Nuggets of Truth (9)

side manufacture instead of making them at home. How long will it be before we are poor and our Territory drained of the money we can raise, if we continue this?

"We should not send out our wool to be manufactured in the States and then pay our money for cloth brought from there here.

"Where are our wool 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 manufactures."

Wilford Woodruff
April 7, 1873. J. of D., Vol. XVI, Page 33.

President Woodruff, October 9th, 1892, Said—"One thing more I want to say. We need home industries; all that has been said by Brigham Young and others on this subject is good. We want to furnish work in our own midst."

Lorenzo D. Young's urgent appeal to the wool growers of Utah to develop their industry.— "Instead of only 800 sheep, there ought to have been 8,000,000. 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-manufacture, I would expect to go without clothing."

Lorenzo D. Young,
Dec. 13, 1857. J. of D., Vol. VI, Page 213.

Heber C. Kimball's desire to have Utah People do their Own Manufacturing:—"Will the time ever be that we will make our own clothing? I would like to see the people take a course to make their own clothing, make their own

? ? ?
? ? ? ? Next
Previous
Home