The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-15
DEVELOPMENT OF HOME RESOURCES

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DEVELOPMENT OF HOME RESOURCE
q The material interests Of our Tel
3 ritory occupy, in our estimation, on
OF the most prominent positions IL
E the general welfare of our people
! and the subject is one that need,
constant agitation. If we visit tn,
, great commercial centres of oul
nation, we notice that the majority
: of our ealthy men are bent on in
creasing their vast stores OF wealth
not by building up the material
} welfare of the nation, but rather by
means of speculation. They are
wearing out their energies in trying
to gain the advantage of each other
Whatever one makes Is so much
lost to some other. But all this
time their expenses go on the same,
and the aggregate wealth Of the
nation Is constantly reduced. No
positive good can result from such a
course, except only to those who
gain by these transactions. And if
they find this an easy way to make
money, there is no prospecS that in
the future they will abandon it for
some other, no matter how much
they may succeed in amassing.
Great enterprises, we admit, have
been carried on to successful con.
clusion. Vast railroad systems ex-
tend from one extremity of the land
to the other, but at the sams time
we are forced to the opinion that in
too many instances these mammoth
enterprises were not undertaken be.
cause the projectors took just pride
in the great good that would re-
dound therefrom to themselves and
the public in general. On the con-
trary, they are built more for the
profit of those who engineer the
work, and the stock Spectator, and
very frequently thereafter, they are
run, like too many mining proper
ties, solely for those that happen to
be inside the ring and know how
and when to buy and sell. A course
of this kind can not bs considered
IS otherwise than misery. It looks
forward to nothing further than the
immediate gain OF the individual,
and shows not the least evidence of
public spirit. or the least regard for
the welfare of the human race.
Wealth is Of no more use than q |
great pile OF rubbish, unless it is
used, and why some men hoard it |
up with no definite purpose in view,
lie scarcely to be compreh ended by |
the thinking man, yet it is done
constantly and with no other obj ect |
apparently than to increase the size
o; the pile. Not all men can expect
70 make for themselves great names
a. literary characters, military
leaders, inventors, and 30 on, no
matter how much wealth they may
acquire. but one thing they can do,
and that is. to engage in some enter
prise that can be built up to one Of
great proportions; and how many
such enterprises can one think Of!
Let the man Of capital be ambitious
to carry OH some industrial enter.
prise, and if the business is properly
to, even when only a
small part Of the energy and worry
required in speculation is expended.
[t is not necessary that the man OF
enterprise should go to work with
,haritable purposes alone; he may
De as economical as possible, may
make out Of his enterprise every
dollar that can by any legitimate
means be equeezsd ont Of it, aud
yet he win be doing an incalculableE
benefit to his fellow man. He will
'urnish them with the means OF OBJ.
aiming an honest livelihood. The
money he pays out to them, how
,ver, is not given away az charity. !!
every dollar paid ont comes back =
in value. But the greatia