Show OVER production 11 AND distribution MB MR atkinson of boston declares as the result of extensive and careful investigations that crat at present about ninety per pen percent cent of our people using jhb improved tools and machinery can produce ail all that one hundred per cent can consume of the staple articles of food fuel clothing tools wares and the like and can in addition produce all that we now get a market for abroad mr air david A wells has recently given a number of detailed estate state ments which bear ear out mr atkinsons 8 assertion he shows that three men with Imp improved royed machinery now produce as many boots and shoes as ox bis men could before 1860 that our capacity for producing stoves is now thirty three per cent greater greate r than the country can use and three men can produce as many stoves now as six in Ju 1860 that in the manufacture of straw goods three hundred operatives with tap tip new pew machine machinery now do what used to require a thousand that the steam pres arow floy turps urns out I 1 four hats to the minute instead of the old rate of one hat in four minutes that ninety cloth producers now make as much cloth a as s could in 1838 and that reckoning not only the factory operatives but the farmers needed to supply them with food persons are equal in 1877 to persons in 1838 finally he shows that while our population increased between 1860 and 1870 less than twentythree twenty three per cent our productive power increased in the same period by reason of improved labor saving machi machinery tiery fifty two per cent or nearly thirty per cent more than the increase in population un on the strength of these statements men ts the new york herald makes thel the declaration that the country suffers not from poverty but from a plethora of wealth jt it has more machinery more workshops more mole ingenious ng enious and industrious mechanics more coal iron copper more cotton and woollen goods more locomotives co cars and railroads than by the existing laws it is allowed to use uee it is the victim of lawa laws which disable it from selling its surplus products abroad and which therefore make our labor saving machinery our inventive skill our productive ability a curse to us it wants these restrictive laws repealed it wants our foreign commerce reestablished established re and our commercial treaties with various foreign states formed reformed re this it thinks will relieve from beggary and starvation the four millions of men women anu and childr children a who are compelled to remain idle idie K because because of the improved tools and machinery which are in use uee there is sime truth in these statements and from them the people of this territory may draw important lessons lessone if all the food cueli fuel clothing tools wares aa that are necessary for the supply of the er entire tire pe pie abound in the country and they should be properly distributed with due regard to the rights of i all classes there would be no nece mece necessity nor for riots riols or labor disturbances of any kinu kind for all would have plenty but if there isan is an abundance of these articles in the country then the there re is something radically wrong wronmin wro ngin in the organization of society if we may judge by the recent strikes and their consequences through the country from the reasoning in the above statements which we have quoted one would infer that the invention of improved tools and machine machinery ryby hy which our productive power has hash increased during the last decade fifty two per cent is a misfortune rather than a blessing but bat is this so certainly not where society is properly organized if the productive power of ninety per cent olour of our population is sufficient to produce all thavone that one hundred can consume and in addition produce all that a market can be found for we va should esteem it a great blessing the ten per cent who would thus be relieved from the necessity of labor to produce need not go idle they would not need to beg or starve they could be employed in building temples forming new settlements preaching and in a variety of labor that would be beneficial to themselves the community a and nd the world at large the difficulty is not so much in the over production aa as in the unequal distribution of that which is produced if the interests of bf the producing classes were properly cared for either by themselves or by those who have the power there would be no such evils as these that have baye created such agitation and terror of late in the east some suggest as a remedy for these evils the expenditure by government of large sums in internal improvements others the distribution of money to those who will emigrate and settle upon public lands and others have other schemes ineve but these would only afford temporary tem lem p mellef I 1 the suggestions and counsel which have been imparted by president brigham young to the people upon the subject of 0 cooperation and union in business matters have not been given too soon thinking observing people can now perceive how timely this counsel has been it is of the greatest importance that it should be re given practical effect among the people until it is we are as liable to be affected as any other people by the fluctuations stag nations and embarrassments embarrass ments of trade |