| Show THE SILK AND FRUIT INDUSTRIES It will wUl no do doubt be very recommendable recommendable for tor the people of the R Rocky mountains to raise silk sUk to can c n and dry fruit etc for tor their home use and may be also to supply a home market where exchanges can be made on equitable terms In value of labor ex- ex expended ex expended and where the ruinous effects ot of the wicked money contraction can oaB have nothing to do with It But if It our experience Is II worth anything in com cam competing with pauper prices price these articles cannot be produced and aDd manu manu- manufactured manufactured for the market at much higher wages than from 1 to 8 cents per day daYd day labor The rural population of ot these regions are as yet not under the necel necessity sity of ot exchanging the be fruits of ot their labor on any but legitimate terms and andr have bave no inclination to engage in com commercial com com- commercial mercial competition at above prices But Jet us UI have hare some true data pre pre- pre eD senji g the real labor value when app i d a to the silk Uk and fruit raising aid 61 for tor market To gl glen give encouragement giri-encouragement en encouragement enough to cause caule people to en engage age in the necessary training and and- outlay of ot means will undoubtedly re- re require re require quire considerable of a protection lit in ii order to raise ralee it up to a paying com com- commercial commercial com commercial mercial enterprise There is II generally what l is called spare time in house house- households holds which perhaps profitably could be filled out in 10 these and other indus indus- industries industries tries But our rural population have plenty t to do that will afford them a living without stooping down to labor for pauper wages Let us III have a fair fair- trial of ot these home bome industries and what profits there may be In ID them for for- wage earners more than to engage In them for home use and consumption CHRISTIAN A MADSEN GUNNISON Utah July 5 6 |
