| Show TOPICS eor FOB THE TIMES TIRES 11 MON traveling through our 1 territory e rr aa and making inquiries into raube condition condit iou lou of or the people and nd ord orf their pursuits will have one imm I 1 fact impressed upon him if mt that there aro very few of cur j you young it men who are learning trades ap 1 we vve know large settlements in this b i territory where a short time ago 4 there was not a young mari within nl their limits who was acquiring a the people seem to depend entirely upon those who come from r we east and from europe to kosup supply the demand tor fer skilled wo workmen rk the great bulk of the young mell men who wilo are brought up in the territory tory especially in the outer depend upon farming lier iier diug dlug teaming and common labor b or for their livelihood the of this thia condition of aus mus can easily be imagined in home settle Lettle settlements ments it ia Is with difficulty skilled labor can be obtained iq 16 erect suitable bouses houses architecture ta re in many places is one of the lost arts dwellings are construct d iu in the tho most primitive style and with an nit almost total absence of that convenience which might be obtained witia witla without out extra expense if the tight light methods were only known to a man who loves joves zion and desires to see the predictions concerning her fulfilled the ab beuce ot of progress in this direction lu jh ame of our settlements is pain ful till A among mong no people ia Is there likely to ao be such a demand for skill as among the latter day haluta saints for none expect such a future as they dor q and ami none require such a training if it it were made the rule for our young men to learn trades and to learn them thoroughly skilled libor would be easily procured improvements of every kind could be tie made with far greater ease houses bouses would be better furnished conveniences of every kind would bound abound it because they would be easily vasily procured it costs no more for a skilled ski lied workman to live than I 1 it t does for the common laborer the lity of a community to bold its own against other communities depends on the skilled activity of its units increase skill among us and we are all bene fitted by it ve we know there are many mech anies antes who are averse to teaching apprentices a knowledge of their trades they have an idea that buch beuch tuch a course is likely to lower wages glut the labor market and operate injuriously upon them and their fellow workmen woi kmen this may be partly true under some circumstances ances auces but in a young and growing community like ours where the country is new and improve ments are constantly co aly required such buch a policy is a very mistaken one the building of temples alone after a while hile bile will call fur an army of 6 killed workmen belides Be bides aides this public buildings and private residences ances of every kind will require kill skill to erect thern then and where skill abounds there will be as a rule abundance of employment for it in the old world or in old settled countries where all their great X xa works are arg completed there may be sa y s1 reasons for the policy they adopt in regard to apprentices but certainly there ia ii no necessity for that polle policy y in this thia country much less the policy which some mechanics have i beamed to adopt of refusing to teach any apprentices there ia is scarcely a branch of Lb business siness now in existence among affus tua where there ia is not a demand for t more workmen this may not be true of every place and of every branch of business but speaking for the entire community we think it can put nut be controvert ed in iii one branch 1 ione lone nione that of tanning there is a 41 pressing need for men familiar with the business tanneries canneries Tann eries are urgent i sly siy y needed ia this territory but the great difficulty is to get good tanners ners to have bae hae men spoil hides bides and eil eli ell them teem for fbi leather ia is an injury wa ir to home manufactures however i skilled the ibe shoemaker may be he be caution cin ciu tuot liot make a good kt d shoo shoe out of badly tanned lea iea leather ieather we ir teach the boys trades give them S a chance and with the increase of skill shin there will be ao an increased development of home industries heg les and nod the whole territory will be lie bene fitted thereby |
