Show 1VHAT lYE COULD DO The present springlike weather is like the very water of life to humanity no one so old and feeble as to be out of the pale of its reviving influence Ruddy cheeks bright eyes light hearts and laughing voices all proclaim the presence pres-ence of spring It is the season of revival re-vival it is above all the season of hope Whatever depression or care we may labor under this is the time when the soul rises with renewed strength to grapple grap-ple with Fate and says Come what I may I must and will conquer Are there no difficulties in Utah which might be conquered if we would but allow the hopeful influences of the season to have their way and to urge us to determined deter-mined efforts The cry is Times are dull So they are but what makes them dull Most men say 0 the general depression de-pression in the country Are you sure brothers that this is all To our mind it seems that the depression in Utah is due in a great measure to the failure of i the people to help themselves Nature has been lavish in her gifts to Utah We can boast of untold wealth in our mountains as well as of a soil of the first order One grand trouble is that we have depended too much upon those advantages ad-vantages We have harvested what nature na-ture has done for us but we have done i little or nothing for ourselves Where is all the money our mines have produced II through all these years It is not in the country Iost of it has gone to share I holders East and West and of the small proportion that has remained in the country year after year a large part has gone out of it again for supplies and manufactured articles of a thousand kinds One of the simplest propositions of political economy is that a country which spends as much as it produces will be poor The first thing we have to do to put us on the road to wealth is to keep our money at home the second thing to bend our energies to the production produc-tion of articles that we can sell to markets abroad and thus bring money into the country As it is we annually spend large amounts of money for bacon woolen goods of all kinds and many other necessities neces-sities which we have all the means and opportunities of producing at home and which in fact should form staples of export ex-port bringing us profit and giving employment i em-ployment to hundreds and even thousands thou-sands of our people instead of costing us i money and making us poorer from year to ypir There are many articles of minor imp rtmcevh hv emiglit easily produce here We have for instance been largely importing cement hides glass earthenwear and any number of other articles that might be manufactured at home with profit Take away our mines today and we would be fairly driven to the alternative of taking hold of manufacturing industries indus-tries and developing our resources in that direction or we would go to the wall and starve We repeat we have depended depend-ed in the past too much upon what nature na-ture has done for usnow let us depend more upon ourselves Let us face the difficulties by which we are beset strikeout strike-out in the right direction and take hold of the opportunities for increasing our wealth that have so far lain unnoticed by the wayside Let us not waste the inspiration of this time of revival and hope but make good use of the new energies ener-gies it gives us |