| Show DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT JOSEPH V H saturday october 8 1892 a the MS oen gen eral conference held in the tabernacle naci fe f valt lake city utah portici poRT ICI BY ARTHUR the guiding influence of I 1 pra pray y tor for spirit to enable nap mf while the holy eloy I 1 stand cistand before you this morning to truth and to do it in a manner the speak that will be plain and simple so 80 all I 1 am can aft that we atten attendance danco to see the good grateful had at our conference that hat we andi have am also thankful to our thus tar father for the rich outpour heaven which we have en 10 spirit 1 jig hie lag lo of have been together I 1 while abil 0 we joyed loved that t the be good counsels coun aels and ami the hone nope which have been instructions ex excellent cellen t find lodgment ample to us may imparted hearts and in our I 1 in our a that we may profit by them memories had a little paid id upon a we ha have vo e subjects subject all of which are of variety necessary for our guidance and for our lu in order that we may prosper observance should be the and be what we people brother bro sheann Sher of god john nn henry smith in his rem remarks arkep touched upon a subject closing which I 1 is or of vital importance to saints and that is the day latter the and home of home employment subject it should not be that any ot of industry without employment in ID people are our efforts to ought country and some this thia the leading men in the be made by various settlements where men are unemployed to devise means by which employ employment may be given to them be necessarily idle that they may not dot in connection with this subject it may not the be a miss amiss to state at this time and to this congregation the fact that during president young the lifetime of earnest in his bis desires he be was very and efforts that home industries dus tries should be established among the people I 1 remember distinctly when he called upon president smoot bishop B R T burton and others to unite their means mean tn together gether and build a woolen factory up here on Par parley leyla canyon creek and they old did so president young himself also had a factory thereabout there about that time I 1 also remember that president young called upon brothers lorin farr and others at one time to establish a woolen factory near ogden and they did so I 1 remember president young I 1 was very should be established on eager r that a factory 1 down in our dixie country and certain brethren were called anil and commissioned to go down there to establish a factory factor y in that vicinity then he was very anxious that employment should be given to tome of our people in the direction pf af plant 10 log cultivating and raising cot tont too and people were called and sent ent into our dixie country itry to raise cotton in order mat the factory gushed at washington might not be idle and that cotton might be produced by the labor of our utah people yesterday I 1 was in the fair where I 1 saw law some jom excellent specimens of cotton that had bad been raised in the south and prepared as batting by tile the industry of our people I 1 saw a very floe fine display of woolen goods flannels flaune lei blankets and other clothe marked juhn jhn C cuutler CC cutler agent for the provo woolen ellla and my eyes were gladdened by the eight my heart was aeji iced to see bee such a fine display of 01 home products exhibited at the pair fair I 1 believe in this kind of industry I 1 believe it to be a good thing for any community to branch out in every kind of In industry austry that will give employment to the people and that will produce at home every article needed fur home can consumption as 9 tar fur as aa possible it is the principle upon which communities become self sustaining independent and wealthy v if the latter day saints ever expect to become wealthy it will be after they have established all ail the industries that are necessary to make them independent and to provide lor for themselves every commodity of life that they need I 1 also saw in the fair some specimens of blankets and other goods produced by the deseret woolen mills mille owned and managed by some of the ate brother william jennings family and situated in the lower part of 01 this city I 1 saw some goods as fine I 1 believe as I 1 have seen in any couLl country try the result of the labor of our awu people and the products of our own country how much better this is than to have to buy all our blankets from abroad and to import everything every thing that we wear that is needful for our comfort let me exhort my brethren and sisters who are assembled here today to remember these institutions that have been established hed among UP if you want blankets where will you go to get them I 1 would advise you to got get them from where those manufactured at home can be obtained I 1 would exhort you never to spend a dollar from this time forth if you can avoid it for anything that to is produced abroad which is produced at home even though you may be under the necessity of paying a little more for that produced here I 1 advise you to patronize home bows industry because it helps to give employment to our home people it helps to build up our own country it helps to keep the wealth within our own community and it builds us up better faster and more permanently manent ly than any other course can possibly do here hera is our sugar factory in lehi some of our brethren are groaning under the weight of responsibility that rests upon them tin in connection with the establishment of that sugar factory it if I 1 recollect right president wilford woodruff president george Q cannon and your humble bumble servant and others of the apostles are today carrying tens of thousands of dollars in order that that industry might be established among the people and in order that some of 0 the sugar that is consumed by them might be produced at home by their own industry and skill and that some of the money that we pay out annually for the sugar we consume might be kept at home and distributed to those thome who produce the article here I 1 want to remind my brethren and sisters throughout zion that it is a portion of their duty to patronize these home industries dus tries and to sustain them by their pi patronage nage for it is a good and wise wine pulley policy it Is in the policy that was inaugurated by president young in the beginning of the th settlement of thaw territory it is ig the policy that la Is today the wisest and the best beet for able community we are still far separated rom the centers of manufacture and in ina a comparatively new country wis this should not be forgotten it is not perhaps consistent with modern ideas to suppose for a moment that there could come a time of pinching of poverty and of 01 necessity iu in thu toa tope of these mountains connected to we are with the east and the west with the north and the south by these theme lines of railroads which run into and through our country I 1 know it is in not orthodox now a daya to consider or admit the possibility of a famine coming upon the inhabitants of north america do we not the richest country iu im the wonlu wor au are we not blessed with all the products of the temperate and the torrid zon are we not blessed with the greatest mineral agricultural and stock raising country in the world yeii yep aud and yet L read in the revelations which the lord has given to us in that a day of famine will come upun the landa day of drouth a jay of necessity a day of pestilence and a day of deep sorrow when that day shall come we will learn if we do not learn it before that the community which is the nearest self supporting will be the mst m st independent and the most prosperous that can be found any wherein the laud land there is another little factory in franklin idaho idah it to is really a U ah industry owned and carried on largely by utah people and they are producing some of the finest homemade home made blankets linsey flannel and yarn that can bo be produced anywhere in the country I 1 want to make honorable mention of it as I 1 have of the other mills I 1 am told also that brother whitehead at springville Spring ville is manufacturing some goods I 1 dire desire to make mention of these things what for foi that I 1 may induce you my brethren and sisters it if I 1 possibly can to agn patronize these institutions and to sustain au ly y y your our works as well as by your prayers home in destries dus tries which give to the people employment pl and put bread in their mouths and clothing upon their backs and give them homes to shelter them developing dev loping the resources of our country and aad making it what it is today the superior of any of its sister territories or states in this intermountain inter mountain region there is no state or territory in j n this intermountain inter mountain region that can compare in material prosperity with the territory of utah and it is largely due to the policy inaugurated by president young that is still in vogue or ought to be among this people P 1 e t to 0 foster home industry A little while w h 1 1 1 v ago I 1 gave an order for some homemade home made blankets I 1 can go to Z C M I 1 or any ADY of these stores which import foreign made goods and I 1 can buy blankets for considerably low less than i I 1 expect to have to pay for those that are made at boar but 1 I would rather give a little more to our own workmen for the product of their labor than t 13 3 purchase the imported article but the fact of the matter is I 1 expect to got gat the worth of my money even if I 1 do have hare to pay a little more for it I 1 believe the article will be that much bett better erand and more durable antl in times men gone by we used to exhort the he people to patronize our operative cooperative co here is Z C M X 1 I pros preg ident woodruff to la the president of that institution it in IB owned and managed by our people principally it la Is true that some of the stock has haa been placed on the market and our friends rl ends realizing that it was a good and safe institution have invested in Z 0 M 1 I stock it is controlled in the interests of the people not wholly for moneymaking but to modify prices and to regulate the markets of this region in relation to the articles which it deals in to prevent combinations aiza the welfare of the people zions cooperative mercantile institution has been one of the best institutions for this community that has ever been established among them prest president young was the founder of it and his idea was that the people should ow own u it that it if there was any profit in merchandising chan dising manufacturing woolen goods cotton goods or any other kind of goods in the territory of utah the people should receive the or of it and therefore he established co opera tive associations and invited the people to take stock in theme institutions institution that they might help to bear the responsibility and share in the benefits and thereby all the people be blessed blee sed president young did not desire that one man alone or a few men should gather in all the plums in merchandising but that all the people should share whatever profit there was in it will anyone deny that those who are interested in Z C U M 1 I have shared proportionately in the profits ui of that institution I 1 think they have I 1 have been in a small email way interested in it from the beginning and it has been one of the most moat profitable I 1 is j vestments I 1 ever maue made it today pays the stockholders 12 per cent per annum on their stock besides which it to ig laying away a residue as a reserve fund tu to strengthen the institution making it one of the most solid and reliable in the land shall we not patronize it shall we nut not sustain this industry for it is an industry we have a manufacturing department connected with it we manufacture thousands of dollars worth ol of boots and seges yet jet we are not able to manufacture anything like the amount that the community demands then we have an overall department and we export overalls to denver and to other places we ought to be exporters rather than importers im portera and when we become exporters of the products of our labor then indeed we will be in a condition approaching independence and we shall not be independent till then we do not all want to be farm farmere erp and it would not be wise for us all to be sugar augar makers it will not do for everybody to be merchants and bankers because if we were who would produce the sugar the bread the clothing and the other necessaries of life we have a number of good cheese manufactories manu factories among us but I 1 do not know whether we have got far enough along to export cheese yet we ought to do it with the facilities we have here for raising lucern with and without irrigation the lord is opening the way for the people to mise lucern and grain and even trees on dry land without irrigation I 1 heard beard that brother M W W merrill Merrl ll one of the twelve apostles who is in here her today had mid laid that if be were to be turnis bed with water free of cost to irrigate his land that he be would not accept of it to raise his grain with brother merrill here remarked that be had not watered his land for many years this la is the finest lucern country that I 1 know of and we ought to raise good cows and produce good milk good butter and good cheese sufficient to supply home consumption and then we ought to have a little surplus to export we ought to have more creameries crea meries and we ought to buy homemade cheese homemade home made butter homemade sugar homemade home made matle clothes and all homemade home made articles instead of patronizing ron izing those from abroad it if the people would d this gou would bless them and they would become all the richer and the more prosperous and those friends that are engaged in these manufactures would be encouraged for their investments would not prove failures failure and it would give more employment to the people and create permanent wealth for the country I 1 felt like t saying something about home industries but I 1 want you to understand there is no politics ioe in it it to is simply plainly told gospel truth it Is IB the gospel goepel of temporal salvation that I 1 am preaching to tnie this congregation the gospel of common sense it Is ia the gospel ut of reason reabon a gospel that the latter day saints should all honor and observe and not have to be urged to do it either we ought to have been converted to this years ago and have enjoyed the benefits that would have resulted to us from it instead ot of today sending our money out of the country in a continuous stream for that which can be produced at home just as ae well as aa A t can be produced ab abroad this wealth ought to be kept at ali home and employment given to our people so go that they will not bi be found wandering wan lenng ring up and down the streets ana through thu thoo country without anything to do I 1 am satis fled of this it la is good gospel too in ila its place just juet as much as ag faith in god repentance ot of sin and baptism for the remission of sin are good gospel pro pre cents pt iu in their place this temporal ajo gospel pel pertains to our present welfare to the building of temples to the sending bending of the gospel to the nations nation of the earth to the gathering fathering of the poor from distant lands to publishing the word of god bod and distributing it abroad among the people and to every material work involved in the progress and development of the co community you cannot do without it the idler saith the lord shall not eat the bread of the laborer in zion the lord requires that we shall not be idlers our people not de be employment when there la Is plenty of means ana plenty of intelligence among them to devise industries indue trieB and |
