Show HOMEMADE HOME MADE CLOTH tun tur DESERET NEWS has on many occasions urged the necessity and propriety of the people of the territory giving their hearty support to all branches of manufacture carried on at home and has so often given the tho reasons which a sound political economy dictates that it is to be presumed at this late date there is not the slightest need to argue the point we need only refer to the increase of prosperity now general among the people part of which is the outgrowth of the support given by them to home kanuf convince the most unthinking that the seif self sustaining sustaining g policy is the only one which increases wealth and comfort in a community and that so long as any people import articles of prime necessity all such being largely and generally gene genc rAlly raily consumed they will be lie kept poor and that in proportion as this policy is abandoned and home tures are established and sustained will they enjoy more and more of or the comforts which their labor produces A very marked improvement in this direction has taken pla pia place ce among the people of utah during the e last few years twelve or fifteen years ago but little tle tie was wag produced in the territory kave save the barest necessaries of life bread meat and vegetables but few branches of hom home e manufacture we rethen rothen were then in operation and their products were of the coarsest and ind most primitive description and to import a few of the comforts wd and luxuries of ilfe life the products of the farmer agriculture cl being then the principal busine business cs carried on at home lionie had to be sold at a ruinous Fic pic the territory was thus drained each year of money and the mass of the people kept poor then if a person wanted a decent bedstead set of chairs or a nice suit sult of clothes he must either send east past or west for them or for the ma lerial to make them the leaders of the people alive to the necessity of changing this state of things thing 3 labored for years with those who had means to in mee them to import machiner machinery y to commence various branches of home industry the raw material for which could bo be produced in abundance in the territory the theae these labors in time bore fruit and now most niort thin things ga necessary for the comfort of t the he c community om can bo be produced in abundance at home and so as to compete in price and quality with foreign manufactures la lit nothing is this thin change more striking than in the manufacture of material for clothing the home producing policy is the only sound one for a community to pursue providing that the raw material can bo be raised in abundance at home this is especially true of utah in regard to sheep and wool and our agriculturists are beconi becoming dg or perhaps have become converted to a belief in this fact and are turning their attention more to stock and sheep raising whereas formerly their labors were chiefly devoted to raiding graul owing to the causes above enumerated we have now several first cia cla class elass fac rac factories tories in the territory at which various fa bries fabrics cloth cioth j jeans eans and others which are absolutely necessary for clothing are or can ba be manufactured equal in quality to the imported article the machinery for these establishments has only been imported at enormous expense and it has been imported and erected solely with a view to benefit the people and none will deny that establishments such as these aro are worthy of and should be well sustained we call attention briefly to this matter now believing that it needs oni only to be generally known that suc sue sueh such establishments exist and that such branches of manufacture are carried on to receive the full measure of support and encouragement to which they aro are entitled |