Show LETS LIVE modern thinkers leavo benned denned and established the existence of two powerful principles that underlie impel and control all our actions these are the egotistical and altruistic the former is the principle giat ping exclusive selfishness the latter is the sympathetic ing others whilo we disapprove and biad are f in the acquisition aej preservation of regardless gard less of the privations and sufferings of others ye deem it a foi ICES heinous but more ruinous to ones own interests and welfare in attending and administering to the wants of others A french proverb teaches us that charity well ordered commences at home and a homely but impressive saxon maxim says that the shirt is nearer than tho coat all thi signifies that the true wisdom of lif i consists not in miserly boarding nor in lavish squandering of means and fortune but in well poised economy and charity lets lre for ourselves must bo lie first impulse in us unless wo are somewhat egotistical in acquiring for ourselves a livelihood aej a competency we will not bo able to administer to the wants of others or relieve their misery if we apply this principle to the people of this territory we shall find hat hey individually speaking have always understood to live for themselves so as to beable to confer benefits on one mother collectively taken however our people not heeding sufficiently the and counsel given them ever unco the earliest days have brilliant opportunities offered by nature and man to gain in wealth influence and independence they have failed to take all the ad vantage of the circumstances which surrounded them at their first advent in this barren desolate alkaline wilderness thoy had necessarily to direct their undivided attention to pursuits which would give them and their children food they broke with sharp plowshare and robust hand the unwilling clod they brought the life giving water from the mountains by a system el canals extensive and the early dawn and tho late gleaming saw them in tho fields laboring in the sweat of their foreheads to secure the staff of life thus it cimo that after a few years hard labor and unceasing toil the former bleak and discouraging wastes were changed into golden fields and verdant meadows fragrant gardens and blooming orchards there was food everywhere in the barn and in the cellar the people were oven so well supplied as to be able to stanl a miss year without suffering hunger famine man had she who once was so jealous and clary now scattered plenty around with open lavish hand then camo the time when the people ought to have expanded their views and taken other matters in consideration besides simply agrical agri cul tureman does cat and drink he has many other necessities thus before all he wants to be clothed for purposes of decency health and pro lection from the snowy pods of tho cotton bush from the fleece of the and the cocoon of the Torm ho takes the materials out tle greatest part of his clothing the climatic conditions and the soil of the south are such as readily to yield remunerative crops of cotton but we still fail to hear of any attempt at cotton raising there our hills and moun bains throughout the length and width of the territory are carpeted with rich and luxuriant pasture for flocks and flocks of sheep yet there are comparatively speaking only a few men who have given the sheep raising the attention it so well deserve experts all concur that our soil is splendidly adapted for mulberry trees and tha climate is so warm and dry that utah might compete with chini and france in the production of silk but utah silk is a yel weighed by tho ounces and pounds where it might bo weighed we can only in passing pont out important matters which if properly attended to would not only beep hundreds ef thousands of dol ars in this conn try which now go out of ij but would yield our people a revenue far exceeding that from aio oio mines oar agricultural production have been too one narrowly circumscribed wheat hay and potatoes have monopolized too much of our farmer timo ond toil they have had to spend bouble work on crop to get the means wherewith to buy what they might leavo pro at half the coat and labor elih can and should raise all her food and all tho materials for clothing from the head to the toes nature as a beneficent mother ia willing to grant and yield flit tho abundance of her riches to those who toil and labor for it soil and ky annl water aro hero only inana sturdy hand a needed guided by thoughtful brain |