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

June, Z. 1866, journal Of DlScourSeS,
Volume X, pages 201-2-3-4-5.
I'VE wish to Introduce into this
community manufactures and manu-
featuring so thoroughly that the peo-
pie will consider themselves under op-
legations to feed and clothe them
Selves
2ss.
PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR:-"We
are bringing in here all kinds OF things
that we ought to be making ourselves.
My opinion is that with home labor
properly directed we shall have all
the bread, butter, cloth, hats, bonnets.
shawls, and everything that we need. "
April 10, 1874, J. of D., Vol XVII,
Page so.
PRESIDENT MILFORD WOOD
4 RUFF:-"We send many large
quantities of wool abroad in
stead of using it in our own
mills, and import goods of outside
manufacture instead of making them
al home. How long will it be before
we are poor and our territory drained
| of all the money we can raise, if We
| continue this
1--WE should not send out our wool to
] be manufactured in the states and
/ then pay our money for cloth brought
!
! growers? What are they thinking
! about when they do this? We should
! keep our wool at home. manufacture
| this wool into CLOTH buy and pay for
! the cloth and support home manufac
/ ture'
April Z, 1873. J. of D., Vol. XVI, Page
/ SO.
LORENZO D. YOUNG :-'Tnstead
of only 800 sheep, there ought
to have been 100000. If all
men had used the exertion that
/ some few have, there would have
been sheep enough to have clothed
! this whole people from year to
year. Were it not for home manu-
! facture, 1 would expect to go without
clothing"
December 10, 1857, J. of D., Vol. VI,
Page 213
HEBER c. KIMBALL:-"Win the
time ever be that we will make our own
! clothing? l would like to see the peo-
pie take a course to make their own
clothing. make their own machinery,
their own knives and their forks and
everything else we need
November IS, 1854, J. of D., Vol. II,
Page 1856
JOSEPH f. SMITH:-"our manufac-
tories should be fostered, patronized
and protected and their staple wares
sought after and preferred by the
people, even though they were more
costly at first. 1t needs no argument
10 prove to the sagacious and far
seeing that this policy will pay the
best in the end. When we can pro-
duce what we need by our own indus
try and skill, we cease to import and
we approach independence.
April Is, 1879, J. of D., Vol. Xxx, Page
&c.
GEORGE A. sNIITH:-'why send
abroad for our cloth when we
have the necessary skill and
means to manufacture it for our
selves? Why not let these noun
tains produce fine wool. If we
continue to import our hats, bonnets,
boots, shoes and clothing, and send
away all the gold, and all that we can
command to pay for them, we shall
ever remain dependent. If, on The ether
hand, we devise means to produce
them from the elements by our own
labor, we keep our money DIT home
and it can be used for other ana NJ re
noble purposes, and we become indie
pendent.
May s, 1870, J. of D., Vol. XIV, Page
Il.
In order to form an idea of the i'm
port and significance of these quota
tons, take the language of Brigham
Young, for instance, and let it stand in
connection with the personal exhorta-
tons that he used to make to the peo-
pie wherever he would CO. as may be
distinctly remembered by multitudes
Of persons that have not yet reached
advanced age, and by all the older
people who gave attention to such
matters. He would say. eve must
build up our home Industries; we must
not be idle; we must cultivate our ma
tural resources; we must not depend
upon others for the supply of our
wants; we must be independent and
self-supporting. In order to carry out
his thought he would define himself
more fully and show how the people
must be provided with work in order
to earn living. He would often men
ton the name Of some individual pres
ent and say, There is Brother A: he
has made money out Of this people; let
him now make return to this people: |
let him start factory of some kind
and give employment to the people. !
w" have sheep and wool-let him
build wooden mill. We have grain |
let him build Touring mill We have
an abundance Of hides and material !
for tanning-let him establish tam
merry and shoe factory; let him invest |
his money in such a way that will help |
to make this people independent 1t !
was in this way, in a great variety of |
language, that Brigham Young taught |
the duty and Importance of building |
up home industries" And in this |
same spirit, and in almost the same |
words, the other leaders quoted above /
spoke to the people. They all believe /
and teach the same things in sub !
industry, self-help, mu-
tual cooperation. sharing with the !
people the increase of wealth that in |
dividuals have acquired, and indepen- !
dence of foreign supplies. / will now
state my understanding of the import |
and bearing of these instructions:
First-Brigham Young, speaking in |
1858, says that "ten years" previous
the people were instructed as to self
and the development of their
native resources. When the Mormon
people came to Utah the territory was
not a part of the United States. The
period was one of low tariff reaching
from 1916 to 1861. There was no agita-
ton on the subject of the tariff in the
United States.
Second-In all these exhortations as
to home industries and home sup
port" there was no thought of low
tariff or high tariff. protection or free
trade. There was no thought of any
government policy whatever-that is,
there was no thought of any other
earthly government than our own.
Brigham Young and his associates be-
ieved that the kingdom of Cod had
been established on the earth and
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