| Show HOME industries A SUBJECT OF GENERAL INTEREST TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY ABLY discussed I 1 I 1 we hear a great deal how a days about middlemen majiu making such large profits out ot the wool woof product t of utah and already a company has been organized of our own citizens in southern utah who propose to handle their wool crop in the future and divide among thew themselves selves the thousands of dollars that yearly find finci their way i nto into the pockets ot of said middlemen or wool buyers now this is all very well as far as it goes and is a praiseworthy move but why not go farther and combine together to have the wool crop of utah manufactured into cloth at home instead of snipping shipping bo ao much abroad and receiving back shoddy goods in return at quite a profit to the outside manufacturer if the course we are now pursuing is not a suicidal i one viewed from the stand point of political and domestic economy I 1 will acknowledge I 1 my error and hereafter heie after hold my peace upon this subject at least our policy shurld be to manufacture everything we need as far as it lies in our power to do so and thus reduce our heavy purchases of many man articles that can just lust as well be made at home A writer driler in a recent article arime stated that pounds of wool had bad been pe from ut utah during the present don on the prices auces have ranged all the ay y irom from lu lt to 22 cents per pound or ail average ot of ib A cents for which the cash has been received what has been or will be done with this large sem of money I 1 will venture the statement that fully one fifth will be consumed in the purchase of nick dick backs or tain tunings 0 of f no benefit whatever fully two fifths will go inlo the bands hands ot or L storekeepers for family supplies clothile clot hido included one proof of this is that the wooi rower and his herdsmen may lie be seen in all directions wearing clothing made in the main from shoddy cloth that has been purchased from abroad andhor and for which he has pant paid indirectly good honest estwood wool another fifth is ia needed beede d to pay debts debits contracted durin tae me y year e r foolish speculations in mady ansta instance ue no doubt nut bul fiill still involving liabilities that had to be wel mei after shet shearing tring vale ime we have row pow one fifth lett left with chica to improve our stock and increase our wool producing facilities leaving a little ittle in the hands of a few pr indent ident ones nes for safe and profitable investment suppose the wool growers instead of snipping the bulk oi 01 our wool abroad should establish manufactories manu factories place rn in them the necessary machinery and work up our wool at home thus furnishing wool to hundreds that are eager to woi wor kand give us good material for our clothing our oui bedding and other domestic uses how bow long would it be before they would be receiving dividends that would far more than compensate them for the seeming sacrifice they would make in establishing these industries our people are bee beginning inning to realize the fact that tie the greater portion of our homemade home made woolen goods are superior to the similar kinds imported from abroad and I 1 will venture the assertion that patrona patronage pAt ronae e for foi this class of goods will steadily increase from this time capitalists but more especially wool growers improve the present opportunity to prepare for immediate future needs need or they will be supplant ea by shrewd business basiner as men from other parts I 1 already the woolen factory at provo has shipped goods north as s far as montana and ea eat east t as aa far as bt louis Atis missour Merch ailts in these places recognize reco guize the superiority of many of I 1 the articles ai tides produced in IB this factory not only oula should this one industry be fostered fobie red and sustained ped but man many y others that might be named prow nent dent among aich esthe is the article of leat kei laer ct are still being barn without shoes on their feet and despite the efforts that are being made to curtail their coming they seem hant bent en ea putting in an appearance arance consequently appearance arpe a wise po policy icy would suggest that th at we prepare lor for this great necessity necess iq ot shoei ue best bes crop as well wel as therea matrona matrons mat rons 1 hay 1 not been able to obtain figures in regard legard to the yearly shipment ol of hides and pelts out of our territory but it if many middlemen lemen are not making themselves rich in this business then my observations ions are incorrect in speaking to many men upon this subject I 1 bave been referred referral to lo ther the faudres in tins this that and the other place abandoned abandon and aad decaying tanneries canneries tann eries etc and they have generally wound up with with the remark it will not pay and the concah sion arrived at is that because ot ol this thil we are justified in sending our hides and pelts abroad and aad receiving leather and shoes lu in return there is a large quantity of wood working and other machin machinery lying lold idle or partly so in our territa territory 4 ant and yet nearly every every panel door window sash and etc used in our buildings are arb brou brought 4 to as A in a manufactured shape and are purchasing nearly tens of thousands of dollars worth woith of these articles while good machinists ts are languisher languis hir g for employment in this brauch of industry man facture furniture by the hundreds of car loads is yearly brought from abroad and loudly advertised verti sed because of their supe superior r finish elegant appearance etc while no better workmen can be found among the cabinet makers of the world than here in utah but bat whew where are they living neighbors to the shoemaker and other e artisans who are eking out a mere existence in trying to farm or in doing something else with which they are totally unacquainted and altogether unfit for the mechanics we reed need in the future will of necessity have ito to be imported for or our youns men and beys who should be apprenticed to the various trades look in vain for places where they can learn these various branches of mechanism and many of them lums alums in consequence THE responsibility KE whose duty is it to look after the welfare of the community in these re gardi gard Is it confined to the presidency of ane church apostles the th presidents of stakes 1 I think not though these men have largely contributed through their influence and means to establish aud and sustain the very verv few industries that are already established among us I 1 unqualifiedly assert that every avery man and woman YOUN aua and old in this and the adjacent territories territories calling themselves latter day saints are immediately interested in this subject and should use every means in their power to change the present course by lo fostering and sustaining every e ry home industry already established and ild by their constant demand for home articles of every description that to is at all practicable lo 10 manufacture should make the establish establishment meat of other industries a necessity OTHER COGENT REASONS the predictions of both ancient and modern prophets clearly indicate the disruption disrupt iun ot society affecting alike the manufacturing and commercial interests of the world which will ere long take place this coupled with the other reasons I 1 have named should act as an incentive to prepare for the time lime that anat is at our deiy do doors 0 rs when our bounce of supplies outside of ourselves ouri elves will he be cut off entirely there is still another anu ana very weighty reason in favor of the course I 1 have marki d out chichis which Is this the business meu dieu who have been made rich through our patronage are ip the main our open and avowed enemies who nave freely spent their means made out of the profits of the sale of their goods to us in subsidizing a venal press and in other ways have worked assiduously for not only our chi out but our utter destruction and the passage of unjust aud oppressive laws co i pled with the bitter persecution se that is now being urged against us is plainly traceable to this class for without the accompanying dollars furnished by merchants and aad others the howlings bow lings of priests would have been comparatively fruitless while it maybe may be too late to prevent th ane evil altogether alio it is not tov toe late to relieve ourselves from much of it that exists among us today to day the remedy to is largely in t a our own bands and the question is 14 1 4 will we avail ourselves of it the day of En glands greatest strength was when she manufactured goods for tie tae whole world and her waning power is largely due to the loss of tairi trade while our religion is all that coul dibe dabe asked for or desired we must not seek to se pep pirate irate its spiritual elements from the temporal and operate we must unite them together or our religion will be as weak as sectarianism is today to day and the fullness of strength we ought to possess will never be attained by us until we become in the fullest Q sense of the word SELF sustaining in a future article I 1 may mav consider the question of close competition to be met with in all branches auches br of industry the lack ot of necessary material for the manufacture 11 of many articles needed and kindred subjects but bt what I 1 have already written is sufficiently lengthy for on one e communication and I 1 tie therefore subscribe myself ECONOMIST |
