Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-19

these strange epochs OF only half
recorded history. Then take the sacri-
fees of colonlzation--the services and
sympathetic aid of hundreds for years
to the calls of emigration and dealing
with new arrivals in the spirit of the
Master-and there is another series of
pictures which, never overdrawn, are
fading into the past. Take the abortive
efforts for common sustenance and
community life, the coming of the
alphabet of heavenly things-and what
men and women have dared and done
would stagger any one familiar with
the experiences and the facts
In line with all this, whether of the
Dry or action, was the founding of
u. C. NJ. I.--that great institution which
rose like an exhalation." but has lost
in great part Its fresh and original
spirit. Nothing was ever more unself-
ish in its inception. 1t was meant for
the people-the masses. 1t was a gi-
gantic trust. with intentions worthy of
the Gods. 1t was the parent of host
of others meant as auxiliaries with and
through 1t to deliver the people from
that individual selhshness, rapacity and
avarice, as exhibited by middlemen in
Utah of that significant date. 1t had
warm welcome, 1t was a grand sue
cess-so grand that 1t eventually failed,
holding still "a measure of power. 1t Is
true, but like a new religion after its
first flush of triumph, only remaining
as "a sect among sects"-a merchant
among merchants. 1t once was vastly
more. 1t Is of course eminently res
pectable, honest, honorable and its
credit is A l both at home and abroad.
1t scorns the methods of large percent
age of individual traders. 1t will never
get all 1t can. 1t will not take advan-
does not reign in the affections of
host as it did near thirty years ago
and since. There was time when 1t
could have consolidated all the import
and export trade of Utah to the inter-
est and salvation of both producer and
consumer, its first program being to
give the former all 1t possibly could,
and sell to him at the lowest possible
price" 1t has saved millions to Utah no
II you can sell on as good terms as we
can get elsewhere"-an old adage In
business with a modern Interpretation
and excuse even among those who are
sticklers and advocates for union,
whether in spiritual or temporal things;
they want to be one. but like the man
and his wife. after fifty years of mar
ried life, they had failed to agree as to
which one.
The world has long been familiar
with the fact that storekeepers add
nothing to the goods they handle. Con-
seuuently distribution should be by
mutual combination. When this idea
is fully established in regard to i'm
ported goods. then intelligence will
have gone far in the direction of dis
trlbutins home products, whether from
land or skilled labor in its various de-
partments. There will be then new
Ideas in regard to the intrinsic value
of labor. The word wages in its pres
ent usage may be stricken from the
ordinary vocabulary, for the prevail
ing idea will be for each to work for
the whole, and so working that capa-
city TO use and enjoy will be 1.-THE open
sesame" to all the products OF joint et-
forts faithfully and fully applied. Then
will come n new social order and life.
Machinery will neutralize the excessive
use Of muscle. Leisure win supersede
continuous labor as at present. Man
will be educated roundly and harmo-
niously.yet to the grandest development
OF Individuality. suppressng hered-
itary evil and creating in him again
the more direct image of his Maker.
so through struggle and dissatisfaction
begotten of experience and inspiration
VIII come the reign of righteousness
and peace forever.