The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08
An Appeal to the People of Utah.

With the completion of the Utah sugar
works and a number of other home indus
tries fairly inaugurated this season; not
forgetting to mention those, which for a
number of years have existed in our
city and territory; it is meet and
proper to call the attention of the
people to the fact, that whenever
1t is possible to purchase an article
made in this territory, that it should be the
pride of every citizen to do so.
Every dollar retained in this territory, is
simply dollar added to the wealth of the
people. AS long as that dollar is retained
here, it can be kept in circulation, changing
from hand to hand innumerable times. 1t
is paid out of labor, from there it passes
into the hands of the merchant and is trans
ferred from the merchant to the manufac-
turer and again paid out by the manufac-
turer to the labor employed and thus it
can continue Gd infnitum, Senehttng every
body to an almost unlimited extent. Once
! the dollar leaves the borders of the terri
| tory, IL goes out as tribute paid to a great
extent, to foreign industry or to foreign
capital.
| appeal in particular to the ladies. While
man can earn the money it is to the great
est extent paid out by the ladies for arti-
cles consumed in their homes.
1t Is said that comparisons to great eX :
| tent are odious; but while visiting other
cities in the east and particularly the city
of Denver, it was indeed a pleasure to no.
| tice with what pride and satisfaction the
ladies of Denver dwelled upon their home
| industries. In conversation with some
of them, the statement was made in the
most fervent and enthusiastic manner
! 1--WE make it our business to call for every
| thing manufactured in our city, and in this
state, and if we find that the merchants are
not inclined to furnish home manufactured
goods, we go where we can get them"
The Worlds Columbian fair is rapidly
approaching. Utah should make as fair g
showing there as its natural resources and
other advantages warrant.
In few days the chambe of commerce
will call a meeting of all the manufacturers
Of this city and of Utah for the purpose Of
obtaining from them a complete list Of
everything manufactured here. Every lady
will be furnished with one of these lists
and it will rest with them to demonstrate
how much interest they take in home in
dustries, and how far they will go to helI
to build up the industries in their owl
midst, in preference to helping those living
far away from US, whose interest in us pos
sibly extends to the extent OF the number
of dollars they can get out of us annually
and who would discard US in the same man
ner as squeezed out lemon is cast away
winch mas ceased TO give 1ortn ltS lnVlgor-
ating juice.
Had it been possible for the people of Ne
vada, twenty-five years ago. to have passed
a law compelling those who took the un
bounded wealth from its mountains to de
vote therefrom one-tenth of the profit
annually to the establishment of some hom'
industry, it would to-day be in the sam
position in which the people of European
mining countries are in, who, in addition
manufacturing plants supporting the in
creasing population. and thereby draw tn
wealth of other nations to them.
The object lesson which this state fur
nishes to US. should be study to all VIII
have the interest of this country at heart
and it was with this object in view that tn
board of directors of the chamber of com
MERGE requested the address of this appea
to the thinking men and women of Utah.
FRED SIMON,
President Chamber OF Commerce.
H. V. MELoY, Secretary.