Show TO BE OK OR NOT OT TO TO BE bem BEP our history as a community hag has taught us many valuable lessons lesson i s which it would be well to always keep in green remembrance one of these and an important one is that in our seasons of peril and hours of need we have found none with the will who had the ability to help us and unaided except by god we have had to work out our position the great lever of friendship in the world as the world moves is inte interest rost and the persecuted mormons cormons Mor mons of missouri and illinois the wanderer wanderers of 47 pioneering a way through the rocky mountains to these western regions presented little apparently to affect the interest of office or fortune hunters except to a few more keen sighted than their fellows but times have changed and circumstances have changed with them the wandering pilgrims of nineteen years ago are today to day a prosperous community rapi rapidly idly becoming rich the discovery has been made albeit the gold epidemic never manifested itself here to any serious extent that money is to be made among the mormons cormons Mor mons and friends M anxious to help us to take lake care of our some men have come here and made themselves homes men of trade and deal who have increased their property to a considerable extent but who have also returned part of it back again through the legitimate channels of trade and employment helping to buildup build up the place and giving increased employment to the laboring and mechanical classes that is so far so good but there is another class whose numbers are rapidly swelling that come here on OIL the wing remain long enough to become comparatively rich and depart with what they have acquired to be heard of no more idour in our great generosity we give them what they get and take away with them do they build any ny houses no do they make any improvements yes in their wardrobes and increase the contents of their purses purges what do they do to build up the city or develop the country nothing and some of them have the cool assurance to tell latter day saints that they can sell seli cheaper than certain other merchants because they dont pay tithing as an inducement for those latter day saints to buy from them it is about time that this class should get the cut direct and be let severely alone we have exceptions honorable exceptions among what are called I 1 gentile merchants men who do spend means among us more than their boarding and washing bills but the class referred to should find that tile the 1 mor mons can appreciate the disinterested efforts of those who would not spend a dime for the benefit of this community but bat would grow fat upon our industry and tra traduce dilea alica and vilify us for our patronage we were very gratified at the presidents published remarks on the su subject b of trading and at the spirit they have awakened we are or ought to be perfectly competent to do our own trading and if we should lack help it can be found among those whose hearts are larger than a bill we can freight our surplus flour and dried j fruit to the best markets ourselves we can sell them and handle the money ourselves we can buy in the best markets ourselves bring on the goods bought in our own wagons with our own teams and we can use the profits for building up ourselves our territory and the kingdom of god we can do these things and we ought to do them by that hard lesson of self reliance which we have been so often and so bitterly compelled to learn and by the destiny of wealthy influence and power which awaits us we should realize and know by this time that we must be self sustaining in all things onward and upward the work of god steadily travels who will follow where the voice of our leaders indicates the track |