The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-01

1 IdClII OF Tree lIdoS, IL NOOlA AlOI 10 "
the purchase of goods in Great Britain.
It is independent of all tariffs and OF
all regulations of commerce. 1t makes
no difference Mat the commercial
policy of the government is, 1t recon-
mends that supplies be produced al
home, out Of home resources. All that
should be brought from abroad is ma
chinery with which to manufacture the
necesSarieS of life.
Fourth--A protective tariff on foreign
goods is for the purpose of enhancing
the price of foreign products SO that
home manufacture will be encouraged
by a control OF the home market. But
Brigham Young had no thought OF
keeping goods out of the country by
enhancing their price by means Of tax
alton. What he thought about was
cooperation of labor and capital IN
Utah so that the people should manu-
facture their own products and con-
sumo them as remunera ton OF labor
and capital. 1t made no diffe ence TO
his plan whether the tarif: was PIT
hibitory, protective or reSula'4Ve;
whether it was revenue tarlT or cure
free trade All were the same to hin
so far as his plan of cooperation was
concerned. And what Brigham Young
believed and taught in that earlier day,
the rest of the Mormon leaoers lave
believed and taught. Home industries.
independence, self-3upp2rI, GeFe-op-
ment of native resources, all tines are
enjoined without any reference what
ever to protection or free traae is the
policy of the national government.
They would not buy home supplies IN
| New England or Old England, no diff
ference what the tariff might be.
Doubtless the prevailing motive Tor
the building up and maintenance or
home industries was the cooperative
principle of practical religion; out
there were also other causes that some
times operated with intense power, such
as the belief that the Mormon people
would eventually be cut off from the
outside world and from their sources
! of supply and be left dependent upon
/ themselves for the means of subsls-
! tence hence the great need of home
industries" that they might be self
sufficient and self-sustaining
! l am now ready to consider the
answer to question IL as follows:
| II. What has been the unvarying
political policy of the leaders whose
genius has developed the resources of
Utah? Answer: Protection for home
/ industries
First-There was no political policy
as above indicated. This is the sophis-
try that Republican politicians have
injected into this question. They were,
J at Tic llllle dllullSu W, AVllSo iOOS ANeeA
ers. The people were included in the
kingdom of God on earth" The
policy was the method of co-opera-
ton. 1t is true, as the answer states,
that the policy was one of protection
for home industries" But that protec-
ton was just as much against New
England as Old England. That pro-
lection consisted in buying home pro-
ducts, consuming them, no difference
What thaV cost mora or less than
foreign goods. In other words, there
was no politics whatever in the in
dustrial policy of Brigham Young and
his successors; that is, no politics as
we understand the word, There is an
applied Christianity" and that is
what Brigham Young would have
called his doctrine of supporting home
industry.
Second. I conclude that Republican
leaders have, either knowingly or I'M
consciously, greatly misled the people
as to the meaning and intent of Nor
mon teachings. There has been per-
sistent effort to foist upon the people
a certain political theory as being the
meaning contained in the teachings of
Mormon leaders. They have used the
words Of religious teachers to enforce
a political theory which was utterly
foreign to the mind of the teacher
to support home industries" This
meant "co-operation," and not tariff,
whether high or low. The time must
soon come when the people will see
and understand such sophistry and
deception, and then these political
workers will receive the contempt and
neglect which their deceptive practice
richly entities them to. Let politicians
teach the true science of government,
and no longer seek to build their cause
on a perverted Interpretation of the
words of earnest men who were sin
cerely endeavoring to know the truth
and to build UP a great commonwealth
in the valleys Of the mountains.
l am acquainted with people who are
disposed to be Industrious and thrifty,
and who manufacture different articles
of clothing by their own labor and
have heard them say: I'VE are Re-
publicans because we believe in home
industry. We believe in supplying our
own wants as far as possible. We
don't use anything from abroad that
can be made in Utah" In the name
of truth, has it come to this? That
plain home industry is to be called
Republicanism! Is the industry that
supplies home needs without any
thought or care of tariff, high or low,
without any intent to purchase goods
from abroad, whether dear or cheap
is that to be called Republicanism?
Are the exhortati ms of the Mormon
teachers to be Industrious and self
supporting, to be helpful of one an
other and cooperate in the gospel, is
this to be called Republicanism? What
perversion! What sacrilegei Why
christen the common industries and
duties of life with name so faithless
and false? Why usurp religious coun-
sci and pervert it to such sordid polit-
zeal uses? Why steal the livery of
heaven to serve the demon of mis-
guided partisanship? The man who
works. and with his family tolls to
supply the wants of home and the
needs of the community, without ref
erence to tariffs, high or low, and all
people who determine to provide for
their own wants and sustain their own
industries, without regard to outside
supplies, whether cheaper or dearer;
all such people evince the very highest
order of democratic independence, and
If they have a name at all in politics,
they are Democrats and not Republi-
cans; and such is the clear teaching of
every principle and precedent that has
obtained recognition in American poli-
tics since the landing of the Pilgrims
In the history of the world, has there
ever been people so beguiled and inn
posed upon as to believe that simple
home industry and self-support and