Show YOU TALK ABOUT HARD TIMES I 1 I 1 let us turn back to grasshopper times t in 1855 the grasshoppers took all the H crops there being but little surplus grain on hand it made close i PIC picking k in be HI lore fore the crops of 56 were harvester harve harvested steT I 1 do not believe that there were one lun hun jl dred pounds of flour in fillmore when ahn 5 father stott threshed his wheat every family had a representative on the grounds with a sack to borrow a erist the crop was carried to the ditl i I 1 rist on k backs everybody turned out to help helo his neighbor harvest A peck of wheat heat 4 was the pay tor for a days work I 1 stopped my brick making and took my peck r ot OI wheat with the rest here was shown the wisdom and goodness of the leaders of the church they set the price of flour at six dollars per hundredweight and all adhered t that price and divided their surplus to at that figure what suffering there cheref would at have been if goldbug gold bug speculation had aa been permitted I 1 went to fillmore in may 56 just in time of scarcity doctors the people did not want the saddler trade I 1 harf had learned in youth was of no use bishop bartholomew wanted to build a mill ans IS wanted brick for it I 1 told him I 1 could and make them sometime in july burned the first kiln of 37 thousand we w b rick brick ever burned between the missouri river river and california the bishop to furnish flour butter milk and butters utter milk mostly buttermilk and once in while a piece bece of bacon to boil with a our greensher greens green she the grens greens we wd furnished our selves in the morning one of us would ou r go after the horse that turned the mill which ground the mortar the other chopped the wood made the fire and amt parched the barley that made the coffee the other went for the greens which ate three times a day pythias v whose we job was to gather the greens and cook coonc was a little careless sometimes over ov looking a or two nothing would delight him so much as to draw out worm and hold it up exclaim hedeo hert damon see what ive found V I 1 daman ba pythias and bauk were our oil nafe there was no store in town and what we had money to purchase we haal to go to salt lake for that took with 1 horse teams two or three over a month along the road weeks s out or imposing on our friends TU the va e i price of tea now was then ti on calico to nails oo 00 per CW everything else in proportion timi fe stores issued script which they gave von yott for change when you came back with the script and wanted domestic tb they would give you only one half domes domestico tj for the rest you would have to take some hard stock which they would suggest do without we had to buckskin clothes were in order my share of the brick I 1 sold to whoever wanted to build a chimney or any thin else in the fall thing 9 when I 1 went to collict evera everyone one had pumpkin squashes potatoes Dota toes cabbages anal amt currants to pay me but not a cent of money A mission arys wife brought SH 2 brick enough to build a house la 0 which she paid me two patched worked quilts one hickory shirt and a straw hat made by hersell herself she had no thread so she unraveled a piece of cotton cl cloth to sew the straw braids with the cloth y was not new hence when I 1 came in contact with the wind it soon broke the sewing my hair which I 1 wore long 0 M o S V fashion would work through as to be in that often during m much h so the crown so take ke both hands and lift bad to the day I 1 b back k on all the hair it it op off and set straw hat have I 1 seen again many a worn eats we all often winter had dances the first with thing the make peace to do was to and your fiddler and then go engage P wheat per couple was f 0 of peck sirl ir A pe if you had no wheat the usual charge the fiddler some other you must went to the dance and there all way papers to report what society was no one thing I 1 now remember wore each lady they had on was a smiling and they always wore an countenance we were as one family honest heart when we met and it was a meeting of a happy family out so I 1 purchased my mv clothing gave smoked them buckskin and a pa i r of much that they had V with th s sagebrush age brush indian so I 1 had of an th the flavor with bottoms spring a pair of tight pants keep them in place as a to and straps will remember was few ej elderly readers days I 1 ripped these those the fashion laid them on the buckskin spring bottoms around them forgetting to slun and and cut for shrinkage and sewed leave anything welt in the seams then them with a up jumper to lap a little I 1 had a buckskin and but little also a waist f over at the made out of valley val eytan tan pairs pair of shoes neither oil nor blacking leather had leather that them pliable or black enough in to make 11 brick costing coo foery they were knit me a pair of socks abood woman corded and spun by be wool had to short with socks were hand hence the hat new shoes straw hickory shirt the hickory suit sit I 1 went to meeting and buckskin I 1 heard then them boys As I 1 passed the I 1 lenry henry how well he is is look at p say suit since a had many I 1 have dressed in with the but that I 1 stood up none that did with same 36 pride I 1 but the old sa saying ving pride goes before monday morning fall tall came true a haa rained the horse it I 1 went after the e grass was we wet t my pants got wet I 1 I 1 rolled them up one avi toy got long wet another tuck tuck went on more 1 had mast most of the pants rolled up and them them off unrolled belll they dried hung them up to dry them dried beheld my and when I 1 heart sank within me i made maae a husn for lish hoops who helped us green difficulties he told me to hori horns out of dampen them and draw them on and let them dry which I 1 did when dry between the valley tan there was a space of the sock and a still shoe and the top the top of the lar between larger er space space I 1 also of the pants sock and and the he bottom some discrepancy between the pants could see the shirt and jumper so you had bad dried into a bottom the sann spring horn the anees knees bulged out the seat well it looked like I 1 wanted to sit down au all the time on the whole it looked as if I 1 were squatting r ready to jump but they were aall had haa so I 1 had to wear them to california when I 1 got to san bernardino put my mules away and re registered I 1 made a break for a c cheap I 1 p john store and a barber shop when I 1 camelback ca to the hotel and was waiting for my meal the landlord came up to me and saia said do you vou know where that little bowlegged bow legged s spring pr ing i kneed buckskin follow fellow is gone to I 1 would not have told him for the world I 1 would not describe this suit only that I 1 have a living witness to the facts S bishop myron tanner of provo he saw me with the suit on you talk about hard times with good crops plenty of wheat oats barley corn potatoes cabbage all kind of fruit in abundance honey and sweet milk enough for all I 1 what are you talking about what if the money g gutters aters have saved up all the money and have it in in strong vaults that need not trouble the farmer what ought to trouble the man of utah is how to live within his means yott have all the elements here you can sow and make it rain ram when yu you want to you can produce anything here that is is good for man and you have ha i a continuous market for many years past what each farmer can now ask himself is is what have I 1 done with all the prosperity r ity of so many years past have I 1 raised chickens and turkeys to supply the winter market so the merchant need not send east this winter will you have hogs enough for the market so we will not have to send a million or more dollars to chicago tor the pork we must have the thrifty farmer has some but the shiftless farmer will tell you it wont ply pay to raise hogs because they can be raised cheaper in illinois or missouri you have lucern wheat barley and rye why not raise hogs you say it n will not pay to raise poultry but it will pay to have half a million dollars a year go east for the same product compare today with the days I 1 have spoken of of and compare to day with what utah would have been if the people had taken the advice president young heber C kimball 1 geo A smith and others gave them 1 would it not be in order to resurrect some of those sermons and read then them refresh your memories with those self sustaining lectures of earlier days hard times have come and come because of your own extravagance you have sent east for everything you wanted till your money is is all gone and then you say hard times utah is better off than her neighbors and will be the first to recover but we must have a defor I 1 mation A financial reformation is is different from a religious reformation with the latter all you have to do is is to repent and get re baptized then you can go ahead again in a financial reformation you have to make peace with those you vou owe some have hearts and will give e you longer time others will take ciyou all you have and you will still be in debt the shylocks Shy locks will now get fat for they will have many pounds 0 of flesh it is perhaps well that settling day has come everybody will know just what he is worth when it is over the merchant will know how to purchase goods better and I 1 hope better goods and not bring to utah all the old shelved goods of the east the farmer will not run in debt for his crop before the seed is in the ground the mechanic or laborer will take home more of his wages how would it seem boys to have in in kour your pocket some of that money you have ave wasted in the past reform is the word be kind to each other and pa pay y your debts as soon as you can H 1 I FAUST |