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sumption. There will be enough of commerce left in trans- 

 porting articles which cannot be produced in every place. 

 But the welfare of every community is enhanced, its wealth is 

 increased, or if you prefer, its ability to live well is promoted 

 by a diversity of employment. Such communities are always 

 the most industrious, because there is some employment suited 

 to each one, and they accumulate wealth most rapidly. If 

 you bring men to this country who shall consume your farm- 

 products and manufacture for you, you have so many more 

 homes, so many more to bear the burden of taxation for the 

 support of government and for all improvements. We say to 

 Massachusetts then, to the people of Berkshire County, in- 

 crease the number of your homes. Encourage the young men 

 to remain who shall cultivate the soil, — encourage manufac- 

 turers who shall consume the products of the soil, that you 

 may send away for exchange manufactured articles instead of 

 raw material. Never lose sight of this truth, that it is labor 

 that enriches the State ; press into your service every stream 

 of falling water, and every other natural motive-power, but 

 do not forget that the strength of the State will be measured 

 by the number of happy, prosperous homes within its bor- 

 ders. 



When the invitation came to me from President Clark to 

 speak last year at Amherst, it found me more than two thou- 

 sand miles from New England, in the very heart of the Rocky 

 Mountains, among a people who have taken a desert where 

 sage-brush could hardly grow on the glowing alkali-sands, 

 and by bringing the snow-waters from the mountains in a 

 thousand channels, have filled the hillsides and valleys of 

 Utah with abundant crops, — with fruit-trees that bend beneath 

 their luscious loads and with multitudes of lowing herds. And 

 after that invitation reached me, I went far south in that ter- 

 ritory, through its settlements, and wondered at the products 

 of human industry that met the eye on every side. The 

 herds and orchards, the stacks of grain, the evidence of labor 

 everywhere, are wonderful ; and yet it is only twenty-five 

 years since the Mormons first entered the Salt Lake Valley. 

 The Indians kill and steal, the locusts destroy, and the frosts 

 blight ; but in spite of all these troubles, the thousand busy 

 hands are more powerful, and the vines hang thick with clus- 



