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Show Sugar House Sermonettes by E. Cecil McGavin This is the seventh 5n a series of articles on the early day history of Sugar House. The series Is presented under the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. "I pray the Lord to hedge up the way," said President Brig-ham Brig-ham Young, "and shut down the gate so that we may be compelled to depend upon our own manufacturing for the the comforts of life." In other sermons he gave expression to this wise philosophy. Raise flax and prepare it for the woven manufacture into summer clothing. Save your wool and send it to the factory. fac-tory. If you want a little cotton cot-ton cloth we can raise it in the southern country. If we have not factories enough to work up all the wool that grows in the Territory wTe will send and get more machinery and build more factories, and work up the wool for the people. peo-ple. Go and build a tannery, that the hides that come off our beef cattle can be made into leather. We want glass. Some man will come along by and by and take the quartz rock, rig up a little furnace and make glass. Some man will come along not worth fifty dollars and take the feldspar, which enters largely into our granite rock, and make the best chinaware. Dye-stuffs has opened another drain through See SERMOXETTE, Page 8 Sermonettes - - (Continued from Page One) which considerable of our money has passed off. I am satisfied that it is al-togther al-togther unnecessary that we should purchase sugar in a foreign for-eign market. The sorghum is a profitable crop in the Great Salt Lake and adjoining counties, coun-ties, for the manufacture of molasses, in this section it can be profitable raised for the manufacture of sugar. I have tested samples of sugar produced pro-duced from the sorghum raised rais-ed in the south of Utah, and a better quality of raw sugar I never saw. Let some enter-nriQincr enter-nriQincr nprsnn nrosecutp this branch of home production, and thus effectually stop altogether al-together another outlet for our money. Sugar ranks high among the staples of life, and should be produced in great flhundance. free from every outside tie that bound them abroad; free from the pains of hunger and want; freedom from industrial and economic servitude to an outside master. Go to and raise silk. You can do it, and those who cannot can-not set themselves to the work gathering straw, and making straw hats and bonnets; we will set others to gathering flags and rushes, and to making mak-ing mats and bottoming chairs and making carpets. And thus the modern Moses planned to set his people free |