Show REMARKS BY ELDER freob georgg GEORGE Q DELIVERED at it the forty fi oth fth annual adner general a I 1 conference of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in the new bernade tabernacle Ta e city friday afternoon april ath 1875 REPORTED BY divid DAVID ii W EVANS WE have abundantly proved in our experience that if we ife lie do not ailse filial tain ourselves no other people will sustain us and that we must be united as was said this morning in our temporal as well as in sour jour spiritual affairs and that if we would build up aud and strengthen ourselves in the earth it must be by union of edfort effort and by concentrating our means in a way that shall produce the best results for the work with which wo we are identified cooper co po oper atlon or a union of effort has been proved in our experience when properly carried out to be most successful cess ful with small means and limited incomes we can accomplish by wisely uniting our efforts great results and to bring about greater union should be our continual effort As has been said hero here ma may y be failures and mismanagement occasionally casio caslo nally but tut the principle itself is a tree trae one and it recommends itself to every reflecting mind we however in our mercantile operations in this city ant ana and territory have been more than ordinarily successful I 1 have heard reproaches indulged in or rather reflections s cast upon our general operative cooperative co institution I 1 think it has been one of the most successful establishments lish ments and institutions that wo a ever have had bad among us and I 1 do ao not know that it has been equalled equal led anywhere when we reflect that in the short space of three years those who invested their means weans in that institution made one hundred per cent doubled their original stock and when the financial crisis came in the eat ea t the panic as it was termed and many strong houses went down before it our institution was able to withstand the storm and tide over and has met every dollar of its indebtedness promptly or at least to the satisfaction is of its creditors wb W have been subjected to a great deal of expense in various ways but bat the experience of the past few years enables us to see now how this expense se can be curtailed and profiting rein dein ng by this wisdom and experience as a community we should take the necessary steps to establish or rather to arrange it so that it will give the greatest satisfaction A good deal might be said on this subject in this connection but as meshall we snail have a meeting very shortly relation to our operative cooperative co business affairs probably that would be the proper place for remarks of this character but I 1 would say as one individual to all the saints let us by every means in our power thatis by collecting the little means mean s that we have seek to build up and strengthen these institutions in our midst and they will prove profitable to us and be a great blessingto nto the entire community and to zion at this afternoons session of the conference the authorities of the church will be presented and it Is desirable that there should beagen be a general attendance of the members of the church as far as they can possibly come to refer again to this sub subject eject of operation cooperation co we have seen its good effects in the settlements throughout the entire territory I 1 consider that if it had not been for our institution regulating prices and governing and controlling the mercantile interests of this territory I 1 we should have lost by having to pay high prices thousands and thousands of dollars that we have saved in brigham city particularly J judging udel ng by accounts that we have heard have the principles of bf cooperation operation co been exceedingly beneficial e to the deorle people because ef of the perfection to wh which C h they have been carried carrad out the great difficulty with us heretofore has been that as a people we have not had bad capital to achieve achiel any elany very great results na nb one man until quite recently 3 i has had sufficient means to carry on any great undertaking but by the masses of the people uniting under a operative cooperative co plau plan and putting thear lands in the hands 0 of f those who are judicious Judi clous cious and good busl busi business ness neEs meny men we can est establish ablIs sh y eely eels Q ely els kind of manufacture that is necessary in this country to make us beio self sustaining the ture of iron into hollowware hollow ware and every thing of this character that is madlof roii rou roil roa the manufacture otaie oTa ora II ot our 1 of woollen goods afi filet best st character character the establishment s of sheep M and cattle herds of cheese factories and tan berles anllo anilo every ery branch of manufacture that is adapted to our climate and territory can be carried on upon this principle and efforts should be iliade by us as a people to establish and to make them successful cess ful I 1 took down with me when I 1 went to washington last fall i a atilt lo 10 f cl clothes othes manufactured manu faatu red here in this territory the wool was grown here the cloth was made at president youngs factory and the clothes were made by our tailors there was a good deal of discussion in the early part of the session concerning tho resumption of specie payments I 1 remarked to a good many of my friends that if I 1 were a believer bellev erwe erme as some of them were wore ere ore iu iti the power dower of the general dov government ern merit to make laws laws lawa respecting such matters I 1 should be in favor vor of making a law that would prevent the importation into this country of anything that we could make ourselves and I 1 believe that specie payments payments ments will be postponed ray gay until t there ere is a stop to the extravagance gance which reigns throughout the country the tho stream of gold which ought to be betting getting in the direction of the united Sta consequence of the multiplicity of our productions and the greatness of pur trade is toward Europe and while this is the carewe case ease we may struggle in vain to get back to specie payments that which is true concerning cencer ning a nation is true concerning cern us as a territory if we would be independent if we would keep the circulating medium in abundance in our midst we must stop the stream that is flowing from the territory and every dollar that we spen spend dhere here hero in sustaining a home institution institutions for making clothes cl othes othea baying paying the cloth manufacturer for his Is cloth the wool grower for his wool the fanner onner for his hla leather or the shoemaker for making that leather into shoes and boots is that much saved to the entire community one very prominent free trade member of the house during a discussion on this subject last session remarked that the suit of clothes he ha had id on cost him but a comparatively sm small nil dil aiho amount and that he had them sent from canada some one replied by way of joke that he had probably bought a second hand sult suit but there is bisno no doubt the clothes were new but suppose they cost less in canada than the same buit suit would in the states cannot can not you and every body udy seef see without lengthy reflection that that money all ali wend went into foreign hands and didiot benefit the people of this cour coun itry thie afie producer of the wool the manufacturer of the cloth and the maker of the clothes in iri Canada recel received ved the tb e beneat efly but supposing thirty five br or forty dollars had been paid for that suit of clothes in the united states or in the community where the purchaser lived you can readily perceive that by the circulation of that money in his immediate vicinity ha in himself if he hd were in anany any business would receive the benefit of the expenditure and that the extra cost would not be an entire loss to hi melike paying bitout it out to a and so it is 19 with our own manufactures we ve talk about brooms and abolt aboa t cheese butter and other things which can be brought from the easl east at lower figures than we can produce them but it is better for us to pay awen ty five per cent more and I 1 do not know but even a larger percentage for our hoine home productions than to send bond that thab money away to a distant community where it is circulated and we receive ho no benefit from it if we bought homo home made cheese and hadbo had to pay ten or fifteen cents a pound more for it which however wo we are not required to do th than all nil if f I 1 it t were brought it is not an entire loss to the community for to we all denive derive rame benefit from tbt tb L si spent because it is circulated amongst us and if we have anything auy aay thing to sell we gl get it prices in proportion forat and thus we sustain ourselves men may say that such and such things can be bo bought heaper cheaper abroad than they can be bought at home and therefore it is better to buy them them but I 1 say eay that it is I 1 s suicidal for any community to p pursue arsue such a policy and we with the experience that we have had in this country on these points nor for upwards of a tea of a century should begin to learn wisdom and begin to foster home manufactures and home institutions our coo cooperative operative co o institutions i should take tinto into consideration the peo peopled pleys pleIs good and if there la s I 1 ink k matches cloth cioth leather or anything else to sell that is manufactured in this country they should give the preference every time to the home manufactured article so far as possible and endeavor to stimulate and foster home production and not operate against it by this means meana we build ours ourt ourselves elves up and abid the people themselves vose vese where they are ignorant willston wili will soon perc perceive elve elte the propriety and thead the advantage of taking this course whereas if we pursue the old and opposite course we shall ba be impoverished and stripped strip stripped ted ced of our means andy and having no branches ranches of home homb manufacture we shall continue to be a poor dependent helpless people |