Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-05-05


obedience 10 The commandment and to
our deslros we have multiplied exceed.
ingly; our sons aud daughters are
numerous aud yet increasing. But
however they may be imbued with tue
disposition Of the fathers, they are at
the present Ia a large measure enoctu.
ally chained. They do not want TO
marry Tor poverty, and they sec no
way to seli.sustaluing independence.
Our missionaries by the hundreds are
still preaching tho gathering and few
are yet coming from hali-iavorable
TO un'avorablc surroundings Land is
limited, labor il congestod In our oltlos,
and the remedy Ia not near 10 oome-aI-
able 90 IL desirable. We cannot
suspend (although We have partially
done ~ The law " iucioisc, nor can
we withdraw the Elders yet from the
nations Of the eartli
Now IL II possible In any way or In
any multiplicity OF ways, to increase
by organization the facilities fof hon.
otablo labor and consequent support?
The tfito yet over important query Of
home industry suggests ITSELF aud we
claim aud urge that the people an M asSs
should repudiate importation 10 favor
Of locally produced articles wherever
practicable. We export wool by the
millions Of pounds, We import clothing
iabfics In fabulous amounts; and n D.
1ugg,s,oi that this wool should be
manufactured ut home, aud that the
surplus n any should be- exported.
This would mean more factories aud
more labor, for there must be n margin
70 the credit Of labor, between wool
1T eight or ten cents pound and
iannul at forty cents and cloth at one
dollar to one my por yard.
Then It IL suggested that tho cloth.
ing Of ono hundred thousand Of the
"malo pumuasion" In tubs Territory
should DO made at home. The wait.
ing fingers Of women and girls In
Utah are Jus, as den a. arc those Of
women in the crowded homes Of Now
fOrA, Philadelphia, Boston or Chicago.
And 10 Is said that economy aud ne
ctsaiiy both favor this industry, even
10 We have Ia greater or Ices degree 10
import goods beyond the reach Or
capacity q Utah mills.
IT'S claimed that more leather, more
Shoes, more harness should DO made
at homtj that more sugar factories are
a necessity that meat, cheese, butter,
eggs, should come from Utah farms,
dairiol, OF company organization; that
success In the canning Of tomatoes
means similar success Ia fruits, In.
stead OF cumterlug our shelves with
California goods that every artiol,
exhibited IN the "indu,trial Fair,r
with many others, should bo the crea.
lion Of our own hands, from resource.
everywhere In such unlimited pro
fusion.
And yet, with this enlarged or gen
oral increase Of industries, even 10 IA,
point OF surplus aud expectation, al
the avenues Of labor arc not exI lorod
Every settlement in Utah ana over
one whore this Saints are located, uos
eesses within itself the opportunities o
Improvement by laDoi, u there wa
but the tact and disposition to organise
and compel success Ia one o. yet uu
tried direction. Suppose the Bishop o
some settlement, imbued with the ful
} aunsc Of the power OF united ofgauizl
ton, should call general meeting AM
point out how indiflereutly the tow
or village represented the evidences oil
THRIFT, order, beauty aud progress; how
: iuadequagely the brotherhood OF man
aud the genius Of the Gospel was In q
exhibited how closely wo cling TO lhu
methods Of Babylon, Rnd how litil,
interest "a displayed Ia aud for oaul
others succosl aud comfort; aud how
far We afo got from producing the rlorl
and ozcolloncs Of that Zion which !
10 arise In rs beauty and to becom
"the Joy and praise Of all the earthly
Then call attention TO the positive
waste Of muscle, tho enforced lileaen
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