The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-06

the territory. Iron, coals copper
and lead, we possess in the greatest
abundance lin fact everything except
tin. that has made Great Britain
what she is now. 1t only needs the
energy and capital to transform the
raw material into articles of utility.
We advocate home manufacture be
cause twill be advantageous to all,
ourselves included, and especially to
posterity.
manufacturing, a higher degree
of intelligence is necessary than
seems to be employed now ii pro-
ducing articles of common use.
Probably some improvement might
result in this respect if the manu-
tacturer of clothing were compelled
to wear his own goods, for then he
would soon discover plenty of room
for improvement; and the same can
be said of almost everything else
| imported from the east. Living
right here where the manufactures
are used, all these DEFICIENCIES could
be corrected. Nest of our work
we have had done in the east
as it can be done there
cheaper than here, and our policy
should always be to employ eastern
labor whenever it can be obtained
cheaper than right here. If this
proposition is clearly under
stood we believe that no one
car reasonably object to it. If labor
can not be obtained heIe as cheaply
as in the east so that many of the
common industries would be I'M
profitable, the wise financier will
get his work done in the east, and
employ labor here only in those in
dustries that are profitable, and so
our manufacturing interests would
ALWAYS be on solid basis with no
risk of failure under careful man
agement. In the course Of time
one industry after another would
spring up as soon as they become
profitable enterprises and thus our
progress and prosperity would show
none of the signs of weakness, which
must exist when industries have
been unduly fostered and premat- |
urely forced.
We do not believe in the establish
ment of any industry whose success
viii depend in any way upon the
charity of its supporters. Let them
all be conducted on the strictest
business principles, and rely for
success only on producing articles
of consumption at lower figures
than those imported from
the east, or if at the same
figures, let them be of superior
quality so that they will command
the trade. The people of this Terri
tory, gathered as they are from
every part of the globe and from
every station of life, have in their
midst in almost every Imaginable
useful art. an intelligence ard skill
which We will wager can not be
found in any other part of the
United States. 1t is pity that by
far the greater part of this is lying
dormant, 1t is, in fact, SO much
capital not merely lying idle, and
thus producing nothing, but abso-
lately going to waste, with little
| prospect of its being replaced in the
future.
The time is now come for US TO
take more interest in these matters
than we have done in the past. Let
our monied men do something to-
ward the establishment of perman-
ent and profitable industries, even
| if the immediate profit is not so
great as we would like at first. The
near future will certainly pay an
ample interest for the capital and
enterprise. If besides, he has
houses, lands, railroad stocks, etc.
these likewise will be enhanced in
value, and thus realize directly a
handsome profit in another direc-
ton, Let us not be carried away
with the idea that our own fortunes
must be made in day, for most OF
us must surely be disappointed, but
let US work for the future and allow
} ample time for everything to take
. its natural course, and success vii
certainly crown our efforts.
MAINE HAS always had the repu
ton Of being the slowest state il
the TJniOu and now news itprn II