Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-15

possibilities. We will say there nre 25o-
600 people in Utah, aud each individual
wears pair OF home made shoes. We
can place the average cost at the nomi-
nal sum oil 81 and we have S75o 900,
more TO do business with; but the aver
age will reach about s7, which will give
us a hall miilipn. Suppose we have to
pay little more for our foot wear, who
Of us are injured by it2 None. II all
the shoes now worn were made at home,
and II they were, 1t would require about
five times the present capacity to make
them. For Illustration, say there are at
present 100 persons employed making
shoes. If the census figures correctly,
and 1t is generally conceded that five
persons in Utah constitute family, and
as one OF family can, rs rule support
the remainder, we have 500 furnishing
the staff OF life by that one industry.
Now il we need five times as many
manufacturers TO supply the trade we
would have 500 employed and 5000
supported. Nor is it confined to the
workers only. Consider for moment
the consumers and the producers OF the
material. The farmer naturally wants
market for his product, but how few
ever stop TO think, that by wearing some
OF those home made shoes they are en-
ploying some Of that 500 makers and
giving them and their families something
10 buy the product Of their farms? For
it must be taken into consideration that
the employees have no time to raise eat
ables. Now we have $40 employed,
5000 fed, and market OF 5000 for the
former. What about the farmer also
being enriched, simply by patroniziug
the manufacturer OF his shoes?
On this line OF thought, dear reader,
let US dwell for few moments. 1t will
not be necessary for the writer TO draw
the picture | would imagine every
thinking person would make his calcula-
tons along this line. Not only the
work but the material, growing the tam
ming stock, the cattle from which the
hides are taken, the tanning and all
that makes labor, and means for our
people. We now pay transportation east
and employ eastern labor to do our
work, and transportation back, while
our people are walking the streets in
search OF employment, and are obliged
TO eat the bread OF charity when abund-
antly able to work.
II half million OF dollars could be
saved in shoe leather alone, what may
we say il our full suit was made at
homer The wool.growing, the card NJ,
the spinning and weaving, the toliers
and dress makers, besides blankets,
bedding etc. We can safely say from
so cents to 500, a family; and as there
are So, 600 families we can safely figure
on from three TO five million dollars.
Then there is the soap. We are a
cleanly people, and use lots OF soap.
We have three factories, OF sufficient cap
acity TO make all we need. Sull we send
from thirty to fifty thousand dollars
away each year for soap, export our tai
low and hire others to make it up, then
buy it back again Our farmers have
been buying imported hog meat; at the
same time complaining at the low price
OF grain and lucern. At least SO, COO
annually has been going out of cur
agriculture and stock raising country,
for hog product. California and New
York have been furnishing frui-grow
ing country with her dried and fresh
fruits, her wine and cider. Nebraska,
Kansas and other eastern states have
been furnishing us with our poultry, and
our eggs. A very little molasses or
pickles is made now; even vinegar is
imported. Cheese and other dairy pro-
ducts come from other states. We are
even buying wheat ard oats from the
west; farmers sell their wheat at 90 cents
! and buy it back rolled fiat for three or
tour. o, consistency, truly thou art a
jewel!
Opening up the new year let us think
OF these things, and see if we cannot do
wiser and better the coming year, and
instead OF feeding hundreds OF worthy
poor in idleness, let them earn their
bread by honest toll.
UTAH HOME INDUSTRY.