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Show vvf ; " classes" all the fruit of their toil save a moiety only sufficient to maintain in part their strength for further toil,' and then despise them for lacking the refinements of life, which are on-ly attainable under circumstances of cable to human need income form, and this increases actVal value; while commerce and thrpfofessi-ons- " are mainly occujfd with ad-justment andiiistributf n of values, and do far lessin the? direction of increase. For this reason, in ' all new and rural coinnnjaities especi-ally, those pursuitrVhich deal most direclljrwl-tfl- e elements are most usefal and necessary. Agriculture, must become establish-ed and profitable before manufact-ure cn be supplied with the need-ful "w material"; and manufact-ure mijbt become established and profitalie before commerce can con- - , duce to' prosperity. It is exportand not import which makes a nation or a people wealthy; and those exports which represent the greatest amount of labor com-pared with the value of the raw ma-terial used, ae the most profitable to the producer, because they give the greatest amount of paid employ-ment to the workers, and cause the least drain on elemental resources. For instance, a coal mine is a nat- - ease and abundance! How it is for men who maintain exemption from physical labor to be a mark of superiority, and the habit or necessity of labor to be a badge of inferiority, still to claim, grasp enjoy the benefits of laborl How just was Captain John Smith's rule that he who will not work shall not eat! The great majority of the adult population of Utah are producers, and have a wholesome respect for the skill and ingenuity expended in providing for the wants of humanity. H'e have no "higher" or "lower" classes, no tribes or families of he-reditary drones, no aristocracy of wealth and idleness; though we do not ignore the fact that the power to create or accumulate wealth is a mark of ability and a guarantee of influence. We have been trained in a school of hard necessity; the lash of priva-tion has been applied sufficiently to convince us that labor is the true lev-er which moves the world. We had no other visible thing between us and grim-deat- h when we came, a band of robbed, stripped and foot-sor- e refugees, to this dry inhospitable clime. We had neither gold nor costly raiment, neither houses nor lands, neither flocks nor herds; but we had our willing hands and resolute hearts; and with these, under Divine favor, we have worked miracles. None can deny that our common misfortune produced a sympathy and union in our midst which was a strong element in our success; and it follows that whatever will cause pros-perity will perpetuate prosperity. United effort, united sympathy, and rniiimiin inlcrost will snrt'lv secure ural source of profit, but it requires no preparation for market except digging and portage, The most of the profit from the export of coal is a direct drain on natural resources, which are not inexhaustible. On the contrary, the profit on the sale of hats, shoes, and woven fabrics is less for the material used, and more for the labor expended in its prepa-ration, ahlTrabor is an inexhaustible resource. It is clear that the sale of manu-factured goods is far more economi-cal and profitable to the seller than the sale of raw material. Now let us apply these incontrovert-abl- e facts to San Pete County. Our imports include every variety of ar-ticles from a pin to a steam engine, and from a muslin rosebud to a thousan-d- dollar piano. With a favorable climate and soil, vf imnnrfc-everv-tioun- of oursucrar. common welfare, In a state of equality, whether it be high or "low," none can claim superiority of rights or privileges,and the advantages of education and cultivation are enjoyed by all in a nearly equal degree. Under such conditions, strikes and riots must re-main unknown; and the mental and physical energy thus wasted may be utilised in investigation, discovery, invention and the many peaceable and pleasant methods of further promoting and extending the public weal. It being conceded that all should be producers, and that this is an honorable condition, next comes I the consideration of ways and means; end it must be admitted that those industries which most directly relieve human want should be ranked foremost. Since physical needs are most pressing and clamorous, agri-culture and all in-dustries take precedence. Farming, gardening.milling, canning, cooking, stockraising, salting, dairying, fish-ing, and sugarniaking are the roots from which branch out hundreds of valuable industries; most of which are adapted to our own little corner , j , ,j and the greater part of our molasses; even when superior home-raise-honey is cheaper pound for pound. With unsurpassed mineral resources, we iinporf all our soda and saltpeter, and even fead and iron, With thou-sands of sheep eating our ranges out by the roots and polluting our pure mountaw streams, we import at five hundred per cent, premium, woolen goods and even stocking yarn. We export our superior wheat whole, instead of first manufacturing it into flour and securing pay ior that amount of labor. We allow our young men to wan-der off to railroads and mines in search of employment, instead of es-tablishing home industries to meet their needs. We doom them, too, to life-lon- g dependence and hazard, by failing to equip them for the battle of life with a trade suitable to their tastes and talents, by means of which they may always command wages. And when our sons go abroad to seek employment, some of them never re-turn, but are swallowed up in the whirlpool of casualities; and then who ca compute our loss? Isit iuch better with our girls? True, they have a ceasless round of household duties which often pre-vents them from discovering that they odcupy a dependant position; but many of them, through unsup-plie- d needs learn that they area bur-den on parent's hands. They too are high spirited and love to be inde-pendent; and finding nothing at hand by means of which they may achieve their independance, they go where employment is to be. found; and there, for a mere pittance, they drudge away their bright youth, and run the gauntlet of the snares spread for the feet of innocence. Do we most need a railroad to drain our land of its natural nroduc- - of the wide earth. Next in importance we may con-sider the manufacture of clothing, dwelling's, tools, implements, ma-chinery, books, furniture,arid all the varred aids and appliances of indus-try, comfort and progress, Third comes commerce, the vast and complicated system of home and foreign exchange which is the only excuse for the existance of that thing of not real but fictici-ous value, which we call money. Something more portable and inde-structible than the bulky and often fragile articles of actual usefulness was deemed necessary for conveni- - LABOR IS CAPITAL Written for th Register. In those days of labor strikes and trades-unions- , of colossal fortunes and pinching want, in a land of pro-lific elements and willing muscles, every man and woman has need to believe in the dignity of labor. Ev-ery person of sound mind has need to reflect on the causes of public prosperity or adversity, and the ef-fective means of promoting one and guarding against the other, The elements of the physical earth furnish all the crude material of which are compounded the necessa-ries of human life and comfort, and the luxuries and indulgences as well. Hew to crystallize from these crude elements the concrete substances needed for food clothing, habita-tions,, etc.-- , with the minimum of toil and suffering, and the maximum of comfort and enjoyment, is the true labor problem at least with us. Any system which tends to pour the fruits of the common toil into vast private storehouses, leaving a vacuum, or at least a dearth, over a large surrounding area correspond-ing in want with the profusion in the other case, must certainly be a per-nicious system, liable to create so-cial inequalities quite at variance with republican institutions. On the contrary, any system which tends to equalize the benefits derived from labor, neither surfeiting some nor famishing others, must be consider- - ... j ence in barter; and coin was found a handy symbol to represent an approx imate amount of labor.cither already stored up in useful articles, or guar-anteed as forthcoming on demand. All well so far; but ficticious val-ues are so subject to fluctuations, that the world of commerce resem-bles a storm-tosse- d ocean; while labor, the true measure of value, more resembles the firm and fruitful land. Money may be likened to a speculative boom and labor to a long period of substantial prosperity; money to a balloon or bubble, and labor to a loaf of bread, a spring of pure water or a thought that is alive. ' .' Every community of citizen must prefer the reality to the emblem, and give to labor, the wise teacher of self respect and inde-pendence, the bountiful nurse of life and comfort, the noble mother of progress and achievement, its just due of respect and honof. It is a pure and wholesome senti-ment that dependence, to any but in-fants and unfortunates, is degrada-tion. He or she who is willing to subsist on the labor of others and make no return, is a poor specimen of humanity; while he or she who aims with all diligence to keep the credit side of the column at least equal, enjoys that sense of freedom from undue obligation to others, tions, or the establishment of man-ufactories for working up our raw materials before exporting them? Are we wise in supinely watching our son's and daughters scatter to the four winds in search of employ-ment fnstead of providing for it at home? We do not wish to be understood as opposing the entrance of a rail-road into our sylvan solitude, on the contrary we decidedly favor it; but we desire to point out the way to wise economy in exports. Let us aim to export plenty of labor and little material, and to import little labor and much" material. Every thoughtful person must admit that in this direction lies the profit. In conclusion we assert that of all the raw material at our disposal, the most valuable is our sons and daugh-ters. Let us not throw them on the great mart of the world in the crude state, but manufacture every one of them into an artisan, equip each with a useful trade or calling, which will enhance their value a hundred per cent; and when we have done this, we'll keep them for home use, When we thus include our whole population in the ranks cf produc-ers, M we still keep our society all in one grade, we shall have no need either to wish for booms or fear strikes; because we shall have secur-ed the conditions of permanent pros-perity. ed a good system. This equalization of production and consumption, political status and social influence, can hardly be accomplished while a depraved pub-lic opinion stigmatizes laborers as "The lower classes." What an out-rage upon all the rules of justice it is for persons whose position and circumstances place within their power the shaping of events, to so direct them, either willfully or blind-ly, that they by whose exertion all things necessary iand desirable are won from nature shall be obliged to yield as tribute to "The upper that consciousness of filling a useful niche in society, which gives their possessor the frank smile, the open eye and dignified bearing of the true friend, the efficient aid, the substan-tial citizen. -- Who can doubt that the prosperi-ty of a commonwealth is only the ag-gregate of individual prosperity? and who can fail to understand that a community which are all producers is the only one sure of unchecked prosperity? What are called the mechanical pursuits.change by labor the crude materials yielded by land and sea into articles directly appli- - bushel more in San Pete County for j our wheat than we could before, this, will be growth for in will add to the purchasing power of our resources. If we can get a market for the rock which is in the bosora of our hills, this will make a healthy boom for. it will give labor to the unemployed. If the timber which is growing in our canyons, and the salt which can be found within our County in al-most inexhaustable quantities can find any outlet, then let the boom come, but the real estate boom, without any increase in our re-sources and out-pu- t we do not want, for the'reason stated, there is noth-ing behind it, and although with every spcies of gambling it may for the time exhiliarate, when the intoxication of the moment leaves it finds us more depressed and in anything but a healthy condition. The land is with the last holder, unimproved, worth no more than it was in the first place, the only person benefited being the principal gambler, the real estate boomer, who sold it for several times what it was actually worth, and got out with the "swag." When the boom comes, let it be a healthy and natural growth. BOOM. With the advent of railroads in the County, perhaps two of them traversing it from end to end, the Register anticipates more prosper-pu- s days for San Pete, but does not for a moment hope for the .success, which in this Western Country is palled a "Boom". Booms, as they are generally understood are an un-precedented raise in the price of real estate, and often with nothing to back them more solid than the wind of the "boomer", who in plain Janguage is a gambler in this com-modity. A piece of real estate may rise in j price through the efforts ( of parties - who are in the business, from one hundred dollars to ten times that fimount, in a day or a week, and in a month double itself, and the ."boomer" in consequence get rich thereby; but unless there is a solid y something behind it, unless the pro ducts of the place in which the real-- - ty is, situated has increased in value or amount so that the community is richer thereby; there is no reai ben-efit to the community, and conse-quently nothing to i support the j boom and as everything, like water, finds its level, the boom collapses and depression takes its place. Mon-ey spent in property, unless it brings a fair return is illspent. ""T ' True some persons spend hun- - dreds and thousands of dollars upon a dwelling and it bring no return j jjut the pleasure of living in a hand some and comfortable home, but the money so spent gives employ-ment and creates labor, puts more money in circulation and is of more benefit than any number of wildcat real estate speculations. We want progress and growth in pur county, but we want it of such j a nature that when it ccmes we know will be lasting in its nature and a real benefit. If by the adit of I8il r94 we can et nv cetits per s4lb Csaty Register. ' (Incorporated.) , A Jiphraini, Utah, - June I J, 1890. OUR NATIONAL BIRTH-DAY- . What is going to be done, in San Pete County, by way of celebrating the "Fourth" jn a becoming man-ner? We should not be willing to let the day pass, without paying honor to it, as the birth-da- of free-dom, the day that ushered in a new era, and made it possible for the ci-tizen to become a sovereign. The Declaration of Independance which nh was the fore-runn- of the most glo rious Constitution ever begotten by the mind of man, upon which to base a government, should be read to the youth and aged in our coun-try, upon every recurring "fourth," and the deeds and doings of the pat-riot fathers dwelt upon in glowing terms, for the purpose of keeping them green in the minds of our youth, that thty might be incited to emulate them as the opportunity of-fers. The thought that we as a people in Utah are being oppressed, from lime to time, by those who are in the tnajority in the nation, and our rights trampled upon should not de-ter us from doing honor to the day, Whatever rights we are denied, or acts of spoliation brought to bear upon us, they are the doings of men, not actuated by the gre;.t Magna Churta of our country but by greed of gain. Our Constitution grants to all men the rights of Life, liberty, ' and the pursuit of happiness; for what it is, and wbat it was intended to be let us honor it. Let us meet together on the morning of the 4th. day of July, A. 1). 1890, and amid the booming of cannon, stirring strains of music, under the folds of our flag hear read that sacred instru-rn;n- t the "Declaration of independ-ence." Let us repeat again the names of such men as, Washington, Jefferson and Adams; let our children hear of their doings and let them un-derstand that these names belonged to typical Americans, politicians if you will, but patriots at the. same time, not boodlers and oppressors. C Teach them that what was, may and must be again- - That America was reserved for the home of the oppress-ed of all nations, that it was intend-ed by God for this purpose, and fruth is mighty and will prevail, pon't let us forget that patriots ney-ul-k under nor succumb to deeds of Oppression. Remember that over forty years ago, when no foot but the trod the vales of Utah a small band of pilgrims entered Salt-Lak- e Valley, after traveling over the dreary wastes a thousand miles, leaving their dead by the wayside. Driven from their homes, and that by those claiming to be Americans, --thoie people brought with them a Jove of country ;they loved their Con-stitution and planted the symbol of (t, the stars and stripes upon Ensign : Peak and did honor to it. Those . were patriots; they forgot their own wrongs; and footsore, half-starve-naked and sick at heart with indig-pitie- s heaped upon them, all could , be and was forgotten in the task of ' Jove, doing honor to their coun fry. Let the citizens of San Pete County, some of whom, are the decendants pf those pioneer patriots, do honor to the day in a fitting manner; keep alive the love of country in their own and children's hearts; and cele-brate the fourth of July, in a man-pe- r creditable to American citizens, and lovers of Freedom. THE REGISTER As has already been stated in our columns, it is the intention of the management to make the Register a County paper, having for its main object the wellfare and ultimate growth of San Pete County. To do this successfully it must necessarily have the support and countenance of the people, and that we intend to get, if a faithful adherence to first principles, and a conscientious en-deavor to do our duty is an assurance of success. We ask the people to join with us and to take a pride in our undertaking, for it is ours, and if it is a benefit to the County at large to have a means of letting the world know what we have in the way of natural resources and otherwise, every citizen whether he lives at the extreme north, or the south, has an equal interest in the County and can feel a just pride in anything that tends to build up his home,, just as a person feels a pride in his city, so he can in his county and from that to the Territory and so on. There is nothing local in the"site" of the Register, no more than there would be if some enterprising citi-zens of the County would start a woolen mill, or a tannery, or some other enterprise which would require the united effort of the whale people tJ make It successful. This might depend somewhat on a suitable loca-tion, but when once started it would certainly be for the public good, and hence would be in a sense a public institution and would merit public sustenance. The home paper fills a want not supplied by the metropolitan papers. It is not supposed to take the plat of those papers, which give us the current news of the day, but to treat of things purely local, and of more interest to ourselves than to anybody else. We ask for local contributions from every part of the County, so that our readers may be posted as to the "happenings" at home. We ask for a share of your advertising pat-ronage, so that in benefiting us you may bring your commodities before the market and benefit yourselves. We ask all who have an interest in San Pete County to regularly sub-scribe for the Register, read and digest its contents. 0 xpHk 1 EPHRA1M CO-OPERATI-VE H 3 MERCANTILE : INSTITUTION N I North and South. J II Dry Goods of all descriptions. Hats and caps boots and shoes, both home made and imported. Clothing a specality. H 1 Groceries, including Dixie Molasses, and Dried Fruits; Crack- - M era and fish. II H 1 Our Hardware Department contains an immense stock of Tools M for Mechanics; also tools for Farmers such as Shovels, Spades, II Picks. Hoes, Forks and Rakes. H j Glassware, Queensware, "Woodenware; Medicines; Drugs; 1 1 Taints and Oils; Well Piping and Shingles. , H Yonr patronage is always appreciated, no matter how small II " ; your purchase. You may rest assured it will be our constant U aim to give our Customers the best goods that can be obtained 1 ' for the money. Your Child will be treated as courteously a3 II ' yourself. 1 J. A. sj ANDERSON, Supt. U I u Stndefcaker Bros. Hanfg Co. Carriige Repositor, 33 and 35 Main Street, and Branch House corner State Road and Second South Street. The Finest Carriage Display in the Territories, Light and Heavy Wagons in Every Style that is Made. Vehicles for Public and Private Use in All Varieties and Prices ALSO AUINTS FOB The Whiteley, Champion and Piano Harvesting Mechmes and Extras, J. C. I. Case Threshers Horse-Power- . Engines and Mills. Weil, Morr.soii, Meikel and South Bend Plows, Hay Rakes Frazier Road Carts and Harness of All Kind. Send for Illustrated Catalogue and Prices. 136 r ... ... r Has Just Received a Large Assortment of the Latest Novelties in LAWNS, PERCALES, SEERSUCKERS, DRESS, GINGHAMS AND SATTEENS, AND ALL THE LEADING FABRICS FOR THE SEASON. A Full Line of A. CHOICF HOSIERY If Now on Hand. 3 Ribbons, Laces and Notions E IN GREAT VARIETY. CALL AND EXAMINE QUALITY AND PRICES. K Complete Assortment of Merchandise Always on Hand. Teasdel's 4 Stores, Main Street,Salt Lake City . 12 7 "A Stitch in time ssves nine," And may be the means of Saving your Life or Limbs. See that your Harness is in good fix, which you can do by calling on Jas. V. Stevensen, HARNESS MAKER. One and half blocks South of Post office, Main Street, Kphraim. Harnesses of all kinds made to order, work warranted, charges moderate. II3 |