Show written for this paper SELF RELIANT ACTIVITY for nearly fifty years the declared policy of this intermountain community has baa been one of self reliance and ana things of today are re an ev dene dence J that this continued advocacy has nt been barren of results particularly when it in t realized that most n bet of element were of the class which it if daura ly or by heredity least du di ased to any assertion afee rilon ot of personal or of 4 organized sel reli most meat of the tb fathers were of course willing to work that was a to lu da mental characteristic but as no DO man ever taught them to work for i t they der defended ended or someone a ee as to 1 lovide them their daily laboi to build them homes which they could rent and the lite lile led become thus thua theeb anical it we was rare for a buy boy to be other trian his big father bad A be bieu en r a factory hand a coal ml mi fr er wan man carlden er b ack smith larmier farmer or any other profess loii 0 or rt trade ratie ext xi ert might have been thil th result of this kind of training irai Dior but abare ber was waa mile little individualism eel ell ses 8 artin rilon or of un til via t of migration the thrifty the acab aou the oae wry weary ot 01 routine to bitant ui tant landa to new dew conditions anti and more generous bur round iua and these were bu fw in the beginning for it required red nerve neive fortitude g s anu euti education cation 1 waa slowly spreading the preas wap wa becoming beoo minK more I 1 population was wae crowding rod and in a few years the trick ling streams of exodus became a veritable river the distant continents aej many islands of the sell aea this movement had set in when the early missionaries of the church it 1889 faret lauded in england ka 8 0 on D converts orts were made and the spirit ol of gathering when n received or taught harmonized wonder oily ally with teh growing spirit of the times la in fact the he original movement was assuredly inspirational it if the base of action war wail lose less worthy and more impulsive evidently the time had bome for dis die n toe one hand band and gathering on the cthel that the set bet bimel ifill ID the divine program in regard to won men races and nations an aa affecting modern times had already dawned just jast fancy how bow this moiety of humanity which gathered to utah felt in the early days of deprivation fancy the staid european lending landing in these valleys alter abter a somewhat revolutionary trip from his bis quiet home and stere oyied without a regular employer without we wa es ou on saturday a home he could rent without the shop where be had had bad his little credit from week to beeb and then to learn those creative sel lessons which were the burthen of the leader anu the he uncompromising genius of this thie grand educational wort I 1 chii k of the novel lessons that were had to in this di directs dire oti n plowing planting bauling logo loge making adebie building buil build big think of the dirt root roos the mud floor i he little windows the scent scant bedding beiJ diug anc insufficient clothing next to lear jear how bow to milk perchance to make the butter conn come then ben the lye box the b gosp aap bolling boiling the ibe hallowed tall owed tag rag for light until candle making was waa understood or carding wool lair coloring beavin making syrup from freoa carrots beets or the box elder eider afterward realizing the times of camit 9 enjoying the luxury of redroot b idd with a meatless bunt finally abe be trip to echo oan can you anil and abe move with a thov band other after experiences growing out of lifis liap prison lite life plural married life bu business busi peee lifto lift lite ever on the stretch reaching out in pou poverty verty in la in death almost dw mug with lane brethren tasting a cooki ueal oeal or of neglect of un on toll toil or j digap I 1 and I 1 ah ab abele have been emong among the hard lee iee some and the unexpected ones too at ai least when in the first flush of youth and warmth or of goabel loaf toai that consecration se fleora uon to goil god humanity and brutto we waa made which has baa never been without its glory even if seen been through many tears teare necessity was the handmaid of this abia touching there had bad to be saw mills mille I 1 grist mills milla and 0 ruing machines factories and publio public were in the common thought to set aee I 1 brur to I 1 coal sugar augar flax silk cotton crockery cloth le leather aLber how hate furniture in the elements elemen tB around was waa DO opt chai privilege but to extract to draw out to pioneer lor for a community at echo I 1 neeli needed tid Is a teacher scout from guu god and as aa the twain saw eye to t yf creation bucure ran riot so eu ve vere reathe atlie and varied were its ita effort enor tei meth us da anu atna it was wae tw which made aalt lake city ogden brigham Brig bam P provo Paro Par wap washington mud til corge it universal lit it wits waa tie the daystar of temporal tem success of and the alle of real tangible an enduring during we itt never dever made bade such giant strides as a in 10 the palmy days daya of actual and projected home rho ahe in croome oi 01 ED oney money which should have been ao ad almighty lever lii lb the handout a united pepie for the lull full at curing pt ct a ober label was the very incoruati ou ol of another spirit pirn no men man was waa proof agal list the durive ut worship 01 imported lods 10 da home effort once easy and everywhere beoma uphill work sud and at eiloe doe ellah once bastou the it nut bidden fruit of treasure nave been poured from here lutu into other otties and stake employing labor lu iu which there wom wai no special entert int ert st building up factories facto neB which ut ot albere adding to tue lue wealth of abler states anu ana impoverishing the best people and neutralizing the ces of tt e grandest gran deet and most moat prolific region in ibis part of the republic human nature presents pree ente a good deal of sameness as the ages agea way may be aua nned ned an old authority said aid to hie bia co for when for the time aut betit ye ought to be teachers achere te ye have bare need that one teach you again which be the first principles plea of the oracles of god and another A postle wit hiir the lafit ft w day jusys hai baj to lament the slowness lowness low of action exhibited by tile corel igloo late war alac while we tte former r might have referred to a more corb elevated anti 90 spiritual ritual asiar don yet no DO Is ie 8 9 emphatic declaration is IB needed tor for that hat which Is ie temporal for a thousand to in the cieli conj ten thousand believer abroad all soc accepting epting the spirit of gathering de jsn mand more effort moro more unity more rod and creative statesmanship then at any oro vinus nuB period to isay ay noab nothing I 1 ing of t tia 1 I a i i tris j necessities of one hundred I 1 I 1 11 I 1 fifty thousand of a posterity who 1 nond in great i part dart on the creative drift of i heir catoe ta there rs and men of ix it fluence at large this continuous preaching la in just fled bed by the tun but procrastination lo in its stealthy way defers defer the day of prosperity from this direction UD less leee there is ie moi ey in it and safety as an there la in in banking merchandising izing etc etc tc it to ie but a while ran ao since ao an earnest worker thought as an others bad baa done that a all I 1 the fruit used at home should be home grown and a california gent gentleman liman from ban baia jose was anxious to in making this industry a suc success cesel here the home man headed the subscription list hat with one thousand dollars and together they visited the merchants of this city shelves were laaen with imported gooda but oot not oi 01 e bollar was wae promised to aid the enterprise or was waa any assurance given that their patronage would be it was babler to import then than to invest end and patriotism succumbed to the groveling greed of trade and profit it la is not so eo very long cloce ome borne of the brethren determined that there was waa room here bore tr t r the manufacture of bats near one bond hundred red and fifty thousand hou cand ut L population protest against going bart ban beaded and even the in diaks who for ages had bad done this now rever 4 nily follow the example of their au med superior superiore supe but this abr headgear is imported by tons tens of thousands thoua anda of iii 1111 beup w while bile some five thousand dol do lars lara of invested capital lies liea idle in the be form of machinery bought for this abla pur purpose slid and all of the latest type in this the ch chief lof city of theoretical home manufacture the investors having 0 their resources there to is no MR man n or interested enough to cupply the paltry dollars needed for or this erect pre pr jeer ct the indefatigable workers of olden times limes and cruder met bous boue such as brothers heywood tattoo shelmerdine leonard red and merrill Merr ll would have looked upon this opportunity and these improvements as an a veritable Go godsend disend and revelation in the years gone by the I 1 lute rested trade to soy nothing of the people are elmost every year bothered over the fruit jet jar bu some someone one began the re here of much and kindred goodr for some reasor tile the works are in rules ruins and hundreds of 01 tons of second band material disfigure dit figure out our yards and only to be burled buried out of at sight eight as opportunity serves the partial ien lon of out our woolen factories to Is alo alao an ever present dali grace to our pretensions but the fact lot ia the manufacturers and manipulators have near c me to realize the condition of the m deses of utah wool ts to shipped away bythe by the millions of pound clothing is imported annually to the tune of a million dollard doll arc arp but a homemade home made r cult until recently has never been priced within reach of the ine pockets of the laboring man or his fifteen dollars a suit to is prominently placarded pla carded now but with wheat ILI forty onta cents it takes bushels to buy 0 at toll I 1 leather manufacturing lit is nearly orle one of the lost art to rn utah ulab oana caus irre ivre cornea comes for its resurrections resurrection and aid boot boat and shoo shoe manufacturing la Is nut not what it Ite should bould be it if buyert buyers aren and makers were in an aa full and earnest unison as aa the be times demand bemand A good deal has hai been done Is being done but whether circumstances circumstance i will wili ever arise to inkret inkjet upon or compel a more drift in that direction time only can determine the prin ciple remains rema to as aa good and aadva ory mud more needed now than ever bu it palls palla upon the tae ears eara of capital anti anil as the populace usually imitates those accident or effort has e to tower rower and wealth progress will N b de sultry ry and slow elow when it to be systematic rapid ever enlarging and as aa im impregnable rAble to the and nd temptations of itinerant drum crummere mere and dealers dea lero so as arts are the angels to the blandishments blandish ments of that prince mud power ot of the attilla an I 1 |