The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-04
ANOTHER STIRRING APPEAL.
Chairman Grant Again Speaks on
Home Manufactures.
AN APPEAL

AN APPEAL
to the loyal citizens Of Utah territory,
urging upon them the necessity of
patronizing and sustaining home in
dustries that are now. established, and
making inducements to new enter
prises to come and establish their
works in our territory.
In reading the governors recent
message to the Legislature, it must be
apparent to every citizen of Utah ter
ritory that some immediate action is
necessary to relieve our present fran
cial condition, and furnish employment
to our idle men The governors plan
of doing this, / think,cis a step in the
right direction, but I would suggest
that we take another step in the same
line that he has started on, and say
that all the money that we are paying
to these unemployed men, and that the
city is paying to it's employees, the
merchants to theirs, shall be paid for
home manufactured articles, so far as
they can be obtained, and in this way
we will keep what money we now have
in the territory, instead of sending it
away, as we do now for imported arti
cles, when similar ones are ,nanufac-
tured at home. By all uniting in this
move, there can be no question Of the
amount of good it will do to every
man, woman and child in Utah terri
tory, as every one will receive his pro-
portion of benefit no matter what pro-
fession or trade he may follow for a
livelihood. Now is the golden opror-
tunity to start this movement, and
start it at once. Let the head of every
family when he goes home in the eve
ming, consult with his wife and
children regarding this fnovem ant, and
let them by their fresides make a
Ta1o n 110p n a
they will, from this time on, buy no
thing that is imported when a similar
article is being manufactured at home;
then in sending their order TO the mer-
chant, let them demand of him, the
home goods. Should the merchants, as
they often do, explain that they do not
carry the home made article but
ported, repeat your demand for
the home goods, dndS take no
others; If. he refuses, to so to the mer-
chant who does carry them and buy
from him. By all adopting this plan,
1T will be but very short time before
you will find all our merchants sending
their orders to our home factories for
their goods, and in this way these fac
tories will soon be doing prosperous
business, and will be compelled to in
crease the number of their employees,
and the home concerns furnishing the
factories with material will have a
similar increased demand for their pro-
duct, while they. in turn, will increase
the number of their employees. Our
factories all running will make an in
creased demand to the coal merchant
for coal, and he will increase his force
of labor. The railroad company will
have an increased demand for cars
they will have to put on extra trains
and this will require an increase in
the number of their employees. Our
laborerS all being employed will buy
more of the merchants goods, and his
trade will be SO increased that he must
hire additional clerks. His business
will increase to such a marked extent
that he will have to have larger quar-
ters to conduct his business, the land
owners will put up additional business
blocks, and this will make an Increased
demand for all lines of building mater
ial, and furnish employment to the
different tradesmen engaged in erect
ing these new buildings. With all this
prosperity and everybody at work. it
will make an Increased demand for the
farmers products, and as the price of
those products is governed by the de-
mand he will be able to dispose of
them at a living price, where today
they are a drug on the market at very
low figures. Would it not be well for
us TO now make a careful estimate of
the amount of money this city will
spend during "a and distribute among
the, woriSingmen of this city, and see
il by adopting this plan we cannot keep
this money at home instead Of send
ing it abroad as we have been doing
in the past? / think we shall find that
we have arrived at a plan which will
make a very good substitute for our
lead and silver industries that have
been stricken down in the west by one