Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-20
Made IN Oregon.

The multiplicity and diversity OF
products made in Oregon are not as
we'll known to the average resident
or business man, for that matter, as
they should be. Here in Oregon we
manufacture perhaps 80 per cent OF
the average requirements of our citi-
zens, but comparatively few realize
the fact.
Made in Oregon" should be the
slogan of every citizen. Every dollar
spent for the goods remains at home,
and the spender gets back at least a
portion of his money in one way or
another every time he buys a Made
in Oregon" product
Oregon is destined to be one of the
great manufacturing states in the
Union, but the time 1t will require for
her to be in the foremost rank of
manufacturing states would greatly
be shortened if our people would
make it a portion of their daily du-
ties first to inquire If the goods they
are buying are Made in Oregon"
We have factories in this state
which today are struggling for exist
ence, and which would be running
along smoothly II each man woman
and child in the state would insist on
having the home product. It is not
asked that our people buy Made in
Oregon" goods in preference to goods
made elsewhere, unless the home pro-
duct is equal in quality, appearance
and price to the same goods made
elsewhere. But even the casual in
vestigation of our citizens will show
that our manufactures in most lines
are turning out goods today the equal
of any in the country, and the Manu-
facturers' association only asks that
when such goods are offered that they
be given the preference.
This leads to another important
phase of this question.
The support of home industry is the
duty of every citizen. We live by the
interchange of trade. There is small
need indeed for the people of Oregon
to go outside their state for the every
day requirements aof life, and if the
Oregon people would insist on made
in Oregon" goods being sold them re-
| tail dealers everywhere would keen
up their stock to meet the demands
of their trade.
Cities and states are built up by
the pay-rolls within the state. Prom
erty values are kept up by the pay
rolls of the factories. Farm values
are kept up by the demands for farm
products from the cities, the manu-
featuring centers. The whole prob.
lem is one which even casually stud
led will prove to any citizen and to
every man, woman and child within
the state that his support of Made
in Oregon" goods means that his own
prosperity will be greater. 1t is a
wheel within wheel" proposition.
Insist on Made in Oregon" goods.
The factories are the life of our
cities The more factories we have,
the more people are EMPLOYED. and
greater becomes the prosperity not
only of the cities, but of the rural dis
tricts, for the factory supported cities
must depend upon the agricultural
districts for their food supplies, and
largely for their raw products. The
nome manufacturers depend upon the
people and the people depend unon
the home manufacturers.
Tho consistent support of home in
dustrles and the persistent demand
for Made in Oregon" goods means
increased pay-rolls, which in turn
VIII be to the advantage of the farm
er and all other producers of the
necessities of life