Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-23

ihc market, " the writer remembers
correctly, on n nominal tarin. Appli-
Gallon was mado 20 Congress for pr1toc.
ton, ten per cent being ali that was
ssFcd. Compromise settled upon nine
iul this iuua once introduced, has
Kept growing and reaching out with
the increase OF pO,torlol, until from low
rraIp5 upwntd, this t,t'n BE-
now nom twenty TO sixty per
cent. However the purpose was
not 10 ruu ln,D topics OF controversy
but b show that THO very mnnuiaclur.
ing activity is NOT tatisaed with the
mniket growing out Of tho siEly-fve
millions " homo population, but u
now wants 10 hni ga Ou,.lt Tor its
surplus products, anu diplomacy outofs
the arena u trade, suggesting re-
cirucity la deal wherever this can be
ioue successfully, the mother country
meanwhile being one Of our heaviest
buyore, aud almost without fcsiriction
90 without this reciprocity.
Tho Lesson Ot these modern ard
national methods b. not without
home application. We havo cur man.
uiac,uuuE concerns, none Of which
are run 10 their capacity, aud cDnte.
queuuy they are run at l5's. Goods
accumulate, aud the voluntary market
f. O mJcd oae. Thorc is not pressure
uu0ugu-educaiiln cuough-amoug
tho masses 10 meet the present
circumstances. The many know
but little u our h0mu made
goods. No have had factories ioE
year, annual fairs iu this city and au
occasional ono in other rlacga which
mako up our public onjIt az the
exhibition OF taooEJ0dg. Advertising
in cur local press has been used but
Battle aui read lrsf. Dflmmcrs have
ysi'cI every outside fioFg, more iu.
ton, upon selling than iuruluc.U4;
uui uucnligutcnoI upon the political
economy OF hons industry, sleepy
keepers % sloros with few exceptions
have rarely taken mots than the palms
OF inexperienced men ia other dlF5c.
,ious. As a Io.uit from this Eiul %,
aiyoc cy ani pu8h, but li.uc az result
ell. The people are charged with
apathy, indiuolosc, ard even tislilo
60 home made goods, wuou the Aui.,
,n PAT. ~ least, was ufslIUily else
where.
Now, had we been 90 placed tina,
"a tax, taflfi, o. whatever you
may call H. could have been
lowed on imporiAu.us, even %
the extent Of prohibition, no doubt
homemade nhuucls, blankets. loDts,
shUoa, hats, Solps and many other
articles would have been In the H1conI-
ant Politicians, however, have not
settled this yet Subsidy, bounty, pre-
lection, are as hefcely denounced by
one a. upheld by another, ami lcsisla.
ton prohibits between states any trade
determination. Blu. n &; b. "a good
ching Tor diplomacy, lot nations 20 fetl
may, 70 almus, Cumpu'-a market i0r
their surplus pTstucu;i international
exhibitions n, fabulous c}st are inst.
lutci Tor this enc; u states have iairs,
anu countries OK oili,s de,m cxhihi-
lions advantageous; II we claim this Gs
nn unRuswemble argument In favor %,
cur resources when We send an cxhioi.
ton cur 20 the manufacturing East, why
not try TO educate our own people-th,
people Of Utah TouIlo,y2 Why not
expand tho exhibition principle and
send cut representation, individually
OF Jointly, into every settlement? A
perambulating exhibition, taking
rom or more, staying a day or two.
Inviting hs people 10 see au1 handle
what lie being produced 10 70 Important
a direction? They would come by The
hundreds aud By tho thousands, u an
agent had charge thereof,
and home manufacture would become
the topic Of the iroslde; and when
Tho pride Of tho pe0pl, was
simulated Ia this way, the PFC Bonl |
factories, at all events, would not have
TO 20 u thousand miles from home Tor |
patronage which 10 at their very DOORS |
Failing here, house 10 house canvas
with a few samplcl-shoU8, soap1, wool. |
On goods and every other portable |
,hing-could DO shown by certain |
iypeoi patient, perseverlng, continuous |
mon, until all Utah would bo 0hamp,
anu the sympaihies Of tho massps
would DO 10 enlisted that slorekeoppls
would boo obliged TO handle those bar.
1ingeTg OF industrial salvation, or the
people would combine aud diatrlbue
.or them elves.
Agents for eastern mills and Massa
shoemakers traverse over
astingly the length anu breadth |
1i our Territory, hut some OF our
local manufacturer are as hopeful
as cor uuuerymen used to be-
.as before TemurEedl. They lived
no, yzi5lod-)n hope, until eastern
nen came IN here aud captured, then
le.d,ihut trade 10 the tune nj hundreds
Ii Thousands Of dollars evcrsiuce. These
yoTo n,l glib OF tongue, They carried
amlisa, gr colOrcj rad exaggerated
liclu,oa. They won, 20 tho peguls,