Show BAD POLICY UPON inquiring of one of our city tanners ners and manufacturers tho the other day respecting business be informed us that 11 he had nothing to complain of buethe but the scarcity of hides if he could obtain them business would be tolerably good from him we learned with some degree of ot surprise that there were agents here from the east and the west buying up hides to take tako away to manufacture into leather at chicago san francisco and probably at other points ho had tried to make an arrangement for a number with one ono of our citizens who had bad several hundred hides to sell but found that he was too late an agent from the east had been there before him and though the purchase had bad not been completed il was understood that the agent was to have them our informant had his hid bark and other material on baud but be he did not know where to obtain hides bides and the present prospect is that he will have to suspend work in his tannery for the want of them but this is not all he or some other manufacturer must have those hides brought back backa agata agato after they are converted into leather unless indeed the business of manufacturing be suspended also and to bring them back the cost of carrying them away as well as that of bringing them back must be paid and in cash too in addition to the wages and groots of the workmen and manufacturers rs where the hides are tanned Is there not something radically wrong about this policy if every lild hide produced in this territory were tanned here there would still be bip a necessity for importing leather to supply our wants then why it may way be asked pell reli hides to be carried out of the country havene have we not a sufficient fent feut number of tanneries canneries tann eries to make these hides into leather if it we have not more should be built when we visited brigham city three weeks ago we passed ahr through jugh and admired a very fine flue substantially fally built tann tanu tannery ery which had just been ere erected eted there on the cooperative operative co ope opt dative principle the example ample of brigham vill will doubtless be followed in other places feb Fes until there vill will be canneries tanneries tann eries to nou not only TO ra into tato leather th the e hides that we prod produce e but If necessary buch such as may be import ed we have heard beard it said that our material ithal aerial e for tanning gis ia inferior inferno r to that which they have in other places east and us but we scarcely think this can be so atlease at least for foe sole leather for we recollect that one of our leading ra manufacturers an u facture rs who visited ted the east and europe a few years ago took with him some excellent specimens of sole sold leather which had been made here and which he be as well as others who examined them thern thought superior to the moat most of the leather brought here and fully equal to the beat which la Is manufactured in the east the cost of manufacturing here heie is doubtless greater than it is in the east but if the tanneries canneries tann eries are already built and we have the bark and other materials necessary for tanning and then have the hides of our own production to tan we should be able to nearly if not quite compete with chicago or san francisco in the production of leather especially if these latter places have havo to pay the freight on the hides in carrying them to their tanneries canneries tann eries and pay freight again to bring them back we do not profess to have a thorough understanding of this subject but idaa pears to our oun knowledge ef of our capabilities and those of the people places that we should make it a point to keep our hides in this country and manufacture them here there are doubtless difficulties in the way that have to be overcome so there are in every business and in every country but this ia is plain wo we are not in a position to employ the workmen of distant communities to 10 perform labor for us that we can do for ourselves the chief capital orthis of this coun country and that which under the blessing 0 of f god has made it what it is is the skill and the tho strength of the people at labor if our agrical artisans and laborers can be kept employed we will inevitably become wealthy by but if we adopt a policy to send productions for others to manufacture pay the freight to and from their shops and factories and then pay them for their labor while our labor lubor capital stands idle then we are fastening a yoke of bondage upon us and d our children and it will be but a short time until we mchall be the hewers of wood and drawers of water to the communities whom we employ whatever may be said by those familiar with tanning as reasons for selling our hides bides we think the above as a general proposition indisputable |