Nuggets of Truth (5)
was here in the elements? That the gold, silver and iron were in these mountains? That the wool, the flax, the silk, the cotton and everything necessary to sustain man were in the elements around us? It is for the people to go to and develop the resources surrounding us. Sugar, starch, and glue are the chief ingredients in the sustainance of man. The sacharine matter is in every thing that grows here. "We have all the material for keeping the body, and as to clothing we can produce as good wool here as they can in any part of the world, but we must have the sheep to do so. And we must show flax and plant cotton, and manufacture cotton and linen cloth." Brigham Young Jan. 17, 1858. Journal of Discources, Vol VI, Page 172. President Brigham Young in the grand possibilities of Utah, if fostered by protection:—"We have contended long to convince the people that they must become self-sustaining. We have raised hemp, flax, cotton and silk, all of the best quality. We can make ropes and sacking and cotton, silk and woolen goods in abundance. We have the elements to combine them. "There is not a better country in the world to produce wool than in this mountain country, if the sheep are properly taken care of. "Then why not from this day begin to sustain ourselves and cease feeding and clothing those who wish us no good and giving them our money for that which is comparatively worthless? "If we say we will sustain ourselves and be independent of foreign productions and a foreign market, let the whole community at once become a unit on this point, by forthwith
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