The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-16
HOW TO IMPROVE THE TINES.

The movement in Utah for the sup
port of home industries is attracting
much attention. Salt Lake city is not
alone in taking great interest in this
question. Several country towns which
nave business snap are falling into
line with the movement and the pros
pect is good for general awakening
on the subject.
Outside the territory, too, it is excit-
ing public interest. Several papers in
different places have mentioned the
matter. Among them is the Oakland,
Cal, Tribune which on March the 10th
contained an editorial under the above
heading and which we think worthy of
reproduction in these columns; it is as
follows:
a recent message of the. Governor of
Otah to the Legislature on the financial
ana industrial condition of the terri
tory indicates the prevalence of much
distress there. The object of the Gov
ernof was 10 stir up the Legislature in
10 providing measures of relief. chiefly
IN the way of employment on public
works for the great number of idle men
IN the community. The message has
oeen the means of bringing out a sug-
gestlon from 3. f. Grant, chairman of
the manufacturers Bureau of Utah,
and he has outlined it at length in a
communication to the Salt Lake Her
aid, which is quite pat to the case.
MI. Grant indorses the Governors sug-
SeStlon to provide work for the unem-
ployed, but he goes further-he urges
the spending of the money thus earned
in the community for such manufac-
tured articles as have been produced
at home. In other words Mr. Grant
recommends the application in local
way of the principle of the patronage of
nome industry If every buyer of
manufactured fabrics were to insist
upon obtaining such as have been made
IN the community the merchant who
may nave carried goods imported from
some other parts of the country or
abroad will. as a matter of business.
stock his shelves with the homemade
article to save his trade If that
course is followed all along the line the
money earned in the community will,
as natural consequence, remain in it,
stimulating every branch of industry
Mr.. Grant points out very clearly what
will be the community's financial and
industrial ADVANTAGE
The suggestion is worthy of local
adoption and application If all the
money earned by the inhabitants of
Oakland We're spent here for home
made goods in preference to the impor-
ted article, it would make a great diff
ference, not only to business men, but
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feSsiOn, trade or line of business. If
such policy had been pursued by the
residents of Oakland in years gone by
towards homemade wooden products.
the Oakland Hosiery works would
most be likely be running today. 1t
was the pursuit of just the opposition
of that policy which caused the estab-
lishment to be closed down and the
company to diSincorporate. If the
Oakland Hosiery Company's factory
Fad been running today, as il would
have, been, had it received the local
encourag cement it was entitled to, it
would have carried comfort and bread
to many family, and helped more than
likely, to keep moving wheels of other
industries that are now clogged
If the money earned in a community
is spent outside of it, or for fabrics and
materials manufactured elsewhere, in
preference to those of the same char
acter manufactured here, it means, of
course, the impoverishment of the COM
munity to that extent. Such policy
helps to make hard times harder and to
make it difficult to keep home labor
employed. 1t is, therefore, plain that
the suggestion which Mr. Grant has
made with such force for Utahs ben
eft, is far-reaching enough to be cor
daily welcomed and faithfully carried
out here