Show NEGLECTED opportunities A neglected opportunity I macx ter to which we always revert with regret when the is one which might have been turned to account utah has a list of uch eventa beyond the ability of and all that can man to compute be done now is to profit by the past and resolve to do better in the future pit Is useless to repine for what might have been but if so doing will cause be benefited it may do some good all in the first place we are decidedly prone to disposing of our merchantable and marketable commodities when there is an abundance and alie prices are consequently low then hanging on to them when there is ai scarcity and figures run high o who have paid strict attention to the current and past history of the territory will attest the truth of this instead of keeping out of panics or bull or bear amenta of any kindas a people whose independence is of the genuine clasa might easily do we seem to lose our equilibrium at every turn of the commercial wheel and be affected by all the changes in the eddying and whirling of the financial current all of which makes u partake of the common lot of common mortality by being poor ewhen the masters of the money i market so will it and only enjoying euch measure of prosperity as they may graciously accord whereas our position as producers of all the necos barios and some of the comforts of life in abundance entitles us to something vastly better instead of per manipulators to control w as we have been doing for several years why not take thing easily and by easy stages obtain the whip hand over them those who deliberately elect to remain in alons of servitude will never be i n of themselves or anybody or I any thing else of any consequence if the people of utah were like the oppressed laborers of england who work and hoard every penny or suffer in proportion to prodigality or idleness it would be different but nearly everybody and certainly all the yeomanry in utah ie comparatively independent it ie only a question of doing without some little for a brief period while every athing coming under the head of actual necessaries is always on hand and in abundance but yet wa de literately libera tely barter a host of the latter for a of the former this kind i i of business steadily pursued year u i ui after year as has been the unfortunately would keep any community hard up and always scratching for stray dollars sell when there i a good market and never sell for the mero eake of selling is a good rule to follow but suppose there ia a flood surplus and r storage is worth more than the article stored some one may say a a would all and for anything ibbe good policy to destroy the over because no ono wished e to buya hardly yet what differ encelan there possibly poe sibly be between de Biro ying and gelling for leei than the cost af pf production unless it be a dif farence in favor of destruction it is invariably the case that one extreme follows another and a cheap staple article tills year is morally cor tain to be dear next year or the one after we put the question di to our gr angers i have you not i found it if you have dont a throw away what you dont actually need just now but hold on a little longer and receive something like compensation for your toil care and expense in other words dont j your opportunities |