| Show THE PAST AND PRESENT PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE experience is a great teacher and they have not inaptly been called fools who will not profit by its lessons every year every month every evers everyday day gives us an experience of greater or lesser importance valuable for the future for most in these valleys this is a time of amusement and merrymaking merry making now drawing to a close when ave we stand beaw between een the ingathering of the fruits of tho iho the earth and the season that cal cai calls calis Is for renewed diligence and dud toil toll with ilice the tho opening pening of spring in the midst of oti our out r gaiety a little time may not unprofitably be occupied d in looking over thomast the tho past and ana consider considering ng the present weare not apt to be very jubilant over our prosperity riby rity adversity i has some any su such eli cli despos disposition wo might hanebut have but we have 1 reason to be very grateful to heaven for the many blessings we enjoy twelve months ago there gis mis wasa a rather gloomy prospect that some might lack a sufficiency of bread breadstuff stuffs s before the ensuing harvest could be gathered i the wise course counseled and earnest measures adopted ayour by our oun leaders averted any such painful contingency and harvest found the majority anxiously waiting for it if ye yet bilg bukki few fews if any suffering the same prescience that directed the course course th then pursued saw peril in the future for us isolated as we are unless means were adopted to ward it off the matter was laid before the people in the various settlements and responded to t by their sending delegates to meet in general convention in this city the object was to adopt such measures as might be deemed rc visite ui site for retaining a sufficiency of bread breadstuff stuffs s in the hands of the people to meet their wants and tho the th securing to the producers a fair remuneration mune ration for their labor hence the convention of last summer and the action taken by it which has now become an item of our territorial history some little fear was entertained by a few sedulously worked upon by interested te parties who had no wish for the well weil being of the people that lie the mechanic the laboring man and the poor generally would suffer in consequence of the increased price demanded for and other necessary articles of consumption they were invited to wait a little exercise patience and see if their fears were not groundless the th e matter had resolved itself into a ayery very narrow compass it was either pa pay y a high price for breadstuffs bread stuffs and have sufficient or see them wasted carried out of the territory fed to animals and destroyed and have ultimately to pay a much higher price caused by excessive scarcity consequent upon such a course the tho question was asli asil asked ed by some wh what at steps will be taken to in increase brease the wages of the mecha mechanic nic ulc and laboring man commensurate with the increased price demanded for the necessaries of existence we counseled them to take matters easily assured that what would benefit financially the majority of the people would in a short time di directly 1 freetly and indirectly be a source of prosperity to all we were satisfied by experience if by nothing else that the wisdom which had guided us through so many strait places and seasons of difficulty had seen an impending evil and was adopting measures to avert it we had no doubt as to the result what is that result what the condition of affairs now As a people we have time to look at it to reflect and gather wisdom from the experience thus gained the slightest fears then entertained by the most apprehensive are today to day proved to be utterly groundless prosperity is witnessed and enjoyed on every hand the workingman is in a better condition now than he was twelve months ago there are sufficient breadstuff s in the country to amply supply all our internal wants until next harvest the agriculturist has received rec ree elvea elved a fair remuneration for what he has sold out of the fruits of his toll and labor he is richer and n no man poorer by the course pursued b but idt ili all classes have partaken partaker par taken of the benefits resulting from it the majority of the people saw the sun of prosperity shining through the fog 0 of apprehended privation which rested on the minds ofa of a few and hailed its approaching beams with thankfulness I 1 to those on whom the shadow of a doubt rested as to the wisdom of the policy pursued in this matter last fall the result should prove a great lessan a powerful argument for increased confidence in the guiding wisdom of the almighty manifested through his servants for the blessing of his people it should also I 1 be a strong incentive to all to follow up the kilo line of policy poley so long marked out for us to secure not merely sufficient bread breadstuff stuffs s to last from one harvest to another but to save savo up and retain from froni time to time enough to last for fon sev bev seven ell eil years yeats and thus bo be preserved from every contingency y that otherwise might bring famine upon us thus far prospects fets pets are good for the ensuing suin Z season beason A large quantity of snow is already deposited in the mountains and offers hope that the streams from which the land is irrigated will be at least as large as in ordinary seasons the efforts made to secure water from other sources than those now practically available are progressing 0 satisfactorily iii in the midst of present prosperity and with the prospects before us let us not be unmindful of the beneficent hand that athas th has blessed ardd arid is blessing us so abundantly I 1 we hope our readers and the entire mass of the people are enjoying themselves during this season more particularly devoted to enjoyment and mirth ever in wisdom and that they who have in abundance will wisely minister to the wants of their less fortunate b but ut deserving brethren and sisters while we trust that all will profit by the experience peri ence of the past use the wisdom thus gained in the present and become more worthy of the blessings awaiting us in the future I 1 |
