Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-07
MANUFACTURERS, CONVENTION.


Editor Doscret NcVG
have been much interested In read.
ing the editorials in Tuesdays Herald
and News In relation to Utah's need
Of home manufactures and the sugges-
ton OF q convention Of manufacturers
and oil interested In home industries,
to consider means to promote the .si.
tablishment Of factories. I have been
desirous for months past 10 see some
earnest effort matte TO utilize our vast
resources, aud thereby not only furnish
profitable investment for capital, but
employ the laboung men in our midst
who are today idle, and produce
wealth and prosperity which every
class Of our population must necessarily
share.
1t II very true that home industries
isare the wealth Of nations. Every
citizen shares In the advantages arising
from manufacturer conducted SUCCESS
fully In his locality. not only the In.
vestors aud the people Immediately
employed, but the merchant, the
banker and the capitalist; the scotia !
atmosphere Is made purer, greater
happiness prevails In society from the
fact that the greatest incentives to
crime, idleness and want, are taken
away, the men being buay, their time
being occupied In useful labor, and
their wants supplied.
The News very plainly and truth.
fully stated the case ia the article re-
ferred 10, when II snid that the trouble
with home manufactures has been
that "men have only invcsted In such
enterprises after great pressure, and
then have taken little or no Interest in
the success or failure Of the business,
and that home industries have labored
under the incubus Of incompetent
managers aud help, from mistaken
policy OF finding lucrative places for
friends ofinvestOrs."
This thing has undoubtedly worked
ruin to many concerns which might
otherwise have been successful. To lie
successful today \ man must be euthu.
slastlc In his business and IN love with
II. This IL truo OF every line OF bust
| A'HHf wv W tNth ~ MUM ~ ~ " hafs-h
ufsctorios.
| A lukcwarm interest or investment
In any manufacturing enterprise will
prove load almost impossible to carry,
and careless, incompetent, or indit'
fstent management will kill II sure.
The following resolution was adopted
'by the Denver Manufacturing Ex'
change on April 30th.
"Wherons, Tho manufacture Of cassi-
mcros, mollons, ilnnnels and beaver
cloths has been successfully established
ut Provo, Utah, by tho Provo Wooden
Mills Co, therefore
"Rcsolyed, That we gladly call the at
tcntinu OF consumers 10 tho same rs 1t Is
about the only mill ~ the kind In tho
West, and recommend that IT. materials
tho prices arc us low az Eastern coupoi-
Ing goods, 10 tho end that NIL manufac'
tories Of the West may bc firmly ostab-
lishcd aud increasingly developed"
This shows that tho time Is opportune
for the pushing OF homo manufactures,
as our ncighbors are on hand TO work
with us towards making all Western
enterprises successful. strongly
recommend the holding Of Utah
Territorial Manufncturers' convention
In this city In October next, to consider
plans for promoting the establishment
OF home factories In various branches. 3
Delegates should be sent from every
county, aud they Should be men In
every ease who have the welfare VI
Utah ami the prosperity Of her people
Mt heart; busy men who are anxious 10
see the idle employed, and their force
utilized In the production OF the neces.
sarles Of life and it, comforts and lux.
urles.
| favor the establishment OF tins,
industries first which take the least
capital and furnish the most labor ~
NJ 10 meet the conditions Of oui
community.
Let the leading men In every pari
Of our fair Territory Interest them.
! selves In this matter, and let US heal
, from them suggestions In relation TO the
manufactures most suitable fol
their locality, and the facilities
: for conducting the same successfully
! There II no subject Of such vast impor
lance, for except our Idle are employe,
and provision made for our young mel
, aud women, poverty and distress mus
result and crime and trouble increase
3 making capital unsafe, business Of al
a kinds Improbable and life unbearabl
In our Territory.
hope 10 SEQ a lively interest thkei
= In this subject, and promise my heart.
7 support Of any good measure ndoptcl
for the permanent establishment O
home Industries.
. Yours truly,
I NJ n.