The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-04
OF VITAL IMPORTANCE.

The following address was read by
b. +. Grant and received with the
heartiest applause. The sentiments
expressed were most thoroughly en-
dorsed by the bureau:
What is necessary to compel the
citizens Of Utah to do something be-
sides talk, and get them to act on mat
te1s Of vital Importance to every man,
woman and child throughout the en-
tire territory?
When Brigham Yourg was alive he
repeatedly told the people of Utah that
they had all the material necessary to
make them one of the most prosperous
and Independent communities on earth.
II they would only make use Of the ma
terlal that nature had placed at their
disposal. If such is the case some
thlng must be radically wrong or we,
would not now have so many able
bodied men appealing to us for q few
days work SO they might earn enoug h
10 Guy -four for their half starved
families Men that know nothing but
work. men that are not asking aims.
but a few honest days labor.
Now let us make a practical illustra-
ton Of why we find ourselves in our
present financial condition Say for
example the mines in Utah produce
S9o'OoO per month. This is new money
dug from the ground but say in pro-
worth Of goods, and instead of pro-
ducing them as we did the dollars we
send east and they are imported Now.
when they are paid for we have $50 900
worth Of goods. but the east has our
5p,J1U new dollars Now, as our mines
are all closed down, and we must i'm
port the same amount of goods as
When they were being worked. we find
ourselves short Of the amount required
70 pay foi these goods. but we must
nave them or we cannot exist. and with
TINS showing we are compelled to send
east TO the manufacturers we have been
Sendlng our money 10 for years and
years, and beg of them to make us a.
ioall OF $4,000, secured by q trust deed
on al we have on earth, and when we
nave secured this loan we are com
PEELED to return it east to nav for these
goods we have just imported. Now
You can Inquire out for yourselves what
YOU, borrowing capacity is. and then
You VIII Know just how long it will
take Tor the east TO own you, body
Say we patronize and build up home
industries, and manufactures tbsse
goods al nome. What would the result
then be? Our merchants would nav
Soo,eVo TO the home factories. which
IN turn would pay it 10 the diffarenf
n1Tns furnishing them their material
ana 10 their employees. Now the
hanos- employed in producing the ma
tetlal, aaoed TO those employed in the
factories, would all buy their goods
from our local merchants and pay for
them with the same money the n,er-
chants paid to our local factories In
TINS way we have furnished employ-
nent Tor our TOW idle men in mann
iaclurlng $5u,0oO worth Of goods. we
nave paid for these goods and sin
have our $4,000 in Utah Do you think
that community with as much intel
hgence as is found in Utah would "a
qulre any stronger argument or any
palmer statement of facts to jrnnress
on their minds now. and for all time
to come the absolute necessity IF l,15ild
ing up and patronizing home ind,,st,v
and using nothing that is imported
mat can be manufactured at holne 7
doubt very much if the idle men If
this territory who, when given a DAVIS
work, and earned a dollar. have eyer
given this matter serious tboueb5
enough so that when they go to The
store they do not buy the imported
goods instead of the home lnsnufac-
tured
Now is the time to stop and reflect
and then act Let there he a ri,hlic
appeal made to every citizen in this
territory, and let the appeal be SO ron
eral that we would feel ashamed 10 LEI
our neighbors or friends see US bnvinp
or using an imported article when
similar one is manufactured at home
l appeal to the ladies. and saw do nor
send to the store, and say s'send me a
pair Of shoes, a yard of flannel a nair
of hose, a. bar of soap a broom fan
pounds of sugar" and in sending this
order to leave it to the discretion Of the
merchant what to send, but demand
OF him. with great big D. home made
articles, and take no other. and If
you receive imported return them
not carry them go to the one who does
Merchants from the country. in order
ing their goods from the wholesa1e
house, should use this same plan and
specify that so far as possible thev
desire the home manufactured goods
by all making a united effort in carry
Ing out this plan, in one year you would
ma city of smoke stacks and al
our men, boys and girls working in
factorieS and our financial condition
would be fiourishing and prospering
wall we all unite in doing this. and
will we dc il right now? Now is the
golden opportunity. Never. in the his
tory of Utah, was there such a demand
Tor united action on this subject as
At present. I say that the governor
and mayor of Salt Lake CITY shouJ1
call mass meeting, and that the
mayor Of every city in Utah should
follow their example and appeal to
every citizen in this territory to con-
s1der himself chosen as COMMITTEES
OF one to carry out this plan. Appeal
ing 10 all royal citizens to give their
support in this important and worthy
move, l am for Utah and her home in
duStries