Show REMARKS R E MARKS i ily S BRIGHAM WG YOUNG 9 at W e opening of the adjourned I 1 general conference add heid id the new mew tabernacles getys olty may th 1874 I 1 iio lio DO not ilot elpe expect e t to be able to speak much during this conference but I 1 make a request of my brethren who may speak speak to give us their instructions and views for or against this general operative cooperative co system which we wd with propriety may call mak mai the united order if any c choose to give it any other name that will be applicable to the nature of it they can do so BO A system of J oneness among any people whether former day saints middle day saints saint eleventh hour of the day saints last hour of the day saints or no saints at all is beneficial but I 1 wash wish the brethren to give sive us their views for and aud against union an in a family whether that family consists of the parents and ten children or the parents ten children fifty grandchildren or a hundred and fifty great grandchildren and so on until 11 n you get to rl a nation dation I 1 ask of my brethren who may address the congregations to give lve ive us their views for and against union peace good order laboring forthe for the ahe benefit of ourselves and in connection with each other for the welfare and happiness of all whether in the capacity of a family neighborhood city state nation or the world we see the inhabitants of the earth as individuals and nations struggling striving laboring and oiling tolling eveny every everyone one ono for himself and nobody else all are anxious to bless their own dear selves if you will permit me I 1 will quote an anecdote in illustration of this trait of character among the human family A man in asking a blessing upon his food prayed cco 0 lord bless me and my wife my son john and his four and no more amen 11 if we have generosity of feeling sufficient to pray for blessings upon a fifth person or upon a whole family neighborhood or community all the better we are not entering into any new system order or doctrine there are numbers 1 of organizations ora of a similar character as far as ad they go in our own country and in other countries our is to labor for the benefit of the whole to retrench in our expenditures to be prudent and economical to study well the necessities of the community and to pass by its many useless wants to study to secure life health wealth and union which is power and influence to any community and I 1 ask my brethren while addressing the people during this conference to take up these items of everyday every day life ilfe it seems to be objectionable to some gome for the latter batter aby dby day saints to enter enten into a self sustaining system and the probability babi lity of our doing so causes a great deal of talk if we were infidels any other sect of christians or neither Christians nor infidels but mere world lings seeking only to amass the wealth of this world nothing would be thought or said a against it but for the latter day ga saints ints to make a move to the right or to the left to the front or to the rear a suspicion arises directly in the minds of the people I 1 will say to the inhabitants of the tho whole earth that the latter day saints are going to work to sustain them themselves to do good to themselves to their thein neighbors and to the whole human humah family they are going to labor to establish peace and good order antho on the earth just as far aud and ns as fast as they can and to prepare them for a happier world than this talk about it cry about it deride it point the finger of scorn at it wo we carel camm not we are the servants and handmaids hand maids of the lord and our business is to build up his kingdom upon the earth and let all the world say bay what they please it matters hotto us it is ia for us to do our duty now let rae nae pres present one ono little hlat diat matter matten tier were here are br brethren ethron fram from all parts of the territory to rew reT represent resent the different bran branches elfes eifes of the chu ehu church ach of jesus christ of latter day saints wo we find nind out brethren in various parts of the territory are in possession of a little land take tv ft man for instance who has got a livo live acro aero lot iol ho he wants his bis team he must have havo his horses harness wagon I 1 plow harrow and farming utensils to cultivate that five acres just aa though haw ho was as farming a hundred acres and when harvest comes he is not accommodated by his ills neighbors with a reaping machine and he says another year I 1 will buy one om a and this to harvest five acres of grain take the article of wagons among this people we have five where we should not have more than two and the money that is spent needlessly by our people for wagons would make a small community rich again take mowing and reaping machines and we have probably twice or three times as many in this territory as the people need they stand in the sun and they dry up and spell and this entails a heavy waste of property we may take also the article of harness for horses if this community would be united and work cattle instead of horses they might save themselves from two to tive nive hundred thousand dollars yearly Is this economy or wisdom A few years ago wo raised our own sweet sweety but when the railroad came it brought sugar to us very cheap and where is our sorghum now there is hardly any raised in the whole territory the people say the sugar is so cheap suppose sugar was only one penny a pound and you had not that pen penny dy and could not get it what good would it do you ione lono none at all if cotton cloth can be bought for fon fifteen ten or six cents a yard what does docs it profit a people if they have not the money to buy it it does them no good when they have the ground to raise the cotton and the machinery to work this cotton up and make the fabrics they need they can do it money or no money and so we go on from one thing to another and we would be glad if our brethren in their ro remarks marks will give us their views and instructions on these points and the bearing they bave have had upon the people in the past and how they will afflect affect them in connection with the united order which we are now seeking to introduce if any man merchant businessman or anybody else eise anything has to bring forward to show as they think that the united order will militate against the interests of the community we invite them to speak it freely and give us both sides of the question Weare we are for the best we are for fr the right 2 fo for r that which will accomplish the greatest good to the greatest number I 1 shall now give place for others to speak |