The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-15
OF VITAL IMPORTANCE.

The following address was read by
B. F. 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
tiers Of vital Importance to every man,
woman and child throughout the en-
tire territory?
When Brigham Young 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,
if they would only make use Of the ma
terial that nature had placed at their
disposal. If such is the case some
thing must be radically wrong or we
would not now have so many able
bodied men appealing TO US for a few
days work so they might earn enough
to buy flour for their half starved
families. Men that know nothing but
work, men that are not asking aims,
but 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
$4,000 per month. This is new money
dug from the ground, but say in pro-
ducing this amount it takes $50, 900
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
$4,000 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
to pay for these goods, but we must
have them or we cannot exist, and with
this showing we are compelled to send
east to the manufacturers we have been
sending our money to for years and
years, and beg of them to make US a
loan of $50, 900, secured by a trust deed
on all we have on earth, and when we
have secured this loan we are com
PEELED to return it east to pay for these
goods we have just imported. Now
you can figure out for yourselves what
your borrowing capacity is, and then
you viii know just how long it will
take for the east to own you, body
and soul.
Say we patronize and build up home
industries, and manufacture these
goods at home. What would the result
then be? Our merchants would paw
$4,000 to the home factories. which.
4 IN turn would pay it to the different
firms furnishing them their material.
and to their employees. Now, the
/ hands employed in producing the ma
terial, added to those employed in the
/ factories, would all buy their goods
from our local merchants and pay for
them with the same money the mer-
| chants paid to our local factories In
this way we have furnished employ
ment for our now idle men in manu-
/ featuring $4,000 worth Of goods. we
have paid for these goods and still
nave our SoO,OOO In Utah. Do you think
| that a community with as much intel
ligence as is found in Utah would re-
quire any stronger argument or any
I palmer statement of facts to impress
on their minds now, and for all time
! to come the absolute necessity of build
ing up and patronizing home industry
and using nothing that is imported
that can be manufactured at home. I
doubt very much if the idle men Of
this territory who when given days
work, and earned a dollar. have ever
given this matter serious thought
enough so that when they go to the
store they do not buy the imported
goods instead Of the home manufac-
tured.
Now is the time to stop and reflect
and then act Let there be a public
appeal made to every citizen in this
territory, and let the appeal be so gen
eral that we would feel ashamed to lei
our neighbors or friends see us buyine
or using an imported article when q
similar one is manufactured at home
/ appeal to the ladies, and say do moi
send to the store, and say send Inc a
pair of shoes, yard of flannel, a pain
of hose, a bar of soap. a broom. ter
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 a great big D, home made
articles. and take no other, and il
you receive imported return them
to him, and if ne does
not carry them go to the one who does
Merchants from the country, in order
ing their goods from the wholesale
house, should use this same plan anC
specify that so far as possible they
desire the home manufactured goods
By all making a united effort in carry
ing out this plan, in one year you wouIe
find a city of smoke stacks, and al
our men, boys and girls working il
factories and our financial condition
would be flourishing and prospecting
Will we all unite in doing this. anc
will we do it right now? Now is the
golden opportunity. Never, in the his
tory of Utah, was there such demand
for a united action on this subject a,
at present. I say that the governor
and mayor of Salt Lake city shouIC
call a mass meeting. and that thu
mayor of every city in Utah shoulC
follow their example and appeal tt
every citizen in this territory to con
slider himself chosen as a COMMITTEES
of one to carry out this plan. Appeal
ing to all royal citizens to give thef
support in this important and worth!
move. l am for Utah and her home in
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