Man’s wants are very numerous, but his necessities are really very few, and we should abridge our wants, and go to work and manufacture everything we can within ourselves; and what we cannot manufacture we can import, and save ourselves the 40, 120, 400, or 1,000 percent that we are now paying for our merchandise, […]
Economic Independence
My guess is that you have never heard the idea that “building Zion” included achieving local economic independence “from Babylon”. Yet these quotes make it clear that that goal was central to the Zion-building efforts of Utah’s pre-statehood church leaders.