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Show UTAH IN THE DEPRESSION. There is a fine lesson in the attitude of this territory in these dark days of depression, and it is one which we delight de-light to drive home upon all fitting occasions. The wisdom of the great founder of Utah is seen in many of the policies he adopted. We do not epeak of the church or its policies which he founded here, only as they naturally or incidentally break into the 1 subject. He led a singular population to these then remote desert wastes. The vast majority of the Bet tiers were from the poorer classes of the different European states, and singularly enough they, as a rule, were not the tillers of the soil. They came rather from the workshops of the large manufacturing manu-facturing towns of England,. Scotland, "Wales and Ireland ; many indeed from the larger towns of Scandinavia and Germany, while a respectable minority minor-ity came from the New England states. These latter could by no means he called farmers. With materials such as these Brigham Young determined to build up here an agricultural state with incidental manufacturing enterprisesor, enter-prisesor, to speak more properly, with only enough manufacturing enterprises en-terprises to render Utah as nearly self-sustaining self-sustaining as possible. This too, was accomplished with a wonderful mining min-ing excitement prevailing in California and when forty-nine out of every fifty . men wno sought the gold fields passed through the territory on their way to the Pacific coast where the gleam of the yellow gold beck oned the hardy and the adventurous adven-turous to sudden wealth and importance. With all this noise and bustle, with all the vast number of sudden fortunes made "SSjZi their very eyes, the steady, plodu, bard-working men of "Utah went on patiently in their work of reducing re-ducing the desert, in watering its arid soils, and building farms. The wisdom wis-dom of this policy was not then apparent appar-ent to the masses of the people, nor did they ever fully understand it un-till un-till the present fierce storm of financial wreck and ruin bursted upon the Startled nrld. Now le ruin and disaster, the sheriffs v:t" trustees are selling out the people of t.: 3 east, cf California and of Europe we have comparatively little of it he ar i fiiat little is confined to those, .;!. : visely departed from the fd irHchings and went into thee? Fj-"?c" vtions which required ; themortg. pi-.? the home to carry them on. J!" i- true that Utah has not much mon :y, but her farmers are not being Bold out. While put to it, to get - the tax money tiecessary, they all have enough to cat, have good comfortable homes and clothing to wear. They can afford ta wait until the storm rolls by when thty will be in condition to make the most of the good times which will surelv return again to us within me nei-t icw ujilib. Utah can never be seriously crippled, crip-pled, set back, or hurt in any way, as long as she keeps her farms free and unencumbered, and she cannot starve as long as these are worked, and her people maintain the frugal industrious industri-ous habits they were taught when Utah was young. Owing to these habits she will be in poeition to gather the first fruits of that returning prosperity which even now iB casting its beams ahead. ' Let no Utonian despair. The future has for each brave heart and strong hand that which will render her men rich, her homes happy and all her people . prosperous. Patience, economy and industry are the qualities needed now, with forbearance and accomru odation with those in debt we will pass out from this trial, severe as it has undoubtedly un-doubtedly been, without scar or maiming, maim-ing, and we will have here in this beautiful territory the fairest and most prosperous young state in all the wide west. |