| Show SHALL WE ANSWER YES OR NO it la Is a matter of query with some whether the mormon people do really consume 0 the amount either io in weight or dollars of the three articles named in a late issue of the abe NEWS to be sure two hundred and fifty thousand dollars does seem an immense sum eum but some pains were taken to verity verify those figures which were understated understate a rather than exceeded jin analysis the estimate given for tea and coffee is much below me llie average elsewhere I 1 ahe he english use more tea per head bead as the america ab use more coffee for the mormon population of utah or members of the church as ae they were assumed to beg be it is ie after all but one pound per ner capita annually of the former and a little less jess of the latter the incongruity of the statement lb 16 based on the asumption that the first two articles are practically tabooed tabo oed which lu in theory they are and ir the facts are against ane people it will hardly do to say buy bo much worse woree for the facts the two are indisputably articles which can be fairly clanged as aa luxuries save to the poor woman whose fare is anil and to whom after a lifes use a sprinkle of tea in a cup or two of water eau do but little save in fancy either special harm or good such stion habit or weakness has not nol infrequently been intemperately intemperate Jy denounced noun ced however by enthusiastic sticklers klers for the word of wisdom ll 11 those too who at the table would hii get away with consid aralle of animal food which is specially restricted in the same game covenant with promis els that much violence is done to the human organization bation by the use of these beverages extra strong and far too b hot ot cannot be disputed that much of our drinking water lei is hard by virtue of the lime which it holds in solution and that special diseases are common from this cause is generally acknowledged so that boiled water and warm drinks are an improvement it if not adulterated unwisely or at too great a cost for the use in any form but little excuse a s offered ofle red chewing is a dirty habit smoking an offensive one particularly to non nonusers users aud and cigarette smoking gp indulged in mainly by young dudes is decried by the highest medical redi oal authorities as the most injurious of all methods of using tobacco the use of all three tea coffee and tobacco is a custom which might be more honored in the breach than it in the observance and were they all discarded tomorrow it if would be a greater pleasure to mention ment jion that fact than it is in to bei able to say today that much lose lees is used in utah now than anywhere else in christendom with the same population reference Beter was made some weeks ago to the continuous importation of hog products into this territory and experiences perien ces were quoted as to the wisdom and profitable use of wheat for feeding if we must have pork at all almost every family uses ham bacon laru laro etc tu to some extent so that upon the surface of things it might be concluded that importations would be heavy but even the la in formed hardly realize an aggregate which astounds it figures do not lie PY 9 calculations are not made for this thia at random no sensationalism is intended but it la in intended to supply a lesson leeson to the farmer feeder and consumer in utah so that if pork products are desirable our prolific lucern now selling in the country at three dollars per too may be tripled in value and that rye and surplus wheat may supplement the lubern and surplus milk etc in the production of meat vastly sweeter as a experience has proved than the most choice importation por tation if we have enterprise and force enough to make self sustenance a living article of a living jiving and effective areeda can the Uton lane tans give any reason why they should buy annually over balfa half a million pounds really of dry salt bacon over three hundred thousand pounds of hamand nearly ten tea thousand pounds of breakfast break tast bacon at a cost of five thousand dollars or that tuey should pay the railroads about twelve thousand sud five hundred dollars for bringing this in fifty loaded cars car to their very doors As it if to show more glaringly the disuse of our own resources and our determination to got get kansas and iowa and nebraska abraska and Mitos missouri ourt to work for that gold which we give in exchange for or their pork we have to add 0 to o this fabulous abuse of the purchasing power the use of lard which as a hog product must be included in the estimate of our fally and ot of our ignorance in the alphabet of political or financial econom economy economys utah no the two thirds thereof supposed to be latte rd saints used in a year when poor butter went begging pounds of lard which cost east over dollars and for which was paid to the railroads for gross weight freight making the utah expenditure south of ogden for lard only nearly or for these unified products an aggregate of one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars paid out jor that which if produced at home we should receive greater gustative enjoyment enjoy meat run less risk as to health secure labor for our local population and be sure of a home market as well all of means the retention io iou a iu ill utah of that circulating medium now shipped away but which it if kept at home would give an impetus to industrial endeavor w V loafer greater thrift and so aid the cause of general progress pros and that assurance we desire of eventual practical independence for fo the successful production or of any articles article system and business management are indispensable individual pork raising will do but cutting and curing promiscuously will not self feeding will not answer even for a hog bog lucern would have to be out cut iod and eaten milk supplied where practicable or good clean water as aa a matter of course then suitable quarters as a shelter irum heat or cold and these added to general 0 cleanliness leau liness beyond query or suspicion would insure healthy anim ant malc alp sweet pork and be one more stimulus ulua in a direction now sadly madly needed multiplication of the most suitable breeds would first airet command the attention of farmers small boneo e sy ay kept varieties not an extry albed clas alak s or those disposed to too much fat and if with time the supply should exceed the demand markets are in splendid proximity or if from education or conviction the local ute at last were fully abandoned a profitable business elsewhere would be a foregone conclusion do we not need economy in our expenditure pend iture abroad and could we not be a little more laelah in our encouragement of creation at home if so that creation means revolution lor it means use me or it means loss joes this multiplication of mills factor factories lest farms and ainu asti ies generally is of no avail unless the masses use these local products product the provo north salt bait lake ogden beaver and other woolen factories lac tones languish because there is IB nu market tor for their goods we are overjoyed because california conc concludes lucies to buy for her militia cloth enough jor for five thou thousand suits suite while we have in this territory over forty thousand heads of la ia milles with probably not less than three boys bilan axt an avera average geto to each making one hundred and fitly fifty thom thousand and belonging to th emale l lall aal aol ot whom have to be clad in cloths claths of some kino kind and ten thousand besides bet edep who have not a attained to panto all for the lighter fabrics of home production Z C M 1 I erected its shoo shoe factory some years ago with a capacity for two hundred thousand pairs peran per annum but its baebi ory ery Is asleep aau massachusetts sends its foot footgear iLear good bad and indifferent to be ground up on our thoroughfares thorough lares while idle men stud and walling waiting boys are forestalled sta lleti in their desire for bread and labor because the spirit tf cf philan has become diseased or our eyes see only possible dit distress itress it if we withdraw our piA patronage from the lar far off east and use the product ot of muscle and machinery in the me city we love so well 11 what fatuity is this Is there not something rotten in denmark and are words and covenants meaningless coming up as a stink in the nostrils ln oi 01 the lord god almighty and subjecting the community as a totality to the asperse B n of one who had bau authority when he declared that he buo will not provide for his own hath bath already alre atly denied the faith at ai d is 18 worse than an infidels in fidell I in searching the records of home manufacture it was really namable n table to discover after lorty years of trade that even with tue the increase of population utah supplies herself mainly with one ole article which used to be importer import eu ou in great numbers it in ie not a wonderful thing but one houte doets doen itsell proud by buying annually about 1600 1500 dozen brooms from george M webster west jordan salt bait lake valley a man who is the legitimate successor t waite mind and holburn and tribe ana of years gone by the old time broom made by some of these pion pioneers usta to sell cell at 76 75 per hundred and retail at 1 each some borne of them were crude and beav heavy unusable almost by an ordinary woman now comes a big reduction in price and taste laate in manufacture and further enterprise should produce enough to exclude import importation atin into utah beyond all doubt for ever ever ab this home manufacture has baa an sound it would be music if we e had the melody within oura elvee but there are discords die cords there and the very words are trite and almost offensive to our cultured ears money has flown freely into other channels groots with a foreign label have found ready sale eale and use and somehow even the chosen are shorn of power and fall fail yet as an example because of esthe the luat just of the biesh the lust of the eye and the pride of mel life |
