The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-08
number of men given employment in this
Need of Home manufactures.
SALT LAKE CRY. Nav Z. 1S9

SALT LAKE CITY, May 7, 1892.
To the Editor OF THE HERALD:
l have been much interested in reading
the editorials in Tuesdays HERALD and
NelcS in relation to Utah's needs of home
manufactures, and the suggestion of q con.
yention of manufacturers and all in terested
in home Industries, to consider means to
promote the establishment of factories.
have been very desirious for months past to
see some earnest effort made to utilize our
vast resources, and thereby not only fur
nish profitable investment for capital, but
employ the laboring men in our midst who
are idle today, and produce wealth and
prosperity which every class of our popu-
lation must necessarily share.
1t is very true that home industries are
, the wealth of nations. Every citizen shares
the advantages arising from manufactures
conducted successfully in his locality, not
only the investors and the people immedi-
ately employed, but the merchant, the
banker and the capitalist; the social at
mosphere is purer, greater happiness pre-
walls in society, from the fact that the
greatest incentive to crime, idleness and
want, are taken away, the men being busy,
their time being occu pied in useful and pro-
ductiye labor and their wants supplied.
The DeSeret NelgS very plainly and truth
fully stated the case in the article referred
10 when it said that the trouble with home
manufacturers has been that men have
only invested 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 incom-
peteRt management and help, from mis-
taken policy of finding lucrative places for
friends of investors. This thing has IN
doubtedlyworked ruin to many concerns
which might otherwise have been success
full. To be successful today man must be
enthusiastic in Ills business and in love
with 1t. This is true of every line of busi-
| ness, but of none SO much so as of manu-
| factories.
a lukewarm interest or investment in
any manufacturing enterprise will prove q
| load almost impossible to carry, and care
less, incompetent or indifferent manage
ment will kill it sure. The following reso-
luton was adopted in Denver by the Den
yer Manufacturers exchange on April 80:
Whereas, The manufacture of CASH
mere, meltons, flannels and beaver cloths
has been successfully established at Provo,
Utah, by the Provo Wooden Mills company,
therefore
Resolved, That we gladly call the atten-
tion of consumers to the same, as it Is
IL.
au recommend that its materials be used,
II the qualities are as good and the prices
are as low as eastern competing goods, to
the end that all manufactures in the west
may be firmly established and increasingly
developed.
This shows that the time is opportune for
the pushing of home manufactures, as our
neighbors are on hand to work with us to-
wards making all western enterprises sue
of of no Ol1
ing of a Utah territorial manufacturers
convention in this city in October next 10
consider plans for promoting the establish
men5 of home factories in various
branches.
Delegates should be sent from every
county, and they should be men in every
case who have the welfare of Utah, and the
prosperity of her people at heart, busy men
VINO are anxious to see the idle employed,
and their force utilized in the production of
The necessaries of life and it's comforts and
Injuries.
favor the establishment of those in
dustries at first which take the least CAPT
tai and furnish the most labor, so as to
meet the conditions of our community. Let
the leading men in every part of our fair
territory interest themselves in this mat
ter, and let US hear from them suggestions
in relation TO the manufactures most suit
able to their localities, and the facilities for
conducting the same successfully. There
is no subject Of such vast Importance for
unless our idle are employed, and provis-
ion made for young men and women, pow
eriy and distress must result, and crime
ana louble increase, making capital I'M
safe, business of all kinds improbable and
Iii unbearable in our territory.
hope TO see q lively interest taken In
this subject, ana promise my hearty sup
port OF any good measure adopted for the
establishment of home industries Yours
truly, WILLIAM H. ROWE
Salt Lake, May s. 1892.