"We must learn to think for ourselves, and know for ourselves, and provide for ourselves. We can here produce any amount of the raw material and we are importing machinery and shall continue to do so until we shall be victorious over the traditions and customs which oppose themselves to our becoming self-sustaining and independent.
"From the beginning I have strive to get men to bring machinery into the country, to get them to raise sheep and wool, have the wool made into cloth and then wear it.
"Who has followed my example in this?"
Brigham Young
June 7, 1863. J. of D., Vol. X., Pages 201-2-3-4-5
Brigham Young on Manufacturing in Utah:—"We wish to introduce into this community manufactures and manufacturing so thoroughly that the people will consider themselves under obligations to feed and clothe themselves."
Brigham Young
Oct. 1868. J. of D., Vol. XII, Page 299
President John Taylor's urgent appeal for Protection to Utah Industries:—"Is their anything extraordinary or new in the doctrine of protection, that it is well for a community to be self-sustaining? Why, the Republicans, you know, of this country, have contended on that principle from the time of the organize of the government, and they have sanctioned it and pled in its behalf before Congregation, in polit-
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