The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-02-19
PROVO CITY. FEB. 10. 18s
UTAH IN THE DEPRESSION.

There is fine lesson in the attitude
of this territory in these dark days of
depression, and it is one which we de-
light to drive home upon all fitting
occasions. The wisdom of the great
founder of Utah is seen in many of
the policies he adopted. We do not
speak of the church or its policies
which he founded here, only as they
naturally or incidentally break into the
subject. He led singular population
to these then remote desert wastes.
The vast majority of the settlers were
from the poorer classes of the different
European states, and singularly
enough they, as rule, were not the
tlllers of the soil. They came rather
from the workshops of the large manu-
featuring towns of England, Scotland,
Wales and Ireland; many indeed from
the larger towns of Scandinavia and
Germany, while a respectable minor
ity came from the New England states.
These latter could by no means he
called farmers. With materials such as
these Brigham Young determined to
build up here an agricultural state
with incidental manufacturing enter
prlses-or, to speak more properly,
with only enough manufacturing en-
terprises to render Utah as nearly self
sustaining as possible. This too, was
accomplished with a wonderful min
ing excitement prevailing in California
and when forty-nine out of every fifty
men who sought the gold fields passed
through the territory on their way to
the Pacific coast where the
gleam of the yellow gold beck
oned the hardy and the adYen-
turous to sudden wealth ard
Importance. With all this noise
and hustle. with all the vast
number of sudden fortunes made
-. their very eyes, the steady,
plodd.-.g, hard-working men of Utah
went on patiently in their work of re-
ducing the desert, in watering its arid
soils, and building farms. The wis
dom of this policy was not then appar-
ent to the masses of the people, nor
did they ever fully understand it un-
till the present fierce storm of financial
wreck and ruin bursted upon the
startled world.
Now lie ruin and disaster, the
sheriffs acJ trustees are selling out the
people o. the east, of California and of
Europe We have comparatively little
of it he and that little is confined to
those. Tho wisely departed from
the Old teachings and went
into those srecu ations which required
the mortga giDg II the home to carry
them on. J. IS lTae that Utah has not
much money. but her farmers are not
being sold out. While put to it, to get |
the tax money necessary, they all have
enough to eat, have good comfortable |
homes and clothing to wear. They |
can afford to wait until the storm rolls
by when they will be in condition to
make the most of the good times which
Will surely return again to us within
the next few months.
Utah can never be seriously Grip
pied, set back, or hurt in any way, as
long as she keeps her farms free and
unencumbered. and she cannot starve
as long as these are worked, and her
people maintain the frugal industrl.
BUS habits they were taught when
Utah was young. Owing TO
5hese habits she viii be in
position to gather the first fruits of
hat returning prosperity which even
low is casting its beams ahead. Let
10 Utonian despair. The future has
or each brave heart and strong hand
hat which will render her men rich.
Ter homes happy and all her people |
Patience, economy and
industry are the qualities needed now.
7ith forbearance and accomm odation
With those in debt we will pass out
rom this trial, severe as it has un-
been, without scar or MAIN
ng, and we will have here in this |
eautiful territory the fairest and t
lost prosperous young state in all the s
7ide west. )