| Show A VITAL SUBJECT dubina DURING the october octo er conference which was one of the tho moal moat interesting eyer ever held in inta the e tabernacle tabernacles k a great deal a 0 very profitable instruction st was imparted we think none was more so than the remarks and ands suggestions concerning g co coope 1 ope dative effort and home industries we direct special attention to a point made by elder Lorenz in regard to utah manufactures he showed that unless the body of the people sought for and desired home products in preference to imported articles our mercantile institutions would continue largely to bring in goods from abroad this is simple plain and indisputable pu table it ik is the de demand mand that stimulates the supply if it there was bo no demand for a certain class clan of goods it would so soon boon n disappear from the market merchants merchants merchante will not purchase articles which the public da do not call for it ia Is true that wide awake busi busl business hhas fiAs men frequently create a demand de marid by pandering to the general lov love of or novelty and introducing something calculated to catch the popular eye but it is t hat that demand when once incited that prompts continued continue 4 supplies and is the sign of the success of the venture now if it the latter day saints would maile make up their minds that they will use home products whenever ev e r they can in preference to imported goods and will ask for them when wh enthey they make purchases ares apes the demand will become so eta great that dealers will perc perceive give the necessity of patronizing the producers and every branch of home industry will aa encouraged our oar utah products and manufactures will then become popular it does not take much of bf an example to be bet set t the multitude on the run after it see how soon the style of a ladys lady 13 dress will change when it becomes known that such and such Is the infest latest lat int est fashion the greatest extremes follow each other in quick guca succession eslo n why cannot homemade home made become the rage just as gle well as from paris london or new now york to assist in this our utah goods gooda must be made madd attractive aa as well aa as useful those who are engaged in manufactures should aim to ninish finish them as ne neatly aljy and bea beautifully dutifully uti rully fully as ia Is por possible stAble anywhere appearance has hns great deal deai to do with these things and the multitude will be attracted by liy it in hi spite spile of bf argument and preaching because an article is homemade home made madli it need in not 0 t be rough and ukly ugly biby beauty 7 is div divine lne ine and it is as necessary as strength tand band nd utility in catering for th the a public faste utah cloth can be finished as finely aa as eastern goods if not why not nol it iti can be the made mude up just as well as foreign material our tailors haie hale have i proven this A homespun suit sult or ladya ladys dress in past years was the very emblem of uncouthness and clum clumsiness siness not yot so now goods are manufactured and made up in luu utah that ire are py suitable bitable for an any society and many bf them are as deserving of tasteful and elegant manipulation as I 1 imported in material that has h as not half their durability if the latter batter day saints will make it agule a rule to aak as forborne for home made goods when they are are not not offered the merchants will soon get in the way of pushing that class of wares and ifa if a number of our prominent brethren and sisters will adopt the fashion of wearing and using homemade home made goods aa far as P possible ossia le the public will soon fall into line and none will consider themselves well dressed or doing the correct thing unless clad in utah apparel and using utah products and this will extend our industrial institutions so that thousands of our boys who are growing up in idleness will find profitable employment As they advance to maturity they will be able to marry lind and commence life independently and thus the girls will find husbands lyus laus bands happy homes will be multiplied I 1 the and inducements for crime will be diminished and our territory will advance in all the elements of material prosperity future depends more upon the establishment and success of home industries than any other temporal matterand matter and her people cail can never attain to the greatness wealth and power which have been p promised r to them until they th the e latter day commandment let all thy garments be plain and their beauty beaufy be mhd beauty of or i th the workmanship vork of thine own hands s |
