Show WE MUST manufacture utah territory has a big political commercial Lom mercial and economic lesson to learn political because it is the basis of our national policy the policy that las has been tried daring during many years and in the face ace of the bitterest opposition from abaroa 1 and at home has made itself the bulwark of our business stability commercial because in its very essence it constitutes national state and municipal independence and great greatness and economic because exactly in the ratio that tha titis it ia well or ill learned and applied is the wealth or poverty of its students the intelligence independence and hap happiness Diness of all who try to conform to its teachings we refer to the question of home manufacture man facture an old etory story yet one that is ever new at the present time it ought to be full fall of interest as it is full fall of importance to the people of this territory Terri territory tor to the city of ogden and the county of weber it is fraught with the most impressive consequences to every inhabitant whether he be be banker merchant artisan or laborer it means more than the matter of a present boom it means the future development and prosperity or the retrogression and somnolence of our section of country agriculture and fruit growing are tha broad and sure foundation upon which the territory has thus far been bail ded considerable revenue has ben been received from the mines and not a little from our cattle and wool these combined have given ns us as a community alt all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life but the arable lands of the territory are pretty well occupied at least until a more effective system of storing and saving water shall be adopted the grazing lands are every ever year beem ing more and more narrowed and it costs more and there ie is greater riek risk in producing a carcass of beef and a big of wool than a few years ago besides neither agriculture nor grazing nor both combined as pursuits are cod conducive alive to a dense population or to the growth of f large cities and we all know that mines of themselves are not very productive of cities at all we in oden A salt lake and other hopeful cities of utah cannot evade nor escape the conclusion that we must mast pay more a and immediate attention to I 1 the manufacture of our raw products either thic thip or we are nearing our limit ae as a home tor for working men and a mart for business bustness men this ia is a solemn view few to take of the situs situation but we think it a correct one Lookout look out upon the larger and more prosperous cities of our ia land nd and look also upon the chief centers of trade and population abroad I 1 either they are sea lorte or they employ their cit in manufacturing tobe to ba surrounded by a fruitful rural section is of course courser a very desirable advantage but that of itself never made it great city and never will the fire re I 1 ave a bur eur plus and they natural v ic lo fc to the nearest city for a suppose that city buys the farmers surplus two courses aro are open dither elther to consume aitor it or ship it further no one will hesitate to eay say that the former ie Is preferable but bat how low shall the city residents consume it unless they pay for it unless they are capitalists ita lists how bow shall they pay tor for it except that they must cork work and what shall they work at except manufacturing oae great trouble heretofore has been that we have exported our grain fruits and vegetables and imported our hardware clothing and almost everything else save food even of food thousands of dollars worth come into oden from abroad every year pork cheese sugar and canned fruits the latter we are now attempting to supply at home and with good success euc cese it is to hoped that after this year the same may be said of sugar bat but there are a thousand and one things that are used in everyday every day life upon which in one sense we may be said to pay freight two ways we pay for sending our grain out and we pay for or bringing the manufactured product in it is no wonder that people complain of hard times times ought to be bard hard under such circumstances it would be an anomaly it they were not and the worst of it is they are likely to get harder our policy is suicidal and it is only a question of time till it will eat as us up THE tim STANDARD is willing hereafter to be judged by this declaration whichever town in utah whether ogden salt lake provo or logan shall within the next ten years take the lead in and PAY the moat most attention to the mat ter of home manufacture will distance all other competitors at this time salt lake has the largest population but ojen ogden is the most enterprising ing provo and logan both have good locations for factories bat but ojen is equal to either in water facilities and superior to all in coil and transportation por porta tation tion facilities no city in america is surrounded by more or better natural resources for the employment employ meat of meu men and machinery than this city it ought to be easy and safe to predict the future great commercial and manufacturing center of the midwest mid west it will be easy and safe when we become impressed with the fact act that the del des lOlen noff and forever is in the handi hands of the men who are living here today |