The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-05-05
PROVO CITY
TY. MAY 5. 1854
THE PRESS AND HOME INDUSTRY. .

We are just in receipt of letter from
Mr., Jas. B. Bloor of Salt Lake city,
dated March 26, 1894, soliciting an ex-
preston on the subject Of the policy
of the home industry movement now
SO vigorously urged all over this terri
tory. To say that we are in hearty ac-
cord with the entire idea, but family
expresses our feelings on the subject.
There can be no doubt of the sound
ness of the policy and it ought, by all
means, to be broadly accepted and prac-
ticed. 1t can but be provocative of
good, and patriotic Utonians can do
nothing better than to sustain it upon
just and equitable principles.
We have many and varied manufac-
turing interests, nearly all of them
self-sustaining. In view of all this
and the further fact that nearly all
business men and citizens generally
forget that the newspapers are also
manufacturing enterprises themselves,
may we ask why it is that the news
papers alone called to work in this
cause at their n expense? Why the
Herald, the Tri me and the News
should each Contribute 81 900 without
a correspondi- Dene fit, or any recog.
milton other nan perfunctory eX-
preston of tt mkt y annot see. The
worth of the assistance of the press is
incidently acknowledged. That is all
Has it eyer entered Nr. Bloor's mind,
or the manufactures either, that there
is better mode of expressing their OBJ
legations than this formal way? And
one which would. in and of itself, prove
a very valuable style of advertising the
merits of the home manufacturing policy
as suggested, better even than anything
else, and in adopting it, while serving
their own purposes best, they would at
the same time help out those other
home manufacturing enterprises, the
papers.
Let the Manufacturing Exchange
prepare set of advertising cuts, or
type advertisements with cut illustra-
tions, and pay descent price for
them according to the fair value of the
mediums, make yearly contract with
the papers to pay this, one half in goods
of their own manufacture and the
other in cash. The policy the Ex
change proposes to launch cannot be
made success unless it has the cordial
and united support of the entire press
Of the territory. This is the only equit-
able way it can be asked. No set of
papers on earth are more freely ridden
than those of Utah, and yet we doubt
if there is single one of them which
is making money, and many of them
are steadily losing. 1t is a poor rule
which requires that one party to a con-
tract shall have all the profit while the
other has all the trouble, all the worry,
all the expense and all the risk, and be-
sides must pay its own expenses.
The press of Utah does not rank, as
3 rule, With the papers of other west
ern states and here is the cause of it:
Too much "thankye work" is expected
Of them and done by them, If the
churches, schools, benevolent societies
and enterprises, ETC., etc.. paid but five
cents line each insertion tor the COM
plimentarY advertising they receive,
each paper could pay its way and make
at lie asst a decent living, whereas, as it
is, they toll and spin but other more
fortunate enterprises wear the roles |
and are filled sumptuously each day.
We submit to MIR. Bloor and the manu-.
fActurers' bureau if this is fair, or if it |
encourages the papers to put forth their
lest efforts or TO do their best work. |
The papers cannot support by their
own efforts alone, every principle of
v hich they may approve. If one use
ful manufacturing enterprise deserves
home support, home patronage, and
bOme consideration why may not
anotber2 Why should all the gratuit-
Gus work be placed upon the already
overburdened shoulders of the papers
and all of the pay work be enjoyed by
ether lines of manufacturing workers?
If Mr.. Bloor can answer US this
riddle we Will see what we can do.