distance what we can produce at home if this thia people had bad followed te tae counsel given to them there is not rot a man in israel would have raised a bushel of I 1 heat wheat for our enemies who came here to cut coutur cur throats without mak ng thein them pay from five to ten dollars a bushel for it I 1 do not wish to sc ild but still I 1 do most c dislike the conduct of certain tain fain men with abern we are obliged to associate in a church capacity it is impossible for me to speak p ea of gieir conduct while N bile hile they in their feelings and an I 1 affections lean toward the wicked who will take the name of god in vain and curge the chosen of god even now mow many miny of our brethren bret bre taren iren are running alter them begging for a little job of hauling for a little employment here and ard there and apparently would lick the diot dint of their feet for eive five cents while br erastus snow was speaking epe aking up on orr our being under the necessity of bf importing various articles from abroad I 1 ried nned to think thinh what there Js is that v ve e cn cin not make here there is as as good material in this territory t a makind a hata a as theofila the fils fela fels in ia aa any y part of the i r A r world wrid and we have the me mechanics chanies chanles who can put it together we have an excellent button j machine one capable of producing as good buttons as these I 1 I 1 now wear in the bosom of m my y shirt there are tons if cf bones bonea and horns bleaching bl upon the prairie which can be manufactured into as good buttons as any man need to wear if some of our button makers would take hold of the mach ne and work it we also have men here who can j make pressed buttons which will do very well I 1 I 1 sed see ee here today to day many who are classed in homespun and they look comfortable and comparatively independent some of the sisters I 1 see wear homemade shawls and to me they appear far more appropriate than do the gaudy trappings of foreign make I 1 cannot see why we should send to buy from strangers that which we can manufacture our oui ourselves selves if it ignot to satisfy a despos kioa to please and pamper amper that power which is opposed to the langdom kingdom of god on the earth j when the lord cuts eff aff every resource reo from this people only that which is immediately around them they can then live as well if not better than they do now and attain to a state I 1 of self huste guste sustenance nance much sooner than it if he should continue to plead with them to rise up in their strength and do as they ough toward becoming independent before all loreign temporal facilities are entirely cut off enoch was three hundred and sixty five years in getting ting a people ready to receive the blessings the lord had to bestow upon them but in trie latter days his work will be cut short in righteousness were the lord to be as aa indulgent with us as many want him to baand continue to bear beair with the sins of the wicked I 1 presume it would take him fully as long to prepare this people for his bis blessings as it took enoch to prepare the he people in his hig day but he will not wait so long jong g the lord can oblige this thia beope to come to the atau standard dard he wishes theo thein to rea reach ch but I 1 have hare very little a faith that many mary will attain to it iu fu theaese the thea flesh esh U r ouid not bui but buy imported hats we would make them of ottle atlle I 1 ma materna malenna tenna lentz wava here it if we could not buy a yard of cotton cloth we vve would raise cotton and make it if we could not buy linen we would raise flax and mantu manta manufacture facture it we can make spinning ilg wheels and jennies but br eratus era indu res where we are going to get the spindles if we do not import them ahat abat we have need to iru liu import port dort spindles is not correct we have plenty of dpn here who know how to make iron and steel and spindles br NV jones has produced specimens of iron from magnetic ore he bas has not made cast iron from that ore but the best of wrought iron can be made from it do D o our brethren make it no they want to go to california after gold or they wish to freight for this man or that man who has nothing in common with the interests of the kingdom of god in the same game proportion that men operate to encourage the i importation of foreign product production ons so far according to their influence and means they I 1 opera e against the advancement of the king dom of god on the earth many may ruay not be lieve neve this statement though to me it has become an ari established fact any man of this church and kingdom who exerts his influence strength and means to promote any community cr to build up any city excel the people and cities of zion is exerting T his ath and means against the kingdom kingdo m 0 of f G goj god 0 J our speaker this afternoon commiserated our friends in the east who are now destroying each other but who were once united in taking from us our hornes lomes and possessions and rin linked winked vin ked at the shedding of the blood f our best men and who have taken the tue lives oi at gur gun bretoux n awl alk bist mist rs is ot of our fathers and mother S our wives and ch idren the tot j terin bering gray haired sire ix cx cited no commiseration in th ir ic breasts neither did the aged grandmother whom they deprived of her ebil ebli uren aren her ber last prop and stay except her god and left her to fall into the grave without a relation to speak an encouraging word in her dying moments our citory records hundreds of such cases in consequence of the tons cods dobbings mob bings and dr ivings to which this people have been exposed infants the youth and the rold roid le ie aged have dropped into untimely cravea braves by hundreds tuey tilty have taken o ir lives from the earth and swallowed up our substance and forsooth we feel very much to pity them in their present cor coz d tion I 1 will inform sympathisers sympathizers that if the fountain of pity and comm gomm gerat on keeps pace with mith increasing calamities that will come upon our enerle en emlet emle emiet vi where hera bera ibey only odly oat ont have bave yielded f cf drops rivers will flow for the press is lis only just beginning to come down upon the ungodly they can only just beg ben to feel its pressure but thera there is a weight eight hanging over them that is ponderous in its crushing and desolating force would I 1 lift it off from them if I 1 had ha hwd d the powei powel no but I 1 would let it crush the guilty ungodly wretches the pi priest erlest est in the pulpit the judge on the berich bench the governor and the th rulers en end ind i E n nd a would let the common people go free aft afat r a long struggle we expect to be alle to redeem zion to establish the center stake thereof and from thence spread abroad in the vastness of our increasing numbers anel anci ancl in the greatness of our power and infinitude of our wealth build hundreds and thousands of cities and magnificent temples to the name and honor of our god and we will enter those temples and officiate for our forefathers and our relatives wo have died without a knowledge of the gospel and for those I 1 ignorant thousands thousand who are fre p jd id for killing each other in the present war and we will me give 1 them e n a ga salvation valio vallo al who have not sinned ii against ga t the holy y host ghost or shed innocent bloid b 04 or coLB Z 0 mated fated ea thereto the priests t have havu ha vi H A 1 rivet ted led their fetters and chains around tb the millions and the they y more or less idd ind influence tience every political man in 0 our oun u r government to ridicule and fi fiat bt against god and every holy principle that comes comnes from heaven it if thebe thise fetters were broken sunder asmunder as and every man and every family permitted to judge for themselves hundreds of thousands would embrace the gospel as boon as they coult coun have the privilege of hearing it receive their ordinations and endowments and be ready to go forth and hasten the work of building temples wherein to officiate for those who had bad not in their lives the privilege of going into a temple to receive their washings and anoint ings were it not for raf t a and nd political craft I 1 am satisfied that scores of thousands on this thi continent would now embrace tle go gopel gospel pel I 1 would like to see the footsteps of the almighty and they are now begian ng 0 to be vi v visible i b ae iu it his hib hi s going forth for t h to c cut ut off 0 the e bitter bran branches ches and andoy by and by the stone cut out of the mountain will begin to roll and if it does not soon crush some of the toes of the great image I 1 am mistaken frem present appearances I 1 think the toes will be pretty well irell mutilated before the stone reaches them I 1 pray for this constantly for I 1 would be glad to see the inhabitants of the earth have the privilege of believing ane gospel for themselves and not any ady more be bound by the blighting of 0 raft in this country and a id in the old oid countries politicians and eathy wealthy men who have any influence ce whatever over their thit neighbors or over a f family amily or district exert that influence to keep the people from embracing the gospel the lord has restored again to the world by threatening to intire them to stop their wage them out of employment or out of their houses if they embrace 1 Alor monism I 1 andi ansi thus the masses are bound down will w we e n atul continue to build up and foster oure llie lile still our enemies m ie and give them our lires lifes blood if I 1 we intend to cease doing so BO we ite will cease trading radim with them in the way and mann mahn manner er we tave tava eone done and are doing you yon may enquire what we are going to do co l you what I 1 have nor not done inave leave not sot sent to the states this season for any factory cloth nor for any calico and I 1 shall say to my family you must make your own cothin cot bing hing 1 1 or go without it bout what are we lve g ing to do for pins and needles do without them or use thorn when we ve cease importing them necessity inay may become the mother of invention in this as well as in many other cases I 1 have often wished there was not tuch uch luch a thing as a pin or a needle when I 1 have found them sticking lir irr garments in iny my shirt on my pillow in the chairs on the door rugs strewed over the floors and presages pae sages and antl in the st streets I 1 va will ill lii venture to say that the quantity of pins and I 1 needles that has been brought broucht brous ht into this territory tr t r y has not done one tenth part the service the they y would if they had been properly taken care of and not wasted people will hardly stoop down aown to pick up a needle or a pin but they will go to the stores and buy them ladles ladies lad es will take a dollar ivory comb put it in water and then comb a childs hair with it it is never dry the ivory softens and the comb is used up in a very short ti a goo I 1 comb of that description ought to last five years in a coma on family mothers have not I 1 larned arned that water will spoil an ivory comb there are s made of gutta percha that comb the hair bet er than horn but they are brittle and require to be used with care carp but the first you know eneis on the floor and and the rocker of the rocking chair has cassed over it and ren rend rena dereA eted eTeA it useless anere do you keep your needles on the floor in the cradle on the bed up stairs and down stairs stair and in every nook and aad corn corny r of the house where are the pins all over you can pick up one wherever you are ale do we answer the end of oun our creation in thus wasting with a prodigal hand the good things which our 11 heavenly father h has hab as bestowed uron uton us rhe the she people aie ignorant and careless to ching these matters and in them do not answer the end of their creation and will not without prudently making the best beat possible use of that which god gives us we can make everything t we want and that is not all we can if w we eare earo arb disposed dispose d to cease to want that which we can cannot not m make ake the moment we do this and are satisfied with our productions we are an independent i people |