death of every great land owner who bought land when it was cheap, will be a 

 signal for dividing his estates, till each farm is only sufficient for the employ- 

 ment and support of a single family. And the number of acres required for this 

 will be less in proportion as you bring the manufactures nearer to the farm, so 

 that the farmer can produce mixed crops and command a higher price for what 

 he sells and buy at cheaper rates. 



The world will not long carry products a thous ind miles to have them manu- 

 factured when they might just as readily be manufactured near the place where 

 they are needed for consumption. There will be enough of commerce left in 

 transporting 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 com. 

 munities 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, increase the number 

 of your homes. Encourage the young men to remain who shall cultivate the 

 soil — encourage manufacturer^ 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 borders. 



When the invitation came to me from President Clark to speak last year at 

 Amherst, it found me more than two thousand 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 bring- 

 ing 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 lucious loads and with multitudes of lowing herds. And after that 

 invitation reached me, I went far south in that Territory, through its settle- 

 ments 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 oi labor 

 everywhere, are wonderful ; and yet it is only twenty-rive 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 clusters, the 

 apple tree bends beneath its burden and the stacks are heavy with the choicest 

 grain. So much must be said of Mormon industry without endorsing the 

 mode of life among them. 



All this shows that we have but to eliminate from our midst the drones — those 

 who do not produce — to have all that this physical life demands. The sage 

 brush of Utah has given place to gardens which show that labor can wring from 



