The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-17
COLORADO GOODS
SHOULD BE USED BY COLORADO
PEOPLE.
KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME
President of Colorado Manufacturers
Association Urges Citizens to Sup
port Home Institutions.

port Home Institutions.
"Few people realize that Colorado is
becoming one of the great manufactur-
ing states" said t. C. Scott, manager
of the Colorado Manufacturers Asso-
ciation' in Denver, the other day. "If
people of Colorado did realize this it
would be great thing for the state.
Take the members of the Colorado
Manufacturers Association alone, for
example. They represent a capital of
S34,346,O00 invested and expend
s25,OO0,OOO a year for material, sup
port 1900 people, and pay them an
nually in wages s9,612,OOO, and the
value of the product last year was
s53,O00,OOO
"Coloradans can buy Colorado beef,
bacon, butter, boots, brooms, buggies,
brushes, beer, bank and bar fixtures,
carriages, chemicals, canned goods,
catsup, cheese, cigars. cider, crackers,
candles, elevators, glassware, harness,
honey, hams, machinery, overalls, pa
per boxes, saddles, stoves, shirts,
shoes, SOAP
'The fact is there is practically
nothing that is used in the home, the
store, the shop, the mine, the farm,
the ranch that is not made in Colorado,
and every man should realize that
dollar spent for Colorado-made goods
stays in Colorado, and when paid for
foreign goods leaves Colorado. The
Colorado Manufacturers Association
wants to get the people together on
this subject.
''What is required in Colorado more
than anything else is an increased pat
ronage of home products. Every
housewife and every household should
ask for and insist on being furnished
with Colorado products or goods man.
ufactured in Colorado. There is a GER
tain amount of civic pride in every in
dividual, but with a great many of the
citizens of Colorado it has not been
developed. l will venture to say that
there are thousands of cases in Colo
RADIO to-day where the housewife is pat
ronizing eastern industries by asking
for and purchasing certain lines of
goods. Perhaps she is using a soap
manufactured in her native town, or
in her native state. because her mother
used the same class of goods in the
old home back East; or it may never
have occurred to this same housewife
that she could get as good, If not bet
ter, articles manufactured right here
in Colorado If we can educate all
such of our residents who are patron
izing eastern-made goods to live in
the present and future, instead of the
mast, and to look to the West for every
thing, our home banks would soon no
tice a as,emarlable result in the way of
increased deposits.
Then we have another, and perhaps
the largest class of all, the Indifferent
class. those who take but little inter-
est in the manner of developing the
states resources, not from the fact
that they are not anxious to see Colo
RADIO prosperous, but for the reason
that it has perhaps never dawned on
them that it made any difference as TO
what class of goods they purchased,
whether made in the New England
states or in Colorado. If all the classes
| have mentioned could be aroused to
the fact that it is their duty to be loyal
to Colorado in every respect, regard
less of whether they are citizens OF
our state by nativity or adoption, and
would demonstrate their loyalty by
never falling to ask for Colorado-made
goods when making purchases of va
rious kinds, the result would be land
slide of prosperity for Colorado and
her people. The untiring efforts that
are being made by the various organic
ations of the state to boost the inter
ests of their town, or of the state as a
whole. to bring more people to Colo
RADIO to help develop her resources,
etc, are all second in importance to
this one feature of patroniZing nome
industry. 1t is within the power OF the
people of Colorado to double the capa-
city of every manufacturing Industry
in the state within one year, and it viii
not cost them a farthing to do it, from
n financial standpoint. Three little
words cover the entire situation-PAT-
RONIZE HOME INDUSTRY, buy Col
orado-made goods; tell your wife, your
brothers, your sisters, your employees,
tell everybody to buy Colorado-made
goods.
Did you ever stop to realize that
every time you buy $40 worth of goods
manufactured outside the state OF Col
orado you are sending $40 out OF the
state that never comes back? Where
as. if you buy with this same $40 Colo
rado-made goods the entire amount re-
mains in Colorado and you indirectly
become profit sharer. Could any
thing be more simple and yet r1ore et,
fective in the upbuilding of our state?
If you double the manufacturing inter,
ests you help everybody, you help all
classes, you help the farmer by IN
creasing the value of his land, by ere
ating a stronger market for his prod
ucts, you help the laboring man, the
skilled workman, employees OF all
kinds, the retail merchant, in fact, eV-
cry resident of Colorado is bound 10
feel the beneficial results OF making
Colorado the greatest manufacturing
state in the West"