Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-04-23

fret Kpun and woven. Here are the
samples of mohair-beautifully fin-
ished fabrics-out of which the la
dies dresses can be made, and the
binding for your coats. The dresses
that are made out of this mohair are
finer than silk dresses. Some of the
ladies don't like to wear a skirt that
rustles, and some of the ladies like
to rustic, but the mohair made from
the Oregon goat--the goat does the
rustling and the dress doesn't rustic,
with the raw material produced right
here in our own country.
Clothes Made in Oregon.
This mohair is made in the mills
at Sellwood, just north of us here.
One hundred and twenty people are
employed in making this beautiful
mohair fabric, and here are the peo-
pie who should wear the mohair
There is the grand combination. We
produce the raw material, establish
the factory, and make the goods, and
we want to get the people to buy and
use these goods made in Oregon.
am wearing a suit of clothes this
evening-the goods made out at the
Brownsville Wooden Mills. This suit
Of clothes is lined with mohair made
from the Oregon goats at the Multno-
nah Mohair Mills. Everything about
this srit is made in Oregon except
the buttons, and / see you have q
button factory here in Albany.
didn't know It before, but l know II
now, and the next suit l buy will
have buttons made in Oregon. When
we can grow the wool and raise the
goats and make this beautiful cloth
in our own woolen mills, and can
make this beautiful mohair, and can
make up these suits cheaper than
anywhere else in the world, is there
any excuse why we should wear
clothing made in the sweat shops Of
the big cities of the east? Our wool
en- mills make the most beautiful ia
brics of ladies' suitlngs. There are
some of the suits from the Browns
vile Woolen mills-beautifu flannels
good enough to dress anybody in Or
egon, and we are trying to educate
the people to ask for these goods in
the stores, and to wear these goods
made in our own factories from our
own raw materials.
| will not go into any great details
but want to say that Linn county
ought to feel proud of being able to
produce such an exposition. This
exposition was gotten up in about two
weeks. It is only about two weeks
ago that I was here and talked with
Judge Stewart, manager Of yur Com
mercial club. He said, 1--WE will get
up an exposition of goods not only
made in Oregon, but made in Linn
county" l said, go to It, and we
will come up here and meet your
people.
Oregon Leads In Furniture.
Look at your furniture factories.
There is furniture there made in your
two factories that is shipped all over
the world. It is shipped to the Ha-
waiian Islands, Canada, Alaska, the
Philippines, and as far east as the
Mississippi valley, and yet I dare say
that there are furniture stores here
in 0regn that don't keep an article
of the furniture made in Albany. We
have got to educate them You have
got to say, 1--WE want the things made
in the Oregon factories" and that is
what these meetings here are for
Do you know that only about five pei
cent of the furniture sold in Oregon
is made In Oregon The rest Of II Is
shipped in from Grand Rapids, Mich
lgan, and from all over the United
States, but Oregon is the third larg
est manufacturer Of furniture in thu
United States, There are only two
states In the union that manufacture
more furniture than Oregon, and II
Portland we have some Of the larg
est furniture factories in the state
was In mans office in Portland
the other day and he pointed will
pride TO some beautiful chairs, anC
said, "All the chairs In this offlcl
were made in Oregon, but" he said
~ couldn't find roller top desl
that was made in Oregon" wisl
| had him here tonight to show hin
the beautiful desks made right her
in the city OF Albany,
Look Into Oregon Mirrors.
We don't know aout these thing
until we come together in this way
: How many people in this audlenc
know that there is a factory in Port
land where they make all kinds o
, looking glasses, from the finest beve
edge plate glass to the cheapest kin
of looking glass where you can
look yourself straight in the face
They make all these beautiful glasse
there. They had to bring skilled Ia